Jackson JS32 King V AH Gloss Black

I wanted a pointy guitar with a FR and didn't want to spend much. I've seen a lot of really positive reviews on YouTube and people raving about how great the necks are on the JS series now.

I'm used to playing Esp and Ibanez guitars from Korea and Japan. You can definitely feel that this is a much cheaper guitar. The parts are a lower quality and everything is just not as well polished. However, it's a functional guitar and with some work on the setup and intonation it can play very well regardless of the lower quality feeling. I've swapped the tremolo with a Gotoh 1996 and that's been a massive improvement in sound and tremolo function. Replacing the nut with a Schaller also helped a lot. The tuners are next to be replaced as the stock Chinese tuners are such a pain to use and do not hold tuning very well. The pickups sound nice if you back them down away from the strings a bit.

The neck is strange to me. I was expecting it to be thinner after all the reviews calling it a speed neck and thin shredding profile. This one is thicker and wider feeling. It definitely forces me to keep my thumb on the back of the neck now instead of thumb over like I usually play.

Overall I'm happy with it. It's not garbage but it's nothing fancy either. It's a decent platform for modification.