Reviewed by:
Abandoned67, on april 10, 2007
1 of 2 people found this review helpful
Price paid: $ 80
Purchased from: eBay
Features: It didn't come with anything specificizing where or when it was made. It has a beautiful cigarette style burst. I think the paint is amazing, the guitar has been though a lot of banging and stuff so there are a few little dings but only one spot the paint has came off and it was a really bad hit to the guitar that caused it, so the paint in my opinion is great. It has 21 greatly done frets, my friend has a real Standard Strat and his fretts are acctually comming off and he only got it a little bit before I got mine. So the fretjob on it is great! It has the regular 5-way switch and the 3 controls volume, tone, and tone. If it didn't say Bridgecraft on the guitar you might mistake it for a real Strat. It came with a cheap gig bag, a set of strings, and a strap, which I bought another strap but still perfer the strap it came with. // 10
Sound: I play all kinds of music and it is fine for it. I am using it on a Crate GT15 and it sounds awesome. The pickups are amazing for the price that I payed for the guitar. It gets noisy but I think that is more of the amp then the acctual guitar, but I know the pickups add to it. The picups are two single coil Standard Strat-like pickups and then the one single coil bridge pickup Standard Strat-like. I think the sound for the guitar and the price is amazing. I'm still not saying that it has the amazing sound of a more expensive guitar though, like a Gibson or something. It almost or does match the sound of a Standard Stratocaster though. // 9
Action, Fit & Finish: I have never had any problems with the way it was assembled. The picups were adjusted in a alright way they were kind of high though, so I put them down a bit. Not a biggie and all just took a second with adjusting the screws. There was not a single flaw on the guitar when I bought it, the wood is nice and fairly light and everything looked great. The grain of the wood that you can see at the burst part looks great too. // 10
Reliability & Durability: This guitar has gone through a beeting and it stil works and sounds fine. The only thing that I have had a problem with is that I took of the Switch plasic tip to many times and the plastic wore down, but that can be fixed by buing a new one for like a couple cents at my guitar store. I can deffinitly depend on this guitar, I would use it in a gig if I hadent bought my Gibson SG. I would bring it as a backup guitar now because I have the SG though. The finish was great, like I said it has takken a lot to get it dinged up to the little bit that it is. One of the strap buttons came off but that was my brothers fault, but I guess they were not good to begin with so that is my only real complaint. It was easy to fix though. The hardware seems to last a long time and I am not worried about that at all. // 9
Impression: I think that this is a amazing guitar for 75-80 bucks. If I broke it or lost it or it got stolen I would definitly jump right on eBay and look for another one. I have rated this guitar for the money and compared to squire strats and real Fender strats. This guitar is better than freind's Squire Strat, I know two people have Squires and this Bridgecraft is definitly better. I love this guitar because it is so good for the money and I would problably even pay more for it. // 10