ok heres the deal my buddy wants to buy a 555 off *** but he realllllly wants my ibanez rg 1527 and asked if i'd be willing to trade,the price wouldnt be far off its like 600$ and i paid about 650$ for my 1527 (brand new tho) but is it worth the trade??
cool cool just never played a jem 555 or anything but he said if the jem dont follow through he wants a universe and then I asked him if he would trade and he said yeah hows that deal?
To be honest any RG with the Wizard neck and Edge or Lo Pro Edge such as the 5xx series or the new RG's in the Prestige line, will be better than the Jem 555. Pretty much as good as a Jem 77 or 7 actually.
The 555 should never have been made, in my and I suspect many other peoples opinion.
lol i like that phrase too but! how about we focus on the issue at hand! what do i do about this jem i want it but is it worth trading so,metihng for u know like iPod or some ****
lol i like that phrase too but! how about we focus on the issue at hand! what do i do about this jem i want it but is it worth trading so,metihng for u know like iPod or some ****
It'll give you much more enjoyment than the 555 would.
I'd imagine the 555 necks are alright (seeing as Steve's got a few guitars with transplant 555 necks that he plays regularly) but the Lo-TRS trems won't give you anything but trouble.
Actually i have a JEM 555 and it is a JEM so stop saying it isnt.... I set it up for a mere £30 ($60) and the LO TRS is perfect... doesnt go out of tune at all..... it goes the tinyist bit out of tune (not noticable) if i thrash it around (and i mean thrash it, like what he did in Building The Church - G3 Live In Tokyo at the end) and that is what makes it go the slightlyist bit out of tune... if u guys cant be botherd to set it up.... then your pretty pathetic.... and i find the guys sad who said it isnt a JEM..... yes it is... and a bloody good guitar too... (looks lush too, the 7V is ott on the looks... its like a Mr T guitar..)
It's not really as shi!tty as many have claim they probably owned the the real deal which is why when they've played a 555 it sucks as hell, it's an ok guitar but still too expensive for it's standard
A girlfriend of mine has one. I don't like the feel of the neck at all. Like I need to gain weight in my fingers to accomodate the gargantuan HUGE FAT frets. To me it's unconfortable and feels NOTHING like a real Jem neck.
mi2tom said:
It's not really as shi!tty as many have claim they probably owned the the real deal which is why when they've played a 555 it sucks as hell, it's an ok guitar but still too expensive for it's standard
Your right mitom. It really isn't THAT bad of a guitar but since I play the real deal, it doesn't measure up to my standards. But then.....other than a (real)Jem not too many guitars do anymore. It's a Jem curse
hmm well he bought the guitar but its being shipped here to my house (his **** account said he still lived in this town so i had it shipped here) so i guess i'll experince first hand the idea of the 555
That's not fair, you let your girlfriend use the 555 and you use the real deal :mrgreen: And yeah I played the 555 just last week at a store, what's with the neck, doesn't feel right at all, I've played a 555 before I owned a real jem and now after playing that 555 just last week the neck feels like yeah ... heavy, I guess I got the jem curse too lol I've played the strat 50th anniversary and I don't think there are anywhere near the standard of a jem, not just that other high ends too
That's not fair, you let your girlfriend use the 555 and you use the real deal :mrgreen: And yeah I played the 555 just last week at a store, what's with the neck, doesn't feel right at all, I've played a 555 before I owned a real jem and now after playing that 555 just last week the neck feels like yeah ... heavy, I guess I got the jem curse too lol I've played the strat 50th anniversary and I don't think there are anywhere near the standard of a jem, not just that other high ends too
nope i sent the payment through paypal on friday they should've shipped it either saturday or tomorrow its coming UPS ground from new york to south TX i dont know how long that'll take but my 1527 came from new york took like 7 days
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