Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Incredible workmanship. Perfection. Reliability How has it stood up over time? Never had a problem. General Your general opinion of this product. Sounds great. Plays great. Looks great. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? Exactly what I like. Fast feel. Chunky neck. Beefy sound. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Versatile. I turn the amp (tubes) all the way up and adjust on the guitar. Beautiful woody tone. No comparison to my other guitars.... My Fenders and Gibsons are gathering dust. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Perfect. Not a flaw anywhere on the instrument. Action How was the action out of the box? I put 11 gauge strings on and re-intonated/adjusted. It's been super stable ever since.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? This was a problem. There was a ripple dent on the out side upper horn. There was a sanding error on the binding at the back of the upper inside horn. The fret board buzzed all down the neck due to uneven frets. Reliability How has it stood up over time? I don't gig but it is a solid built guitar. It should last a while. General Your general opinion of this product. After fixing numerous problems. It is a Very nice Playing and Sounding Guitar. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? After fixing the frets and finger board and setting it up to my taste which is straight neck low action, it plays Excellent. Fast medium sized neck and it's not overly heavy. The pick guard is too high high for me. It gets in the way when your strumming. I took it off, but I'll modify to sit on the side of the pickup ring instead of on top. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? PU's are Vintage sounding similar to Gibson 57's or SD 59's. I have an AG100NT with the same 58's and they sound better in it than they do in the AS. Maybe the Hollow Body of the AG has an affect, they sound slightly Muffled in the AS like the tone knob is turned down a bit. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? The finish itself is great, but the pre-finish inspection was non-existent. Action How was the action out of the box? Was fine as far as factory specs go.

Quality Would you consider this product to be made well? How dependable? Other than comment regarding the fret in the finish section, quality is surprisingly good. Hey, this is an 'under thousand dollar' guitar. With this kind of product, I just can't see paying more than a thousand bucks for a top notch axe. Reliability How has it stood up over time? Just got it but everything looks and feels solid. Feels like money - much more than what these are selling for. General Your general opinion of this product. Awesome. Let me also give a plug to American Musical Supply who was great on the phone, email and more. They will be my first choice for next new axe. Playability and Feel How does it feel, Heavy, Fast, Chunky? How was the neck? Are the controls easy to get to while playing? I think it is a wonderful balance between my LP Special and USA Strat. Tone Bright and snappy? Dark and smooth? Were the pickups hot, mellow, thick, thin? Very rich but will bite too. Resonance very good. I wanted a hollow body jazz box but need a bit of versatility. I am completely satisfied that I have great jazz tone and can rock as needed. Definitely got the solid Blues capability. I'm still playing with it and have mostly been testing clean tones and some effects. Will be cranking more this weekend. This instrument keeps pulling me back to it. I really enjoy it. Finish How did the stain or paint job look? Near perfect. The VB is more beautiful than the picture - a little more dark reddish rather not almost solid brown. I did have a small ding on the top fret between the 4th and 5th strings and was able to steel wool most out. It is not in an area that will ever affect playability nevertheless a Quality Control miss. On a higher fret this would have been an issue but everything else seems perfect. Again, Quality Control should have caught and fixed this. Action How was the action out of the box? Really good and playable but I put on some D'Addario half round 12's so I did do some truss rod, action and intonation tweaking. Adjusting went easily.