Purchased new from Guitar Showcase in San Jose, CA mid 1995.
Unmodified
Sonic Blue
Made in Japan
Serial U003471
I love it and won't sell it, but it's honestly not very good. I've never played another one, so I don't know if I just got unlucky, but the intonation is horrible, it doesn't stay in tune, the pickups are kind of weak and really noisy and there's a very strange over(under?)tone starting on the low E string. It becomes more pronounced the higher up the fret board you play and it's definitely not fret buzz. It's hard to describe, but the few people I've taken the guitar to haven't been able to figure out what it is. We tried a different barrel at the bridge, inspected the nut, adjusted the tension rod, etc. It's odd, because when it's plugged in and you hear the noise, you assume it might be something with the electronics due to the odd warble effect, but if you play it unplugged you can still hear that sound. Again, hard to describe, but it's almost like the low end frequencies are out of tune with the rest of the note and produce a warble effect. It's not the other strings or the back side of the low E string (from the nut to the fret), so I don't know what it is.
I think it used to have the "Designed by Kurt Cobain" sticker, but I removed it.
