IYV- ILJR-200 Solid Basswood Body Electric Guitar, TV Yellow

Lightweight, very yellow, with IYV's consistent quality fit and finish, the ILJR-200 delivers the look, feel and sound of a great DC Junior at an entry level price. The single P90 sounds bright and punchy, distorts great, and cleans up nicely with volume and tone dialed down. Neck feels like a slightly wide C profile. Side dots, but no fret markers as shown in the listing, fretwork is very good, crowned and polished with no sprout or sharp ends. Guitar is very light, under 6 lbs, Plays and sounds great after tuning right out of the box, it looks like they use quality strings and get the action right before leaving the factory. IYV builds for Harley Benton and takes pride in their product, if you've wanted to try a good P90 guitar, you won't find a better one near this price with Amazon's return policy.

For the price this Guitar is great! The Tuners are trash, plan to replace them quick. I installed Gold Musicly 3L3R and installed Brown Tuner buttons. I also covered both pickguard and truss rod covers in adhesive leather for fun. Also I replaced all the chrome screws with gold screws. Then lastly I installed some brown speed knobs I sanded to give this an overall brown earthy look. The body is so lite, the neck dive isn’t that bad. The neck is wide and feels great. The P90 is killer, this really is an all in one guitar. The tone is crisp and clear, even distorted all strings ring out evenly. I see where people complain about the bridge posts being bent at an angle. I tune a step down so I’m hoping this relieves that tension! If this happens I’ll follow the other review here where the person installs an extra post and bridge for tension relief. If you have never played a LP JR DC, give this a shot, it’s not a shredder. This is great for a rhythm player or simple leads. I use it for Shoegaze style playing and it’s 10/10 for that!! **UPDATE 6 MONTHS LATER** This guitar is a shred machine!!! Has proven to be my favorite guitar to play and stays in tune really well!! GET IT!!

I could not be more pleased with this guitar. Exceeded my expectation cosmetically and functionally. This guitar is a homerun. Time will tell about longevity. I have purchased two IVY guitars that have been surprisingly good!!

This is a nice, inexpensive way to get a double cut Les Paul Jr with a p90 pickup. The price is low enough that it's a good starter for a project or to switch out the pickup, which needs to happen because it's one of the noisiest p90s I've ever heard with any kind of distortion. It's pretty noisy on lower volume clean which shouldn't happen. If you're a beginning guitar player who wants this type of guitar, I would look elsewhere and pay a little bit more because it'll need a setup and I'm not normally somebody who replaces pickups automatically but in this case I would recommend it, so that puts a beyond the reach of a beginner. Tuners are adequate, fit and finish good for this price range. The sound is pretty close to an Epiphone/Gibson guitar of this type, and it's a nice size for beginners. If someone wants to go to the trouble of having it set up and getting a noise gate/improving insulation ground/etc then it's cheap enough to do that. This company puts outs nicer guitars at the higher price ranges.

I did not have very high expectations for this guitar considering the price. Also I had almost given up since I ordered the guitar 11 months prior. I was pleasantly surprised after opening the box and inspecting. Unlike the reviewer of the first issue of this guitar, the one that I received has position markers on the fretboard as well as the side of the neck. After slightly adjusting the string height, the guitar plays beautifully. The neck is chunky as would be found on the original. The p90 pickup sounds great. The only noticable flaw was a chip in the fretboard at the first fret. I was also concerned about intonation since the bridge/saddle is not angled like the original, but it seems to be fine. The weight is balanced between the body and neck and feels very solid. I give it a thumbs up.👍

These are really great guitars BUT you may have to invest some time and resources to make it perfect. Because the guitar is made from very light weight wood , the initial bridge post began to lean and be pulled forward. I tried a bigsby style Tremelo to change the string stress angle but it wouldn’t stay in tune ( Tremelos fault) so I installed a stop tailpiece with some washer to absorb stress and after making some careful measurements…. Problem solved!

Let's be realistic. For what these costs, I expected it to be a trainwreck. But instead, what I received is a very nice guitar that was playable out of the box, looks great, and sounds way better than I expected. Sure, the tuners arrived with a bit of slop in most of them (tightening the screws in the buttons helped a lot) and two of them don't turn that smoothly. And the nut is cut a bit tight (the strings ping during tuning). But those are both easy to deal with and pretty inexpensive. I took 1 star away for them. But overall: - It has good bones. The neck is straight, the frets needed no work to be playable, the neck feels pretty good. - the P90 sounds a lot warmer than I expected, given it's proximity to the bridge. I really like that. - It looks great - It will make a good platform to upgrade, if I choose.

I'll start by saying I own 3 other IYV guitars..and love them all. Absolutely great guitars for the money to mod and really good as is too. Just as good as any of my squire, epiphone...etc. not so much so with this lp jr style, fit and finish got it two stars, but thats all it had going for it, the pup sounds ok from what little i could play on it..but.. The neck was so bowed it was unplayable lower than the 5th fret. Truss rod did nothing to adjust in either direction. Sent it back. May try another to see if it was a fluke seeing as my other iyv's are great. Im not a fan of set neck guitars as a whole anyway though. May just try something else. Pretty disappointing.

Is it 5 stars No! but is it worth the money ((( Yes )))