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I still wouldn't buy a guitar with p/ups that weren't good enough and that I'd have to change from outset though. The whole point is that it has to do the job straight out of the gate and aside from the extra cost & inconvenience of p/up changing I won't know exactly how it sounds until I put the p/ups in. Just like guitar amp speakers, different people like different speakers, and even the same speaker will sound different from amp to amp - and the same is true of p/ups. I appreciate some people are heavily into upgrades - but I'm not one of them & prefer to try & find the 'right thing' that suits me from outset.
I've tried the equivalent "Fender Modern Players" and also a Mexican Tele with Humbuckers, I didn't like either! YMMV of course.
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If anyone here has a Fret King guitar and could tell me more about them and comment on tone, overall build quality, hardware quality etc I'd be very interested.
Fret King are pretty good, they have a few ranges, and I think the highest end ones are from the UK.
AFAIK, the Black Label are asian, but the Green Label and STVDIO are made in the UK by Trev Wilkinson
The SSC33 wasn't particularly versatile and didn't have some of the refinements of the SSC55 which was a much better guitar and gave more tonal options.
The SSC55 was quite nicely put together with decent hardware, albeit it was IMO somewhat pricey at the time (around £7-800 I think). The neck was comfortable but felt just a bit 'plasticky'. I had mixed views of the p/ups. Conceptually the idea is great of a pickup that could give H/B, single-coil & P90 tones. The h/b and single coil tones were pretty good but the P90 tone sounded nothing like a P90 and lacked that mixture of classic P90 warmth and sparkle. Overall I felt the p/ups fell a little short of their marketing hype and weren't quite as good as the DiMarzios used in the original Virage, which was a really good guitar but ludicrously priced (around £1,800 at the time as I recall!).
Fret King guitars are superb for the money. The Blue Label guitars are exceptional value second hand. They are discontinued so you can't buy them new but bargains are to be had if you can find one used.
I recently sold by Blue Label Super 60 HB on here for £200. It was easily on par with any USA Fender Strat I've had, one of the better strat style guitars I've owned, the neck was especially nice and the pickups are great, never felt the need to change them out.
I only sold it as I had an opportunity to buy my old Peavey Custom Shop guitar back, and I needed the cash.
Anyway, c'est la vie! following the excellent recommendations here for the Pacifica 611 and Line 6 Variax JTV59, I'm going to Yamaha Music on Friday with my daughter for company, to try out some guitars. Just called them, spoke to a nice helpful guy called Bradley, & they've got everything in for me to try out. What's extra handy is that I'd forgotten that Yamaha now own Line 6 - and they've got a JTV59, JTV69 (normal plus the £3k US versions!) and the Yamaha Pacifica 611 hfm, 611 vfm, and 612 v2fm all in stock - so I can try everything out side by side to see what I like!
I liked mine so much I replaced the stock pickups for USA PRS ones and changed the nit for a USA PRS one too.
That then lead on to selling it to buy a core PRS. I wish I had kept it.