NGD Sterling JP100! (pics and stuff...)

[Insecticide]

Hello forumites! New user here, and new to EBMM/Sterling guitars. I would first like to say that I love EBMM guitars, they play pretty awesome. The JP6 is probably the best playing guitar I have ever had the chance to play. Just an all-around great guitar, and beautiful to boot! So I set off on a mission to find one, but without luck. No used JP6s in my area for months! Bummer. I checked a few weeks ago and was excited to see the Sterling JP100, it was awesome! It looked just as beautiful and some folks said they played very similar to 'the real thing.'

So, last friday I finally order the guitar from MF after selling my precious ENGL Fireball. I wasn't using it so I thought I would send it off to a good home and get some cash to put toward a 6 string guitar. I haven't played a sixer other than a friends JP6, which I just adore, in almost 10 years. The guitar gets here the other day and... not what I expected. The maple cap was uhh... yeah. Kind of fugly. lol. No big deal, really. As I bought the guitar to play and not to look at. But then some other things crept up. The horrible frets, the neck, neck-joint... Rather than try explain I'll just provide a link to my photobucket.

Sterling Jp100 pictures by Insecticiderain - Photobucket

Needless to say, I will not be keeping this guitar. I'm guessing I just got a lemon that slipped through the cracks on a friday? lol. I don't want to insult the guitar brand (or Sterling himself) or EBMM, but I've played $100 no-name guitars that were of higher quality than this guitar. In the pick where I slipped a EB string envelope between the neck and body, the only thing stopping the paper from going any further were the (crooked) stripped bolts.

I believe I'll save up for the real thing (Mystic Dream, droool), though that is going to take a while!

 

[threeminutesboy]

amazing top, congrats

 

[73h Nils]

amazing top, congrats

Someone didn't read the OP's post...

Also, it's a good thing you didn't entitle your post "OMG My Sterling JP100 SUX 111". I understand your frustrations! I'd like to say you got a lemon, but I haven't played/seen any of those in person (nor the JP50s/60s).

If a piezo isn't a big deal to you, you can find MD JP6s for around $1000. They come up often enough.

Hang in there.

 

[Tung]

that's surprising, considered that all the Sterling I played were really good quality. But i have not played any new 2011 models yet, it's too bad.

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Get in touch with Pat Park at SBMM. It's possible that you just got a bad one out of the batch. He'll fix you up.

I bought a AX30 over the weekend, and couldn't be happier with it. great fit and finish, and it sounds great.

 

[patpark]

I've just sent Jesse an email on this. Sorry to see this.

As always, thanks you guys - I'll take it from here.

Pat