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California Classic Solid Body Electric Guitar - Black (Limit 10 per Customer)
You know it when you hear it. That distinctive California Classic sound made famous by artists like Dick Dale, David Gilmour, and Ritchie Blackmore. Whether it is the surf, blues, psychedelic rock, country, or classic hard rock, this California Classic Solid Body Electric Guitar from Monoprice is the perfect axe for your daily practice and performance needs.
This full-sized, 22-fret guitar features a double-cutaway body made of basswood, a bolt-on maple neck, a rosewood fingerboard, and chrome machine heads/tuning pegs. It uses three single-coil pickups in the bridge, middle, and neck positions. A five-position selector switch allows you to use each of the three pickups individually, while the 2 and 4 positions combine the neck and bridge pups with the middle one for that distinctive "quack" sound. A tremolo/whammy bar is included for note bending.
Before it gets shipped to you, each Monoprice guitar undergoes a setup, tuning, and inspection process by Master Luthier Roger Gresco here in Southern California. The setup ensures that the neck is straight, the action is right, and that it will stay in tune.
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Specifications |
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Body Style |
Double-Cutaway with Tremolo |
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Body Material |
Basswood |
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Neck Material |
Maple |
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Fingerboard Material |
Rosewood |
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Construction |
Bolt On Neck |
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Scale |
648mm (Full-Size) |
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Weight |
7.2 lbs |
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Machineheads |
Chrome |
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Pickups |
Single-Single-Single |
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 | | Rating:  (10 out of 10) | Reviewer: Anonymous from Linden, NJ | 3/18/2016 7:41:24 PM |
| | Fantastic Value |  Pros: Value
Build Quality
Tone
Playability
Cons: For the price, NONE
After all the great reviews, I had to try one for myself, and let me say I'm pleasantly surprised with how great this guitar sounds and plays. I've been playing guitar for many, many years now and it definitely sounds like an instrument worth 3-4 times as much, I'd put it over a Squier Strat and surprisingly close to a Fender MIM Strat, maybe just as nice sounding with some new pickups. Playability out of the box was superb, it really is nicely set up. All I had to do was tune it up and plug it in. Feels solidly built, wood seems to be pretty good quality, frets are decent, hardware (tuners) feel nice (a lot of cheaper guitars lack here), and volume and tone pots actually go through all the values and aren't just fancy on off switches like some other lower priced guitars. I'd definitely recommend it to beginners and even experienced players because really, who doesn't need another guitar?
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| | | Rating: (10 out of 10) | Reviewer: lewislaw from Los Angeles, CA | 2/8/2016 5:22:04 PM |
| | Amazing value for the price | Pros: Well constructed, beautifully set up. Comes with serviceable gig bag. Astonishingly well priced. For a beginner (or practice) guitar it really is unbeatable.
Cons: Comes strung with 9's (I think). Nothing wrong with that, but they don't seem to be of very good quality - my top string broke almost immediately. Recommend you re-string it on arrival. Slightly buzzy on the sixth string, intonation ok but not perfect, stays in tune only reasonably well.
This was a $90 guitar reduced on sale to $75 and I used a 15% coupon. So I got it for $60 actually it would still have been a bargain at $90. Squier type axe really, really well set up, and no blemishes of any kind. It doesn't compare to my Carvin neck throughs, but then it shouldn't have to . If you're looking for a good beginner guitar, then this is for you. I'm not a beginner but needed something to practice on, and for that it's perfect too. Unlike some reviewers, I would not start getting busy by changing the electronics or whatever take it for what it is and you'll be well pleased. I'm reviewing this on that basis really not fair to put this up against expensive guitars and to ding it for not measuring up.
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| | Rating:  (4 out of 10) | Reviewer: StratinFL from Wellington, FL | 1/28/2016 8:37:42 AM |
| | Good for budget beginners but not one to grow with you | Pros: Low cost.
Looks good, feels pretty good.
Cons: Neck needs to be sanded
Frets are not a uniform height
intonation is off
struggles to stay in tune and the tuners are pretty poor, two have at last 1/4 turn of play in them
low end pickups either don't register in my software or have unusual sonic characteristics that the software cant quite figure out
Nothing is standard size - pickguard holes don't match anything else on the marker so if you want to swap it out buy a blank and cut your own
there are no locking tuners that will drop in
The body cavity is too shallow for many aftermarket pickups
Picked up a black California Classic on sale., my first Strat body.
Comes with a very thin dust cover labeled a a gig bag but there's no padding so I don't suggest leaving the house with it.
It looks like a Strat. 3=ply pick guard has the right look, black (maple?) fingerboard with dot inlays looks good from a few feet away, new Monoprice logo looks sharp. Has a passable Strat sound through a clean amp including hum on individual pickups and no hum on positions 2/4.
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| | Rating:  (6 out of 10) | Reviewer: Monocaster from Wellington, FL | 1/23/2016 2:21:58 PM |
| | Cheap guitar but decent with upgrades | Pros: in expensive
looks nice
not all parts need replacing
industry standard spacing and sizes for easy replacements
Cons: tuners are terrible, pickups are very low quality, didn't come set up properly
This is my fourth electric guitar and the cheapest by far.
It has a hard time staying in tune and half of the tuners have 1/4 turn of play in them making tuning problematic. New tuners are on order ($51)
Intonation on mine is off (at 12th fret) so a trip to the luther is next ($50).
The pickups sonic quality sound ok on a clean channel but doesn't take well to pedals and pushing gain, also Rocksmith had a hard time consistently recognizing notes. New pickups are on order ($60)
the strap buttons are standards. locking strap buttons are on order ($7)
I hope that with $168 (+tax + ship) in upgrades the guitar will be usable.
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| | | Rating: (10 out of 10) | Reviewer: andy from KENT, WA | 1/4/2016 7:28:58 PM |
| | i really like this guitar | Pros: price point, tone, stays in tune quite well as long as the tremelo isn't worked too hard.
Cons: wish monoprice would make a fender jaguar type of guitar.
the retrovision's tone is surprisingly good for the price point. in its own right, the california classic also has a great tone. i'm very pleased with both guitars, again particularly at these price points. got this 'cc' on sale for $75. amazing, really. ready to go right out of the box. the coated strings are interesting. i really like the 'high' angle of the tremelo. now i'm hoping for monoprice to make a fender jaguar-ish guitar.
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