WestCreek 333 Electric Guitar with 6 String, Semi Hollow Body Jazz Electric Guitar, Alnico Humbucker Pickups, Roosewood Fretboard, Rounded End Jumbo Frets, Full (Pebble Blue)

Arrived in a moulded foam inner to a cardboard box andlooked impressive. Beautifully made and took minimal tuning. Sounds expensive and comfortable to play. I took a long time researching this type of guitar and was prepared to pay half as much again. This is beyond my expectations. A beautiful guitar.

Beautiful guitar amazing price much better than more expensive brands just buy one perfect

This guitar was delivered in a rectangular cardboard box that was lined with a shaped liner with a cutout the same size and shape as the guitar, and with a further sheet of the same supportive material above and below the guitar. This is so much better than the way guitars are often shipped, even with much more expensive brands and models, and the net result was that there was absolutely no damage at all to the instrument.Unpacking it was a little bit of a struggle because of how well it was packaged, but it came out safely. Out of the box it was playable, but with the odd inadequacy in the setup. In a few places there are minor fret buzz instances, and the strings had to be tuned a number of times before they retained their tuning, indicating that they had been fitted but not even tug tuned (a technique where once the strings are fitted you tug each string away from the neck and retune until they remain in tune). One little issue is that you can see the cables through one of the F holes, and it would have been nice if they had been installed without that visibility which does slightly detract from an otherwise beautiful instrument.The instrument is very playable as it stands, apart from the issues reported above. I removed a star for the visible wiring and the setup failures, but it is very good quality and exceptional value for money.I have yet to use it through an amplifier, as it only arrived last night. Certainly I will be keeping the instrument and either redoing the setup myself or sending it to my favourite luthier for a workover. A small investment which I expect would bring it up to the full five stars. Shame they didn't set it up properly in the first place, but at the price it seems somewhat churlish to complain...

right out of the excellently packed box this guitar surprised me. I was expecting a reasonably decent instrument, but I got a beauty. There were no flaws in the finish, the action and intonation were bang on and after tuning it up it played like butter. It is comfortable to hold, has great balance when strapped up and the neck is so smooth I could hardly feel like I was playing. If I have any complaints they would be that I have one fret that had a tiny scratch on it that I was able to rub out with about 3 swipes of 2000 grit sandpaper, the pups needed some adjustment and lastly of course the factory strings were junk and I replaced them. I don't care where it was made, this is an EXCELLENT guitar and I would recommend it to anyone. With 60 years of playing under my belt, I'm pretty sure I'm qualified to say, build and attention to detail should place this instrument in a much higher dollar value range. I certainly would have paid a lot more if I had been able to try it out in person. Well done to the manufacturer.

If you have much experience with "inexpensive" Asian guitars, you know it can be a crapshoot. I have a lot of experience with the well known brands of this genre - Harley Benton, Monoprice, Xavier, Firefly etc. I have had anywhere from absolutely unacceptable to stunningly good. Happily this WestCreek 333 is amazing. I live in the Southwest and it is the middle of the 2023 heat wave with 108F temperatures. I was worried how it would arrive. The box/packaging is very good. Sturdy box (had the usual dents and a gash or two) but the form-fitting foam surrounds the guitar and fills the entire box, with another sheet of foam over the top of the guitar. This is better than I have been receiving lately from better known brands. No damage. Out of the box, the finish is very nice. On guitars in this range you will almost always find something, somewhere. This one was almost completely flawless. There were a couple of very small cracks in the finish right around where the neck meets the body. You'd have to know where to look and look hard. This area is an achilles heel on most all brands. I have a Harley Benton 335 that was otherwise perfect except for cracks in the finish at the neck joint. They got worse, although I think it is just the finish and not a separation of the wood joint. Again, the WestCreek cracks were quite small. Hopefully they won't do what the HB did. Other than that - excellent. The neck was perfect. I put a notched straight edge on the fingerboard and it was somewhere between dead straight to the very tiniest bit of relief. Perfect. No fret sprout. Period. The fret ends were decently rounded. Not quite the beautiful perfection of an EART, but pretty darn good. And better than anything I've seen at this price. I had a Firefly 338 that arrived with so much fret sprout it would literally make you bleed to play it, but other Fireflys I have were fine. Like I said, a crapshoot. The tuners were very good, with no stiff or crunchy action anywhere. Very smooth and held tune. Upon arrival the two E strings were a step or more flat, while the other four strings were about a half step flat. It tuned up quickly and easily and the intonation was even spot on perfect! Wow! The neck needed no adjustment whatsoever, incredible considering a few days spent with the carrier going across country in this heat. I did remove the cover and try the truss rod adjustment - something that can also be fatal on guitars in this price range. The adjusting nut was neither tight and binding, nor loose with no tension at all. It turned smoothly in either direction. Perfect. It is worth mentioning the guitar is, by anyone's measure, very lightweight. Tone and Volume pots turn easily with minimal resistance to twisting. I did not look inside with a mirror but they appear to be full size pots. Not sure. I'm not too sensitive to neck shape and radius so this guitar had very good playability for me. I tend to like 43mm width and 10-12" radius and wide/thin PRS SE's necks. This neck has more of a "C" shape feel to it than my PRS SE necks but it was quite comfortable even so. No problem playing any style from rockabilly to jazz to blues. Keep in mind the limitations of guitars at this price. The woods may not be aged etc. The hardware usually isn't the best. On this one the tuners were surprisingly good. The posts for the bridge and tailpiece were very well seated. One post was slightly raised by about a sixteenth but no big deal. The sound is what you would expect from a 335 semi-hollow with a center block. I like the tone of the pickups and, for me, I would see no reason to replace them. They do everything I would want but YMMV. Pickups are incredibly personal-taste items. If anything major develops in the coming months I will update this review. But for now, I lucked out. This one is, again, well above any semi-hollow body in this price range. Its attention to detail on the frets, fingerboard, and neck are better than my Monoprice Boardwalk and Firefly 338, hands down. I had to do fret work and set up on both of those guitars. This WestCreek 333 needed no set up whatsoever, which I find almost unbelievable, but that is my experience. If they are all like the one I got, it is a no-brainer, can't-miss, bargain.

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Lo mejor el acabado de la guitarra, especialmente el mástil, sin aristas cortantes, cómodo, etcLo único a mejorar serían las clavijas de afinación que sin ser horribles no están a la altura de la guitarra.Eso sí recomiendo cambiar las cuerdas antes que nada

Non sono solito lasciare recensioni perché la cosa mi fa un po' di fatica ma questa chitarra mi ha entusiasmato... Incuriosito dalle recensioni positive, pur diffidente, ho pensato che il prezzo valesse il rischio magari usando la chitarra come muletto o per degli upgrade... La chitarra mi ha stupito... Si percepisce che i legni non sono di primissima scelta ma la qualità costruttiva e le finiture sono molto molto buone... Per il prezzo si accetta anche qualche piccolo compromesso come ad esempio alcuni punti in cui la verniciatura non è perfetta e si intravedono dei difetti ma in generale è molto ben fatta... Confermo quanto letto in alcune recensioni che il colore è leggermente diverso da quello in foto (più scura) ma comunque molto bello... Al contrario di quanto letto trovo invece le meccaniche degne e non così male... fanno il loro compito egregiamente e tengono bene l'accordatura ma la cosa che maggiormente stupisce è la suonabilità, la morbidezza, il manico estremamente comodo e la finitura dei tasti ben curata... Era perfettamente settata già uscita dalla scatola anche se le corde è preferibile cambiarle subito perché non così buone come il resto...la qualità dei pickup è invidiabile perché suonano meglio di alcune altre chitarre blasonate che ho... Ho suonato e posseduto molte chitarre anche di fascia medio alta e questa regge il paragone in modo soddisfacente con chitarre di fascia media da 700-800 euro... Paragonata ad alcune Epiphone o ad alcune Ibanez di medio prezzo appare addirittura superiore in molte cose... Credo che se questa chitarra appartenga ad una fascia di prezzo decisamente superiore... E che sia un ottimo acquisto per chi vuole una semihollow senza spendere 3-4 volte il suo prezzo in una chitarra di marchio più blasonato. Consigliatissima