Jackson JS32T Kelly AH SBK

Made in China Jackson Kelly, with no quality control whatsoever.
While Thomann states; that they sell the product from the factory as is, which is understandable.
While the Jackson factory guality control, however, had dropped the ball and missed the following flaws. Flaws which are blatantly observable.

- The frets have not been sanded nor polished, almost at all. They rattle very audibly when bending. Also many of the frets are wildly different height especially from the 1-5 area & every other fret is slightly higher than the other.
- The bridge is raised so high, that the strings coming from the body's holes are touching the behind of the bridge itself first, before the bridge intonation blocks. Lowering the bridge won't help because then the strings will hit the high frets in the neck. The standard 9-42 gauge strings 1-4 (Dgbe) hit the bridge, but with a thicker gauge probably all strings might end up hitting the bridge.
- The bolt-on neck is not all the way in the body's mounting hole and is too high, causing the bridge to be setup so high.

All problems on this particular guitar add up to one another and the process to have it replaced is slow and an inconvenience.

Flaws aside:
+ Mics sound ok. The set up is too high, nothing that couldn't be fixed by the user.
+ Neck and body finishing look ok. (Apart from the complaints above)
+ Guitar is fairly light.
+ 24 fret 25.5" (648mm) neck scale feels good.
+/- Playability is good (Only if the things mentioned above were up to standard)
- Neck side strap lock placing could be better, letting go of the neck causes very fast neck dive. But that is fixable with know-how.
- - - Is not up to standard quality.

Would the things mentioned on this guitar, been made with a higher standard, and better quality control, it would easily be a 4-5 star guitar.

For the price this is damn good. I own quite a few guitars and was looking for a simple one for a very long time. Went through a couple of guitars and finally fell on this one. The neck is fantastic and the quality of the sound is great. Only thing is the bridge pick-up did not suit my needs. The neck pick-up on the other hand is amazing for clean sounds. It resonates beautifully. Very very impressed by this guitar. If your looking to play some metal i highly recommend the JS32T over a lot of others.