Leo Jaymz 39 Inch Solid Body Electric Guitar,Maple Neck and Composite Ebony Fretboard (US Flag)

First of all, this is a beautifully detailed guitar...looks fantastic and plays very good with minimal setup straight out of the box. The build is exceptional for a guitar in this price point. The neck is smooth and the action is very, very good. I have several Leo Jaymz (just purchased a Monsoon) and I have not been disappointed with any of them. This one is a "looker" that gets many compliments, and it really plays well. I absolutely recommend this. Side note: mine is not the double cut, although I do have that in White... Also amazing. My Stars & Stripes is the single cut.

Feb 2025. Didn’t expect much from this guitar but I loved the look. In person it was as beautiful as I’d hoped. VERY impressed. Fit and finish impeccable. After letting it acclimate for a couple of hours I tuned it up and started to play. It seemed all was well. I checked for neck bow, string action and intonation. All were set at reasonable tolerances. Didn’t check pup heights but they seemed good. ONLY PROBLEM was fret sprout. Apparent shrinkage in the fretboard caused the frets to protrude on both sides. Not bad enough to cut me tho. If you’re not afraid of some filing, this guitar is a smart purchase. Very playable right out of the box. Highly recommend.

This guitar is exactly what you would expect from a guitar in this price range. First off, it looks great. No blemishes in the finish, no scratches or dings. Out of the box it was almost perfectly intonated, the frets were done well, every component worked.Overall playability: stays in tune relatively well, especially compared to other "budget" models I've owned. The pickups are by far the weakest point on this guitar. They have fairly high output, but it's quite obvious as soon as you plug it in that they are not high quality. Pretty easy fix.Pros:Great priceGreat looksPlays okCons:Pickup qualityThis guitar would make a fantastic mod base. Swap out pickups and maybe the tuners, and you've got yourself a decent piece.

Minimal work make a nice sg

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This is my first Leo Jaymz guitar. My modest little guitar collection was missing a double-cut style guitar like this, and I wanted that classic pointy profile (not the oblique/offset versions offered by some brands), i.e., something that had that 'classic' Black Sabbath / AC-DC look...but also something a little different than a red SG copycat. So when Leo Jaymz put out the purple burst it looked like it fit the bill, I figured I'd check it out.Unfortunately, the first one I ordered never arrived - having apparently been lost by the shipping company along the way. After it became clear that it was lost, Amazon sent a replacement. I ended up returning that one due to a very crooked logo on the headstock, which would've kept me up at night. I ordered another after that, and the one I current have in-hand finally arrived.As a "budget" guitar collector and tinkerer, I expect a sub-$150 price point guitar to be lightly packaged, poorly set-up, and to have some minor cosmetic or manufacturing flaws that are within my wheelhouse to correct. To my surprise. this guitar shipped in a double-walled rectangular (not trapezoid) box and was well-protected by form-fitting styrofoam. As such, the guitar arrived with no signs of damage. I was even more pleasantly surprised to find that the guitar's appearance was nearly flawless. It was not, however, very playable out-of-the-box, which was a disappointment but not a surprise. I'll be doing a full set-up and will probably do some upgrades to get it to play and sound the way I want it to, which again, is something I was fully prepared for in advance. If you enjoy doing that sort of work, the bones of this guitar are great as a mod platform. If, however, you are not someone who is comfortable with doing and/or paying for that work, you may be disappointed that it is not ready to play as-is. Detailed good / bad observations below:Appearance - positives:+ Flawless finish. The purple burst looks great, starting with a solid (not transparent) purple in the center and blending into black at the edges. The rest of the body and neck is black all-around. The gloss clearcoat is evenly applied and well-polished.+ The trapezoid pearloid fret marker inlays are pretty good, with some 3-dimensional depth and swirls.+ The fretboard itself (described as "ebony composite") is a dark (almost black) color. While it lacks interesting woodgrain patterns, the dark look fits this guitar style nicely.+ Fretboard binding is well-done and uniformly ivory-colored all-around (a nice surprise; at this price point, binding is often more white on top where it's exposed and more yellow on the sides where lacquer has been applied).Appearance - negatives:- The 1-ply matte black trapezoid truss rod cover looks cheap and doesn't fit the look of an LP-style headstock very well. Almost any shape would've looked better, especially in a glossy 2-ply acrylic. Easy enough for me to replace, just seems like they picked the wrong penny to pinch on that part.Functional - positives:+ Pots are smooth and seem to ramp up / down as they should (not the big step-up/step-down issue that cheap guitars sometimes suffer from. Pickup switch and output jack seem to function adequately.+ The bridge pickup has a nice vintage growl, as I'd expect for this style of guitar. The neck pickup was a bit brighter than I would expect, which made sense when I checked them on my multi-meter; I measured 10.3 kohms at the bridge pickup and 10.8 kohms at the neck (typically you'd expect the neck to be lower than the bridge). But read on...Functional - negatives:- Terrible factory strings (as expected). Just replace these right away.- The tuners feel really cheap. I think the "chrome" semicircle tuning buttons might even be chrome-painted plastic, which I've never seen (even on sub-$200 guitars). I'm not a "tuner snob" that thinks every guitar needs expensive brand or locking tuners; I'll happily use factory tuners most of the time.But these are pretty bad. I have a pair of identical-looking factory tuners that I removed from another "budget" brand (cosmetic decision) which are actually decent, so I'll be swapping those in as soon as I change the strings.- The nut is poorly sized, such that the strings are far too high off the fretboard. Open chords all sound very out-of-tune as a result. I can't tell if it's a plastic or bone nut (yet), but I am likely to replace it with a more appropriately-sized Tusq nut (rather than try to file this one down to the right height).- The pickups are *very* microphonic. Bad enough that I can hear my normal speaking voice come through the amplifier if I talk 6-8" above the strings. Which is a real shame because the bridge tone isn't terrible otherwise. Perhaps you could dip them in wax or remove and reinstall the chrome covers w/ wax or caulking between the bobbins, but given the poorly matched neck pickup I will probably just replace these with a pair I have lying around from another guitar.- The bridge and stop tail seem to be on the thinner / lighter side compared to my other tune-o-matic style guitars. It may not be a big deal tone-wise but since I have some more robust spares lying around (again, removed from other guitars due to cosmetic choices), I'll probably swap out this hardware as well.- Frets are pretty rough and will require polishing + rolling ends to de-sharpen them. Fixable; pretty much what I expected for this price.Bottom line, I'm actually pleased with this guitar despite the cons listed above, because I knew what I was getting into. I really like the way it looks and I am looking forward to what it will become by the time I'm done tinkering with it. But I will probably spend a few bucks swapping components and dialing it in, which would cost me a few bucks more if I hadn't already had decent spare sets of tuners, bridge/tail parts, and pickups lying around.Would I recommend it? Not to a beginner, no. If you're a tinkerer like me, sure, on the condition that you know what you're getting into and plan in advance to do the work required to make it play and sound good. Because for about $150, it's a solid and good-looking piece of lumber that could be made into a really well-playing instrument for maybe another $150 in parts + a little elbow grease (and that math may start making a lot less sense if you have to pay someone else to do that work). But if you want a cheap guitar that plays well right out of the box, there are better guitars out there that do the budget thing better if you don't mind paying a little more up-front.

I love this Leo Jimenez SG it's not a good ride from the beginning but it was microphonic a little it was annoying so I took the humbucker Caps off takes a screw out of her and you pry it the solder loose and snap it off look it look it up on the internet you take those Chinese silver Chrome plates off of the pickups and then the microphonic goes away and the guitar sounds great very impressed good great high quality sound

I honestly only ordered it because it’s my favorite color. It literally doesn’t/won't stay in tune. The tuning keys, bridge, nut, tail piece and pickups are trash. Fret ends are a mess also. My intentions was to only mod it. As of now, everything I mentioned has been changed and addressed. Unless, your intent is to mod. Please don’t purchase. And please don’t purchase for a beginner. There are various/better options out there at the price point.