SX Guitars/Rondo Music

[JBall008]

There's been a lot of positive about the Agile guitars at Rondo music (LP copies especially). Has anybody tried out the other brands that Rondo carries: Douglas and SX?

Out of curiosity, I looked up SX guitars and found there website. A lot is in Spanish, but looks like the same company. There, they even have a custom shop that looks pretty decent.

Anybody know anything about these (quality, playability, etc), other than they're even less expensive than Agiles?

[thetroy]

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I think those are the Chinese ones and the Agiles are Korean

[SeventhSon]

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The SX short scale P and J basses (30.5") have a ton of fans on the bass forums.

[RacerX]

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troy is right, SX = Chinese. Avoid.

[zeegler]

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LOL, my SX GG2 is a better guitar than my friend's Agile Ghost.

[Flatpicker]

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Does Chinese mean avoid for a reason?

[442w30]

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Other than loss of american jobs, slave labor profiteering and blatant copyright infringement, they're great!

[Flatpicker]

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I don't really want to into the political issues regarding Chinese product. Seems to me that american jobs going overseas is more an issue of american companies doing the outsourcing.

I'm asking on a quality standpoint, why are they bad?

[442w30]

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It would be lack of hand finishing (frets, etc) amd the quality of the metal parts and pickups. They are a great value if that is what you are asking, but you need to feel one out. Everyone has a different opinion about what makes a neck/instrument.

The comments above are 90% political in nature, and yes it is the companies screwing american employees, not the chinese themselves.

These are 10000% better quality than the crappy plastic fretboard guitars we could afford in the early 1980s.

[GiantBaba]

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I have an SX Tele copy. It's a very good guitar. Different than Fenders (big frets, flatter fretboard). Mine has a Maple neck and Birdseye fingerboard, and for some reason a skunk stripe. You'll want to change the pups, or have the stock ones potted, they squeal with high gain (very high gain). It stays in tune better than any other guitar I've owned.

[RacerX]

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I'm asking on a quality standpoint, why are they bad?

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Lessee, ever hear of a "car" called Yugo? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Communist labor methods = crap products

[Flatpicker]

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I'm asking on a quality standpoint, why are they bad?

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Lessee, ever hear of a "car" called Yugo? [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Communist labor methods = crap products

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Got to disagree a bit.
Being with a group that has outsourced some of our manufacturing, we find that the Chinese have a better grip on quality in manufacturing than India.

In my experience,it comes down to:
Low cost, low quality = India.
Low cost, moderate quality = China.

Thought the Yugo was Yugoslavian? Hense the "Yugo" nomenclature?

Someone please explain to me why the controlling governments political leanings have ANY correlation to the quality of the product?

You are dealing with so many factors that are not political in nature that this seems irrelevant.
local cost of living, strength of the currency, technological level, population count. Those are all factors that outweigh the Communist/Socialist governing body.

Let me see, GM and Ford's American plants have been the epitome of high quality for how many years now?
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[Riscchip]

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I bouth an SX jazz bass for recording assuming I'd keep it a short time until a proper recording bass showed up on my priority list. That was almost 3 years ago. Entirely decent instrument at 3 times the price, let alone 99 dollars. All solid woods, plays fine, sounds like a Fender bass. I'm not bass player, but I have no complaints with it.

[lerxstcat]

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A friend of mine had an SX SG a couple years ago and it was pretty damn nice. Considering he had several Gibson SG Customs, the SX wasn't as nice as them, but didn't seem like a POS compared to them either. I was very surprised at how nice it really was for so little money.

[zeegler]

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I'm going to buy another SX just to spite Ron [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

They have the GG1 Supreme (Les Paul copy) on sale for $189!!!! How can you beat that for a solid mahogany/real maple top, set neck guitar? I'll put new tuners and pickups in it, and I'll still be into it for less than $400.