R-457MN WH Fanfret : R45-7MN points to consider

I received this guitar over a week ago now … At first glance it looks the business, great paint job and no sharp fret ends. The neck has a nice smooth feel and not too thick either. When plugging it in into an amplifier is when I was faced with a few problems. 1. Horrendous 50 cycle hum ( although guitar is humbucker equipped) which rendered it almost unplayable 2. Impossibly high action … this was fairly easy to remedy as it was just a matter of using the Allen key provided to lower the bridge saddle grub screws.. 10 mins later I was happy with the action … However the extraneous noise was not going away … so rather than return the instrument I decided to open the back and have a look… what I found was very bad soldering, little to no shielding paint and no ground connection to 3 way switch or tone pot … so I grabbed a soldering iron and copper tape and went to work .. I shielded the entire cavity and grounded it all properly. No hum now and it sounds great ( although the pickups lack treble bite , which isn’t a major problem as you can just turn up the treble on pedals or amps you are using… ) I’d recommend this guitar but I’d also bear in mind that when you receive yours you may need to put some time into it to get it up to a decent playing standard. Also at £150 there are plenty of worse horror story guitars out there which cost twice the price. Happy shredding guys and girls 🙌👍🙌