This video shows me setting up a recently-acquired Jackson Dinky. I've never played one of these guitars before which (along with great condition and a good price - thanks Sy!) was why I bought it.
The upshot is that I liked everything about it except for the extreme spread of the strings as they exit the nut and head for the tuners. Not ideal but at the same time, not completely unusual. Strats and Teles don't have that but single cutaways like Les Pauls and SGs etc and various other guitars DO. Including the Antoria archtop I refurbished the other week. The sideways splay of the strings on that guitar is so extreme that almost every example comes with the bits of nut to the outside of the high and low E strings snapped off.
This video shows a fairly straightforward set up process and there were no surprises. To my mind, this is a quality budget guitar with a full-size steel tremolo block (for improved sustain), a lovely maple neck (rather like an Ibanez Wizard) and not bad sounding pickups that drove my borrowed Blackstar nicely.
One interesting thing about this guitar is how it helped to demonstrate the point I always make about string slack and tuning stability. Sy had this guitar for around a year and played it on and off yet when I got it, I was able to put it out of tune immediately with some string bends. I re-tuned and then deliberately stretched the strings - resulting in a massively out of tune guitar. This kept going until I finally wrung ALL of the stored up slack out of the strings approximately one YEAR after purchase. There's no better demonstration how tenaciously that stored-up slack will cling to your guitar, only coming out when you least want it to i.e. when playing or worse, when gigging.
This guitar will be for sale because, as much as I like it, it's one too many for my overloaded '2-up' Hercules hangars!
