i recently picked up one of the Made In China lime green Dead on 67 Dano's for cheap, so i thought i'd give a short review/opinions on the guitar.
First of all, out of the box the guitar is set-up horribly, strings are too light, action is too high and the bridge, aghh. dont even get me started on the bridge.
I normally dont use trem systems, so i immediatly took off the trem arm, and locked down the bridge. Then i noticed the bridge plate was actually bent, and from what i gather from various Dano owners, this is a very common problem.
Sooo... since the bridge is bent, it made setting the action a pain in the ass. The low E and A and high B and E strings are ridiculously high, while the rest of the strings are almost buzzing/fretting out. So what i had to do to fix the problem was unscrew the wood bridge from the bridge plate, and i put two paper shims about 1/16 tall overall, and about 1 inch long under the center of the wood bridge and screwed it back to the bridge plate. THIS DID THE TRICK!
i restrung the guitar with 11 gauge strings and set the action and pickup hieght.
Now the guitars is actually very comfortable and a breeze to play!
The lipstick pickups sound soooo amazing, i normally do not use single coil pickups, but in this case, im amazed by their sound. They take distortion very well, i played this through my Marshall JCM 2000 half stack and was shocked by how well the pickup stood up to high gain.
Ok.. now to the pots/wiring, the pots are 500K, the wiring was terrible, it looked like some of the wires were twisted to gether and wrapped with eletrical tape? GEEZ-UUS.
The finish is pretty good, its satain and completly covers the entire guitars body and neck
and looks/feels pretty good.
That probably just about covers it, the weight of the guitar is EXTREMLY light and with some good setting up, its can be a really neat guitar for a really cheap price. I paid $200 for it shipped to my door.
