Chapman ML3 Pro Modern Semi-Hollow Electric Guitar Obsidian Burst

Love the sound and feel. It is also Gorgeous!!!!

I play a wide range of music styles from aggressive metal to pop punk to clean alternative and country. I can say that this guitar can do it all. You really need to know your amp and pickups or else you won't appreciate the guitar. The neck is super smooth and although the huge frets can get a little used to its full 2 octave range is great for what I need it to do for my solos. The best I can describe the neck pick up is creamy. While the bridge pickup is a screamer. when you coil split the pickups you can get a great clean tone that adds a lot of flavor to your music. My band tends to play a lot of loud cleans that jump to a heavy punk rock crunch/overdrive and this guitar fits the bill perfectly.

Still a beginner. My first electric guitar after playing acoustic for a year.

I bought this blind because I wanted something like it and love Rob Chapman's YouTube channels. I have more expensive guitars that I have had to put money into to get even close to how this plays. It plays so well. The fret work is impeccable, like that of full PRS maybe better. The pickups are unique yet familiar. They sound so smooth and yet have a real raw modern tone. So amazing! I would recommend this to anyone who has that classic yet modern kind of want and wants something that is so easy to play. I really am not very good at guitar, but I was impressed at how my playing sounded with this guitar. I love it!

I saw this guitar as available inventory at my local GC. It immediately caught my eye while I was evaluating multiple other guitars to add to my collection. The neck is a bit thicker than most other guitars and has a different feel than most. I played it for about 30 minutes in the store and decided to take the leap. After getting it home I fell more in love with the same neck thickness I originally wasn't sure about. You get more leverage on bends and the tonality is fantastic. I'm extremely glad I didn't talk myself out of it. The craftsmanship is phenomenal and the sound is unreal. Definitely a great instrument for the price, the hard case alone is honestly worth the price of the guitar. This piece continues to surprise me in the best ways. I also promise it looks so much better in person than pictures do it justice.

Firstly, this guitar is absolutely gorgeous. The guitar center pictures do not do it justice. Chapman's website photos are much more accurate in terms of color. The body is dark with a slightly green hue. The neck finish complements it wonderfully. It plays superbly well. Very easy to pickup and jam. My strat is usually my go to guitar when I'm sitting on my couch and I want to noodle, but this thing is now sitting in its case (great case btw) right next to my couch. I've been enjoying it so much that I actually go through the trouble of taking it out of the case rather than grabbing my strat which is sitting near the couch without its case. Coming from a strat, SG standard, and a mid-90s PRS custom 22, this guitar is definitely in a different vein. The pickups are much higher output than I'm used to, but the volume control gives you a tons of room for expression. It cleans up very nicely, but will absolutely howl on 10. This is my first chapman, and from reading the web descriptions, I was expecting a slimmer neck. I'm very used to the slim C shape of my strat. This neck is thicker than that, but it feels just right. It's definitely thinner than my PRS and the SG. The fretboard radius and neck feel encourage speedier playing, which contributes to how easy this thing is to play. Finish and Quality are superb, the thing is practically flawless, and the hardware is excellent from the tuners to the bridge. The only issue with the guitar is that the tone pot doesn't affect the tone until turned down to 3, then it has a sudden cut between 2 and 3. Below 2 there doesn't seem to be a change either. This can easily be remedied for less than 10 bucks and a little soldering, or a $25 service. Before I modify it though, I am awaiting a response from Chapman. I sent them an inquiry as to whether they intended the pot to function this way (probably not), but I haven't received a response yet. Regardless of the potential pot issue, I'm rating this 5/5!