• Decent for the little ones.

  
  As reviewed by Adam on 7/27/2011

  This little Epi turned out better than I expected. Even after reading the reviews, I pulled the trigger and got one for my 6 year old daughter anyway. It is the smallest electric I could find, and she has really small hands. I will admit it took some finessing to get it to tune properly and hold tune. After about 30 minutes of fiddling with it, adjusting the nut, and beating up the strings to break them in, it started to hold tune long enough to finish a song or two. After a few hours, it got much better, and has held tune decently for over 4 hours of playing now. As for sound, the little "Marshall" amp it comes with is barely good enough to practice on, but plugged into my 15W Behringer practice amp, this little axe shines. I almost didn't want to hand it over to my daughter, it was so much fun to play a less than 3/4 scale guitar. It would have been nice to add a tone knob, but I wasn't surprised to see a kids starter guitar didn't have one. Overall, I give the guitar 4/5 once you break it in and get it to hold tune. Perfect for kids with small frames and hands. Good enough sound, decent looks, and quick playing. I give the amp a 2/5, just doesn't sound good, even for a battery powered practice amp. The clean is too dirty, and the Gain-powered overdrive is just nasty. It's good for a kid, but you'd never catch me plugging my guitars into it.

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• Not a LP Custom it is an epi

  
  As reviewed by Jeff b on 5/31/2011

  It was not too expensive, but I wish Epi would raise the quality of its products. I have played for years and hope this does not deter my grandkids from playing. The tuning thing is a real prob, tuning to "G" made it passable, I just hope it does not ruin their ear for playing. I know a lot people knock it, but it will make you a better player and develop your sense for "making it Play better than it is. After all it is a cute guitar for the price!

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• garbage-the lowest possible quality

  
  As reviewed by jonas on 12/6/2010

  lost a lot of respect for Zakk for putting his name on such a piece of crap. I've been playing and teaching for years so I was thrilled when my 8 year old said he wanted a guitar for Christmas...got this thing home last night and spent 2 hours trying to tune it.The tension on the strings is so loose it wont stay in tune if even you rest your fingers on the frets to make a chord.Intonation is so far of that the b string is almost tuned a half step down to make an open chord sound in tune, only to switch chords and be completely out of tune any where else on the neck. A little warranty book comes with the guitar showing that the guitar was set up before leaving the factory, musta' been a rough ride to guitar center! The fret board feels like sand paper when you try to bend a note and if you put the weight of your hand on the neck you can hear it detuning...guess we'll try the mini strat as the Zakk pack is a real lump of Black Label coal this holiday season

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