A cool guitar with a one-of-a-kind style, rocking tones, and excellent playability.

The Badwater Eldorado Electric Guitar has a light-weight single-cutaway alder body, bolt-on maple neck and a rosewood fingerboard. The Eldorado has a comfortable "C" neck profile. A string-thru-body design adds tone and sustain. This unusual guitar is equipped with EMG-designed pickups for hard rocking tones and clean delivery. All hardware is antiqued and anodized including in-line mini tuners, master volume and tone controls, and a six-saddle bridge.

With a distressed body and antiqued hardware, AXL Badwater Series guitars look and feel of ancient artifacts. Even the headstock and backplate have vintage distressing. No area was spared from the destruction. The Badwater Series has received Guitar World's December 2007 Gold Award for Overall Value.

The crackle brown/white finish has a reptilian texture throughout its body. The off-white finish has a rusted, phantom-like appearance. The brown finish model has the look of a museum-quality guitar stored away for decades. The crackle blue finish looks like it was pulled deep from the ocean floor. The crackle black finish evokes the texture of a guitar blackened and burned by lightning.

Axl Badwater Eldorado Electric Guitar Features:

• Model: Eldorado
• Pickguard: Classic-Style, Distressed
• Headstock Finish: Natural, Distressed with Burned AXL Logo
• Body: Alder
• Neck: Rock Maple
• Fretboard: Rosewood
• Hardware: Antiqued / Anodized
• Inlay: Dot
• Bridge: Anodized String-thru-Body
• Pickups: EMG-Designed; 2 Single-Coil
• Controls: Volume/Tone, 3-way Selector Switch
• Neck Profile: C
• Neck Joint: Deep Cut Bolt-On
• Neck Joint Location: 16th Fret
• Radius: 12"
• Nut Width: 1-21/32
• Nut Type: Plastic
• Scale Length: 25.5"
• Total Length: 38.75"

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Axl Badwater Eldorado Electric Guitar

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Interesting looking but needs set-up work

Posted by Bones from Santa Cruz, CA on Feb 5, 2010

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Active Musician - guitar builder

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, Country

I bought this because I liked the distressed look and wanted something to bang around and not worry about. It's really rustic looking - like it was left hanging on a barn wall for years. The off-white has a lot of streaks and fake dings on the front/back. It came with the action so high I had to use the supplied wrenches to adjust the truss rod and lower the bridge. THen I had to use some nut files (that I just happen to have) to increase the nut slots because the strings were way too high at the nut. Finally I had to tweak the intonation at the bridge a bit since all these other tweaks to get the action lower make the intonation change from what it was at the factory. Other than having to do that I had to add a screw in the bridge pickup (middle of the Pup has a screw hole - but mine had no screw) because the pup was slanting instead of straight up/down. I'm not sure if there was supposed to be a screw but there should be one so I added a thin black one that was from an old humbucker mounting ring I had laying around. This guy needed lots of tweaks to get it playable so I lowered it's quality. For the money though it's a reasonable deal if you don't mind tweaking and setting it up. Also, I took some keys and an old pocket knife and dinged it up more on the top and sides and back (just drop the keys and the folded knife randomly on top and back) and banged up the sides a bit more. Now it looks more distressed than it came. I'm happy with the deal I got but many people won't want to mess with the hassle to get it to play reasonably. If you don't mind doing your own setup work or know someone who can do it for you this is a good deal. Plus it looks real funky.

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Beautiful but leaves something to be wanted.

Posted by MrWandthedeathofcuteblue from Gothenburg, Sweden on Sep 3, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal, Jazz, Alternative

The Axl Badwater Eldorado Electric Guitar is absolutly worth buying if you are new to guitars or already have a hundred guitars. If you are new, this is a great guitar to learn on. If you are an exsperienced guitarist it will only be worth it if you already have a solid guitar. It is beautiful but i personally could not play it more than 20 minute before i quickly became disapointed and went back to my relativly inexspensive Ibanez RG5EX1(great buy). Buy this guitar if you want some pretty furniture or a cheap guitar to learn but if you want a functional musical instrument look else where. In review perfect for collecting or learning but if you want something quality look else where. Have a nice day and buy this guitar if it is appropriate. (quick note: This guitar probably needs to stay in standard tuning. This guitar is worthless in drop D.)

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Beautiful but leaves something to be wanted.

Posted by MrWandthedeathofcuteblue from Gothenburg, Sweden on Sep 3, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal, Jazz, Alternative

The Axl Badwater Eldorado Electric Guitar is absolutly worth buying if you are new to guitars or already have a hundred guitars. If you are new, this is a great guitar to learn on. If you are an exsperienced guitarist it will only be worth it if you already have a solid guitar. It is beautiful but i personally could not play it more than 20 minute before i quickly became disapointed and went back to my relativly inexspensive Ibanez RG5EX1(great buy). Buy this guitar if you want some pretty furniture or a cheap guitar to learn but if you want a functional musical instrument look else where. In review perfect for collecting or learning but if you want something quality look else where. Have a nice day and buy this guitar if it is appropriate. (quick note: This guitar probably needs to stay in standard tuning. This guitar is worthless in drop D.)

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this guitar

Posted by metalpunk14 from Russell, MN on Jun 30, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Musician

Reviewer's Play Style: Metal

i would suggest to anyone to buy this guitar. its cheap but it sounds good. im in a metal band and i use this guitar and its great for riffs! its made for any kind of music.

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