July 31, 2019
I presently have a Epiphone Dot which sounds great, butI wanted a second guitar, not too expensive and I want a single coil pickup. I happened to come across a review of the Glarry Burning Fire on Youtube, and it was a favourable review. And it's was only $69. Ok, so it might not be a replacement for my Dot, but it's only $69. Going to the Glarry Music site, the sunset was on sale for only $59. It looked a bit funky, I'm mostly a blues player, but it's only $59, and no shipping. So I order ...
I presently have a Epiphone Dot which sounds great, butI wanted a second guitar, not too expensive and I want a single coil pickup. I happened to come across a review of the Glarry Burning Fire on Youtube, and it was a favourable review. And it's was only $69. Ok, so it might not be a replacement for my Dot, but it's only $69. Going to the Glarry Music site, the sunset was on sale for only $59. It looked a bit funky, I'm mostly a blues player, but it's only $59, and no shipping. So I ordered it, expecting a long wait, but it was delivered after a few days! Packaging wasn't that great, the Fedex guy waited for me to open it up to make sure the guitar wasn't damage since the box was a bit dinged up. The guitar wasn't touched during shipping. So far so good. Taking it out the first thing I noticed how small it is! Plus the body style didn't looked too much heavy metal at all! Looking it over, my wife noticed a little overspray on top of the headstock and wanted to me to return it, but I just said it gave it character. Plus it was only $59. It came with a truss rod allen wrench and a smaller allen wrench for the bridge, a thin guitar cord and a chintzy strap. I put aside the cord and the strap was doable, but I had an extra one. The neck was setup pretty good, so I didn't have to adjust it. One thing amazed me was it had 9-42 strings on it. I was expecting 10-46, so that pretty was nice. The tremolo was locked down so I had to adjust it to float. WIth three springs it was pretty tight, so I removed one of the springs. The action was pretty high, so that needed adjustment. Did I mention it was only $59? It did go out of tune a lot at the beginning, the 9-42 strings sure were stretchy. I graphite the nut and that helped. Now the sound. It's a bit tinny, not full like the Dot. The single coil didn't sound too bad. But did I mention it was only $59? I didn't hear the hum that everyone complained about, but then my amp has a real good noise gate builtin. All in all pretty good for an inexpensive guitar. It's a good guitar to mod, I have a few ideas already. Did I mention it was only $59?
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