Re: Anyone uses on of these silent guitar???

On Dec 31, 2:53 pm, JPD <googlegroo...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Dec 12, 3:34 am, John Nguyen <old...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

http://tinyurl.com/67vdmx

The price is right. Any comments on the quality?? I'm thinking of
getting one for the office's lunch break. TIA.
Cheers,

John

So did you get one, John?

I did. It showed up on my front door last week. Now, I bid and paid
for the real Sojing, but a shining Santini showed up with the fine
print "by Sojing" on the box. The quality is of a cheap guitar,
surprise, surprise!!! I tuned the thing and amazingly enough it seemed
in tune!! The tuning gear is as cheap as you can get. If I plan to
upgrade the tuning machine and put on a new set of strings, I propably
tripple or quadrupple the value of this fine guitar. Let's talk about
the sound. On a second thought, let's not talk about it! I know for
sure the electronics is not Yamaha. It didn't matter how much the
reverb and the volume were tweaked, the twangy sound still there, and
the total sound was extermely unbalanced, starting with the 1st string
the loudest to the 6th string the quietest. I tapped on the bone
bridge, and the treble side was much more responsive, so maybe the
bridge was not set correctly.

Upon close inspection, the bridge was clearly not setup properly. The
plastic bone was too thin for the slot, and it tilted the whole way
forward, leaving little contact to the under-saddle transducer. So I
made a new bone for it. The sound volume improved a quite a bit but
still not quite even. Propably the saddle slot was not properly
leveled. I may need to work a little more on it.

There is no On/Off switch. To turn it on, all I have to do is to plug
in the headset, and the little red LED will lit up to tell me it's on
- pretty smart, heh?

One 9V battery was included and installed -that alone saves me a whole
50 cents of real Amerian money right there.

I'm keeing this one instead of exchanging for the real Sojing. I think
it will serve my purpose of keeping a guitar at work conspiciously.

On the plus side, the Saniti came with a fabric carrying case, a
headset, a hex wrench to adjust the rod, and an amplifier plug-in
cable.

Let see:

Plug-in cable = $5
Headset = $5
Carrying case= $10
Strings = $5
Tuning gear = $15
Battery = $0.50
Shipping = $25 (at least for this size of the box 4 ft x 2 ft x 4
in)
Electronics = $15

That leaves about $10 left for the wood, the frets, the bones, the
labor, and above all the profit.

Not mentioning countless of hours of fun monkeying around to make it
somewhat better, I think I got a reall good deal here :-)
Happy New year!!

John

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