i really like this guitar not only for the looks but it's sound is very good i play through a crate 65 watt amp and the sound is just awsome great beginner guitar.

Read all the other reviews, basically, you can't get a better strat unless you jump up to a full fledged Fender Standard with the full fledged price tag. This guitar is beautiful enough to show off to your friends, sounds good enough to keep your interest and motivation up while you learn or improve your playing. Mine arrived with a little bit of corrosion on the non stainless screws that hold down the pick guard. I replaced them as well as all the other screws with chrome ones (cost about 20 bucks). It is built really well and sounds great through my 15w Peavy Vypyr modelling amp. I don't seem to have the tuning problems that some folks have but the whammy bar stays detached and in the case most of the time too. After a week or so of the new strings stretching a bit, it stays in tune longer and longer. I should mention this is a dressed up Standard and not a dressed up Affinity, ie it has the Alnico pickups and better hardware.

One day I will step up to a Fender and this one will go in a case and hang on the wall cuz it looks so good.

Well, I bought this off e-bay (bad place to buy guitars) and it turned out pretty okay. Granted, it wasn't setup, but once it was it was a pretty good guitar for my first electric. It can take some distortion pretty well, but the humbucker doesn't get a tone control AT ALL! That kinda made me a bit ticked, but it's great for begginers.

I bought this as my first electric guitar it is a great beginner. It has a ok neck, and it didn’t have any fret problems and played well. Change the pups and you’ve got an OK guitar.

My first guitar was similar to this one. It had a custom pickgaurd on it when I got it and the hardware was gold-colored instead of chrome, but it was basically the same guitar. I learned how to play on it, and it fulfilled all of my expectations. Basically, for guitar-illiterate beginners, If you're looking for a heavier rock or metal tone you would want to get this guitar over a regular strat or a tele. Eventually I traded this in for credit towards a BC rich warbeast. I have no regrets, but I sometimes wish I had kept my old guitar instead of traded it for credit. Oh, well...