Daisy Rock Girl Guitars Artist

Price Paid: $339.00 + 15% tax (Canadian)

Features: 8
I bought this guitar for my wife for christmas so I am assuming it was made sometime in 2004 and has a made in China sticker on it. This axe has the daisy flower shape, pink in color and has Duncan designed pickups, humbucker in the bridge and the lipstick single coil in the neck postion with 3 way switch. It also has a rosewood fingerboard with daisy inlays. Came with a pink gig bag.

Sound: 9
I have to say that when I ordered it I was nervous of the quality as I thought it would be a novilty guitar. I was pleasantly surprised when I finally recieved it as it was much better than I had expected. I played through a Peavey Classic 30 and the sounds it produced were very good, very usable. The distortion was good in the humbucker mode and the single coils sounded good although a little mushy. Position 2 with both pups on sounded chimey and clear on the clean channel. Overall I like the sound of this guitar, however, I have to say that it is no Stratacastor. After playing some Van Halen licks on this guitar and some giggling I believe it deserves some respect.

Action, Fit, & Finish: 9
The action was good, low with no buzz and the fret finishing was decent, better than some more expensive guitars I have tried over the years. The pink color is vibrant and the pickguard is that nice white perloid color. The neck is scaled smaller so it seems that it would feel good to smaller hands. The only slightly negitive thing about this guitar (for me) is that it is not overly comfortable to play while sitting down due to the irregular shape of the body, but what do you expect from a guitar shaped as a flower!

Reliability/Durability: N/A
Don't know yet as it was only in the house for about 2 weeks. It does seem to be built quite well and is moderately heavy and seems solid. The hardware is not cheesy, the woods have a nice feel and the color finishs is excellent.

Customer Support: N/A
Don't know never dealt with them.

Overall Rating: 10
I have been playing guitar for approximately 15 years. I have owned lots of great/good/mediocre gear. I really like what this guitar offers as it is made for girls and the sound is good and the quality seems to be a litle above average. My wife really likes it as she thinks it is cute and she loves strapping it on with a smile and it inspires her to learn on it. Thats what I was hoping for when I reluctantly ordered it for her for a christmas gift and that is all that really matters.

Submitted by Anonymous at 01/05/2005 11:10

Price Paid: 160 (GBP)

Features: 5
I've got the Short Scale pink Daisy Artist.. That's the flower (Daisy!) shaped one.

It's pretty tiny, particularly considering that I'm 6"4', oh and yes, I'm a guy. I bought it essentially as an oddity - I saw it cheap on eBay, so thought I'd give it a go.

Mine has a single pickup on it and a single volume control.

Well, overall the guitar is like nothing else I've ever played. It took a while to get it to stay in tune (because of the short neck you need to bend the strings a lot to get them to settle in). It's got a full scale fretboard, just with shorted intervals. It also came with a cute pink gigbag.

But it looks great!

Sound: 7
Generally, it's got a bit of a weird sound, probably due to both the odd pickup and the shape of the guitar. I play through a Marshall VS100R, and on clean it sounds quite strange, like it has a scooped middle. Distorted it sounds pretty cool - again, not like anything else I've really played. It's not a jack of all trades, but it does the job.

The place I've found in incredibly useful is when playing clean stuff that I need to stretch quite far on. Need to hold the 3rd frets on the B and E strings and reach to the 10th? No problem on this. It gives you a chance to try out a few new things, like chords based over 5-6 frets that you couldn't do before. Not always useful, but nice to have as an option.

As I say, not for everyone, but I like it!

Action, Fit, & Finish: 8
The guitar's action was OK, but the strings had just been bunged on, tuned up and checked once, and that was it. It needed quite a lot of bending to really stretch the strings to their point where they'd stay in tune.

The finish was great, but my only real complaint would be that the guitar is badly weighted, so hangs neck down.

Reliability/Durability: 6
I've played this live a few times and it's done a perfectly good job.

However, some of the paint job is starting to come off and I've only had it for 2-3 months.

You'd never use this as your main guitar, which is why I take my Gibson Les Paul and USA Fender Telecaster with me!

Customer Support: N/A
Haven't had to deal with them

Overall Rating: 6
I've been playing around 7 years, and have a Gibson Les Paul Classic and Natural Ash USA Telecaster as well as my own custom strat copy. I play through a Marshall VS100R.

This guitar is partly a novelty, but partly useful. Don't buy it as your only guitar, but I would consider buying another novelty guitar from them - they definitely add to the stageshow of your band.

Submitted by Anonymous at 01/26/2004 08:10

Price Paid: 199 (Ponds Sterling)

Features: 7
Pink, flower shaped. 1/2 scale neck. One humbucker. A friend of mine just got one of these. She has very small hands, this suits her perfectly.

Sound: 9
Sounds fine to me. I've played it and been pleasently surprised by the tone. Nicely balanced, considering it's only got one pickup.

Action, Fit, & Finish: 9
No problems with it. Quality is at least as good, probably better, than most guitars in it's price range.

Reliability/Durability: 9
Seems durable enough.

Customer Support: N/A
N/A

Overall Rating: 9
Great for what it is. Hard to compare with other guitars, but it plays well, sounds good, and is fun. My friend has played it non-stop since buying it.

Submitted by Anonymous at 06/16/2003 06:12

Price Paid: US $125

Features: 10
Daisy Rock Artist, 2001 or 2001, made in China, powder blue flower-shaped body, rosewood fretboard with floral inlays, 1 humbucker, etc. 3/4 size for small hands.

Sound: 10
Decent enough beginner's guitar sound. One little humbucker, doesn't really matter what you play it through.

Action, Fit, & Finish: 10
Pretty, nicely finished little guitar. No big flaws.

Reliability/Durability: 10
Solid, better built than most entry-level guitars.

Customer Support: 10
The Schecter folks sold me this one in person at a factory parking lot sale. They were extremely knowledgeable & friendly.

Overall Rating: 10
I confess that I'm rating this guitar as a counterweight to the troll who contributed the two preceding reviews (I assume it's the same idiot using different identites, inasmuch as those two reviews appeared within a few minutes of each other and are similarly moronic).
Look, here's all there is to say: THIS GUITAR IS FOR 12-YEAR-OLD GIRLS. PERIOD. Comparing this thing to a Telecaster, etc., or complaining that it's not good for gigging with your punk band is insane. It's 3/4 size, looks like a flower, and comes in a little pink gig bag. I bought one for my 12-year-old niece, and she loves it. If you buy one for any other reason, you're deranged.
That being said, it's a nice enough entry-level guitar. The craftsmanship is actually quite good, the neck is smooth and quick, and it stays in tune. The pickup is plenty good for what it should be used for. It's better made than a Squier Strat, and it's a hell of a lot nicer than the Teisco Del Rays, Silvertones, Stellas, Kays etc. that most of us learned on. Anyway, I guarantee you that any 12-year-old girl would rather find one of these under the Christmas tree than a cheap Strat or Epiphone Les Paul, etc. If you're looking for a guitar for that reason, this is a great choice. If she's the one kid in 20 who sticks with it, you can give her a Strat or Ovation for her sixteenth birthday. If she doesn't, put it in the closet. In 20 years, you can sell it on Ebay for the price of a Lexus.

Submitted by Anonymous at 12/09/2002 19:21

Price Paid: US $264.00

Features: 1
Well, it's a hideous guitar with a humbucker in the bridge position and a lipstick single coil in the neck. That means it's perfect for... a transvestite punk band that finds no problems with jumping and playing guitar at the same time?? It's got strings through the body and the telecaster-lookin' lipstick pickup in the neck, which is good; and it's shaped like a giant purple heart with what looks like a flower pedal for a headstock, which is... really, really bad.

Sound: 1
Well, it has the telecaster setup with the strings through the body and the neck lipstick pickup on the one hand, and it's obviously a huge joke on the other hand. So it was really a toss up as to how it was going to sound. On the other hand (this is three hands now), it's obviously a huge piece of crap, so it's not surprising that it sounds as such. Seriously now, if you're buying this guitar chances are you're in some sort of punk or exhibitionalist band that NEVER plays without heavy distortion and doesn't really possess much skill anyway, so what do you care what it sounds like?? It's better than a Squier!

Action, Fit, & Finish: 2
Surprisingly well set up for such a monstrosity. I always hate the action of new guitars, but that just takes about 10 seconds to fix and they can do it for you before you leave the store if you like (or you can probably find a FAQ online if you get it online). The finish is what you'd expect -- it's kinda hard to screw up a uniformly opaque paint job and wood finishing unless you really try, although the fretboard was slightly discolored and it was NEW. Also the body is made out of basswood. WTF is basswood??

Reliability/Durability: 10
You can depend on this guitar to always make you look terrible and to always sound like you'd expect a giant-heart-shaped guitar to sound. It's not going to change much. Maybe this is due to the fact that it will rarely be played because who would devote hours on end to playing such a terrible guitar?

Customer Support: N/A
I never dealt with them. I don't care to find out what kind of people work for this company. If you have an issue and they won't respond, though, you might try emailing the guy who wrote the other review for this guitar giving it all 10s -- he might be able to handle your issue for you.

Overall Rating: 1
It's definitely a Frankenstein. Let's face it, this is a prop and not an instrument. This isn't the kind of guitar you cradle in your arms every day and treat like an extension of your own arm. You use this to get attention and then throw it in the closet with your unicycle, your karate gi, and your roller blades that you used until you scraped your knee. For a sample of how this guitar sounds, listen to this:
http://www.daisyrock.com/index_flash.htm
That will tell you more about the guitar than any review can. Do you solo like the person in the sound file? Then this guitar might just be for you! Do you practice playing guitar? Get something you can love! Be afraid of this guitar. Be very afraid.

Submitted by Anonymous at 10/05/2002 23:06

Price Paid: US $300

Features: 4
I can't really tell by the serial number, but it appears to be 99, asian made. solid body guitar, one pickup, shaped like a flower, very girly like me. i give it a 4, if only because of it's shape.

Sound: 4
sounds like a squier, really. i play in an all-girl punk band. i don't solo or play anything complicated, so the bridge pickup sounds cool distorted for rhythms and stuff. i'm a crunch-loving down-stroker, so not having a neck pickup is so cool!

Action, Fit, & Finish: 6
out of the box, i noticed a lot of fret buzz, not that it matters. i raised the action, and the buzz was still there. it turned out i needed to have an adjustment made to the truss rod. the nut came loose after a month and i had to reglue it. the paint job was alright, uniform pink! the white pickguard would be cooler if it was pastel yellow, really...

Reliability/Durability: 7
i've played peavey strat-copies and old fender student models - this guitar is tougher than all of them! i constantly (mostly accidentally) bang it into the mic stand and amplifier, and this thing still plays well! i have played this without a backup and have had no problems!

Customer Support: 1
i don't really care. if it breaks, it breaks... i have dealed with schecter before, though, with another guitar problem. they put me on hold for thirty minutes, which at that point i hung up.

Overall Rating: 1
it's cool. it's a total chick guitar. it's not like girls could ever play anything worth listening to, right? one pickup at the bridge is all we need. schecter is sexist as fuck.

Submitted by Ada Lee at 10/05/2002 22:57

Price Paid: US $399.00 LIST

Features: 8
Known the world over for their high quality and fine playing instruments, Shecter Guitar Research is the parent to a child star, The Daisy Rock Guitar. With a series of acoustic guitars, electric guitars and electric bass guitars, I chose to purchase one of Daisy Rock's higher end models, The Daisy Rock Artist. The Daisy Rock "Artist," made in China by Shecter, is promoted as part of a series of instruments for the Female guitar player. Indeed, with shapes like Daisies and Hearts, and in colors that range from Daisy Yellow, to Princess Purple and Red Hot Red, one would think that only a woman would be interested in a guitar such as this. NOT SO! For any musician, the name of the game is TONE, and the Daisy Rock Artist has it in abundance. The Daisy Rock Artist comes with a heart shaped bass wood body, a bolt on maple neck, and a rosewood fingerboard. There are 22-medium frets on this 3/4 sized guitar, and the pick-ups are Seymore Duncan designed "Lipstick" bar pick-up in the neck, and a Seymore Designed exposed humbucker in the bridge. Electronics are functional and straight-ahead. There is a master tone control, and a master volume control. The bridge is a fixed adjustable type and the tuning keys are made by Grover. The Artist, as with all Daisy Rock guitars, comes with a gig bag/back pack with the Daisy Rock logo embossed on the cover.

Sound: 10
As with most pick-ups, a player makes the adjustments to the pick-ups to suit his or her taste. I gave the humbucker a 3/16 lift and found a perfect balance between the neck pick-up and the bridge pick-up. I had never played a guitar with Lipstick pick-ups before, and what a nice surprise this is to the ears. I primarily play through Fender Custom shop Prosonic combo amplifiers, or HG-70 amplifiers made by Paul Reed Smith. For these sound tests, I ran the Daisy Rock Artist through my Fender Prosonics. The Seymore Duncan designed Lipstick pick-up has a clarity and chime all its own. It isn't a "Strat" type single coil sound at all. It's not brittle or harsh. It's bell-like in its sound, and very pleasing to the ears. The Seymore Duncan designed humbucker seems to sound louder to the ear than the Lipstick pick-up, but this is due to its higher output. The bridge pick-up can be clean and articulate, or you can turn up the amp, or hit the FX and let this thing make your amp's tubes sing! Perhaps the greatest surprise was the middle position of the pick-up selector switch. The blend of the Lipstick pick-up in the neck of the guitar, and the humbucker in the bridge is almost magical in sound. I applaud the forward thinking of Daisy Rock's designer, Tish Ciravolo, for this one. Blending the Lipstick pick-up with a Humbucker opens new sonic doors for musicians looking for that elusive "Sound." It is combination of shimmering bell-like chime with the depth and mellowness that only a humbucker can provide. It is quite the sound, folks, and this alone is worth the price of the guitar.

Action, Fit, & Finish: 10
I have purchased everything from Gibson's to Paul Reed Smith's, and without exception, I have had to make adjustments when I received these guitars. On the Daisy Rock, other than raising the bridge pick-up to produce the sounds that I wanted to hear, the Daisy Rock came out of the box ready to take the stage. The fret board is a player's paradise and the medium frets feel good under the fingertips. There are no rough fret ends, and no loose frets. This was a first class fret job in anybody's book, and that says a lot about the quality control by Shecter. There were no buzzes, the actions was perfect, as was the intonation. The paint job is first rate. There are no runs, or uneven marks anywhere. This isn't easy when you are doing Candy Apple Red over a heart shaped guitar body, but Daisy Rock has it down. The controls are quiet, and they work flawlessly. No harsh buzzing in the electronics, and in most cases the Artist was as quiet as many of the guitars I own that cost up to thirty times more than the Daisy Rock Artist.

Reliability/Durability: 10
Daisy Rock has it down. The controls are quiet, and they work flawlessly. No harsh buzzing in the electronics, and in most cases the Artist was as quiet as many of the guitars I own that cost up to thirty times more than the Daisy Rock Artist.
I have no doubt that the Daisy Rock Artist will stand up to any "Live" situation. This guitar seems pretty solid. It is well made in every professional sense of the word, and I will write more in this section in about six months.

Customer Support: N/A
I think Shecter has been around long enough that people know that they will cover their products in the event of a problem. I don't anticipate taking my Artist in any time soon. Most likely never.

Overall Rating: 10
I have been playing guitar for twenty-five years, and I own a number of Custom Shop, "One-offs," and vintage guitars. And though the Daisy Rock Artist costs a fraction of some of my other instruments, he Daisy Rock Artist definitely holds its own. As of this writing, there are many female rock artists who are using the Daisy Rock as part of their guitar arsenal when performing and touring. And there have only been raves on the Daisy Rock instruments. I think, and I may be wrong here, that a lot of male musicians will be put off by the name of this company, and the shapes and colors of these instruments. HEY, GET OVER IT!!! If sound is everything, give these things a shot. If you think back, some of the biggest guitar companies in the market dropped some real bombs such as Gibson with their AXE shaped guitars, and other horror story guitars from other well known companies that were shaped like Gumby, lightening bolts, bats, and even fighter jets! However, if you are looking for something beyond the shape of a "Strat" or "Les Paul," the Heart shaped Artist is not only refreshing, but is a welcome sight on and off the stage. And yes, I intend to use this guitar in a band that I perform in, as well as in the studio. A guitar of this versatility covers a lot of ground, and I welcome the Daisy Rock Artist to my pallet of musical expression.

Submitted by Joey Garcia at 03/01/2002 20:58