{"id":716,"date":"2023-10-07T20:41:50","date_gmt":"2023-10-07T20:41:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/?p=716"},"modified":"2024-05-07T18:21:12","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T18:21:12","slug":"synsonics-explorer-mex-250","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/2023\/10\/07\/synsonics-explorer-mex-250\/","title":{"rendered":"Synsonics Explorer MEX 20TA"},"content":{"rendered":"

It is very very light. Like 5 something pounds. I had to re-do the wiring, was quite easy and then all of the electronics worked! Two solder joints were blown \/ separated.<\/p>\n

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I also have 3x shimmed the neck to try to get it with decent playability using a scrap piece of cedar shingle.<\/p>\n

I had to change out the tuners. At first, since they were on hand, I swapped in my p.o.s. Global Strat tuners. They were better than these stock Synsonics which are the worst tuners I’ve ever seen.
\nBut the crappy Global tuners weren’t loads better. A little bit better at holding tune but still slipping.
\nJake Wildwood, himself in fact, gave me a vintage 6 on a plate set. And three times a charm. These donated tuners did the trick. <\/p>\n

Still… with tuner work, electronics work, and shimming the neck 3x changing the shim thickness can’t get this to play well. The frets are a hot mess. Buzzy. The strings are atrocious. Needs new strings and not sure it’s even worth the price of strings. May sell this off. Shame, size wise it’d be a nice toss in the car road trip cheap guitar. The neck thickness is decent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It is very very light. Like 5 something pounds. I had to re-do the wiring, was quite easy and then all of the electronics worked! Two solder joints were blown \/ separated. I also have 3x shimmed the neck to try to get it with decent playability using a scrap piece of cedar shingle. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[48],"tags":[5,177,174,175],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=716"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/716\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rjfilms.com\/guitars\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}