I think it's gorgeous. I want one. Something original from over there at last. Can't wait to see if it's sounds live up to it's stunning looks in the next part. By the way, digging your music, man.
Again, thank you for the kind words on my music, I greatly appreciate you listening! And yeah, this guitar certainly is unique, at least in my collection anyways, I'm a fan thus far. Working on the review/demo now, should be up in a few days, thank you for watching!
Fantastic video! Excellent shots of the details.... Folks ask " how does it sound" Folks...if you play like 95%of ALL guitar owners, it sounds absolutely horrid, comical, and painful. If you play like Robben Ford, well it sounds like Robben Ford... 45 years of makin a livin' with a guitar. People are mostly what makes a guitar sound bad. Very, very few guitar owners can play.
Thank you again, I appreciate you watching! And I couldn't agree more with what you said, took me many years to learn that, though. Cheapest MSRP guitar I've bought thus far is the $89 LyxPro and I honestly have gotten more enjoyment out of it than any of the multi thousand dollar, USA made, custom shop guitars I've owned. That's one of the reasons why I sold all of my expensive guitars, these budget guitars have allowed me to experiment far more than I ever could have with those. You can learn what you like and don't like without big financial risk and working on the guitars creates a deeper connection with the instrument, making the player better.
Thank you for the message, as I put at the end of this video, my full review and demo video will be available soon. I always split the unboxing and review into two videos as I don't feel I can accurately, honestly, and fully judge a guitar right out of the box. For fairness, I give every guitar I get the same setup and spend a few days playing it before generating my opinions on it. I can tell you right now that I'm very impressed with it, I own guitars from a lot of the budget companies and for my first experience with Censtar, I'm glad to say it exceeded my expectations. If you're interested, look for my full review and demo video soon. I appreciate you watching!
Nice guitar! Not my color, but I can still appreciate it. I'm glad to see this one shows the wiring for the knobs. I have a Peavey JF-1, and it was driving me nuts to see the wires - I like things tucked away and neat. But it plays like a dream, so learned to to live with it.
It certainly is an interesting color, I can say that. In some lighting it looks like a silverburst, in others it can look kind of greenish, then straight up gold. Every time I look at it, I see a different color. I've been looking for a silverburst or a goldtop to replace a Gibson I sold and somehow this accomplishes both and neither at the same time...guess I'll just have to get a couple more guitars..ha! What's your favorite color when it comes to guitars? And yeah, I agree, the wires on Hollow/Semi-Hollow guitars can be a bit unsightly if you pay attention to them, shouldn't be too hard to hide them though if it's bothersome enough. I looked up the Peavey JF-1, very nice! Which color did you go with on it?
Thank you for the message, as I put at the end of this video, my sound demo and review video will be available soon. I always split the unboxing and review into two videos as I don't feel I can accurately, honestly, and fully judge a guitar right out of the box. For fairness, I give every guitar I get the same setup and spend a few days playing it before generating my opinions on it. If you're interested, look for my full review and demo video soon. I appreciate you watching!
Unfortunately that is a very real and serious possibility. And also unfortunately an issue that transcends both guitars and China. I truly hope it's not the case here.
There are lots of children in China who are used in the work force but they are likely sewing little Dollar store holiday banners and gluing similar products etc. These are most likely built in Changle and way too expensive parts and wood to intrust to children. Changle Leji " Grote" factory most likely. Nice workhorse guitars. Good alnico humbuckers. Great guitar to take to a jam where some guy who probably couldnt make a livin' playin guitar will show up with some expensive thang he can't hardly play.
@@rustyshackleford9557 Wow, you seem to know a lot more than I do, thank you for sharing that knowledge. Regardless of what they're making, it's a terrible situation all around and nearly impossible to know what to buy and what not to buy. It's not like they put a special label on things so we know not to support it, and avoiding Chinese made products altogether, as I said, isn't really a solution as it transcends just China.
That guitar is not junk. Folk are just snobs and most of em couldn't even play a basic simple 4 hour bar gig. I've gigged and done session work for over 45 year. Just to bug ignorant folks, I have used an 89$ Grote strat with 34$ in alnicos in it and a 155$ Grote 335-ish thing for almost every live job I have done for the last 4 years. No complaints. Folks who call this stuff junk, often can't even strum Happy Birthday in C#, even after I tell them it is a I,V,I,IV progression.
I don't usually spend much time in comment threads that sway towards negativity, as I truly do respect and welcome everyone's unique opinions, even if they oppose mine. I just choose to focus on positivity in life, but I want to say that's pretty cool that you do that, we need more guitar players like you out there that aren't so concerned with what brand they're playing or how much they spent on their guitar.
@JROID A lifetime in the biz has made me a bit snarky. I love taking mid priced firearms and out-shooting folks who have custom built firearms. I love that 89$ Grote around folks with custom shop Fenders. I find the idea of a guy singing the blues while playing a 4000$ dollar guitar through a 3000$ boutique amp pretty funny. What's there to be blue about when ya got a 10,000 dollar rig?🤔
The buisiness plays on folk's insecurities. Most guitar guys are not the star football guy from their highschool or the valedictorian. We aren't always the most handsome or clever and the buisiness takes full advantage of that. Fortunately I am so dang autistic and anti-social that I never much cared if I fit in or what others thought/think of me. Asperger's/autism has its challenges but folks like me see thru the b.s. bevause we just don't endeer ourselves to people or their opinions. We love our mama and daddy and friends but we view them and their qualities and opinions as being of no more value than anyone else's. It makes us quite independent of insecurity and trying to impress.
@@rustyshackleford9557 Well I like your way of thinking and as I said, if more people thought like that, I think there'd be a bit more positivity in the world.
Thank you for watching, my review & demo video on this guitar is now available on my channel if you're interested.
I think it's gorgeous. I want one. Something original from over there at last. Can't wait to see if it's sounds live up to it's stunning looks in the next part. By the way, digging your music, man.
Again, thank you for the kind words on my music, I greatly appreciate you listening! And yeah, this guitar certainly is unique, at least in my collection anyways, I'm a fan thus far. Working on the review/demo now, should be up in a few days, thank you for watching!
Wooow
Thanks for watching!
Nice Guitar 🎸
Thank you!
Fantastic video! Excellent shots of the details....
Folks ask " how does it sound"
Folks...if you play like 95%of ALL guitar owners, it sounds absolutely horrid, comical, and painful.
If you play like Robben Ford, well it sounds like Robben Ford...
45 years of makin a livin' with a guitar.
People are mostly what makes a guitar sound bad. Very, very few guitar owners can play.
Thank you again, I appreciate you watching! And I couldn't agree more with what you said, took me many years to learn that, though. Cheapest MSRP guitar I've bought thus far is the $89 LyxPro and I honestly have gotten more enjoyment out of it than any of the multi thousand dollar, USA made, custom shop guitars I've owned. That's one of the reasons why I sold all of my expensive guitars, these budget guitars have allowed me to experiment far more than I ever could have with those. You can learn what you like and don't like without big financial risk and working on the guitars creates a deeper connection with the instrument, making the player better.
Okay...... but how does it sound? Besides the numbers and prettiness factor, is it even worth the money?
Thank you for the message, as I put at the end of this video, my full review and demo video will be available soon. I always split the unboxing and review into two videos as I don't feel I can accurately, honestly, and fully judge a guitar right out of the box. For fairness, I give every guitar I get the same setup and spend a few days playing it before generating my opinions on it. I can tell you right now that I'm very impressed with it, I own guitars from a lot of the budget companies and for my first experience with Censtar, I'm glad to say it exceeded my expectations. If you're interested, look for my full review and demo video soon. I appreciate you watching!
@@JROID sorry about that. My mistake :) I’ll keep a look out for the review
@EriktheG248 Thank you, I appreciate that, it may not be the best way to do things, but for now that’s how I do it. Have a good day, my friend!
Nice guitar! Not my color, but I can still appreciate it. I'm glad to see this one shows the wiring for the knobs. I have a Peavey JF-1, and it was driving me nuts to see the wires - I like things tucked away and neat. But it plays like a dream, so learned to to live with it.
It certainly is an interesting color, I can say that. In some lighting it looks like a silverburst, in others it can look kind of greenish, then straight up gold. Every time I look at it, I see a different color. I've been looking for a silverburst or a goldtop to replace a Gibson I sold and somehow this accomplishes both and neither at the same time...guess I'll just have to get a couple more guitars..ha! What's your favorite color when it comes to guitars?
And yeah, I agree, the wires on Hollow/Semi-Hollow guitars can be a bit unsightly if you pay attention to them, shouldn't be too hard to hide them though if it's bothersome enough. I looked up the Peavey JF-1, very nice! Which color did you go with on it?
what is the point of this if you do not know how it sounds like
Thank you for the message, as I put at the end of this video, my sound demo and review video will be available soon. I always split the unboxing and review into two videos as I don't feel I can accurately, honestly, and fully judge a guitar right out of the box. For fairness, I give every guitar I get the same setup and spend a few days playing it before generating my opinions on it. If you're interested, look for my full review and demo video soon. I appreciate you watching!
"proudly handcrafted by a 7 year old Chinese artisan"
Unfortunately that is a very real and serious possibility. And also unfortunately an issue that transcends both guitars and China. I truly hope it's not the case here.
There are lots of children in China who are used in the work force but they are likely sewing little Dollar store holiday banners and gluing similar products etc.
These are most likely built in Changle and way too expensive parts and wood to intrust to children.
Changle Leji " Grote" factory most likely. Nice workhorse guitars. Good alnico humbuckers.
Great guitar to take to a jam where some guy who probably couldnt make a livin' playin guitar will show up with some expensive thang he can't hardly play.
@@rustyshackleford9557 Wow, you seem to know a lot more than I do, thank you for sharing that knowledge. Regardless of what they're making, it's a terrible situation all around and nearly impossible to know what to buy and what not to buy. It's not like they put a special label on things so we know not to support it, and avoiding Chinese made products altogether, as I said, isn't really a solution as it transcends just China.
junk
That guitar is not junk.
Folk are just snobs and most of em couldn't even play a basic simple 4 hour bar gig.
I've gigged and done session work for over 45 year.
Just to bug ignorant folks, I have used an 89$ Grote strat with 34$ in alnicos in it and a 155$ Grote 335-ish thing for almost every live job I have done for the last 4 years.
No complaints.
Folks who call this stuff junk, often can't even strum Happy Birthday in C#, even after I tell them it is a I,V,I,IV progression.
I don't usually spend much time in comment threads that sway towards negativity, as I truly do respect and welcome everyone's unique opinions, even if they oppose mine. I just choose to focus on positivity in life, but I want to say that's pretty cool that you do that, we need more guitar players like you out there that aren't so concerned with what brand they're playing or how much they spent on their guitar.
@JROID A lifetime in the biz has made me a bit snarky.
I love taking mid priced firearms and out-shooting folks who have custom built firearms.
I love that 89$ Grote around folks with custom shop Fenders.
I find the idea of a guy singing the blues while playing a 4000$ dollar guitar through a 3000$ boutique amp pretty funny.
What's there to be blue about when ya got a 10,000 dollar rig?🤔
The buisiness plays on folk's insecurities.
Most guitar guys are not the star football guy from their highschool or the valedictorian. We aren't always the most handsome or clever and the buisiness takes full advantage of that.
Fortunately I am so dang autistic and anti-social that I never much cared if I fit in or what others thought/think of me.
Asperger's/autism has its challenges but folks like me see thru the b.s. bevause we just don't endeer ourselves to people or their opinions.
We love our mama and daddy and friends but we view them and their qualities and opinions as being of no more value than anyone else's.
It makes us quite independent of insecurity and trying to impress.
@@rustyshackleford9557 Well I like your way of thinking and as I said, if more people thought like that, I think there'd be a bit more positivity in the world.