Leo Jaymz SC Series Electric Guitar – Mahogany Body, Laurel Fingerboard, Dual Humbuckers, Tune-O-Matic Bridge, C Neck, 18:1 Tuners (Skull)

This guitar comes securely packaged in polystyrene shaped to fit the guitar and then inside a sturdy box. It comes with a lead and an allen key (no strap). Needed a slight tune out the box and it was ready to play. It looks gorgeous and sounds great. Played it for about 3 weeks and its only needed re-tune once in that time so has held tune very well! It's a solid build with a good quality finish. Nice and easy to play with a low action. It has a 3 position switch. 2 volume controls and 2 tone controls. It's quite weighty but nothing ridiculous. Overall a fantastic guitar with great functionality aswell as looks! Very happy with purchase. I would recommend to others and buy again!

Absolutely astounded by how good this was pretty much straight out of the box, neck was straight, intonation was spot on, no sharp fret ends, all the frets were level and well polished, all I did was to lower the action by half a turn on the saddle to my own liking, tuned it up and it was good to go, nicely rounded sound from the pickups too. This is the second guitar I've bought from Leo jaymz, I also got the Monsoon, same thing applies. Two very nice guitars. The big names should definitely be looking over their shoulders if this kind of quality is what we can expect from these guys. Don't hesitate! If you're tempted, just get one.🤘

Great guitar for the money I have owned 2 Gibson Les Paul's in the past and this guitar is as good as or even better with regard to looks, finish and playability for a fraction of the price but, there are three things to be aware of for anybody who is thinking of buying one. 1. The bridge pickup ring is fitted the wrong way around which causes the pickup to tilt unnatural into the centre of the guitar. This is easily fixed by loosening the strings and removing the four fixing screws and turning the ring into proper position. 2. The dimension of the guitar body is smaller by 3/4 inch when compared to a Gibson. It should be 18 inches which is actually in the the specs on the Leo jaymz website. This is not going to be a problem for most people but if you need to fit a bigsby trem like I wanted to it's a no no. 3. The last problem is more serious, when you select both pickups together then roll off the volume for the bridge the neck cuts out completely, also in the centre position both volume knobs some how does something not quite right with regard to the treble at the top and bottom end of the dial. To fix this I am going to fit a new wiring harness with larger 500k pots which will make the guitar even more comparable to a Gibson.

Arrived well packaged and within the delivery advised. Took less than 2 mins to tune and begin playing straight out of the box, stays in tune really well, very good action and strings. The finish is beautiful and the tone is superb, very easy to play. Highly recommend this guitar

Lovely guitar. I think this guitar is worth every penny: it looks beautiful and plays beautifully straight from the box. Amazing guitar for me.

Great value

It’s awesome

This guitar has loads of potential if you can do setup work yourself. I have spent about an hour seating, filing fret ends smooth and polishing the frets also setting the truss rod correctly. After I finished the instrument plays like it was 10 times the price. So in all a very good guitar if you can as I said do the work yourself.

Leo Jaymz SC style guitar - I had been looking at these guitars for quite a while. When I saw the guitar on Amazon most recently - just before Christmas - the one I ordered (Green/Black) was on sale. This was the time! Despite a few reviews that were not terribly complementary, the positive reviews outweighed the less positive ones by a big margin - besides, I saw an interview with Leo Jaymz on YouTube and was impressed with what he wanted to do insofar as building and selling guitars. Given that the guitar had travelled a long distance, I did have a bit of a concern re damage, however, when I lifted the lid on the box and saw the very substantial Styrofoam inner packing my concerns were substantially lessened. When I did pull the guitar out of the heavy-duty bag, I was extremely pleased with the look and finish of the guitar. I then examined the frets and the tuners. The frets were finished beautifully. No sharp edges and they were chamfered nicely along the side of the fretboard. I could comfortably run my fingers up and down the neck. The tuners were solid and there was no wobbling of the turnkeys. The bridge and tailpiece were also better than expected. Ok, time to plug it in! WOW! Fantastic tone. Straight neck and the action is very nice. The pots all seemed solid and worked as they were supposed to. I was even prepared to change the strings immediately, but I didn’t. The guitar sounds great and looks great - 100% happy. Can’t wait to show to the folks in my band. For me; truly a 5/5. Thanks Leo Jaymz.

The craftsmanship and hardware exceeded my expectations. Some fret leveling and setup is required. I opted for some easy cosmetic mids. Very excellent.

I'm reading some of the reviews and glad I didn't listen to some one offs. This is a solid guitar at this price range! I had an Epiphone 'similiar' model which didn't compare. Sorry never a Gibson owner because of the price! I'm not knocking Gibson or Les Paul but you charge way too much for your guitars! I'll start with the CONS: First, you have to know how to setup your guitar. If not have a local tech do. Should be less than $100 or learn yourself. Slight fret buzz but not bad (some metal shavings came off from the dremel polishing), lowered the action, the strings were fine (.10s I think) if I could salvage them. But cut em. Polish the frets, oil the fretboard, check your truss rod (mine didn't need adjusting)!! Check your intonation in case. This all goes for a $3000 guitar too ya know!! USA driven, China manufactured, to check for QA. PROs: This has become my new favorite guitar! It's beautiful! The hardware, body is solid, pickups, pots, detail, all good. Heavy but what a quality tone. Excellent! If you have an issue out of the box I expect good things from Leo support, didnt need yet. Please dont dissapoint Leo service! Play through some 'decent gear' and it sounds bright, vivid, loud, beautiful. Overall: Impressed does not explain my first reaction. I bought the Tempest model because I am just overall curious about Leo design, quality, and beauty at this price point! I expect this guitar to remain one of my favs! Update Mar31st - Needed to order a new bridge since E, B were rocking and loose. Asked LJ for support. They offered $20 to replace the bridge. Ok so I did. Next purchase I may send back to Amazon if it has issues. Leo Jaymz support is all email. Support lacks a decent response and time. A live person would be nice too! Add 4-28 Also bought the US Flag guitar. Needed the nut raised slightly. Put some thin double adhesive under it, glued it back in. It's a cheap nut unfortunately but works. Got the annoying mysterious buzz out and action lowered more too. Now it rocks! Still the bridge is cheap and will replace. These things setup right are hard to beat for this price. Sounds amazing!

I’m not sure how they make such amazing guitars. It’s such a low price but I’m glad they do. We are living in the golden age of high-quality affordable guitars. This is absolutely no exception. The guitar arrived in perfect condition with no scratches or blemishes. Everything was set up, reasonably well, and will only need a small adjustment for my own personal preferences. The pick ups sound good and are pretty well. Rounded not too cold not too hot but of course that’s subjective. The string action was well set and properly intonated. I was surprised that there wasn’t any fret buzz for a guitar in this price range and that was shipped in the winter and probably spent a long time in the cold before it got to me. Lucky me. You never know. I recommend Leo Jaymz guitars in general and their kits are amazing too and don’t take long at all to build.

While I was impressed by the weight and heft of this guitar, which is as heavy as my '64 LP and PRS guitars (both solid mahogany) I was much less impressed by the quality of the components and parts. Are you ready? Let's begin: the tuners are garbage, trash those and get a high quality set of locking tuners, the nut is cheap and not the right height, which seems to be a common problem when reading the comments. You'll need to get a good, high quality nut (I'm partial to Tusq nuts) and refer to a YouTube video on establishing the proper nut removal/installation and proper height. The frets, while fairly smooth along the sides, we're dingy and dirty. So, I'm going to send mine to my luthier and have these ripped out and have my favorite STAINLESS STEEL frets installed. It's an expensive job (around $300) so that's totally up to you. They're "just ok" as is. The bridge is cheap Chinese garbage and should be burned, melted, spit on, then thrown in the garbage. You can get a good, complete tune-o-matic set that'll fit this guitar perfectly from Gotoh, Tone Pros, or other well-known companies here on Amazon for around $60 to $80 max. You'll probably have to remove the studs and bushings, but there's a very quick, safe and easy way to do it and you can find the videos (there are several) on YouTube. The pickups should sound ok because they are (allegedly) the new and upgraded alnico 5 pickups (on the claret red guitar only - so far) but I don't like the volume knobs on the bottom and I would replace the pots and caps anyway because they're probably garbage as well (I haven't taken off the rear cover yet, but on a $200 guitar...they're garbage, trust me) and I don't like the volume knobs on the bottom so I'm going to swap everything out for better pots and capacitors and have the volume knobs on top and tone knobs on the bottom. That requires extensive soldering so, if you're not experienced, you should get assistance and learn how to do it because it's good to know how to do it yourself if you ever want to do pickup swaps, etc. If you aren't experienced or know someone like a friend, or a friend of a friend, get all the parts you need and take them to a luthier and have them do the work and give it a proper setup while they're at it. You'll spend about $250 for all that, but in the end you should have a solid playing guitar. If you don't have the money or want to learn on your own, watch a ton of youtube videos before attempting it, especially the electrical swapping. The rest is not that hard. The nut has to be precisely fit so be precise and careful or you'll have to start over and it'll be a pain. It's a pain as it is, so having to do it twice is worse. As long as the body and neck are in good shape, I like buying cheap guitars like this one and turning them into great players, but it's not something you want to rush if you've never done this before. But it's a good learning experience, just learn as much as you can first before attempting something. As far as the finish is concerned, it's nice, but could use a good polishing to bring out the shine and make the flame maple top stand out better. It's ok as it is...but, meh! It's a good solidly built guitar to learn how to do upgrades and learn how to properly set up a new guitar. And I'm assuming most people buying these are new players due to the low price. But first thing to do to be sure that's its neck (very critical) is straight is to immediately take it to someone that can professionally confirm it. That shouldn't cost you that much, maybe $50 but they might want to set it up for you, but say no because if the neck is straight and the truss rod functions properly, everything else is just a matter of putting good AMERICAN or JAPANESE components. I've read some other reviews and I've seen some that had twisted necks, and almost everyone complains about the nut. It's horribly set up and absolutely not a bone nut, I don't care what they claim. The tuner for the g string on mine refuses to stay in tune so I'm trashing those ASAP. I really hope what I said helps you, especially new players. The worst thing is to try and learn to play on a crappy guitar. It happened to me, but that was the '80s so we had no internet which is a gold mine of information, so take advantage of it. Good luck to all!