CST-24T Black Cherry Flame : Very well put-together

This is superb value and plays excellently. The neck is thin like an Ibanez Wizard, and mine arrived well-intonated with just a 1/8th of a turn to the truss rod required to get the action super-low. The pickups are fine as humbuckers, although the bridge can sound a bit weedy when split.

The top is, I understand, a very thin veneer and now that I look at it to write this review I notice there's my flame finish is a little patchy and uneven. But, so what? Tuners work fine, the frets are perfectly level, well-finished and polished. The wilkinson bridge arrived set flat to the body (dive only) and that's how I've left it because I'm really pleased with the action and don't want to mess with it! I'm not a huge whammy bar user but thought it's worth going for the T version in order to have fully adjustable saddles. Tuning stability is great. The roseacer fretboard is very dark, arrived dry but after oiling looks OK. The back of the neck is gloss, I've sanded other necks to satin but this is a bit new and too nice mess with for now. There's really very little to find fault with this guitar, and it's given me full confidence to order a Fusion and a Tele next.