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Try finding a guitar like this one anywhere. Washburn’s HM20V Retro Reissue fills that hole that price gouging auctioneers and hapless garage sales can’t fill. Straight from the glory days of metal and speed runs come the HM20V electric guitar. Taking the infamous HM20 guitar into a new century of face melting.

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this is one of the best guitars out there, i have played nearly every quality guitar out there, including numerous les paul custom/standards, tons of fender strats and teles, and many USA paul reed smiths, and this guitar feels/ sounds better than them all

it is worth tons more than it is priced

this guitar is made extremely well, mine has a black finish with red binding around the entire guitar and it looks amazing

a customer from gmail.com (1/24/2009)

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The HP Signature Series EX double-cutaway guitar is a compilation of years of designing, engineering and manufacturing guitars. Named after Peavey’s founder and CEO, Hartley Peavey, the HP Signature EX guitar is an excellent value for the working musician. The Basswood body with Maple veneer gives the HP Signature EX guitar the perfect combination of lightweight comfort and sexy looks players desire. Standard features include Grover tuning gears, humbucking pickups and a string-thru body with tune-o-matic bridge.

Peavey HP Signature EX Electric Guitar Features…

Unpacked Dimensions (HxWxD): 37.00 x 13.00 x 2.75 in.

Packed Dimensions (HxWxD): 41.50 x 16.73 x 3.63 in.

Unpacked Weight: 8.00 lbs.

Packed Weight: 10.00 lbs.

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Oh Yeah!

Wow! I bought this beauty because I wanted something different than the same ol' cliche'd hard rock guitars and it's a winner. The neck is very comfortable and feels like a perfect fit. The stock pickups are decent but I put a diMarzio Super Distortion in the bridge position and it's so amazing now. It's much smaller than what I expected and that's just fine with me. It really feels like a "classic" quitar. Excellent price for this ride!

Kansas City Kittie from Fort Wayne, IN (Jun 28, 2007)

"Great Guitar For Price"

looks great

If i were to buy a guitar for the same price for someone else i would buy this one. This guitar feels better to play than others in it's price range.

This guitar is tough and will not break. Great finish and gold plated hardware.

5 year warranty. No support needed so far.

a customer from yahoo.com (7/1/2006)

These are the machines of the gods… with drop dead good looks, sonic lethality and the devastating power and control of a precision Edge Zero bridge with ZPS3 spring system or Edge Pro bridge. RG Prestige guitars feature flawless Japanese craftsmanship, the finest materials and each is axe perfectly matched with DiMarzio IBZ pickups.

Fast, flat and thin 5-piece Wizard necks with Prestige finishing for supreme comfort. Edge Zero bridge with ZPS3 spring system. DiMarzio IBZ pickups deliver rabid rock tones. Gotoh precision tuning machines. Includes deluxe Prestige case.

Ibanez RG2550Z Prestige Electric Guitar Features…

Neck: 5pc Wizard Prestige neck

Neck Type: Wizard Prestige

Body: Basswood body

Frets: Jumbo frets

Fingerboard: Bound Rosewood

Inlay: Wedge sharktooth

Bridge: Edge Zero bridge w/ZPS3

NeckPU: DiMarzio IBZ neck pu

MiddlePU: DiMarzio IBZ mid pu

BridgePU: DiMarzio IBZ bridge pu

HW Color: CK

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Tone Machine!!

This guitar was perfect right out of the box. The case is very well molded and solid as a rock. The pickups are pretty ok, but plan to put some Evos in em'. For some reason, the neck pickup appears to be the loudest, and let me tell you…these pickups are SUPER sensitive…they're like a poor-man's Evos in a way…
<p>This guitar, overall, is a great combination of Les Paul tone with a touch of that Fender single-coil in the middle…the coolest sounding distortion sounds come from the single-coil combined with either the neck or the bridge. Overall AMAZING guitar, wish they still made the one made out of Poplar.
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Soul-JAH from Guam (Dec 9, 2008)

RG PRICELESS

I love this guitar.Best guitar I've ever own in a long time.I have Gibson LP,Fender Strat,Schecter Hellraiser FR.in my collections.But non of them came close,as far,as playability,functionality,versatality.The Ibanez RG Prestige can do it all.I took this guitar to my friends birthday party.And the guys who had their Fender Strats deluxe,Gretsch,Gibson LP,were a little jealouse of it.Because of the versatility of my Prestige, I was a combonation of Steve vai,EVH,SRV,ALL PUT IN ONE.I was living it.With my RG Prestige I made them look like time capsules in the bottle,all dress up but no where to go.I was shredding,dive bombing,sweeping,etc.So If you want to play just like our guitar heroes,this is the axe to get.Buy one soon,this is a nice guitar with blows and whistle,more bang for your bucks.

Thrilla from manila from seattle,wa (Aug 12, 2008)

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With its “reverse” headstock and dual ESP LH humbuckers, the M100 delivers a broad tone with searing highs. ESP carefully designs and builds all of their instruments with painstaking selection of materials, components and innovative designs so that each model has its own unique personality. The M100 features an Agathis body with a flamed Maple top, a Maple neck with a Rosewood fretboard and 24 extra jumbo frets. It also provides a Floyd Rose licensed locking tremolo and all black hardware.

ESP LTD M100FM Flame Maple Electric Guitar Features…

Construction: Bolt-on

Scale: 25.5 in.

Body: Agathis with flamed Maple top

Neck: Maple

Fretboard: Rosewood

Inlays: Dots with model name at 12th fret

Pickups: ESP LH-100 set

Electronics: Volume, 3-way slotted, tone

Hardware: Black

Bridge: Floyd Rose licensed

Frets: 24 XJ

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"Decent guitar"

I have it. It's black, and in the right light, looks a little purple-ish because of the wood under the finish. I pretty much got it because it was an ESP and it had a Floyd Rose unit.

You won't find many heavy-metal guitars as good as this for the same price. But I would suggest saving up a bit and getting a good Ibanez if you like tremolos. But, if you're a Metallica fan, and are dead set on getting an ESP, this is a good place to start. Like I said above, the tremolo is a little meh, but it's decent.

It's pretty solidly built. Except for the frets. They jut out of the fretboard just enough so that it scrathes your hand as you move up the frets. Also, it's jutted out enough that I have a problem with the high e getting stuck under one of the frets from time to time.

I wouldn't know.

a customer from yahoo.com (11/21/2007)

ESP M-100FM LTD Guitar Customer Review

This guitar is a SEXY BEAST I cant stop playing and picking it up.

Its a great guitar for little green.

I think it came with one scratch but not big it was little and not very deep.

Great deal, Get It

a customer from yahoo.com (1/4/2009)

The Gibson SG Select starts with all the power and punch that has made the SG one of the most popular guitars of all time, then adds the beauty of flame maple. With a body carefully carved from solid, bookmatched AAA flame maple, and a three-piece maple neck, the SG Select highlights the wood’s natural elegance, as well as its incredibly resonant, singing tone.

Not only is the SG Select Gibson’s most exquisite SG, it also has incredible projection and detailed clarity. Powerful 490R and 498T humbuckers and gold hardware continue the theme of beauty and brawn, allowing the SG Select to set a new standard for singing sustain and handcrafted allure.

Gibson SG Select Electric Guitar (with Case) Features…

Gibson SG Select Specifications

* BODY Top Species: AAA flame maple

* Binding: Antique top binding

NECK

* Species: AAA flame maple

* Profile: SG

* Neck Joint Location: 19

FINGERBOARD

* Species: Rosewood

* Scale Length: 24-3/4 in.

* Number of Frets: 22

* Nut Width: 1.695 in.

* Inlays: Trapezoidal with holly on headstock

* Fingerboard Binding: Antique

HARDWARE

* Plating Finish: Gold

* Tailpiece: Stop Bar

* Bridge: Tune-O-Matic

* Knobs: Black Top Hat with gold inserts

* Tuners: Grover

ELECTRONICS

* Neck Pickup: 490R with gold covers

* Bridge Pickup: 498T with gold covers

* Controls: 2 volume, 2 tone, 3-way switch

OTHER

* Strings: Brite Wires .010-.046

CASE

* Case Interior: Dark Grey Plush

* Case Exterior: Black Reptile Pattern Hardshell

* Case Silkscreen: Silver ‘Gibson USA’ logo

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out of the box, the setup was garbage, but the humbuckers sounded great, so I took it from the store straight to Mike Lull's guitar works to have it set up properly. The Tone out of the box was pretty muddy, so I had some mods done at the same time: treble bypass capacitors put in both volume pots, to keep the treble tones from dissapearing when playing with volume down at 2-5. This mod brightens up the tone overall, and makes the tone more versatile. I had covers put on the humbuckers, replaced the crappy tuners with grovers (BE CAREFUL IF YOU DO CHANGE THE TUNERS, the ones I put on are too heavy and the headstock droops. This week I am having these replaced with grover "mini-keys" tuners that are 1/4 the weight of full size grovers. With these mods, this guitar is exactly what I was looking for, ripping aggressive tones, perfect amount of sustain, (replacing the tuners helped the sustain considerably, and using at least .10 ga strings) I play through a VHT pittbull 45, and really have a lot of versatile tones with the SG and Pittbull.

This is a 1999 manuf. SG Special, Alnico 490R and 490T Humbuckers,Tune-o matic, 3 way switch, two volume, two tone knobs,Mahogany body, Rosewood fretboard.

FInish looks pretty thin, but good over all. The hardware (not inc. the tuners) is very good. Solid feel. Tight. Action was high out of the box, but I don't expect any guitar to be perfect for everyone out if the box.

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Pete (08/14/2001)

This guitar makes all sorts of sounds. Everything from Metallica to… metallica.

No, seriously this guitar is much more versatile than most people think. I understand why everyone likes the distorted sound so much, but this thing sounds beautiful clean. I like it as much as a strat. (I say "as much" cuz they are just different sounds. Hard to compare.)

I play this guitar through a VS 100 head and 1922 2×12 closed back cab. It gives a tight crunch sound when distorted. The clean sparkles, but you can still feel it in your chest.

This is the new round of SG special, the one with the blue/green finish. Other than the new fancy paint job, the features are the same as pretty much every other SG Special around.

This is a simply set up guitar. And I like that. I have to give it a 5, cuz it doesn't really have any special features. But that is not necessarily a bad thing.

The factory set up was good for the rediculously thin strings that the guitar came with. When i switched to 11-52's I had to adjust the intonation. What a bitch. The triangular shape of the saddles is annoying because I adjusted them all the way back, and it still wasnt' far enough. I had to remove the strings again and flip the bridge so the saddles face the opposite way. It's good now, but it took some work. There was a flaw in the finish beside the fretboard near the neck/body attachment point. I noticed it before I bought it, but it was small, and the guitar just felt right.

The pickups were initially set too close to the strings, and I was getting a buzzing sound when I leaned into it. That's an easy fix though.

Never dealt with them. I give them 1 just because of my personal bitterness towards big, rich, monopolistic companies.

Anonymous (11/27/2001)

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The American Vintage ‘57 Stratocaster re-creates one of Fender’s most famous designs. All original specs are detailed including neck and headstock shapes, body radii and contours, 12th fret dot positioning, and hand-beveled pickup magnets.

Fender ‘57 American Vintage Stratocaster Electric Guitar (Maple, with Case) Features…

Body: Comfort Contoured Alder Body

Neck: Maple

Fingerboard: Maple (7.25 in. Radius/184mm)

Scale Length: 25.5 in. (648mm)

Number of Frets: 21 Vintage Frets

Width at Nut: 1.650 in. (42mm)

Machine Heads: Fender/Gotoh Vintage Tuning Machines

Pickups: 3 “New” American Vintage Strat Single Coils

Pickup Switching: 3 Position Blade

Controls: Master Volume, Tone (Neck), Tone (Mid)

Pickguard: 1-Ply, 8 Hole, White

Bridge: “Original” Vintage Synchronized Tremolo

Unique Features: Nitro-Cellulose Lacquer Finish, “V” Shape, 1-Piece, Tinted, Maple Neck

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Great guitar, THE NECK LOOKS AMAZING

The tint that this neck has looks so good with the surf green color. Definitely reminds you of the 50s. A very vintage sounding guitar however it is a quality vintage sound. I mainly use this guitar for blues and some light rock. I inspected this guitar when I got it and it was flawless. Everything was perfect. The tweed case is nice too. Its yellow tweed outside and orange plush(i think its plush) inside. I am so happy I got this guitar.

Rocky Balboa from NY (Oct 27, 2006)

"BEST STRAT OUT THERE, PERIOD."

Very, very sexy. It looks just perfect on me.

It's a lot of money but you get a lot for it.

Looks great to me. Top quality Fender stuff.

I have no idea.

Submitted: 10/13/2007