First Act Guitars

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:10 pm

Any one ever try one of these? This place has them pretty cheap They used to have the one that came with the VW for $99 but I don't see it listed now.

Will · Post by **Will** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 7:59 pm

This is the winner for me.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:27 pm

Pretty cheap? $49.99?!

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Jul 21, 2008 8:35 pm

I like the Paul Westerberg.

Ninja Mike 808 · Post by **Ninja Mike 808** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:09 am

Nuts... That VW is at this pawn shop in Dallas for 400... And on craigslist for 200.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 2:45 am

interesting

RumorsOFsurF · Post by **RumorsOFsurF** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:10 am

NickS wrote:Pretty cheap? $49.99?!

That would be perfect for bringin teh kurdtz at the end of a gig.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 6:54 am

i picked one up for $26.99, i swapped out the humbucker and bridge for a tele tail piece with a dimarzio twang king in it, then wired the pup direct to the output jack, since th tone pot in it was useless, and my volume is usually all the way up.

the first time i sat and jammed out on it though the neck almost killed my hand, but a nice little sand job later and its pretty smooth now, also had to lower the frets a bit since it had a tendency to buzz on the low and hi E at the first fret, but its much nicer with the lowered frets..
i take a pic of it the next time i'm at my jam space..

what i found weird is that the model i picked up didn;t exist on the first act page, or at the website for the store i found it at (oddly, yet not oddly, at the source, by circuit city)

Mo Law-ka · Post by **Mo Law-ka** » Tue Jul 22, 2008 3:06 pm

picts?

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 12:30 am

i was just looking for one of the body with orig pup and pre-pain job i don't have one.. and the only one i have of the neck was when i was contemplating using it on a mustang (that i'm now waiting for a 22.5" duo sonic neck to put on..)

there is the neck and pup out of the first act (body is a 74 mustang.. currently undergoing other modifications, i'll re-start a thread for it one day..)
i'll take some shots of how the first act looks when i jam on thursday..
but they are light as f

robert(original) · Post by **robert(original)** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 9:32 am

i gave lessons to a kid that had one with a flame job on it, it was decent enough but the bridge was set over a bit too much and in tern made the low e string hang off the fretboard after 15th fret or so.

fullerplast · Post by **fullerplast** » Wed Jul 23, 2008 10:20 am

ill jest gone to git mine down to the wal-marts...

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Mon Jul 28, 2008 7:32 pm

me and the other guitarist in my band picked them up..
mostly out of boredom and also to punk things up a little

but i feel like i'm jacking the thread
anyways

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i'll just hide that noise.

Sloan · Post by **Sloan** » Tue Jul 29, 2008 7:10 pm

is that supposed to be a toronado striep????! lol

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Sat Aug 02, 2008 7:56 pm

The plaid covering on that head is genius

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 2:46 pm

Sloan wrote:is that supposed to be a toronado striep????! lol

similar i was bored

paulie walnuts · Post by **paulie walnuts** » Mon Aug 04, 2008 3:33 pm

From what I've seen, the ones the sell at Walmart/Costco are complete shit but their higher end models are excellent budget guitars.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 12:47 am

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laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 3:46 am

First Act Delia LS

Those pickups sound pretty allright clean but the gain sound is asses in masses.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 7:41 am

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