Dean Vendetta 1.0 Electric Guitar, 7-String

For less then $200 with free shipping, this was a great deal. The neck pickup was flopping around and the bridge pickup was a little loose, but it is from china and has probubly been shuffled around from place to place. I had to polish the frets and install new strings and it sounds good. I will suggest to replace the plastic not with a bone nut and put in a set of Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio pickups that you like and this guitar is a great bang for the buck.

When then guitar came the pickup switch was wired backward. That's not really that big of a deal and it's an easy fix, however there is some kind of ground wire issue with it too. It buzzes uncontrollably unless you touch the input jack or a pickup height screw. Touching the strings didn't stop the buzzing, so obviously the bridge ground wire has an issue as well. It really needs to be professionally set up, the action was terrible. I'm sending this one back. Seems like a money pit to me. The Dean VNXM 7 had less issues than this one and it is less expensive. Go with it if you're looking for a cheap project guitar.

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I got this guitar 2 months ago, I always wanted a 7 string.It's great because you don't have to change tunning when you want to get heavy on a song.The fretboard is really wide, it was difficult at the begining, but you get used to it pretty quick, the frets are really confortable, specially if you like to shread a lot.Now the problem I don't know if this happens for all of them but mine sounds like its not ground wire and it has a fuzzy sound on the amp when at high volumes.I took it to a guitar tech and nothing was wrong he told me it was the pickups's quality and yes they are no good, specially using distortion when playing on the seventh string it lacks that heavy sound, and on clean well lets say its just as any other regular guitar.If you are looking for a good and cheap 7 string guitar this is a good choice, even swaping the pickups later (I installed dimarzio d activators) it still cheaper than buying a high price guitar, my only complain here are the pickups and that is something you can solve easily