IYV 6 String IYV-IRK-300 Semi Hollow Electric Guitar 3T Sunburst, Right (IRK-300)

A great ric substitute.looks good,plays good.

decent quality, well worth the price, thanks brighton shop

Steppenwolf and the Beatles have never sounded so good. A bit of fret sprout was easily fixed... I should have changed the strings, but I'm having too much fun with it out of the box.

Review of IYV 6 String IYV-IRK-300 Semi Hollow Electric Guitar 3T Sunburst, Right, (IRK-300) I received the one pictured (the fireglo sunburst type model) and I am very pleased at that. It is a beautiful guitar. There are a couple of minor finishing QC type issues. There is a little residual polishing dust near the neck pickup around one of the screws and along the edge of the pickup near the neck. No big deal. Mine is intonated very well, action is low, and the neck relief is spot on with no buzzing. There are no sharp fret ends. The frets are not polished as well as they could be, when you do a bend you can feel some roughness as the string moves (I’ll fix it when I change the strings). Tuners are basic sealed economy type tuners, but mine holds tune pretty well, new strings and some graphite in the nut slots will improve that I think. The fretboard is Jatoba, a wood I was not familiar with, but from what I’ve since read it is an inexpensive, but very acceptable perhaps more sustainable alternative to some of the common boards, such as rosewood, ebony or maple. The bridge and tailpiece both look great and are solidly made and set. The wood used in the top and back is attractive and visible through the finish. They even put clear coat inside the sound hole. Electronics seem to work fine. The volume and tone knobs both make considerable difference across their ranges. The pickups sound great to me. They are not real powerful, the clean tone is a bit jangly and has a vintage vibe to it, especially at performance volume. Using a little OD distortion the tone is tight and pleasant and sits well in the mix with a bass, flute, drums and keyboard. The band was complimented on the overall sound today. Overall, I like the sound. With the single coil pickups, the pickup design and the hollow space in the body the guitar has an airy resonate tone that actually sounds like it comes from a hollow body guitar (some semihollows just sound like solid guitars, not this one). It reminds me of the airy tone (that I like) of a cheap strat with a canoe cut under the pickups and pickguard, almost a natural reverb tone. Really nice for less than $170 US.

What a great guitar plays awesome looks fantastic one great deal!!!

Wow! This is a gorgeous guitar! The colors look great with a smooth glossy finish. The basswood has some nice grain patterns on the sides especially. I didn't realize basswood had good looking grain patterns until this guitar. Well balanced, without neck dive. I can't stop playing it. No gig bag, but comes with 2 allen wrenches. Tuners are ok, but I am putting in locking tuners. Electronics and pickups are decent for the price, but I'm swapping them out for a set of Trisonics. They have some chime though, for humbuckers. The neck feels good, but has some sharp fret ends that need filing. New strings and a proper setup will be necessary, but other than those minor things, this is the the best $127 guitar on earth. I have the black version too, but that doesn't look as pretty as this, and there seems to be more attention to detail and finish on this model. The bridge hardware is cheap but functional. Maybe you can buy a Ricky bridge to complete the illusion, but most likely it won't fit. No need though. Looks great on the wall. I am so happy with this guitar after seeing a used Ricky at Guitar Center for $1700.00.

Bought on a whim when price came down. A friend's recently bought the IYV brand Acoustisonic-style guitar, and is happy with it as a budget guitar. I bought this IYV brand Rickenfaker as a modding platform, but am still enjoying the stock guitar. IYV has a reputation for "better than the price you pay" instruments, and I concur. It arrived well setup...it was 90% in tune, intonation was @ 98%, so close I haven't bothered with it yet. The action is a little high, but another easy fix by adjusting the bridge saddles, again, haven't bothered yet. Tuners seem good, but on the mod list, as well as swapping out the pots for CTS pots, and rewiring the harness, putting in better capacitor, maybe change the pickups, things I bought it to do. I didn't buy this guitar as a stage-player, but who knows when I get done modding. But!...this is a perfectly good guitar as-is. You can play it, enjoy it, not worry about a few dings. It does not replicate a true Rickenbacker sound, but it's $150.00! It separates itself from all the budget Strats, Teles, and such on appearance alone. I have bought and modded 8 or 9 budget guitars, and look forward to doing this one. Good for it...get one! Update April 11...so far I've done a few bolt-on mods. First, a set of Guyker locking tuners. I always do this first. Fact is the tuners I took off are very good and I will use them on some cigar box guitar builds. Second, I pulled the pickguard and a pickup off to inspect them and found the soldering to be good, the pots are dime-size pots and the wiring is adequate. Still going to upgrade the pots, switch, and wiring because I like to do that work. The pickup is a single coil/bar magnet, typical in many budget guitars. Because this guitar won't achieve that Rickenbacker "chime" without some significant pickups, I might install some humbuckers (my usual choice). Third, I tried a couple of tailpieces and ultimately used the Alnicov "R" tailpiece. It fits well, is a well-finished piece, is beefier and looks better (to me) than the stock tailpiece. I had to drill new holes for the Alnicov tailpiece, but it was a straightforward install, and covered the original holes. Lastly (so far), polished the frets, oiled the fretboard, and installed D'addario 10's. After playing this thing for a few weeks I'm still really happy I bought it. It's just a cool player. The neck and frets were really good out of the box, neck relief is still good. A beginner or an experienced player could use this guitar as delivered. Based on other reviews I think this is a common experience. The price seems to go up and down (it was $25 cheaper the week after I got mine @$150) . Today it's @ $175. Still a good deal for what you get. Get one!