EX-76 Classic GHW AN : The best guitar i own.

Long story short - its a great guitar.

Long story long:

- The frets have rounded edges that do nut hurt me and are well polished. Feels nice to bend, non of that wired fret scraping. I will polish them a bit more, but they are more than playable. No dead notes on any fret.

- The neck is lacquered, but not sticky. And i hate sticky necks. The shape is somewhere in between the Fender C shape and a Gibson fat D shape. Took me a day or so to get used to. If you like thin necks, its not for you.

The action can be fairly low.

- Pickups - they are PAF like and very dynamic. Too dynamic for my taste. They will be great for classic rock and blues. For high gain they are not the best. I raised them up closer to the strings to get that more compressed sound. Now they work better for metal.

- Controls - Knobs dont have wired scratching when turning and the switch clicky. Work well for now.

- Tuners - locking tuners that stay in tune great.

- Balance - the guitar has no neck dive when playing standing or sitting. Very well balanced.

- Misc - the body is smaller then other explorers, so its harder to bump it on stuff. All the glue lines are very visible through the finish and they are all nice and even. Cant see any problems with those. The guitar is well finished without any defects.

Problems - most are cosmetic -

- The post for the tail piece was sticking up. I needed to hammer it in a bit. Common for cheap guitars

- The knobs are way to close together. I have small hands are turning the volume knows is a bit hard for me. I will switch them to smaller knobs.

- Hole on the truss rod cover is not in the center.

- The nut is cut a bit high and the holes are a bit small for 10's. Still its a good material and the holes are evenly cut. I will take it to a luthier to fix this.