B.C. Rich Mockingbird ST Electric Guitar 

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The neck tapers at the nut and flattens at the back making this guitar for me, a whole lot more comfortable to play than the American Special Start I just got for Christmas. I don't have small hands but have some techniques which call for fingering and "walking" bass lines with my thumb on my fingering hand. This neck is exactly right for that and it plays great whereas the maple neck strat I have tires my fingering hand and stops me from doing some of my tricks smoothly. This guitar is of course a shredders dream but has a lot of phase switches for a variety of sound other than el-kabong metal.

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As far as countries outside the USA that manufacture guitars, Korea is the new Japan, while China still puts out junk... The problem in the past with some of the Korean guitars has been the hardware... but with a real Floyd Rose, Duncan Designed pickups & the goto Imperial tuning machines, you can't go wrong... Although I'm not much for the veneer top... having said that, it is very beautiful, hell... drop dead gorgeous really, but I prefer a real wood top. The guitar is thick, solid and feels great & balanced when you play it... if you ask me, for the money you won't find a better guitar...

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This guitar is great ! To me its the best on the market @ this price. Neck through, licensed floyd, tons of tone settings,And a great feel. Stays in tune after abusing the Floyd. I looked for quite a while for one with all this one has and they were all over 1200.00$ Anyway, way to go B.C. Rich !

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Very Nice Guitar. Only concernes are the knobs and switches getting mixed up with each other. Also, the left horn is sort of uncomfortable sitting down. Pickups are nice and so are the tuners. Sounds very good on clean and dirty channels.
The pickups are nice, and so is the neck. Very slick, and perfect for metal, fast blues, and jazz. The knobs and switches can get sort of confusing.
It never gets scratched and you can rarely see fingerprints on the top.
You will rarely find a guitar that is good for all styles of music.

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I've only had this guitar for a week, and I just looked on the manufacturer's website. ALL the Mockingbird STs depicted (4 honeyburst and 2 cherry burst w/ same controls) had black PU pole pieces, and 'Rockfield' printed on top. Mine has PUs w/ chrome poles and 'Seymour Duncan' on top. I always wanted a Floyd Rose (not on a main stage-guitar, but for when needed), and since 24 fret ebony-board neck-throughs are what I've been playing since 1983, this was a great guitar for me for the $. Another reason you might not use this for shows (besides Floyd string-changes!) is that it's like standing there with a piece of furniture strapped on---beautiful furniture, to be sure, but it's as heavy as 2 guitars....I'm disappointed in my guitar's pickups; they fail to make noticeable use of the switching---and I plan to ask MF how they got on this guitar (it wasn't a 're-stock'; this was supposed to be new-new). However it happened, and whether or not I have to exchange this one over it, I imagine that it was just mine (and you'll get one with the pickups that were shown, described, and---it stands to reason---work well with the vari-tone, coil-cuts, and series/parallel switching, even though I somehow didn't). I'd like to tell you how it sounds through different amps I use, but I can't this time: these PUs waste this guitar's potential and make it sound crummy and generic. They don't give the tone filters much to work with. With appropriately-high output PUs (like the ones mine should've come with...) this guitar will sing in a variety of accents of various languages. I'd give this guitar an Overall 9 (perfect but too heavy...), but the lukewarm SD PUs I got instead of what was described makes MINE an 8.
Actually...it's even heavier (but we'll get to that later)!

Best Features:
*Neck-through construction w/ebony 24-fret board
*AAA Quilted maple top
*Genuine Floyd Rose
*'Complete' set of passive controls
Worst features:
*Electronics are wired both 'backwards' (volume knobs are in the opposite order as the pickups) and 'upside-down' (single/double-coil mini-toggles are 'down' for HB and up for SC; now that I'm thinking about it, I'll loosen the retaining nuts and spin them halfway around).
*The product description said this guitar comes with "Rockfield Mafia" HBs and the PUs in the photo read 'Rockfield' on them; mine came with 2 HBs that simply read 'Seymour Duncan'...whether they're 'rockfield' or not, they don't exhibit the range or sensitivity to take advantage of the switching options (trust me; I've been playing Carvins with this set-up since 1983: 2vol-1tone-2coiltap-1series/parallel. With any hi-output AlnicoV PUs there's a WORLD of diffference in available timbres at the click of a switch...but not with these generic-sounding Seymours. The 'vari-tone' filter adds insult to injury with these PUs.
*The 'traditional' 3+3 headstock looks stupid in conjunction with the 'stylized-Explorer' body shape; 6 inline should've gone on these (that would've also lessened this guitar's somewhat neck-heavy balance)....
*This thing makes a Les Paul feel light; I feel as though I'm playing an end-table!
This instrument's build quality is first-rate, worthy of guitars costing 3x as much (mine was in the $600-700 range).
The quilt maple finish, Original Floyd, and neck-through build are, by themselves, worth more than this guitar's price. If this guitar was a solid-colored hardtail with a glue-on neck joint, it would be a fair value; as it is, it's an AMAZING one.

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The BC Rich Mockingbird ST Trans Red, Original Floyd Rose Tremelo, Duncan Design Humbuckers.
I did alot of research on this before I bought this and is more than what I expected. I have been looking for a replacement for my Dean Z88. This Dean model was the best they ever made in my opinion. The Dean had EMG select pickups and could sound like a ton of other legendary guitars. This BC Rich Mockingbird ST not only sounds better but every bit of the gear on her outclasses most guitars in the higher price range. Keep in mind if you are looking for 80's to early 90's quality and sound you need to look for the originals this goes for your effects too! Oh! I almost forgot! I have not seen many if any photos on-line that do this guitar justice. She is a real beauty!
Wonderful surprises(raised logo lettering)! Zero disapointment!
Great craftmanship! Total eye catcher!
Right out of the box pro setup! Worth every penny!

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very versatile guitar, tons of tone you can tweak to your taste
This axe is worth 3x what I paid. Quality is excellent, equal to any Gibson, and I have quite a few, love em, but if theres a fire in the house, I'm grabbing this axe. Neck is thin and fast, feels like my SG Supreme and I like the blue finish better than the supremes! If youre on the fence pick this axe up, you will not be sorry! check out facebook.com/hammerdownband, click on the "superstion" video for onstage sampler of the Mockingbird. Special X and the ST are incredible guitars!

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Overall, I've collected so many instruments it is not even funny anymore, haha! But seriously, This one is in my top 3 favorites. It would have been nice for this particular guitar to just have the 3 way toggle switch and 2 sustain switches and and 1 volume and tone knob because thats really all it needs and you really don't need that messed up chicken head tone knob. But anyways, nice work BC on another great guitar!
Lots Of Cool Features But Some are Pointless As They Barely Even Work.
Amazing Neck Through Design, When I Picked It Up From The Store And First Played it Looked And Sounded Good. Floyd Rose is Fairly Acceptable and Better Than Most I've Tried, Still, Its Not Like An Ibanez Trem. The Tone Knob Barely Works Though.
It Should Be Worth The Money Cause I Got it in The Rare Honey burst Finish And The Trem on This Thing By Itself Is Worth the price Plus You got The Beautiful Somewhat Heavy Top And Weird Controls, It All Adds Up. It Has To Be Rated 9 Out Of 10 Because Of The Controls.

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I have had this guitar for 7 months now and I like the sound of it. That being said, it's a little heavy (agathis is heavy, heavier than my les paul) and all the extra switching is a bit of overkill. The varitone switch on mine has a small problem, not sure of the issue, every now and then I switch it and I get nothing out of the guitar then I move it away from the setting then right back and it's fine. The Rockfields sound great for about any rock style, but definately not for metal. I have the sunburst color one and it's beautiful. The floyd works great the coil taps work fine and the reverse phase works fine. Not great for playing setting the upper horn digs into my sternum. I would buy again if lost or stolen.

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First off, the neck of the guitar is the best neck I've ever felt on any guitar. It's really fast and neck-thru makes it easy to reach upper frets. The pickups sound great on a classic overdrive setting and on clean BUT my amp gives off an annoying ringing sound(not feedback or fret buzz but still annoying)when I play the low E A D strings on a clean setting at a high volume for some reason. This doesn't happen with my other guitars. Anyway, the coil-split feature really gives some awesome single coil tones (almost as good as my Strat), reverse phase switch adds that classic twang but it only works when both pickups are selected. Now the reason I gave this guitar a 4.5 is its Original Floyd Rose. Everyone and their grandma says that Floyd Rose equip guitars stay in tune. WRONG! For reasons unknown the guitar goes out of tune when playing even though I tightened the nuts. Maybe I just got a bad one but when it does stay in tune its great. Definitely play this guitar before buying.