Wednesday 6 July 2011

Swift Les Paul Copy

Cheap project/learning guitar arrived today. £29 off eBay.

Just given it a quick look-over and here are my initial thoughts.
The finish is surprisingly good (though it does overlap the binding at a couple of points).
The body is apparently plywood but that's not surprising, and it's pretty solid and sounds okay acoustically. Plus it's a proper archtop which I wasn't expecting.
The neck is bolt-on rather than set which again isn't surprising.
The action is rather wonky, being very high towards the body end of the fretboard.
At some point the pickguard has been removed, this was not mentioned in the listing.
It seems to play okay (despite the dodgy action) but I immediately cut my thumb on a badly finished fret.
The fretboard inlays were done by monkeys.

Looks like I'm gonna have my work cut out here... it's not a brilliant instrument by any stretch of the imagination, but it's not as bad as it could have been!

Pics to follow in the next couple of days.

1 comment:

  1. Je suis convaincu que la copie Swif SG, action bien réglée et frettes légèrement limées, est une assez bonne guitare. Je trouve les micros pas mal. Des basses agréable et des aigus agréables.

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