| | |  | Electric Guitars | Home » » » AXL Badwater SRO Electric Guitar, Off White | | | | | | | Description: | | With a distressed body and antiqued hardware, Badwater Series guitars look and feel of ancient artifacts. These shocking guitars are equipped with EMG-designed pickups for hard rocking tones and clean delivery. Even the headstock and backplate have vintage distressing. No area was spared from the destruction. Badwater guitars have a one-of-a-kind style and excellent playability. The off-white finish has a rusted, phantom-like appearance. The Badwater Series has received Guitar World's December 2007 Gold Award for Overall Value. | | | Features: | |
• Distressed Body & Headstock
• Antiqued / Anodized Hardware
• EMG-Designed Pickups: 2 Single Coil & 1 Humbucker
• Solid Alder Body w/ Original Design
• Rosewood Fretboard
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 38.5 inches | | Product Width:
| 12.25 inches | | Product Height:
| 2.25 inches | | Product Weight:
| 9.6 pounds | | Package Length:
| 40.0 inches | | Package Width:
| 17.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.5 inches | | Package Weight:
| 9.45 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 1 reviews |
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Good beginer guitarMar 05, 2011
By MWJCG
The AXL Badwater SRO has a great neck. It is worn in maple that allows you to move quickly up and down the fretboard. The rosewood fretboard has a decent grain and produces a rich tone. The pickups are Alnico magnets with a humbucker at the bridge. The humbucker is great. It handles over driven metal, blues and hard rock nicely. The other two pickups produce a traditional strat sound. The finish of this guitar is very unique. It is basically painted Alder that has been distressed and weathered to give a vintage appearance. The hardware has a worn copper feel to it that looks really nice up close.
Unfortunately all looks aside this is really a beginner's guitar. When I bought mine the action on it was incredibly high. I began to lower it and I found out why. Lowering the action on this guitar creates a lot of fret buzz. I had to reset everything to how it had been before to get it to go away. This guitar is also extremely light weight. The body is Alder and slightly smaller then a Korean made Fender. When you go to pick it up, there is not nearly as much heft as you would expect from a guitar that looks as tough as this one. The fret wires also needed some work. They were not trimmed close enough to the sides of the fret board so they had some sharp edges that extended past the sides of the neck. I hit theses with a file and it smoothed them out nicely. Not everything on this guitar fits together quite right. One of the drilled holes in the guitar was off slightly so the pick guard screw doesn't fit flush like the rest of them.
What it really boils down to is that this is a guitar with good pickups for under 200 dollars. Its fun to play but, it has some problems when it comes to fit and finish. If my house were to catch on fire would it be the guitar I grabbed as I ran out the door? No, probably not.
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