Leo Jaymz 24.75" Single Cut Curved Top Solid Body Electric Guitar - Premium Grover Machine Heads, Gloss Black Finish - Perfect for Rock, Blues & Studio Recording

The first one showed up damaged. Amazon sent a new one/replacement right away. 5 stars for Amazon.Not a high end instrument - when I had the damaged one and replacement side by side nothing lined up like pickups and bridges so there’s that. I think the damaged one may have had better pickups in it.So the pickups are weak. Needed setup, nut wasn’t cut the best, quite a bit of string buzz due to nut cut. Was able to correct though …Needed truss rod/neck adjustment & bridge adjustment - which it tolerated/took well. Frets needed polishing.Bottom line - decent beginner guitar - nice finish - holds tune - looks good - fun to play.Would I buy again = yes.Cosmetically, this guitar is beautiful. And it came well set up so it plays very well. The neck is a little thick for my taste, but not bad at all. A lot like the chunky Gibson Les Pauls. With a few minor upgrades this could be a great guitar, but even as is it is a very nice guitar, especially for the price. Mine had zero cosmetic blemishes. Very happy with it.I just received this guitar about an hour ago, and gave it a preliminary lookover. Obviously, the appearance is stunning. The first thing I did was treated the fretboard with Fret Doctor, as the wood seemed a bit dry. I also put a lighter gauge of strings on (I play the Billy Gibbons set of 7's). Right off the bat, it was obvious that the tops of the frets were a bit rough, you can hear and feel it when bending strings. The neck was perfectly straight. The intonation was perfect with the strings that were included, but of course I'm going to have to adjust that now that I went to a much lighter set. The problems that people noted regarding the pickups being microphonic, yep. It will be impossible to use it at high gain, even at low volume levels. The thing squeals like the pig in Deliverance. Overall, the tone of the pickups is a bit fatter than my other humbucker guitars. Not muddy, just a bit thicker, if that makes any sense. Also, the are output seems a bit lower than my other guitars (for reference, my other guitars are Ibanez semi-hollow with their stock pickups). If it weren't for the squealing pickups, I might just leave them alone because the tone is okay, but I'm going to end up changing them. Also, other reviewers have noted that the knobs are just barely off the body of the guitar, even touching them in some cases. Two of mine are like that. There was no damage from shipping, it was double boxed as shown in the photo.Overall, I'm glad I bought the guitar and I was kind of expecting that it would need some upgrades. The first photo was immediately after I unpackaged it. The second photo is in its current form. New pickups (Guitar Madness '57 Alnico II), new truss cover, new roller bridge. It's my best sounding guitar now.UPDATE: I did a studio session with this guitar. The only upgrades were those listed above.https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B94JVKZC/ref=dm_rwp_pur_lnd_albm_frEverything was great but just one thing. The bridge was not placed correctly and as a result the intonation for the lowest four strings could not be properly set. Other than that, the finish, workmanship, materials used were all of the highest quality. I was genuinely impressed with the overall quality, but a misplaced bridge makes it all for naught if I can't get the proper intonation without routing the mounting holes for the bridge.The guitar finish is beautiful and the frets are smooth. I had to adjust the arm a little and also the bridge because some strings were making noise on upper frets but after the adjustments it plays very nice. It sounds good even with the original strings.