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06-19-2008, 08:34 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto Canada | | | Please don't shoot me! Stupid question for this forum...
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I've recently purchased an SX bass, 5 string Jazz copy and I am enjoying the instrument, deficiencies aside....
A buddy is a guitar player, (hey, everyone can't be perfect!) and he was wondering if the guitars available from Rondo are of equal quality as the basses? Does anyone have any experience with Rondo guitars and if so, could you please relate them?
Appreciate you stepping out of the "bass arena" for a moment and hope that this question isn't deemed to be inappropriate for this forum.
Thanks,
fishheadjoe |
06-19-2008, 08:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Tennessee | | | Gui...Guit...Guitars what are these abominations you speak of?
Really, I would expect them same quality. |
06-19-2008, 08:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: wilmington, de | | | I have one of the les paul copies. I like it alot....
I changed the bridge - it was shredding strings - other than that its a nice instrument. gives a decent paul tone, pretty easy to play.
its not perfect - frets could use a little dressing and filing on the edges - but it's not a major issue for me.
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06-19-2008, 08:57 AM
|  | Playing his P bass off into the sunset | | Join Date: Sep 2007 Location: Bellingham, WA | | | They're about the same, I'd say even a little better perhaps. I bought one of the LP's and tried out one of the Strats. They were very nice, especially for the $$.
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06-19-2008, 08:59 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Boston | | | The SX stuff is decent, particularly the Fender style stuff. My guitar player had one of the SX Les Paul-ish type guitars, and it didn't seem to be as well done as the Fender style stuff.
The Agile guitars are suppose to be quite good for a little more money in a Gibson style guitar. |
06-19-2008, 10:07 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Syracuse, NY | | | +1 on the Agile Gibson copies.
My brother decided he wanted to learn some guitar about a year ago. He didn't want to spend very much for something he wasn't sure he'd take to, and so he asked me what he should get. Having heard nothing but good things about the Rondo instruments, I pointed him towards those.
He ended up buying the Agile ES-335 copy, and to be quite honest with you, I was really impressed. The one he got was better than most of the Epiphones I have come across. The only problem he's had since he got it was that the input jack came loose, but that was a quick and easy enough fix.
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06-19-2008, 10:26 AM
|  | Bass lines like a big, funky giant | | Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Southern MN | | | I bought my son an SX Explorer. It had a set neck that was done correctly. The frets were nice and level (no obvious high ones) but the ends weren't dressed the best. The fit, finish, tuners and bridge were equivalent to Epiphone in quality but the pickups were not as good as EPI's. Not a problem - used guitar pickups are VERY reasonable on EBay. We upgraded both those buckers to high-quality Duncan PAF clones for less than $100. |
06-19-2008, 10:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2007 Location: San Diego, CA | | | There's a few guys over on the guitar forum I read that have picked up SX guitars for modding platforms and ended up never modding them because they were very happy with the stock hardware.
And from what I've read, the Agile LP copies generally blow the pants off of the pricier Epiphones.
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06-19-2008, 10:39 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Boston & Arizona, USA | | | I have heard reports of cheap pots and switches on the SX fender clones. Usually easily replaced but I do believe that these models use mini pots instead of full sized pots. |
06-19-2008, 10:50 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Chicago | | | I have an RG copy from them that I put a SD 59 in the neck, a BL L500XL in the bridge, and a hot rails in the middle position. I installed a good floyd and some switches so I can use every possible pickup combination. (2 push pulls, 2 on/on/on mini switches, and a 5 way superswitch.) I eventually got a Tremsetter from someone in the classifieds on here and now it's one of my go to recording guitars.
it needed a whole lot of work but I only ended up spending about 600 bucks and it plays like a dream and can get close to the sound of pretty much anything I could ever want to play. |
06-19-2008, 11:03 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: May 2008 Location: Toronto Canada | | | Thanks all! I 'll pass this along to my friend with thanks again to all who took the time and apologizes to the admins for putting it in the wrong place to begin with!
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06-19-2008, 03:28 PM
|  | No Longer Works a Day Job | | Join Date: Jun 2000 Location: USA | | | I had a buddy who works for a store that sells Epi's. His normal instrument is a Gibson LP. He said that my Agile [AL2000] plays and sounds better than most of the Epi's that he has played.
That's enough of a quality endorsement for me. I rarely play it, so for the price [$170 on scratch & dent]-it was a bargain.
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