HI! just to let you know if you like this video and want to show your appreciation, you can buy me a cup of coffee with the "Thanks" button which is just next to the share button! ✌❤ 0:00 Intro 1:40 Song 4:19 Demo 8:55 Review 12:25 Conclusion
That may have been some of the most badass blues I’ve ever heard come out of a pink guitar. Great playing, beautiful guitar. For some reason, I’ve always yearned for a pink Strat.
Shijie are knocling it out the park. I finally got to play one yesterday (STE hardtail version). Beautiful guitar, flawless build, quality components, great neck, nice pickups and very well finiahed frets. Only slight gripe is the mint pickguard is a bit too minty for my liking, but that's a very minor point. Other manufacturers are going to have their work cut out making a better guitar for the money. Very impressed.
Hi Jon. Thank you for this review. Very interesting as usual. Wrt the p/ups, according to a couple of reviews l saw, the ones in the Shijie STE are made by Gotoh. Same goes for the bridge assembly apparently. Cheers from South Africa.
Great playing Jon. I love how you always improvise every video, and the way you always play something different. I love these guitars too, definetly gonna get me one 🎸🎸🎸✌️🤘
For those interested in the UK that have noticed SC Guitars site is down, I have contacted them and was told "Unfortunately we are no longer able to retail Shijie Guitars due to supply chain issues and exchange rates." Fingers crossed for another UK agent in future.
Your thoughts by comparing this one with Schecter's Nick Johnston Traditional model in HSS. Very look alike in many ways. Does this one in the video require any mods as you did in the Schecter?
Hi Jon. Enjoy your channel. You mentioned Shijie dealer in Canada. Can’t find one. I spoke with Dave at Shijie in October and he didn’t mention a Canadian dealer. Has something changed?
Compaing the Shijie to the Suhr you recently shared, is the Shijie almost as good or better in your oppinion? Cheers, thanks for sharing and Happy New Year's Jon !!
@@JonIsJustTooLoud Thanks so much, I've played Fender Strats since 77', and recently bought an Ibanez AZ Prestiege guitar. Honestly the AZ MIJ are so much better made and a $1000 less than the Fender Ultra Luxe series. Tone will always be subjective/personal, and Ibanez uses world class parts. The action on the AZ was outstanding out of the box. Jon, thanks so much for putting the volume and scope of new guitars on your channel. I'll try out a Shijie in 2023, again blessings in the New Year!
@@JonIsJustTooLoud I have a 1999 RH4 but unfortunately you are to far away to review mine, I would like to know your thoughts on them though, your reviews are first class, I watch each and every one.👍👍
A great alternative to an overpriced Fender Strat, perfect frets, it stays in tune and good pickups. Sadly for me the shipping and import costs would double the price. You are so lucky to live in Singapore Jon, we have a very limited choice of good affordable guitars here in the UK. Thanks for your excellent demo Jon.🙂👍
@@JonIsJustTooLoud I checked out Shijie's website and found it very unreponsive trying to select the options i wanted. Their range of colour options are not for me, no solid colours, just washed out pastel ones. No point in emailing them, shipping and import costs are now way too high.
@@bostonbesteats364 Thanks for the info, but the current range of pastel colours are not for me. If/when they offer better colours i will try SC guitars.
The Shijie is not quite my cup of tea, just my feeling on 'strats' in general, but it sounds and looks great and is no doubt very well made. Enjoyed hearing you play it, obviously it was not holding you back. If I were in the market for a strat I'd go for one of these way before a Fender. But to continue the analogy, a Squier Strat is much more in my budget range and their HSS model is not bad at all. For the quality level however, Shijie is not overpriced. I think you'd have to go way more than $1249 to get a comparable Fender, right? Pluses for this model are 12" fretboard radius, the comfy neck joint, and quality electronics and hardware. I imagine the frets are flawless. It seemed very quiet humwise especially in 2 & 4. In 2 are the humbucking bridge and single-coil middle pickups out-of-phase, would you think? To duplicate how that's normally done with just singles it seems the wiring scheme would have the hum coil of the bridge p/u grounded out in position 2. That's all, thanks Jon!
I have the pro in white and the neck is not modern C to me. It says it’s a modern C but It’s more of a 50’s strat neck as far as thickness. You know when you see a guitar and are immediately attracted to the look and then you go over a pick it up by the neck and are completely disappointed. And then, because of all of the appointments it has, you try to convince yourself that you can get past the neck shape? But you never do because the feel of a guitar is the most important thing in the end. I took a chance with this one and ordered it from Shijie because you can’t walk in to many stores in the US and try one. I’m not trashing the guitar by any means, just want people that like traditional “modern C” shape necks to be informed. I like the guitar but because of the neck I can’t love it. 😢
The quality of these guitars warrants the price. To spec out a Fender Custom Shop Strat like this would cost 3 times as much. That said, you can find Shijie's with nickel frets for around $900 on Reverb. I love mine, STE SSS in a beautiful sunburst finish.
HI! just to let you know if you like this video and want to show your appreciation, you can buy me a cup of coffee with the "Thanks" button which is just next to the share button! ✌❤
0:00 Intro
1:40 Song
4:19 Demo
8:55 Review
12:25 Conclusion
I love this guitar. I'll get one soon in the future 😃.
This was my birthday, 10-27, Alex Wong makes the best neck's. I have numerous guitars.
Sure he does!!
That may have been some of the most badass blues I’ve ever heard come out of a pink guitar. Great playing, beautiful guitar. For some reason, I’ve always yearned for a pink Strat.
Go get one! Your little pinky will love you for it! Lol ✌️❤️
Shijie are knocling it out the park. I finally got to play one yesterday (STE hardtail version). Beautiful guitar, flawless build, quality components, great neck, nice pickups and very well finiahed frets.
Only slight gripe is the mint pickguard is a bit too minty for my liking, but that's a very minor point.
Other manufacturers are going to have their work cut out making a better guitar for the money.
Very impressed.
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I’m really intrigued by this brand. I don’t have a pink guitar yet….. Your playing is superb and love the review. Thank you.
Thank you ✌️❤️
Jon NEVER plays to loud! He can make any guitar sound like a $10,000 guitar. I think this Shijie is really something special, though.
Sure is!!
Hi Jon. Thank you for this review. Very interesting as usual. Wrt the p/ups, according to a couple of reviews l saw, the ones in the Shijie STE are made by Gotoh. Same goes for the bridge assembly apparently. Cheers from South Africa.
Yes, they are some good quality parts
Have a great 2023 Little Brother!😊
Love you Richard!! Have a blessed new year ahead!!✌️❤️
2025 will not be so harmonious?
Hi Jon,
Do i have to pre order to get one.. Or can i just go to music stores in china and get one..or they are ready to ship? Thank u
Available at Thomann.. guitars are made in Indonesia
Great playing Jon. I love how you always improvise every video, and the way you always play something different. I love these guitars too, definetly gonna get me one 🎸🎸🎸✌️🤘
Thanks!! ✌♥
Great intro! Your love for strats really came out there :)
Thank you✌️❤️
That is a super sweet sounding and looking guitar. I'd go with a surf green one I think.
Cool ✌️❤️
Beautiful playing! Can tell you bond with this outstanding guitar.
Lol that obvious huh?😂
@@JonIsJustTooLoud Yup. It takes one to mown one:)
These guitars are so impressive, i really hope you get your magic hands on the TLV-P90! In Daphne Blue with the rosewood board!
I hope so too!!✌️😝✌️
Amazing playing. A master. Yoga got nuthin on you on this strat
Lol
I felt you were really confident in that Trem Jon. 😃👍 It’s so beautifully built and the tone is phenomenal. Really interesting thanks Jon 😃👍❤️
Glad you enjoyed it Tom !✌😝
Love my Shijie :D
Cool ✌️❤️
For those interested in the UK that have noticed SC Guitars site is down, I have contacted them and was told "Unfortunately we are no longer able to retail Shijie Guitars due to supply chain issues and exchange rates." Fingers crossed for another UK agent in future.
Thank you for sharing ✌️❤️
I subscribed! I looove your style of playing 🤩🎸
Welcome to the channel!!✌️❤️
@@JonIsJustTooLoud thanks! 😎
Hi, Great video. Have you tried the Nick Johnston guitar, very similar just wondering how they compare? Thanks
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@@JonIsJustTooLoud thanks
Hey jonathon, do you know if you get a fixed bridge on the pro series, will it be the same kind of saddles as it is on that guitar
Not too sure...you can always deck or block your tremolo bridge✌♥
@@JonIsJustTooLoud yea for sure. Thanks Jon
Great demo! Awesome playing!
Thank you✌️❤️
This guy can play!
he tries...✌♥
I would pay to see you give a course on your song writing process:)
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you turned any guitar to sweetly sound
Thank you ✌️❤️
Your thoughts by comparing this one with Schecter's Nick Johnston Traditional model in HSS. Very look alike in many ways. Does this one in the video require any mods as you did in the Schecter?
None.. No mods needed.. well maybe just the string tree ✌️❤️
Oh gawd I want this!
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Love it !
How does it compare to the Schecter Jack Fowler strat which I own as well ?
Definitely interested in this one as well !!🎸
Different guitars ✌️❤️
Hi Jon. Enjoy your channel. You mentioned Shijie dealer in Canada. Can’t find one. I spoke with Dave at Shijie in October and he didn’t mention a Canadian dealer. Has something changed?
Try emailing him instead.. You can probably find a dealer in the states✌️❤️
I’m from Canada I have one for sale!
@@fredgagnon1752 👍
Compaing the Shijie to the Suhr you recently shared, is the Shijie almost as good or better in your oppinion? Cheers, thanks for sharing and Happy New Year's Jon !!
The thing is the Shijie is not far behind from the suhr.. the workmanship n sound is comparable in my opinion ✌️❤️
@@JonIsJustTooLoud Thanks so much, I've played Fender Strats since 77', and recently bought an Ibanez AZ Prestiege guitar. Honestly the AZ MIJ are so much better made and a $1000 less than the Fender Ultra Luxe series. Tone will always be subjective/personal, and Ibanez uses world class parts. The action on the AZ was outstanding out of the box. Jon, thanks so much for putting the volume and scope of new guitars on your channel. I'll try out a Shijie in 2023, again blessings in the New Year!
Jon, can you review a Levinson Blade RH4 classic.
If and when I get my hands on one✌️❤️
@@JonIsJustTooLoud I have a 1999 RH4 but unfortunately you are to far away to review mine, I would like to know your thoughts on them though, your reviews are first class, I watch each and every one.👍👍
Great video. Can you do some on Soloking's please.
Sure ..when I get my hands on one ✌️❤️
Thank you very much every respect your reviews very much and love your playing. Just waiting on you to come out with a course :-)
A great alternative to an overpriced Fender Strat, perfect frets, it stays in tune and good pickups.
Sadly for me the shipping and import costs would double the price.
You are so lucky to live in Singapore Jon, we have a very limited choice of good affordable guitars
here in the UK.
Thanks for your excellent demo Jon.🙂👍
Thank you Allan.. did you check out the dealers page?
@@JonIsJustTooLoud I checked out Shijie's website and found it very unreponsive trying to select
the options i wanted.
Their range of colour options are not for me, no solid colours, just washed out pastel ones.
No point in emailing them, shipping and import costs are now way too high.
There is a Shijie dealer in UK, SC Guitars. Although their website seems to be down. Might try emailing them.
@@bostonbesteats364 Thanks for the info, but the current range of pastel colours are not for me.
If/when they offer better colours i will try SC guitars.
@@Barbarapape Have a look on Reverb, there are some other colors, like red, but may be previous year's stock
Killer guitar!
Sure is!✌️❤️
The Shijie is not quite my cup of tea, just my feeling on 'strats' in general, but it sounds and looks great and is no doubt very well made. Enjoyed hearing you play it, obviously it was not holding you back. If I were in the market for a strat I'd go for one of these way before a Fender. But to continue the analogy, a Squier Strat is much more in my budget range and their HSS model is not bad at all. For the quality level however, Shijie is not overpriced. I think you'd have to go way more than $1249 to get a comparable Fender, right? Pluses for this model are 12" fretboard radius, the comfy neck joint, and quality electronics and hardware. I imagine the frets are flawless. It seemed very quiet humwise especially in 2 & 4. In 2 are the humbucking bridge and single-coil middle pickups out-of-phase, would you think? To duplicate how that's normally done with just singles it seems the wiring scheme would have the hum coil of the bridge p/u grounded out in position 2. That's all, thanks Jon!
It’s great for what it cost.. even has a treble bleed circuitry.. ✌️❤️
I like the videos have a good day
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I have the pro in white and the neck is not modern C to me. It says it’s a modern C but It’s more of a 50’s strat neck as far as thickness. You know when you see a guitar and are immediately attracted to the look and then you go over a pick it up by the neck and are completely disappointed. And then, because of all of the appointments it has, you try to convince yourself that you can get past the neck shape? But you never do because the feel of a guitar is the most important thing in the end. I took a chance with this one and ordered it from Shijie because you can’t walk in to many stores in the US and try one. I’m not trashing the guitar by any means, just want people that like traditional “modern C” shape necks to be informed. I like the guitar but because of the neck I can’t love it. 😢
Yes it’s a touch chunkier.. but it’s not any chunky like some of the old baseball necks ✌️❤️
I need a new guitar like I need a hole in my head if I brought another home my family would disown me. Lol
Lol..✌️🤣
1349 is not affordable
🤣It’s 1249 …
The quality of these guitars warrants the price. To spec out a Fender Custom Shop Strat like this would cost 3 times as much. That said, you can find Shijie's with nickel frets for around $900 on Reverb. I love mine, STE SSS in a beautiful sunburst finish.