IYV 6 String IP-350 TBK PRS Solid-Body Electric Guitar, Trans Black

The media could not be loaded. I Had been watching the guitar for about a year or so now. I said to myself if it went on sale again and dropped below a $150 I was going to buy it. It showed up 1 day at a $135 or so. Again I browse through the reviews. Again I tossed and turned. I said ok, it's $135. In 1979 my dad spent $175 on a used Cort Les Paul Jr with about 6" action at the 12th Fret and had razor blades for Fret ends. According to Google that's $600+ today. I bought this for $135 today. This is my 2nd IYV guitar and according to general consensus I got very lucky the 1st time. I got lucky this time also. They package these things in bathroom tissue and then send them off with the Samsonite gorilla for delivery. This 1 arrived in a nearly flawless box. After unpacking and inspecting closely from head to tail, I decided she had arrived free of shipping damage. Woohoo!! After much closer examination this was the findings. If you think you are getting a 2k+ PRS or something, you will probably be sorely disappointed. I'm in my late 50s and grew up in a time when men were men and American men were not afraid to dive into what they had or could afford and make it as close to what they were looking for and dreaming of. If I wanted to beat it up I could put pictures in this review (and I did) of a dent on the top, or the place that wasn't shiny on the joint of the neck, or the place on the bottom "ear" with the weird run, or the Sahara desert dry neck, or the spot of black on the binding in the upper ear....What I saw was this...after I put some super slinkys on it, straightened the neck, polished the frets, put 3 coats of D'dario Hydrate on the fretboard, cleaned and polished the whole thing with carnuba wax, played in the strings and intonated it (isn't this stuff you do to every guitar you buy new or used?) Lastly applying some Silglide Hydra glide to the nut and bridge this thing plays and sounds like a dream. The 1 I got has fully functional hardware and everything feels good and quality, knobba and switches. Volume knob will change tone as Volume increases. Pick ups are clear, yet sound really good with pedals and different amps etc. Pictures do not do the beauty of this instrument justice. It does everything it is supposed to up to and including making my mind up on buying the real thing. Also p.s. this guitar is very addictive. I think about it when I am at work and stay up and play it after my wife goes to bed....p.p.s. I had credit card points, rewards and a gift card, so with tax I ended up with $9.37 in this axe....Best $10 I ever spent!! R.I.P. Dad. He also bought me a 1979 Fender Player 1 which I still have to this day

I have been playing guitar & doing my own guitar mods & setups for 50 years. I have another IYV guitar which I am greatly impressed with (IYV IJZ-300 TSB).For the price, this guitar is an excellent value. It is playable out of the box.All guitars need to be set up for best playability. Even high-end guitars require initial, and ongoing, setup & maintenance. I had to do very little to bring this guitar to a pro level of playability. The neck was dead straight. As is typical of all lower-priced guitars in my experience, the frets did need some work to get them perfectly level. Before leveling and crowning frets, I first use a fret hammer to tap frets down. Shipping, especially from overseas, subjects guitars to temperature & humidity changes which seem to dry out the fretboard & cause frets to lift up slightly. On this guitar, tapping frets down with a fret hammer where they were a little high leveled them out perfectly. I did not need to file down any frets.I like a low string action, and with straight and level neck and frets I got the action down quite low. The nut was cut correctly. I usually swap out nuts with adjustable brass or titanium nuts, but I don't need to given the good quality of the stock nut.As others have mentioned, there are minor blemishes in the finish where the neck joins the body, which is to be expected at this price level. However, the rest of the finish was flawless. As others have stated, yes, this guitar is BLACK. Which I like. The tuners are solid. In fact, this guitar stays in tune better than my expensive guitars (without locking tuners).The pickups are quite good. I tend to swap out pickups on guitars, but after tweaking the pickup and pole-piece heights I got the tone and individual string articulation to a nice level. Not perfect, but good enough to not swap them out for something more expensive.The neck is very playable. I find the neck shape to be comfortable.Bottom line, for the price this guitar is an outstanding value in terms of quality, appearance, playability and tone.

This is an incredible instrument. Great value!! The design is fantastic, I absolutely love the finish. The neck is comfy and the fret ends are not sharp. It plays well and sound great right out of the box. It obviously needed tuning and will need new strings but what guitar doesn’t. I am extremely impressed and will be holding onto this one.