SC-1000 SBK Progressive Line : Good guitar, terrible set-up and tuning pegs

Bought this with a Blackstar HT Metal head for a project that needed authentic metal sounds. Didn't need to be excellent, just good enough.

Good news: guitar looks and sounds the business.

Bad news: intonation, string height, and tuning pegs all awful. Intonation is out by a quarter tone across the neck, string height is such that you damp open strings in some chords because your fingers are sat between the strings instead of over them, and the tuning pegs are pitiful. I have a Harley Benton Custom Line ResoKing which is a favourite guitar for slide, so they do know how to do this stuff - although the pegs are poor on that as well.

If you know how to fix this stuff and have time, this guitar is a bargain. If you don't then budget £50-70 for a guitar tech to do it. Still a bargain, I think, but this might appeal to young metal players without the extra cash, so you need to know this in advance. You won't be doing any shredding otherwise!