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Picked this up on Amazon. I posted in another thread that I was hoping for three things with this guitar.
1. It arrived intact. 2. No neck dive. and 3. A chunky neck. Well I got 1.5 out of 3 on this one.

The guitar arrived with no issues. It's described as TV Yellow but I'd say it's a bit more on the mustard yellow side of that. Not that it looks bad - I actually like the color. The fretboard is kind of interesting - it has no markers on the fretboard. There are fret markers on the side of the neck however they are very small and difficult to see. I'm not sure the fretboard is real wood - The specs say it's basswood (never heard of that as a fretboard material) it almost feels like some sort of laminate but I'm not sure. The tuners are just ok - one of them was missing the back cover of the tuner. The neck is wide at the nut (44mm), which I like, and a little chunky - but not as much as I hoped. No fret sprout or sharp fret ends.

The set up on the guitar wasn't half bad - and was pretty playable out of the box. The guitar is extremely light- I haven't weighed but I'm thinking it's in the 6lb range. The bad news - the guitar is extremely light - and has terrible neck dive. I tried a wider leather/suede strap and even though that helped - the neck feels like it's fighting me. It has dime sized pots.

I'm not sure this guitar is a keeper. It's worth it's low price of $140 on Amazon - but I'm not sure it's for me. The IYV Mosrite copy I had was a better made guitar. I'll give it some amp time this weekend and decide in the couple days if it's going back. Here's a few pictures.

I like the shape and color, and it looks like it'd be fun to play. I have to wonder, as light as it is, whether swapping the tailpiece for a heavier one would help with the neck dive.

A chigsby would be perfect to add a little weight to the body to fix the neck dive.
IYV is made in Vietnam as far as I know. I believe the same factory makes some Harley Benton stuff.
I have a few IYVs and all have been good modding platforms but definitely not perfect out of the box.

Looks great, looks alot like my Firefly TV yellow

BatUtilityBelt wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 5:05 am I like the shape and color, and it looks like it'd be fun to play. I have to wonder, as light as it is, whether swapping the tailpiece for a heavier one would help with the neck dive.

Something to consider - I do have one or two wraparound tailpieces floating around that I could try. The body is so light though I'm not sure it will enough.

Buddha Pickups wrote: ↑Fri Jan 17, 2025 11:01 am A chigsby would be perfect to add a little weight to the body to fix the neck dive.
IYV is made in Vietnam as far as I know. I believe the same factory makes some Harley Benton stuff.
I have a few IYVs and all have been good modding platforms but definitely not perfect out of the box.

Looks great, looks alot like my Firefly TV yellow

I thought of this as well. I tried putting a chigsby on my recent mustang project and it didn't go well. Tried three different ones and they were all garbage - ended up going with the real thing. Coincidentally enough the IYV Mosrite guitar had a chigsby and it was great. Maybe there are different grades of chigsby's out there. I wonder if a floating tailpiece X-trem would work....

https://www.guitarfetish.com/Xtrem-Floa ... _4414.html

Although not sure how much more I want to invest in this - sort of thinking I should just spend the extra on the Epi Les Paul Special with the two P90's and girthy neck.