With a carved top, striking appearance and tone to back it up, the Tempest Custom is built for players who desire an instrument that’s a little unconventional. This is a set-neck guitar with a bound Mahogany/Maple body and a tune-o-matic bridge. Its neck is Maple with a 22-fret, bound Rosewood fingerboard. The inlays are split-crowns and the frets are medium in size. Other features include Grover tuners and gold hardware on the black model and chrome hardware on the sunburst.
Price: $599.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Value:
For the price you can’t beat it.Add in about $150 for gibson pickups and you can have a Gibson Les Paul classic Guitar for about half the price.
Sound:
It has a great sound but would be better if it had gibson 490′s or similar gibson pickups.If you are looking for a great guitar for a decent price i would buy this one and put some Gibson humbuckers in it.
Nothing screams sustain like an exquisitely made neck-thru-body guitar. The F2E guitar by ESP takes it up a notch by marrying that design with a double-locking tremolo. Now you’ve got both the sustain you need and the agility needed to both dive-bomb or take flight but still remain in tune. A figured Ebony wood top with a awesome looking stained finish make this guitar hard to part with or to ignore.
Price: $529.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Quality:
The guitar I got the first time was, I’m not going to lie, pretty crappy. It had something seriously screwed up on the inside and there were huge blemishes in the paint, but the replacement is very very nice.
Value:
Very good. This site has the lowest prices hands down.
Desirability:
It is very sexy. I like the mahogony wood color and the design is very very nice!
Sound:
The sounds is very nice. It’s pretty sweet clean, but distorted it sounds amazing.
Ease of Use:
It is pretty easy to use. I guess you just use your fingers and play. It is kinda hard to tune like a normal guitar because you have to loosen the top, but the easy tuner guy on the bottom is very useful.
Support:
I only give it an 8 because it took so long for the replacement to come. I got the crap one and sent it back and took 10+ days
Overall:
Overall, after getting the guitar replaced, i am very happy with it. I’m playing a lot of new things on this guitar and hope there is more to come.
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Reproduction of Dimebag Darrell’s Cowboy From Hell guitar!
Price: $899.95 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
yes the guitar does include accessories, it comes with the whammy bar for the floyrd rose, the most useful features i say is the floyd rose, this guitar has everything.
Quality:
yes this guitar is all mahogany made and the fingerboard is rosewood, no loose parts no nothing on it its extremly reliable to get the sound you want and to play it.
Value:
YES
Desirability:
too many numbers.
Sound:
the sound of this guitar in unbelievable, its tone is better than any gibson on the planet, it responds to well to harmonics and palm muting never has sounded better.its compatiable with any style of music just flick the 3 way toggle switch to the neck pickup and you can get great response for chords.
Ease of Use:
its extremly easy to get sound unless the volume is at 0, its extremly playable.
Overall:
forfreakingever heck no nothing,
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The Fender Jazzmaster was first introduced to the world in 1958 with its uniquely contoured body, incorporating a snappy 25.5-inch scale length with warm-sounding pickups. Original lead and rhythm circuit switching incorporates independent volume and tone controls, and the floating tremolo with tremolo lock adds to the distinctive look and sound of the Jazzmaster.
Price: $899.99 Buy now!
The Steve Howe Signature ES-175 celebrates the achievements of the man who elevated rock guitar into an art form. As a member of the English band Yes, Steve’s tasteful, eclectic guitar parts helped define a new style of music. On later solo albums, he emerged as an accomplished jazz player. Through it all, his favorite has always been his 1964 Gibson ES-175, and his signature guitar is modeled after his personal guitar.
Price: $3949.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
Really well put together with quality woods and hardware
Quality:
Only grough was it arrived with only one pickup working due to a dry solder joint. Surely this should have been picked up at QC? however the finish is superb. the instrument needed some decent strings, a little heavier than the stock strings it arrived with, and a set-up. but then alll guitars benefit from those sort of things.
Value:
expensive, but cheaper than many quality guitars of it’s type
Desirability:
A truly quality piece of work. I look after it and treat it well.
Sound:
Given that “jazz box” guitars have a distinctive sound, this one gives out well. the slightly different top from most such guitars also allows it to give you something a bit brighter than you’d expect
Ease of Use:
very easy to play, somethings high up the neck require re-working due to the finger board being a 22 fretter
Support:
No need to comment, the above mentioned wiring problem was quickly dealt with by my excellent local luthier.
Overall:
I wouldn’t willingly part with this guitar. not to say that I might get others, I already have a 335 and this complements it well
The Jaguar HH combines the styling and functionality of a vintage Jaguar with a few modern touches. Topped off by a Black and Chrome color scheme, this Jaguar is sure to impress!
Price: $889.99 Buy now!
Sam Totman’s Signature Iceman-shaped STM1WH features an Edge III tremelo. DiMarzio Evolution pickups and a 24-fret, 5-piece STM maple/walnut Wizard II thru-neck.
Price: $799.95 Buy now!
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Epiphone turns up the volume with the psychedelic Zakk Wylde Signature Les Paul Custom, with a raw, powerful sound. The Signature Les Paul features Wylde’s trademark black and white bullseye graphics over an antique ivory finish, and pearl block inlays on the fingerboard.
Price: $799.00 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
It came without accessories but the guitar has great features. Gold hardware, inlays, striking decals, aggressive humbuckers, grover tuners and more. A thinner neck would be nice though.
Quality:
There’s great attention to detail and the weight suggests high quality components. There is no camparison to some of the lower end Les Paul guitars.
Value:
Amazing price for such unbelievable quality.
Desirability:
Everyone wants to play my guitar and on stage it is truly mesmerizing. It actually draws attention from the lead vocalist.
Sound:
Extremely versatile. It produces and very crisp distortion sound and can be played expressively when clean too. Great for everything from Green Day to Red Hot Chili Peppers.
Overall:
I hope I never need to replace it.
The purr-fect guitar! Squier’s new Hello Kitty Mini guitar is designed to bring the gift of music to younger hearts and smaller hands, and features the smiling face of Hello Kitty herself right on the front! Rest assured, though — this is a real, great-sounding and great-playing guitar! The reduced scale length of the smooth-as-silk maple neck makes life easy on the up-and-coming rocker in your house, and the guitar comes in cool Pink and Black finishes. The 3 single-coil pickups let you purr or roar!
Price: $149.95 Buy now!
Jackson welcomes a new guitar in 2008 to its venerable Rhoads line, the RR5FR Rhoads, which has an alder body, rock maple neck-through-body, compound-radius rosewood fingerboard, Seymour Duncan JB (bridge) and Jazz (neck) humbucking pickups, a Floyd Rose FRT-O2000 double-locking two-point tremolo and black hardware.
Price: $1099.99 Buy now!
User Reviews:
Feature:
It was really easy when it came to rearranging the controls on the pickguard so that i had a single volume. the FR on this guitar is awesome I never have to retune it unless in changing tunings and even thats easy.
Quality:
Top of the line instrument. Best ive ever played.
Value:
definatly worth every penny.
Desirability:
definatly a guitar that i will keep in my collction
Sound:
This guitar has the most amazing sound ive ever heard. I’ve played several differnt types of guitars (Deans, Gibson, ESP) none of them even compare in quality.
Ease of Use:
This thing has such a fast neck its unbelievable. its got a wide but thin neck which make it easier for me to shred.
Support:
I havent had to call Jackson to get anything fixed but i know that thie service is the best from people i know.
Overall:
I love this guitar so much that I’m saving up to buy another in black.