gumby offset, or someone bit the ass off my JM!

[1946dodge]

http://www.rondomusic.net/sjm62.html

Found this on the FDP site. Hell an offset for 129 bucks with p90s.

[djetz]

I like it.

The body shape is like one of Bo Diddley's Gretsches, Gretsch Cadillac, maybe?

[fuzzking]

"We recommend strings with this guitar."



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[Mad-Mike]

I love how in the the Low E is not even on the saddle.....hahaha.  Time to get a 1mm shim and some hex wrenches.

[Pumpkin]

Looks ok in a novelty batman kinda way!

[1946dodge]

I wonder if these are any good? For 129 bucks you could do some serious modding or just plain turn the thing into a gusssied up pimp machine.
Or put in lace alumintone humbuckers.
Then the pickups will be worth more than the guitar!
I got some old pickups that are sitting around doing nothing right now....

Maybe the P90s in it are pretty good.

It kinda looks like a cross between a JM and a 58 Cadillac.

These have to be made in China. For that price, someone got robbed of his work.

[1946dodge]

You can also get a 24 inch scale strat:
http://www.rondomusic.net/product904.html

[StevenO]

I wonder if these are any good? For 129 bucks you could do some serious modding or just plain turn the thing into a gusssied up pimp machine.
Or put in lace alumintone humbuckers.
Then the pickups will be worth more than the guitar!
I got some old pickups that are sitting around doing nothing right now....

I can't help but think "polishing a turd"(pardon my obviously bad French, and my lack of intelligence for even believing that could be French).
But if it's cheap enough and you have the parts laying around, I'd say do it. It's only money and if everything goes as planned it will be very little amounts of money turned into a good player.

[quandar]

http://reviews.harmony-central.com/revi ... JM+62/10/1
Pretty good reviews for the most part, seems to be the bridge is pretty terrible, pickups a bit weak and hummy (but according to others, just fine), but I don't know, no first hand experience with this. Interesting looking guitar though. For 129$ its almost worth it even if you need to spend a little to fix it up.

[PorkyPrimeCut]

Strange how the body contouring on the back is in a different place. Imagine playing it like that. You'd look like you were trying to hump it!?! 

[1946dodge]

Their other guitars seem to get better as the price goes up. The Les Paul and PRS copies are about 400-500 dollars and seem to be made pretty well.
I still may get the offset model. The strats look just like any squire or cheap model and are probably pretty good for the money, but I have a bunch of those already.
It would be interesting to see how they do with the JM clone.

[StevenO]

This guitar isn't even offset, is it? I never noticed it before. Offset-butt maybe?

[1946dodge]

It is supposed to be an offset - with the JM telltale letters in its model number. Of course they chewed off the ass so it looks kind of eh?

I would rather they didnt do that. The Swinger kind of has the same tail region.

[berlinbetty]

  I can vouch for the quality of their LP guitars.  I took a 2 hour (one way) road trip to the Rondo store in Union, NJ (now closed  ) to check out one of their guitars and ended up walking out with two others.  One was a now-discontinued LP with p-90s and it's beautiful with a nice cherry sunburst, triple-bound body, ebony fretboard w/ abalone inlays.  I'm sure if this were an epiphone, it would have been a six or seven hundred dollar guitar.  Since I went to the store I was able to buy it on clearence-$200 when they go for $365 on ebay!  The only thing I'd change about it is the shape of the headstock, but that's my only complaint...well, that and it's 10.6 lbs on my bathroom scale.