Grave Bomber
Ghoulish Anomaly
A buddy of mine bought one and hasn't been playing it much, so I borrowed it for a few days.
Blarg!
You know, it looks pretty nice. Decent if not obviously cheaply done bound neck, nice star inlays, great looking wood even if it is a laminate.
However, it has poorly finished fret ends, comes stock with acoustic strings, and the bridge is way too high for decent action, fixing would involve sanding it down by a good 20% and re-slotting it, and honestly, the stock slots are too small for the strings being installed right off the bat. Tone is really not that great either comparing it to some 6 string banjos that are a few hundred more, this one sounds thin and plucky( yeah, I know it's a banjo ) with no bass presence or wholeness of sound that the ones that are in the 3-500 range have.
So...if tempted by a cheap 6 string banjo, i'd stay away from this one. The setup can be fixed, and the frets worked on, but the tone just isn't there.
Blarg!
You know, it looks pretty nice. Decent if not obviously cheaply done bound neck, nice star inlays, great looking wood even if it is a laminate.
However, it has poorly finished fret ends, comes stock with acoustic strings, and the bridge is way too high for decent action, fixing would involve sanding it down by a good 20% and re-slotting it, and honestly, the stock slots are too small for the strings being installed right off the bat. Tone is really not that great either comparing it to some 6 string banjos that are a few hundred more, this one sounds thin and plucky( yeah, I know it's a banjo ) with no bass presence or wholeness of sound that the ones that are in the 3-500 range have.
So...if tempted by a cheap 6 string banjo, i'd stay away from this one. The setup can be fixed, and the frets worked on, but the tone just isn't there.