What a relaxing video. Felt like I had dropped by a friends house. I kept waiting for you to offer me a cup of coffee. They are nice guitars, and your smooth musical musings while talking were also enjoyed. Thanks for sharing.
No, more like an ES-250 as a rather thin body mostly hollow body with a block under the bridge (it is really unfinished in there) vs. a center block with hollow wood wings as is the case with the Gibson guitar. Case-wise you’ll need something like a non-form factor ES-335 case with a bit of padding on the back and sides. The current price tag with free shipping in the USA is about $178.00 in Amazon. I ended up switching out the tuning machines for locking tuning machines, the strap buttons for Schaller/Fender Straplock buttons. Mine needed a tiny bit of fret polishing, but a vast amount of fingerboard oiling; the beastie was dry as a bone and needed a little humidity and oiling. The original strings were a bit metal dusty, so those were instantly removed and replaced with 0.012s. I can’t get over their tuning machines and pickups being more to my taste than what I have experienced in Epiphones, Ibanez, and Squiers at 3x to 4x the price. Relative to Harley Benton or Grote guitars in/around the same range, these IYV guitars seem to contain higher quality parts, but have more finish blemishes to them. The IYV IJZ-500 is more like an Epiphone Broadway or Gibson L-5 in size (the Epiphone Broadway case is a tight fit), but it feels like a great cross between the Epiphone Broadway and Gibson ES-175. A slightly modified ES-335 large pickguard fits if you’re looking to add one to it. This guitar required less fret polishing and the same amount of fingerboard oiling. Stainless steel (0.013) Flatwound strings and a heavily ground down Gotoh Tune-O-Matic bridge (besides the Straplock buttons and locking tuning machines) are the mods I made to the IJZ-500. The short TUSQ bridge is also a good fit on the IJZ-500, too. Oh, of note, the original “rosewood” bridge on mine was cut very well and sounded rather good with round wound and half round strings. Both the IJZ-300 and IJZ-500 had Marvel L3 tuners (clones of Grover tuners) that were very surprisingly good. Pardon the ramble and hope this helps.
Great first vid! I enjoyed it. Cool guitars - in particular, the Semi-Hollow. I have that one - the IJZ300 I think it is. And man oh man... it is one of my faves!! I got a bunch of em' and that baby is definitely one of my faves. They call it their Jazz Box... but the thing SMOKES!!! Killer pickups on it, and it plays like an absolute dream. Love love love it. Great start to making vids!
What a relaxing video.
Felt like I had dropped by a friends house. I kept waiting for you to offer me a cup of coffee.
They are nice guitars, and your smooth musical musings while talking were also enjoyed.
Thanks for sharing.
No, more like an ES-250 as a rather thin body mostly hollow body with a block under the bridge (it is really unfinished in there) vs. a center block with hollow wood wings as is the case with the Gibson guitar. Case-wise you’ll need something like a non-form factor ES-335 case with a bit of padding on the back and sides. The current price tag with free shipping in the USA is about $178.00 in Amazon. I ended up switching out the tuning machines for locking tuning machines, the strap buttons for Schaller/Fender Straplock buttons. Mine needed a tiny bit of fret polishing, but a vast amount of fingerboard oiling; the beastie was dry as a bone and needed a little humidity and oiling. The original strings were a bit metal dusty, so those were instantly removed and replaced with 0.012s. I can’t get over their tuning machines and pickups being more to my taste than what I have experienced in Epiphones, Ibanez, and Squiers at 3x to 4x the price.
Relative to Harley Benton or Grote guitars in/around the same range, these IYV guitars seem to contain higher quality parts, but have more finish blemishes to them.
The IYV IJZ-500 is more like an Epiphone Broadway or Gibson L-5 in size (the Epiphone Broadway case is a tight fit), but it feels like a great cross between the Epiphone Broadway and Gibson ES-175. A slightly modified ES-335 large pickguard fits if you’re looking to add one to it. This guitar required less fret polishing and the same amount of fingerboard oiling. Stainless steel (0.013) Flatwound strings and a heavily ground down Gotoh Tune-O-Matic bridge (besides the Straplock buttons and locking tuning machines) are the mods I made to the IJZ-500. The short TUSQ bridge is also a good fit on the IJZ-500, too. Oh, of note, the original “rosewood” bridge on mine was cut very well and sounded rather good with round wound and half round strings.
Both the IJZ-300 and IJZ-500 had Marvel L3 tuners (clones of Grover tuners) that were very surprisingly good.
Pardon the ramble and hope this helps.
Man.thatz a cool guitar.i love the fret inlays.and all the binding.it looks like a 900 $ guitar.i would definetly grab one!
Damn I paid over 200 for mine. But still happy with it
Great first vid! I enjoyed it. Cool guitars - in particular, the Semi-Hollow. I have that one - the IJZ300 I think it is. And man oh man... it is one of my faves!! I got a bunch of em' and that baby is definitely one of my faves. They call it their Jazz Box... but the thing SMOKES!!! Killer pickups on it, and it plays like an absolute dream. Love love love it. Great start to making vids!
Did you keep it? Any intonation woes?
Sort of like a Byrdland shrunk some.
Great video! How is the neck on the hollowbody? Is the action low without fret buzzing? Thanks!
The bridge is adjustable, but mine did not need anything but tuning.
Think the iyv guitars are much better than Donner guitars