Maestro by Gibson Double Cutaway (SG Style) Electric Blue Guitar Kit Review

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(More customer reviews)-------------------------Very Good Starter Instrument-------------------
I got this Guitar from a Thrift Store in Iowa City for only $31.50..! What Originally Caught my Eye was the Truss-Rod Access Panel had " "by Gibson" Etched in to the Panel..!
Well it even came with a Gig bag so ..I bought it..!
Fairly Good Electronics, 1 Volume and 1 Tone control ..just a basic 1 pickup Design. A Humbucking Pickup. Machine Tuners. And a great Dark-Cherry Finish round out this Great-Value-For-your-Money Student Electric. I also Really Like the SG style Double-Cutaway...Easy to Hold...sitting Down Or Standing up with a Guitar Strap, Either Way it's Light and Easy to Get into the Position you Want to play it in.
Great Rosewood Neck as well. the Fret's could have used a little more Dressing-up, and polishing I thought..but Definitely Easy to play the action almost sets itself up with The Original Style Gibson SG Bridge.
Overall, I would give it 3 1/2 Stars out of Five as an Instrument. Not Stage-level Quality, But Definitely a good Practice/study Guitar..Even Sounds GREAT through my iPhone AmpKit With Distortion and Noise gate. also sounds fine Through a Little Traynor 10 Watt Practice Amp I use quite often.
One Note: overall the Action is Excellent..But I did have a Little "Fret Buzz" around 12th Fret, Probably just a T-Rod Adjustment is all that's Needed.

This Instrument Retails for $179.00, a Little High perhaps..But if you can Buy one used for ..say a Hundred Dollars or So... I would Grab it.

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Epiphone Firebird Studio Electric Guitar, Worn Cherry Review

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(More customer reviews)This Firebird isn't the same instrument as the Gibson Firebird - it has a flat slab body and glued-on neck instead of the running-board styled through-neck of the original, and its pickups are full-size humbuckers rather than mini's - but it's a Firebird nonetheless, because the shape, design and bigness have all the right feel to them. The body is thin and resonates and the pickups are a good approximation of classic Gibson humbuckers, giving the guitar the authentic sound of a Gibson, albeit closer to an SG than a Firebird.
The smart-alecky Steinberger tuners, which could cost you a third of the price if you bought them separately, have good and bad points. On the good side, the string is clamped straight into the raising-and-lowering string post, so it can't slip as strings sometimes do when wound round and round in the normal way; the ratio is a larger-than-normal 40:1, which makes fine-tuning easier; you can actually tune down with some confidence as well as up (as long as your nut slots don't pinch the strings); and they look right - they stick out backwards, out of sight like the old banjo tuners on the original Firebirds. But it is not very easy to load them - you need to pull the string hard and if you don't pull hard enough you can run out of adjustment later as the strings stretch - and if you want to pull them tighter you can't because you've already trimmed off the ends so there's nothing to grab; and if you ever want to take strings off and put them on another guitar, you can't because they have to be trimmed very short (and of course their lengths are in the reverse order from those on a Fender).
My overall impression is very good if you want a real Gibson-approved, well-made and cheap humbucker guitar and like the Firebird style. Lose one star for some of the tuners' quirks.
Oh and by the way, it doesn't balance on the strap, but then reverse-body Firebirds never did, so that's authentic too. I'm thinking of moving the strap button on mine, but it's marginal whether it can be moved far enough to make a difference

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