HB-35Plus LH Cherry : A steal...

The budget guitars surely improved over the past years. This thing is phenomenal for the price. Now I expected a flaw here and there, and the only things I could find were 2 block inlays mislplaced a bit from the center and a tiny, almost unnoticeable rough edge in one f hole that can easily be smoothened.

The setup is decent, action is good. I had to adjust the intonation a bit.

The sound is absolutely amazing, it is a 355 style fat but present tone especially on the neck pickup. The added coil split options are a big surprise too, getting a "strat" style tone easily. Prior to receiving the guitar I already failed a blind test so I knew it will sound good.

Pots are decent. Volume pots could have a bit more resiststance to them. The only con is, similar to HB bass I have, the tone knob sound changes very exponentially. From 1-9 sounds keep changing only at around 7. Considering the fact its the same problem as with their tele-bass clone I have, they are obviously choosing wrong pots, or have an enormous batch of wrong ones they need to lose... Its not personally a big issue to me.

All in all, considering the price point the guitar is a steal and most importantly worth investing more to make it even better.