Ashthorpe 39-Inch Electric Guitar (Blue-Black), Full-Size Guitar Kit with Padded Gig Bag, Tremolo Bar, Strap, Strings, Cable, Cloth, Picks

Review of - Ashthorpe 39-Inch Electric Guitar - 1/13/24First one arrived with box open and damage. Replacement was quickly sent and arrived perfect today. The finish on the body of this guitar is beautiful. After looking it over, expecting it to be filled with imperfections...I couldn't find one issue with the finish of the body. Body has a heavy gloss finish that makes it look like glass. The volume and 2 tone knobs work as they should and turn smoothly, 5 way tone selector switch works as it should also feels like a good quality switch. Pick-up are nice and bright and produce good sound in all positions...electronics are all great. Pick guard is a pre-wired Strat type plastic guard and comes with a cling type plastic protective sheet over it. Input jack is chrome plated and feels good and snug, not too tight and no buzzing from the jack. Bridge is a tremolo style Bridge and is chrome plated as well.Truss Rod was well adjusted properly, neck is straight. Frets are playable but could use a little more filing on the ends to smooth them down a little more and could use a good crown on them but again, they are very playable as they are. Fretboard, despite being very dry, some food grade mineral oil solved that, is very smooth. Action was a tad high at about 2.5mm, simple adjustment down to 1.5mm and still no fret/string buzzing. Intonation is slightly off, again very playable as is tho but easy fix too. Nut is plastic, works fine but does not fit the end of the Fretboard well...the Nut is almost 1/8" wider than the neck. Some sanding and can get it to match up. The strings are trash...no surprise here tho, most factory strings are junk anyway. Tuners are a bit "gritty", have an 18:1 ratio but seem to hold tune "ok" and come with little blue cling plastic covers on the backs of them.IMPORTANT NOTE: I HIGHLY recommend going over the entire guitar with a screwdriver and wrenches. Check EVERY nut and screw on the guitar. I did find 3 nuts loose on tuners a loose screw on the input jack, loose screw on the pick guard and 2 loose screws on the access cover on the back.Overall thoughts:For the price this is a very playable guitar. After the necessary normal tuning it was playable and sounded good out of the box. If you are a more experienced player you will notice the small things that they cut corners on to reach this price point but don't be fooled, this guitar is shockingly playable for the price. Small things like the rough spot on the neck, the access plate on the back not sitting flush with the body, plastic Nut and "rough" fret wire ends, and few "loose" screws...these are all things you would never find on a higher end guitar but for the price you won't beat this deal. I'd highly recommend if you are a beginner looking for a very playable and affordable guitar to see if you even want to continue after a couple months without spending a lot up front. The plus is that the things that need done that will make this an AWESOME guitar are all very simple to do but take time thus the lower price point (they saved time).

It came with no smell, no scratches, and it looks just like the picture. I love it!

This is a good, playable beginner electric guitar with a standard "Strat" layout. The construction is sturdy and it will take some serious abuse. Frets are not too sharp and not buzzy even with low action and all the way up the fretboard. The woodwork was done well enough to not make me bleed when running crazy licks. It will hold its tune very well and does not warp at all even when using unusual or non-standard tunings. I've tuned it all the way up to F#BEAC#F# with no damage.You get five pickup/tone configurations, a whammy bar (that I can't seem to get to work right), a tone and volume knob. Knobs and levers work as expected.As typical for budget guitars, the tone delivery isn’t great out of the box. It's punchy and mid-rangey kind of like an archtop guitar but also tinny and faint sometimes. You know that sound glass makes right before it shatters? It sounds kind of like that unless you EQ it right. Fortunately, this guitar is modifiable. It can probably be customized with spare strat/squire parts, but I would have rather paid a slightly higher price and gotten more value. Nevertheless, I still use this for home recordings. There’s not much a little mixing magic can’t work out.All in all, it's a great beginner or practice guitar. For live music, though, I would want to use a Squier at least for tone delivery.

I like this better than my "real" Fender Strat. Setup was pretty good out of the box. Only one string needed to be adjusted to bring it down. Electronics sound good, pots not scratchy. Fret ends were not protuding and even the strings are pretty good. Finish was perfect. This is my 3rd Ashthrope (2 electric/ acoustic and this strat copy) and all have been great. Highly recommend.