i've had the rr5, too.
a good guitar indeed, but hey, it's more than 1000€ in that range "good" is the least thing i'm expecting.
it was made very solid, great fretjob, but had some issues with noises from the area between body and bridge, the strings there were resonating pretty much, what made that guitar suck for tight muted stuff.
so again, before i'd spend that much for a rr5 i'd buy a used us-made and would be happier and even save some $
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but 1000 $/€ is a difficult range anyway, it's alot of money but still not enough for the "perfect" guitar (at least with my definition of perfect).
when i spend that much i wouldn't be satisfied with a guitar that's not perfect for me.
i've never played the sl-3, but in that case i assume it's not really worse than tha us-version, it's got the sdame ingredients as the sl-1 and is probably well made (like the rr5), so i'd like to check it out. (i love my sl1).
but here Tachy askes 'bout the 500€ DK2M, and i would always tell "go and buy a used one of 3times the quality for that money", the sl-3 is still some $ away from the DK2M......
Kraid said:
... I'm sure that if your DKMG could not stay in tune it must have had some set up problem or maybe you got a bad one.....
setup is never a problem with my guitars (i used to work as arepairman in a guitarstore and know pretty much how to set it up),
Kraid said:
... or maybe you got a bad one.....
and here is where the problem is.....for 800€ there can't be a "bad one", if so the company is just doing something extremely wrong!
that's the reason i parted with gibsons...
btw the fretjobs etc on the japanese guitars are perfect.
perhaps the wood that make them sound so way worse than esps in the same range?
don't know and don't really care, i've owned about 180 guitars in total (alot of very cheap aria and samick and other crap, of course, up to medallion v's and several customshop jacksons and esps etc (did some good trades)), and i can tell that i'd always find a guitar for the same money, that's better (for me!!) than the jap.jackson equivalent.....
but again: that's just my taste, you should just check it out and see if it suits your needs, guitars are like women and some like blonde and bitchy and some like brunette and calm....
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