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Washburn Oscar Schmidt OE30 Reviews  5 / 5 based on 1 reviewsI saw this guitar on sale on musicians friend and thought the price was way low or
it must really be junk.
After reading all the web reviews I could,
it seemed everybody was well pleased with it
after purchase.
I purchased mine from musicians friend for
$150 plus shipping, total $161.69 .
The guitar arrived and man was I impressed!
I could almost not believe the guitar made it undamaged considering the single layer cardboard box it came in.
This guitar plays good,looks good and has
decent hardware.{excellent for the price}
It was playable out of the box and only
needed a little work.
The neck was dead straight so I loosened the
truss rod to give it a lttle relief.
and lowered the bridge to get the action
right,low but not too low.
I set the intonation and I am real happy
with how well the guitar stays in tune.
It has a nice finish {no visable flaws}and looks as good as any high dollar guitar from a few feet away.
Mine came with black hatbox style knobs
rather than the gold vintage knobs as shown
in the picture on musicians friend.
It also didnt have the huge DELTA KING on the headstock which is a wise move on washburns part.
The neck has a nice feel, very smooth and the frets were nicely dressed.
I prefer wider frets than whats on this but
its still easy to bend strings.
Its capable of producing some nice tones
from rock to jazz and anything in between.I have been playing for about 20 years and
I bought this guitar to play at my church.
My les paul standard was my first quality guitar and now lives at home and my mettalic
gunmetal gey jackson soloist with floyd rose
doesnt exactly suit church duty(conservative
southern baptist).
I once owned a well worn and battle scarred
68 es347 that I bought from my guitar teacher for the paultry sum of $150 bucks.
(he was practicly starving at the time)
That guitar looked terrible but did it have tone!
In the eighties at the peak of heavy metal
a gibson es wasnt cool so I stupidly sold it.
To only know then what I know now.
I wish it had a set neck for pure snob appeal instead of a bolt on but this is not really a dislike.
I currently own a setneck gibson les paul,a neck
through USA jackson soloist and a bolt on neck japanese charvel and Im not a purist for any
particular type.
The pickups are no seymour duncans but they
certainly arent terrible either.
At the moment I cant see putting $200 dollars worth of pickups in a $150 dollar guitar.
The guitar is well constructed and I feel
it will last many years.
In looking through the f holes certainly
no glue was spared in securing the center
block on either side.
The hardware is of good guality for an instrument at this price.
I personally dont think you will find better
hardware or electronics on a $ 500 dollar guitar.
The guitar doesnt sustain like a better quality instrument but I plan to replace the
cheap plastic nut with bone and I think it will help.
After doing a setup on this guitar I am extremely pleased with it.
The action and playability is on par with my
profesional instruments.
I think its an incredible value at $ 150 bucks,but not so much at $ 300.
The ibanez artcore is a better guitar and is
currently selling on musicians friend for$ 299.00 plus shipping.
Ive been looking at guitar center and sam ash etc. for a beginner electric for my son
and this guitar blows away everything else
Ive seen and played at$ 150 dollar price range.
I will rate it a 5 for pure bang for the buck at $150 dollars.
Get one while you can you wont be disapointed. Rick rated this unit on 2004-02-07.
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