Relic Electric Guitar,Roasted Maple Neck and Rosewood fingerboard,Bone Nut,6-String Relic Guitar,Professional/Full Size/Electric Guitars for Adults

This jasper-green Strat-style relic is the second KGD guitar I’ve purchased. My first - a KGD Telemaster-style - was so unexpectedly good, I had to find out if it was a fluke. Spoiler: it wasn’t. This Strat-style model matches the same high standard. We’re talking surprisingly excellent build quality for a price that seems too good to be true. Honestly, for just over $200, I wasn’t expecting anything close to boutique feel, but if you pick up the neck while blindfolded, you might swear the neck itself would cost twice as much as the entire instrument. The neck is straight, silky smooth, and the frets are beautifully filed, rounded, and crowned. A very creamy experience. It’s genuinely impressive. The relic finish looks even better in person than in the product images. Someone clearly took their time here. It has character, without looking too abused or overdone. The stock hardware is perfectly functional, though I’ll likely swap it for aged or relic-style parts to keep the aesthetic consistent. That said, it’s not a must. The factory hardware is absolutely serviceable. The pickups sound surprisingly good. Especially when I crank the gain on my amp. That said, like the pickups in my KGD Telemaster, they run a little weak in output (resistance in the 4.3 to 4.7 range). Still, they’re well-voiced and balanced, and they do the job just fine if you’re not chasing high-output tones. Weight-wise, it’s a comfortable medium - not too light, not too heavy. The nut is a little high and could use some slot filing, and one or two of the lower frets may need a touch-up, but these are minor tweaks, not red flags. In short, this KGD guitar is another winner. I’m already thinking about picking up a third KGD while they’re still available. The question is... which model next?

UPDATED! single string tree in the wrong place and definitely needed 2 of them. See pictures of my fix. It now has it running true and tunning stable with no vibration in the nut. Great $189 starting point for a project. Better than a Squier bullet strat. I purchased with that intent. Plays like dog p**p out the box. But pickups sound as a stra t should. The pots feel smooth and the selector switch solid with a good positive click feel. Out of the box it will need a good setup. Trying to tune up to Eb with the tremolo not setup properly and of cheap quality was not working at all. Basically this guitar would immediately benefit from upgraded tuners and trem/tone block. The rest like the nut and electronics could come later and finishing off the look with aged parts to match the body. I already purchased a Guyker aged hardware set and already have full size tone blocks for the trem. Will be making a purchase of an aged white Hendrix style pickguard and maybe an Earl Slick pickup set from Guitarfetish

This is the best budget friendly guitar I’ve ever played, hands down. Obviously it’s no master built custom shop strat, but with some work, it’ll get pretty close. The only complaint I could possibly have about it is the pickups. The ceramic single coils are pretty low-output and lack a lot of low end, but it’s nothing a good amplifier and/or pedalboard can’t fix (they sound SUPER sparkly, maybe ti the point if TOO sparkly). Mine came set up about as well as a cheaper guitar could be: no fret issues aside from the action being a little too low, the tremolo/whammy works really well, the neck has a satin finish that feels great in the hands, it feels and fits exactly like a strat should, and it looks exactly as the pictures show (the color and relic work are amazing, if you’re ok with the plastic pieces being cream colored instead of “aged” of course). If you’re wanting a cheap strat as a modding platform or as a starter guitar, this is a great pick. It seems to match Fender standard specs in terms of hardware, so modding/replacing parts should be a breeze (aside from the neck thanks to the contouring on the heel joint). Swapping out pickups, tuners, and the bridge would make this a BEAST of a guitar. Solid A- grade from me overall. Definitely worth the buy! (Note: I’ve Included a side by side comparison of the KGD strat and my 90’s mexican standard Fender strat. Video demo is the KGD going straight into my Boss Katana Artist Mk2’s clean channel with variation activated, slight spring reverb. Demo video shows guitar as it came to me straight out of the box with no further work done from me other than tuning.) TLDR: Great starter/modding platform guitar, accurate to listing description & pics, 1,000,000% worth the buy (but only if you’re ok with weaker, low output pickups OR changing pickups)

Quite impressed with overall quality. Totally usable out of the box. After about a month of daily use... The tuners are true gems, very micro, I was not expecting that. Would love to know the brand for other guitars. Frets were clean, required no attention. Fretboard had a weird top coating on it, I removed that carefully and resealed. Neck was straight, C-shape and comfortable. I like the neck alot as well. Had a little slag in the pocket, no biggie. The finish is not a laminate, they put some time into it. The body is very light. Some may not like this but I do. No head dive or weird weight issues. Pickups are playable but low output, like a Squire. I swapped them for a set of Ventera 50's and sounds amazing. Electronics work as expected, 250k pots but works just fine as is no plans to change anything else. First I ran some 9's but it feels and sounds best with 10's. Trem looks thin, but bridge seems solid. Intonated just fine. I have alot of guitars, old and new, inexpensive and pricey. This was to be a project/display guitar, but will now be the daily driver for this summer.