Hi Alan, good to hear from you and thanks for the comment and question. You’re right, for completeness, I should have done an unamplified sound test. So, I just tried it and it’s OK and what I’d expect. Kind of “boxy” sound, certainly not a big volume like a proper acoustic guitar but OK. So, perfectly acceptable for practicing. I can certainly feel the resonance in the body. Maybe a deep bodied jazz style guitar would be better but I don’t have one. But of course it’s intended to be hooked up to an amp and then it’s just so good. I have been in touch with Musoo (Batking guitars) and they now have put up the full specs and also a link to my TH-cam video. It’s a much admired guitar: I’m now playing it in a jazz funk band. One thing to note is that when replacing the strings I had to take the tailpiece off because the string anchors would pull through the holes in the tailpiece. So I drilled out the holes to increase the hole radius. Now the anchors can be pushed through easily with no detrimental effect. I must let Batking know. Thanks again and all the best, Rob
Very Cool, Thankyou. Stunning looking and Sounding Guitar and playing as always. What a Beautiful Guitar. Just picked up a Similar Gretsch Hollowbody on Black Friday sale on huge Discount. Such an Awesome Guitar. All The Best. Cheers
Rob - have you changed the strings on this guitar? How did that go for you? It has the weirdest system I've ever found with some sort of FIXED copper wire threaded through all the 'rings' at the end of each string underneath the tailpiece. Also, the tailpiece doesn't lift up with any sort of hinge so threading new strings through is very tricky. Apart from those issues, I had one ever-so-slight problem ....THE ELECTRICS WERE TOTALLY INOPERATIVE. Not a click or tone for any of the pickups so for electric jazz it's either useless or it will need a specialist to figure out the problem. Must say, following my experiences, I wouldn't recommend importing this from China . . . a Hartwood or G4M hollow body seems to be a safer buy in the UK.
Hi, and thanks for your comments. I’m really sorry that you’ve had a lot of trouble with this guitar. Firstly. on the question of the strings. My guitar had regular string anchors (little brass rings) attached to the tailpiece). However they wouldn’t pull through the holes in the tailpiece. The tailpiece is held on by screws at the bottom where the strap pin attaches. So I removed the tailpiece. Then I drilled out each hole with a wider bit so now the anchors will pull through. Then I replaced the tailpiece and now it will be easy to replace strings without removing the tailpiece. On the useless electronics then that’s really bad. I’ve built quite a few tone and volume circuits and they’re quite simple things. I’m wondering what would prevent both volume and tone controls from working. If it were me, I’d email Musoo or Batking and I’m sure they will reply. I had a few email exchanges with them before I bought mine. And again if it were me, I’d just take out the electronics and check out the circuitry. The F-holes are big enough to make this quite easy. I suspect there is just one cold joint or a misplaced junction. I could probably work it out anyway by looking at the standard “Gibson” circuits. I’m really sorry you’ve had this problem. But do contact Musoo/Batking. Mention my video which Batking is now using on their website and say Rob’s Strings & Things has replied to you. Very poor quality control. I will make an updated video that mentions the string tailpiece problem. Good luck..and do get back to them. My guitar is still perfect now the tailpiece is improved. All the best Rob
@@robrobson7101 Thanks Rob. What I found was that all the string-ends were connected under the tailpiece by a length of thick copper wire that was FIRMLY glued at each end to the underside of the tailpiece, so it couldn't be removed and the strings could not be slid off it. I've never seen anything like that before. It was totally impractical . . .unless it was a fudge by the person who built the guitar because of some sort of problem they had and the quality control didn't spot it? Mark you, they didn't spot the useless electrics either. That copper connecting wire certainly didn't look like a professional idea. Like you, I removed the tailpiece and found a so-called grounding wire which was mean to touch the copper wire that linked the strings. It looks very amateurish and I doubt the two wires ever actually connected. As you don't mention anything like that in your reply, I'm guessing you didn't find the same system. Thanks again for your response.
Thanks again. I just can’t understand what they were doing. No, I found what I expected to find. Certainly no wire to anchor the strings to. I am a bit “flabbergasted”. Did you by any chance take a picture of the tail pace with the wire? As to the wiring, I did find an earth wire wound round the strap pin. However, as I’m sure you know, that’s not going to influence the bad electronics. Do you have a multimeter?
I suggest you complain to Musoo/Batking by emailing Susan on musooguitars@163.com. I’ve had several email exchanges with her. Not sure what might come of it but it’s worth a try.
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That's a gorgeous guitar Rob I hope it serves you well!
I really like your style of video and the amount of information you find out.
Hi, thanks for your kind words. I'll keep trying !
Rob
Thanks for this review.
Hi Alan, good to hear from you and thanks for the comment and question. You’re right, for completeness, I should have done an unamplified sound test. So, I just tried it and it’s OK and what I’d expect. Kind of “boxy” sound, certainly not a big volume like a proper acoustic guitar
but OK. So, perfectly acceptable for practicing. I can certainly feel the resonance in the body. Maybe a deep bodied jazz style guitar would be better but I don’t have one. But of course it’s intended to be hooked up to an amp and then it’s just so good. I have been in touch with Musoo (Batking guitars) and they now have put up the full specs and also a link to my TH-cam video. It’s a much admired guitar: I’m now playing it in a jazz funk band. One thing to note is that when replacing the strings I had to take the tailpiece off because the string anchors would pull through the holes in the tailpiece. So I drilled out the holes to increase the hole radius. Now the anchors can be pushed through easily with no detrimental effect. I must let Batking know. Thanks again and all the best,
Rob
Very Cool, Thankyou. Stunning looking and Sounding Guitar and playing as always. What a Beautiful Guitar. Just picked up a Similar Gretsch Hollowbody on Black Friday sale on huge Discount. Such an Awesome Guitar. All The Best. Cheers
Lovely
very good
Rob - have you changed the strings on this guitar? How did that go for you? It has the weirdest system I've ever found with some sort of FIXED copper wire threaded through all the 'rings' at the end of each string underneath the tailpiece. Also, the tailpiece doesn't lift up with any sort of hinge so threading new strings through is very tricky.
Apart from those issues, I had one ever-so-slight problem ....THE ELECTRICS WERE TOTALLY INOPERATIVE. Not a click or tone for any of the pickups so for electric jazz it's either useless or it will need a specialist to figure out the problem. Must say, following my experiences, I wouldn't recommend importing this from China . . . a Hartwood or G4M hollow body seems to be a safer buy in the UK.
Hi, and thanks for your comments. I’m really sorry that you’ve had a lot of trouble with this guitar. Firstly. on the question of the strings. My guitar had regular string anchors (little brass rings) attached to the tailpiece).
However they wouldn’t pull through the holes in the tailpiece. The tailpiece is held on by screws at the bottom where the strap pin attaches. So I removed the tailpiece. Then I drilled out each hole with a wider bit so now the anchors will pull through. Then I replaced the tailpiece and now it will be easy to replace strings without removing the tailpiece. On the useless electronics then that’s really bad. I’ve built quite a few tone and volume circuits and they’re quite simple things. I’m wondering what would prevent both volume and tone controls from working. If it were me, I’d email Musoo or Batking and I’m sure they will reply. I had a few email exchanges with them before I bought mine. And again if it were me, I’d just take out the electronics and check out the circuitry. The F-holes are big enough to make this quite easy. I suspect there is just one cold joint or a misplaced junction. I could probably work it out anyway by looking at the
standard “Gibson” circuits. I’m really sorry you’ve had this problem. But do contact Musoo/Batking. Mention my video which Batking is now using on their website and say Rob’s Strings & Things has replied to you. Very poor quality control. I will make an updated video that mentions the string tailpiece problem.
Good luck..and do get back to them. My guitar is still perfect now the tailpiece is improved.
All the best
Rob
@@robrobson7101 Thanks Rob. What I found was that all the string-ends were connected under the tailpiece by a length of thick copper wire that was FIRMLY glued at each end to the underside of the tailpiece, so it couldn't be removed and the strings could not be slid off it. I've never seen anything like that before. It was totally impractical . . .unless it was a fudge by the person who built the guitar because of some sort of problem they had and the quality control didn't spot it? Mark you, they didn't spot the useless electrics either. That copper connecting wire certainly didn't look like a professional idea.
Like you, I removed the tailpiece and found a so-called grounding wire which was mean to touch the copper wire that linked the strings. It looks very amateurish and I doubt the two wires ever actually connected. As you don't mention anything like that in your reply, I'm guessing you didn't find the same system. Thanks again for your response.
Thanks again. I just can’t understand what they were doing. No, I found what I expected to find. Certainly no wire to anchor the strings to. I am a bit “flabbergasted”. Did you by any chance take a picture of the tail pace with the wire? As to the wiring, I did find an earth wire wound round the strap pin. However, as I’m sure you know, that’s not going to influence the bad electronics. Do you have a multimeter?
I suggest you complain to Musoo/Batking by emailing Susan on musooguitars@163.com. I’ve had several email exchanges with her.
Not sure what might come of it but it’s worth a try.