Cruise Review: VMI

History:

Purchase: I bought it of a friend for $135

What I Like About This Cruise VMI: The humbucker pickup had an okay sound for nu-metal. thats really all.

What I Do NOT Like About The Cruise VMI: Everything, The neck warped easy, the sound quality is so poor that I would be ashamed to play it for any of my friends or family members. If you tryied to solo on it, good notes will sound like sour note, even if you have re-tuned it 500 times in one day. The fretboard is made of cheap wood and gets nicks scratches and dents very easy. The tuning pegs are stiff and hard to use. I am afraid to tune it every time because this guitar breaks a lot of strings. The bridge is made poorly and fell apart, and the guitar goes out of tune every time I use the whammy bar.

Cruise VMI Quality Rating: The quality is horrabley poor. I took good care of this guitar and you wouldn't een know. There huge cracks all over, the strap locks are so small that my strap falls off every time. As I said befor, the tuning peggs are the worst ever, they are stiff, creekey and sometimes the srings slipp while I'm trying to tune it and I have to re-tune all over again. One huge problem, is that the tone nob came Loose. It was only glued in with cheap glue, and that was before my friend who sold it to me, had also fixxed it. The trussrod system is even crappy, I tried to turn the truss rod to de warp the fretboard. The fret board is now wavey.

Review Summary: This guitars is one of the biggest wastes of money ever, If you want to learn how to play guitar, by a quality guitar, I have been playing for five years now and just bought a B.C. Rich NJ. Beast, two years ago. I was shocked at how awesome it was, after having such a crappy guitar. Never by a cruise, even if thats all the money you have, wait and get a good guitar. One other thing, another friend of mine, also got a cruise and it totally quit working on him. Don't make that same mistake.

Rating of this Cruise product: 1

This Cruise VMI Electric Guitars Review Submitted By: Mike Driedger

Review Date: 2004-03-31