Worst guitars you have bought

What are the worth guitars that you have bought? I can't remember what guitar it was now but it was a black chinese les paul copy. the cables wasn't even soldered, they was tapped and the ones that was soldered was done so badly that joints was so weak I could pull the wires and break the joints. I fixed it up anyway, just soldered everything and played it for a few months before selling it for a bit more than I paid. Was a extremely badly built (electrically) guitar

Epiphone Sheritan II

SX Short Scale P/J Fretless Bass

I THINK It was a first act. Paid my uncle 20 bucks for it. He said he got it at Walmart. It was a strat shape. Frets were sharp, sounded weak, and all the hardware and such were made out of a thin plastic.

Hadean EB-9705

I thought those epiphones were decent! What was wrong with it?

the current Chinese epiphones are just awful though... why does everyone think that's how a guitar is supposed to feel in your hand?

Worst guitar I've ever paid for? hmmm.... the worst one for me was a Jackson V that was actually a very nice guitar, FOR SOMEONE ELSE. Jackson USA has always done a bang up job, but the guitar was so wrong for me.

I think the worst guitar for craftsmanship I have ever owned was an MIJ floral Tele. She looked the part, but something about her felt off. Sh ewas definitely not up to Fender Japan's usual snuff and could not hold a candle to the MIJ Aerodyne Tele I acquired around the same time for playability and acoustic sustain. That said, she was not a bad a guitar by anyone's standard. Just not special.

That Jackson and Tele were the only guitars I recall feeling buyer's remorse about. I felt a little abivalent towards the Yamaha I sold too. The 80s 335ish one in Natural. But in generaly I liked her too.... she was a pretty good guitar. I don't think I have owned any really bad guitars. Ever.

Oh! wait, the worst guitar I ever bought was a black LP studio that I think was made in '99. Awful guitar. Muddy plugged in, bad acoustic tone. I didn't know about Les Pauls at the time and just wanted one and bought the cheapest actual Gibson I could find. I never got that guitar sounding good. It had a version of the slim-taper neck that didn't feel good in my hand at all. I thought it was cool because it was the only slim necked Gibson in the store under a grand that day and I wanted a slim neck back then. But once I had it home I was really put out by it and she didn't last long. She was STUPID heavy even for an LP too. That studio and the 80s standard I owned were just overly heavy chunks of mahogany (the studio was an old style studio with a mahogany cap, not new style with maple... she may have had a maple neck too like some studios of the era.... not sure, there was a lot of glossy black finish over every inch of that guitar)... that guitar, my standard and TV special DC were learning experiences for me when it came to Gibsons. They really taught me how to select good set-necks from a pile of similar new and used models in a big store. My studio and special were both very new guitars when I got them (the studio was a year old, used and the special was brand new off the rack) and both had common issues later related to the wood drying and glue expanding as the guitars aged as did my 88 standard when I got it (but that guitar fell in my lap as opposed to the other 2 where I shoulda been more cautious and less eager to leave the store with a guitar THAT DAY).

So yeah, the Jackson V, Floral Tele, 99 Les Paul Studio and to a certain extent the 88 LP Standard were all bad guitar buying decisions for me in one way or another. Oh the folly of youth!!! I didn't take a huge bath on any of those guitars, but I didn't turn a profit on any of them either.

My worst guitar: (I have had 2 in the 8 months that ive been playing and i can also burrow a strat and a tele) The ibanez gio (strat design) this thing was so horrible. This was my grandfathers old guitar and it just really sucked. My new guitar is a motion strat, it's comperable to a squier strat (not the bullet one). Also the guitars that I can burrow are a fender american standard 80's strat with mods and a costum telecaster made out of swamp ash.

Stagg Stratocaster. Although I have maybe written a good review for it, it sucks major balls. If your string breaks, your tuners will break too! Apparently, two tuners broke with my string. Anyway, my acoustic is also catastrophe, but I love the tone. If Jack White didn't popularize Airline, we would also call it shit-toned guitar, would we?

I once bought a Farida Dreadnought which I found laying on a shelve in a guitar store. It was so dusty and it didn't even had a price tag. The owner must have thought that nobody is going to so stupid to buy that thing. Until I came in! I thought I might have found something like a diamond in the rough. It had a pearl binding and inlays and looked pretty fancy in all. The strings sounded muddy so I thought with new ones on it and cleaned up it's going to be fine. I paid about 100€ and went home. It was no freaking diamond and even with new strings it sounded muddy, pretty uncomfortable to play and it had just no sustain. Burned money. But it must still be somewhere in the attic at my parents house. In some years someone will find it thinking it's a diamond in the rough.

you younger guys don't realize what a great time you live in, affordable student guitars have been getting progressively better for the last 20 years.... when I started the only decent student guitar that I could afford was the used JV squire strat I bought

all the other intro-priced strat coies were super junk, especially the current production ones in 1990

Squier VM Mustang is the worst I've gotten. I've had okay luck with Squier in the past but this time with the Mustang, I've had electricial problems such as the switches not working. It will not stay in tune, and the bridge saddles sink and cause the strings to buzz at the bridge. Also the tailpiece that holds the strings in place won't adjust up or down anymore. I even emailed Squier about all of these problems and I had no reply. And on the Epiphone discussion, I have a '91 (pre Joe Pass) Epiphone Emperor made in Korea and it is one of the best sounding and playing guitars I have.

that's probably from the Peerless factory, they went out of business, but they made some solid guitars from about '87 to '97 including the older sammick student-priced LP copies... I have been tempted to buy a couple early Korean Epis, the 80s run of semis and archies like the Sheratons with the "epiphone by gibson' on the headstock have overfret binding and really play darned well. They are kidna nicer than the previous run of Japanese epis in some ways.

not that I am a fan of epiphone's output for the last 20 years, but you know action is not an inherent property of a guitar. There's a truss rod and adjustable bridge height for a reason. Unless its a used set-neck with a rise at the heel you can make any guitar with fender or Gibson appointments play at any action. I've even taken twists out of necks using a little steam and very gradual truss tweaks over the course of a week or two. And twists and a rise at the hell are usually not a product of bad craftsmanship but really a mix of exposure to extreme temperature and humidity conditions as well as some user negligence towards the truss rod when using oddball string gauges like heavy bottom light tops. Only in extreme cases would you need to shim the neck on a bolt-on or do a fret level. I can usually get the action foolishly low for guys who like it that way on ANY guitar, even one with problems to work around or a cheaps tudent guitar.... I don't know why they want their action so low, but I'll do it and I'll make sure there's not a lick of buzz when amplified. Frankly, high action often sounds better, especially if you are bold with your string bends and want sustain as you glide thru all those semitones.

I'm actually pretty surprised how many people have either got a shit Epiphone or just didn't like it. The two I've owned I've never had problems with especially not my Epiphone les Paul custom pro. Though I have seen many of that model with poor craftsmanship such as flat spots on the back of the neck and the carved top etc. Mine hasn't got any of that though. I like Epiphone as a cheap half decent company though since getting my Gibson I can see the huge difference in the way the guitars play and feel even just out of the box. Got me wanting either another Gibson les Paul or a sg. Maybe when I have the money

my experience with even the nicest epis is that their number 1 fault is FRET WORK. They are not well fretted and the frets are not properly dressed or crowned. You can fix the latter, but the former is real problem even if it doesn't effect intonation substantially. The number 2 problem is fretboard plaining. There are whole batches of epis from every factory contracted to produce them that have a funky fretboard radius. Given that the radius of most Gibson bridges is a fixed 12" that's a problem, and there's no work around other than to get new saddles ad try to notch them to acomodate the fretboard's wonky feel without making some so deep the strings catch. Its a lot of work and expense when you can just get a used Gibson or a Japanese Gibson style that is made correctly. I often see reviews describe Epi models as having good fit and finish for the price point. I can eat that with a guitar finish, its just a layer of protection for the body, but with fretwork and fingerboard its either good or bad. There's no 'good for the money' because a guitar that doesn't play quite right just isn't a guitar that encourages you to make better music. Cheap Fender guitars provide good for the money fretwork, they might need a slight dress, but they are put in perfectly on a properly radiused fingerboard (and on a fender radius is less important because of the fender bridge designs) and they typically just have some sharp edges and don't need to be re-leveled like on a lot of epis.

I have picked up some epis with some pretty odd neck shapes that musta been oversanded prior to finishing, but in general the CNC machines cut a pretty consistent neck for the epi line. For whatever that's worth... I would enver buy or let anyone I like buy an epi sight unseen. Too much of a crap shoot. QC for epi is inconsistent to non-existent.

My standard guitar is a Casino, but the feedbacks it makes are horrible. So I have bought a Epiphone Slash AFD les paul beginner kit because I needed a cheap guitar wich does not feedback. It was ok for the price but I would not buy it a second time. Now I modified it with a Hofner Shorty bridge pickup and a few stickers but I do not like that guitar at all.

This is going to sound like a dumb question. If someone didn't like the sound of a guitar, why buy it?

But the question is worst guitar you have bought. I will read this as LEAST FAVOURITE. This way I can comment... because I buy what I like and the rest stay on shelves.

My 1960's Coltone (Australian rebranding of Teisco)- Gear Porn pic #2 guitar #2 is a 3 pickup ET-310. It has it's own sound. Pickups are mounted to the top of the guitar, not dropped into a rout, so has that Gibson vibe, with a thick vintage "V" shaped neck profile. Tuner grips are plastic and regrettably I bought it without its Vibrato arm... which is essentially a flat bar screw mounted through a spring attached to a hinge system.

A unique sound, with three individual pickup selectors... one, two or three on at any given time... in any combo.

The reason I list it as least favourite is simply that it is not my go to guitar. It spend several years strung to an alternate tuning, but has come back to standard now (I don't play the 4 songs written for that tuning anymore).

Who knows? Maybe back in standard I will use her more...

But the question is worst guitar you have bought. I will read this as LEAST FAVOURITE. This way I can comment... because I buy what I like and the rest stay on shelves.

that's how I read it... my 2 worst were actually decent guitars, just not for me in the long run.... seemed fine in the store