Rogue LX200BF Fretless Series III Electric Bass Guitar Metallic Blue

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I wish I had never purchased this

This is by far one of the worst things I've ever purchased. Period. To be honest, I expected this guitar to be pretty low quality, but it was the cheapest fretless I could find, and I wanted a fretless, so I thought I would give it a go. I thought to myself, "It can't be THAT bad." I could never have been more wrong. When I picked it up from my local GC I checked to see if there was any shipping damage and was shocked when I found none. When I played it for the first time I noticed a plethora of issues: the G string tuning peg was much looser than the other three, the G string nut slot was filed down extremely low, the volume knob for the neck pickup was attached so incredibly bad that it would dig into the body of the guitar when rotated, the action was ridiculously high and the strings would buzz against the fretboard when I played on the "frets" closest to the nut (these were fixed with a truss rod and saddle adjustment, but still added insult to injury), and the strings that came with the guitar were awful (which was to be expected). The action was not difficult to fix, and I knew I could just replace the strings with better ones. I purchased a set of D'Addario EXL160BT to replace the terrible Rogue bass strings. As I was threading the E string through the bridge, the thick end of the string got stuck behind the hole. No amount of yanking, tugging, shoving, or twisting would get the string through the hole. I couldn't believe it. All four of the holes were exactly the same size, meaning the lowest string had to fit throught the same size hole as the highest string, which was not possible. I had to use a power drill to make the hole larger (which damaged the finish in many places), and after SEVERAL ATTEMPTS of drilling and testing to see if the string would go through, I was finally able to shove the string through the hole. I have never seen a bass that can't accomodate a specific gauge of string. The E string I was putting on was a 120. I should not have had any trouble putting it through the hole, but the hole was so incredibly small I don't even think a 110 would be able to fit through. I was finally able to get all the strings on. The strings sounded amazing and made this bass come alive after having the stock Rogue strings on it. With this guitar, I would say you get what you pay for, but even that seems like too much of an overstatement. You get way less than what you pay for. Don't buy this guitar. If you want a fretless, you're better off spending a couple thousand on a good fretless and not this piece of garbage.