I Bought A Chinese Fake Kirk Hammett ESP OUIJA Guitar For Science And Maybe A Seance
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- čas přidán 19. 09. 2023
- In this video we take a look at a Chinese (Fake) ESP Kirk Hammett Ouija Guitar. I wanted to see how good and bad these things were for myself. The results may surprise you. Even thought I bought this guitar, I do not condone the practice of making fake guitars. I would never attempt to fraud anyone or sell this the real deal, authentic Kirk Hammett Oujia guitar. I suppose the argument can be made that one supports fake products by selling them, but I come from the mindset that the problem is with the companies that do it and the laws that allow it to happen. Either way, I did this video for fun and educational purposes. It is quite interesting to see for yourself the build quality in these guitars. I am certain that these clone guitars really pose no threat to ESP or other brands because most people that buy them never have intentions of getting the real thing, or can afford it. In this video I also provide an audio demo as well. Take a look and listen. Let me know in the comments what you think. Thank you for watching. Please subscribe!
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Tell me, corporate America isn't ripping us off! A few improvements and it's playable! And you saved over a 1000.00 bucks!😊Thanks Marty
More than a 1000. ESP are very expensive
Nobody said corporate amerika isn’t ripping us off…thats the way it works…but you already know this my man!!!!
@@eddiejr540 The last time i Checked ESP was a Japanese brand. What does America have to do with that?
@@samright4661 I don't know how much autonomy ESP US has from ESP Japan but there is a significant difference between the Japanese price and the US price. So much so that it's cheaper to just buy them from a seller in Japan and pay the shipping/tax/duty, if you can.
I’ve been wondering what the paint quality was like on these. I just saw a dude that got a ZW bullseye copy and he said it was basically painters tape as a decal that was sprayed over and there were ridges everywhere. Yikes!
“It come with instructions on how to adjust the truss rod and the Floyd. That’s kinda neat” he says, and throws it on the floor 😂 I had a good laugh.
Lol I don't need that sh$&$&$. 😂😂😂
Ill be following this one. I was very curious about these. Looks like its worth the upgrades. Thanks for sharing brother.
The Cats licking itself towards the end, while he's playing the guitar 🎸🐈
With the Cat sitting down in front, It kind of reminded me of
'MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000'🤣😹
Looks good! Caribbean viewer here.
Marty…love it!!…I played an M II a couple of years ago and I will never forget that “thin-U” shaped neck…it was incredible and about 2 grand …so there ya go…rock on bro👍
I got one of these in the same color last year for my daughter as a wall hanger. She loves it! The graphics on the front seem like a screen printed clear sticker. Check the sides of the guitar where a binding would end and that's where the sticker stops. You can feel the edge all the way around. Cool to see this on your channel. Enjoy your videos!
I clicked on this one fast. The first guitar I ever had was a 2008ish LTD Kirk Hammett signature. I think about that thing almost every day. Gotta get another.
I have been looking at these and the ESP George Lynch with the Serpents and Snakes finish copies and just haven't done the deal yet..gotta admit I like fixing up guitars with better upgraded parts so we'll see...Thanks for this video.
Im waiting mine for the last 2 months. Cant wait!
I was able to cut the tops off the pickups and snap them on some nice humbuckers.
it arrived? and are the pickup covers removable?
If someone wants a copy of something I have 0 issues as long as its not misrepresented. If someone wants a VanGogh to hang on a wall, they (typicall) buy a copy. If someone can buy a $200 copy of a $10K guitar I'm not sure who would/should care? I'm assuming the backplates would be routered to sit flush normally. Thanks for showing these Marty!
Nice looking guitar. I saw another review on a Chinese copy and there was a single coil in the humbucker housing. I wonder if that's the case here?
Cool ! I would like to know the crucial point here : how does the neck feels ? Modern C or ESP/ ibanez like ? Is the frets plan well done ? Can it be a great upgrades platform ? Thanks.
Got to say I've never drilled a larger hole on a headstock or body,I only use a fluted reamer so not to damage it and get a perfect solution
Any update video coming for this anytime soon!? Awesome video! These Chinese guitars are starting to look pretty good lately!
Hey Marty, The missing paint around the trem cavity is a burn through the paint from the buffing wheels, ask me how I know😅😅😂😂
I bought one just like your's (black) before xmas for a friend of mine and she absolutely loves it, knowing it was a fake. So it's worth it to me to buy a "fake". It's what you do with it that's either kosher or not. I find it very easy to spot these on ebay since they never take a picture of the headstock or they blur it out. BTW, my serial# is the exact same.🤣
I would like to hear this guitar when you upgrade the pickups
I'd love one of these, obviously I cannot afford a real one, even less locate one, besides from this one I believe I will be getting the JH-1 copy with green flames, I love how that looks too!
LOL ! Your facial expressions said it all brother ! 200 bucks ! Well at least you got 5 bucks worth of Allen keys lol! Was cool you took it apart and showed the guts ! Another very cool vid Brutha ! Thanks 🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Was looking at buying one of these myself which is probably why the algorithm sent me to your video. Seems like the general consensus on these knockoff guitars is that they look good hanging on a wall, but 99% of the time need new pickups and fret work before they are any decent to play...which is still way cheaper than paying ESP $1400 for the genuine article.
Looks cool but I'll be interested to see if those are indeed the dreaded single coil-under-humbucker cover pickups that people are finding.
Me too. Nolan in tearing into it today 🤞
I hope you realize in your infinite wisdom that the leading active picup manufacturing company on 🌎 EMG makes stacked pickups because in active, thats what you have to do to coil split.
I bought two Chibbies resonantly. A 2006 Much Les Paul and a Angus Back to Black SG. Both were pretty good with the Anus SG being the better of the 2.
Bought a red Sparkle ouija months ago and it feels and plays great, upgrade to real emg's though and your set
I have the original form 98's, in a very good conditions
Hey did you swap those pickups in the end?
This is what I wanted more than anything in high school
That trem bar had a hard on lol! The pickups sound weak as hell,hopefully when you swap them out it'll sound killer
Fn Chammett ! Love it dude 😅
Thanks man! 🎸🤟🏻
so were you able to take the covers off and install better pups?
In today's world all jobs have lost most QC and customer service from auto makers to guitar company's
Cool video, I am all about the EVH gear and see these Chinese knock offs on Ebay from time to time and am tempted just to see what it is all about....for $200 - $400 in the end I suppose it is worth a shot?
It's fun to get these and see what they're about. Seems Ike lately the quality is much more consistent.
Been thinking about getting an ESP George Lynch Kamikaze... the white/tan/grey one. Prices run $250-450 depending on seller. Afraid I'll get a piece of junk, tho. Should I go for it?
Great guitar 🎸🤘🏻
I noticed the Floyd and the routing are wrong shape at back under fine tuners
Came packaged better than some pricier guitars(cough cough...Fender)
Take a stain pen in Red Mahogany and stain it or use a dark mahogany stain pen from Home Depot and use lighter fluid to clean the board…. Let it dry…. Lemon oil deep allowing it to almost evaporate…. Let dry to the surface and then use red or dark mahogany stain pen over the neck and fall in love with the rich colors that pop out with this process…. You do a good fret level and crown and polish and your fingers will never be able to tell this guitar is Chinese
To me it would be quite perfect. Namastè.
Change the pickups, electronics, tuners and Floyd Rose, do a full fret job and set up and that will be a cool guitar! I think these guitars from Geeeinah are perfect for people who like to work on or customize guitars I have no hate for them at all. Dig your channel!
Dude hows hardware gonna change much? Like putting lipstick on a sheep. 59 Les Pauls dont have good hardware, its not in the hardware....
I’ve always had this idea with the replicas!
@@kingfisher7960 do 59s use floyds? Floyds need to be setup properly and high quality in order to work properly
seems like 59 pauls suck @@kingfisher7960
Your cat looks like he's vibing to the music when he's licking himself at 16:40.
I don’t understand why anyone would give you flak for buying a product…it’s your money…do whatever the hell you wanna do with it…people are weird 😳
From the dawnking store?
So what was the outcome regarding the pickup covers? Were you able to swap them out?
These cheap pickups have the covers glued to the entire pickup magnets and internal wires. So I put the pickups in a vice and carefully took a small saw and cut the top half of the covers off and then placed the covers over a new set of pickups. 👍
@13:00 how did they manage to spell Hasbro right ‘once’, but not the second time?
Do u try to sale as a real one after ? U said u bought them b4
❤🐈❤️ Beautiful kitty. I love ‘em all ❤
I think the neck is bolt on and they have filled and sanded to hide the bolts. It just doesn’t look right
I am always curious about these Chinese guitars, and what you get back for your money. And i suppose quality wise it's a bit of a lottery.
Looks like a fun project man😂.
I’ve bought a dozen Chibsons in the last year. Only one was what I’d consider too much to make it worth fixing. Shame too because it was the white sg I really wanted. 8-9 of them were just ok. They needed a small amount of feet work and some tuners. 2 of them though! Perfect right out of the box. I replace the pups in all of them because while they might sound ok at low volumes they squeal when you crank the amp. I’ve gotten it down to $70 per guitar and an hour of my time to make any $200 Chibson play and sound great. Like Marty says here, $200 is about the most I’m willing to pay. Although I paid $300 of my aged silverburst LP and that’s one of the best guitars I’ve ever owned, period. Give it a shot. If you don’t like it send it back.
I got a Chinasia Fender YJM Stratocaster it was a blast to mod out! Plays and sounds amazing now!
🫵😉 You Got This Marty.✌️❤️
Considering buying one of these bad boys over a Jackson guitar around the same price range, what would you guys recommend me?
Get the Jackson guitar better
Pick ups do suck replacing them with original ESP that Kirk had made especially for that one guitar now he's with Gibson LP's
Honestly I'm not hung up on buying guitars like that if that's what somebody wants to buy it's when you have those out there that try to pass them off as the real thing when they're not but we all know how expensive guitars are not all of us are like Marty over there we can't do our own mods lol but that is a cool guitar man❤😂🎉
other than the alphabet being a bit off as far as the original in terms of position and the Numbers at bottom it's surprisingly hard to tell
"Eedee beedee chillee beebee thee speeerits are about to speak..."
"Are they friendly spirits?"
Chibson PRS is next
Perhaps the pickups are single coils in a humbucker shell.
Amazing what $200 buys you today - CNC machines really have revolutionised the guitar industry! It’s a shame these countries don’t care about copyright or trademarks - they just have a different mindset.
I feel the same way - not a fan of the whole Chibson thing, but for a bit of fun, why not?! Keep up the great content Marty… regards Leon
Thanks Leon. I agree. CNC machines have certainly revolutionized a lot. It's wild!!! It's the Wild West out there with copyright and such. I really do t think these fakes pose a threat to the big brands other than a it makes them rethink pricing etc. better for the consumer in ways. But it may force them to outsource more to keep up with the demands of the world and costs. Who knows?? 🤷
I've been eyeballing that guitar also,I remember those floyds as really garbage to the point it was unusable,looks like they've upgraded those floyds.
ESPs are copies and these are copies. Everything is a copy. Stop your copyright nonesense wish....its stupid. Copyright the wheel.... Why the hell would a chinese company abide by laws in the USA? Do you have any idea our laws dont extend into China? I really need the dumb guitar community to realize this. LAW IN THE USA DOES NOT EXTEND INTO OTHER COUNTRIES. And no, they dont care. This dude must really like gibsons.
@@alanjacob8542 no, thats just what you have heard from the people you dont know whom you trust for some reason. FR originals are good. FR 1000 series is just as good but made by others. I have both and they are both good. Dont understand where this bullshit starts but a company with a lot more money than you decided to make a product available to others to manufacture and its the same thing but made in another place. The guitar dummies get a hold of this and automatically label them inferior because its not original. Its like the name brand wars over soft drinks and food. FLOYD ROSE CONSIDERS THEM PART OF THIER COMPANY SO MUCH SO THEY ARE LISTED ON THIER WEBPAGE BUT DUMB ASS GUITAR PLAYERS DISAGREE WITH NO BASIS IN FACT.
The most state of the art manufacturing is in Asia. Super high tech stuff. Little manufacturing plants make them cause they love Rock and want you to rock out w something tangible. They can make anything at any quality, Google it.
I wanted this guitar so bad when I was a teenager. I’m thinking it might be worth it to get one.
These guitars are great for experimenting with components and custom body works. Something u wouldn't want to try on an actual Gibson.
Set neck for $200! That’s crazy!
Did you end up paying import taxes for the guitar?
6:05 The fake Floyd sucks compared to the real one but other than that looks really spot on. Does it have the real active pickups on it? If it doesn't it's not accurate to the real esp signature. If it's real active pick ups it will have a nine volt battery compartment on the back of the body. I don't see the nine volt battery compartment on the back so no its not an accurate signature model. Kirk signature model the three thousand dollar one has emg active pickups. Hopefully you didn't pay more than 250$ it's not worth anymore than that. Oh okay 200$ you didn't get hurt on it that's what i would have paid also. Would have only took me about one min to see that it's a fake. And yes sir your right the pick ups do suck. Definitely need changed out.
Not bad for $200.. maybe they sold you a return for the price you offered.. but maybe it was the luck of the draw.. one never knows..that heel was most likely carbed by hand by a grinding wheel so it may be more rough than the rest of the neck/body transition?..how is the neck shape and thickness?..fret level?. How low can you get the action if the frets behave..nice score..needs some tlc
The neck is fat! Quite chunky like a late 50's Les Paul. But not quite as fat but close! Actions is decent. The Floyd needs a little adjustment. No high frets at all or buzzing. They completely missed the grounding on this on lol. Gonna dig in to it today if I have a chance and wire a proper ground. Which is easy. And then see if I can put a good set of strings on it after hopefully removing the pickup covers and doing a PUP upgrade! 😎
@@Ranch5150SkinWalker it does not take much if you know what you are doing.. thanks for sharing Marty.. awesome stuff
DO you get the genuine Kirk Hammett WAh-WAH pedal,, you know the one he cant do a solo without!!
Hopefully the pup covers can be removed and somehow put on real EMG's.
You are a full time guitar tech?
Rhetorical ?
pick up switch may help
Permission O2009 Hasnro
They probably are single coils. Underneath the cover; a surprise?
You know what would be really cool!?....if they sent a Certificate of Authenticity saying that it is, in fact, a FAKE Chinese Copy!!
Sounds to me like what you need is a set of KH Bone Breakers
My love for Chinese imposters is becoming more and more and more…. These guitars are great!!! They are great because Slash had an imposter Chris Derrig Les Paul and was responsible for selling more Les Pauls than Les himself…. So these Chinese guitars end up getting overhauled and I have “Les” than 800 total and I will put mine up against any Murphy Lab or Collectors Choice any day…… don’t be snobby Bobby…..your fingers cannot tell the difference man!!!! Ride on!!!
Funny he didn’t seem to notice the misspell on the back headstock. hasnro. Unless that’s actually another company. Lol
It's hilarious, spelled correctly in the line above. Wrong on the second line. 😂😂
It's a nice guitar but it needs a new paint job repainted Marty that thing might bring you a lot of bad luck I wouldn't f*** with it
That's supposed to be neckthru at least the real one is.
And obviously not real EMGs which aren’t ground to trem claw and thereby the strings . No battery or place for it .
Man lots of your viewers dont know thier stuff. Lots of rumors here. Stacked active pickups? Floyd Rose 1000s, nut changes, etc. All things an amateur would do to eff it all up. You know what im talking about.
you know you can order the guitars from China with no headstock, logo or serial number.
That's what I do with mine. That way, you don't have to constantly tell people it's not a ESP.
Shouldve called it a chi-sp
True lol!
Imma get one of these ... And take the ESP logo off and brand it my own, seeing as it's not really an ESP... 👍👍👍
Product of Hasnro .. yup .. Chinese 😂
Kirk is like a chinese version of a good guitar player... Good video...
And you are better than Mr.Hammet or any notable professional musician ???😀😄😁😆😅😂😂😄😆Pathetic
you forgot to change the strings, Chinese strings are terrible and need to be changed immediately
Agreed man! I'm gonna take the pickups out today and do all that in one swoop. 😎🤟🏻
They should ban
These fakes
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Change them pickups asap! Trash 😆
Dude, ouija is "Bad Juju" ! Maybe people think it is cool but that has opened doors that never should be opened and ruined a lot of lives. I hope you research and take serious what you dealing with ! I, Am, Not, Joking .
you aren't getting a FR special..you got a FR special fake....why would anyone want this junk?
I make CZcams videos and try stuff out so others can see it. It's kinda fun for most and hopefully helpful 😁
this copy is so wrong. Fretboard looks nothing like real board, it looks like a plywood painted with cheap varnish. Neck joint paint on the back is wrong. Tuners are not marked, text on the back of neck is half gone, graphics are of... It seems like quality of these decreased with years, I remember watching another copy review few years ago and it was made better (at least visually).You are not going to fool anyone who handled a real ESP Ouija with this...
That’s a hard NO! Look at the wording on Guitar! GOOD BY! Dumpster Fire is the correct wording!😂
Your wonderful cat is like my cat. His name is Romeo 🤍🖤
man... channels nowadays dont need no intro.. and urs is so damn loud...
Just tap the side of your phone screen a couple times. It will skip it. 😁🎵👍