What is this guitar model?

[carly]

Hi,
I purchased two Ernie Ball guitars at a garage sale and am wondering what model they are. I did some google searches and found that similar looking guitars (the axis?) were going for thousands of dollars; the head stock on these have a different logo than the ones I saw online though. They're both identical to each other except one is red/sparkle and the other is black/sparkle.
The black one is more sparkly than the red.
The metal plate on the back of the guitars have the same logo as the headstocks.
Both have a 3-way toggle switch.

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[GWDavis28]

That is a low end OLP "Officially Licensed Product". They sold around the $300 price range.

Glenn |B)

 

[jayjayjay]

Further to what Glenn said, OLP was the predecessor to the current Sterling by Music Man line. Sterling still sells the Axis, BTW, for either $350 for the black or white model, or $400 for the flame maple top. I have one of each - they're good guitars for the money.

The Ernie Ball version sells for around 8-10 times the cost of the Sterling model.

 

[xjbebop]

Some of those OLP's are pretty decent gittars!

 

[St_G]

I've been very impressed by the quality of the Sterlings I've touched. From a purely build- quality perspective, they beat out anything else at their price point.

I never had that experience with any of the OLPs that passed through my hands back in the day. But these may be nice, who knows. Often the difference between good and bad is simply someone taking the time make relatively small adjustments.

 

[jayjayjay]

Don't know about OLP, but my Sterling Axises (Axes?) have been great with just a little work. The trem arms leave a bit to be desired; they're screw in, and unless they're basically screwed in as tight as they can go (and not generally in a useable spot), they have some annoying play. That can mostly be fixed with a few wraps of teflon pipe tape, though.

My most recent SbMM Axis came with frets that felt like sandpaper - you could see the tooling marks up close. A few hours with some fret erasers fixed that, plus tweaking the setup a little. Now, it feels almost as good as my EBMM Axis. Bends are effortless.