If your interested for upgrading this guitar, read on:

This review is specifically written for upgrading this Hurricane for

maximum performance, although the guitar does play well right out of the
box. I am a pro guitar tech (over 40 years) and own 2 other Leo

guitars: the rainbow LP and the PRS style - both outstanding and both

needing pickup upgrades. The factory pups were fine, but I wanted more

output on the bridge. The build quality on this Hurricane is

outstanding, but I was surprised at the lack of a clear finish - very

satin-like which is fine. The neck is fantastic and fretted for

perfect intonation all over. Mine was a return, as I wanted to save some
money. I quickly got why it was a return - the tone pot was shorting

out on the inner shielding paint causing it to shut off completely when

turned all the way down. Easy fix - just move the pot slightly away

from the paint. The guitar did not have the trem arm, so, I added my

own. The locking tuners are nice (should always be included with

non-locking trems) though I hate reverse tuners. The factory strings

.09s-.42s (which I use) were overwound on the tuning posts with too many
turns. This will cause string slippage. The proper way with locking

tuners is to feed the string directly through the post and tighten.

Then tune up which results in fewer string wraps around the post. The

factory trem is very good, but you still need to block it (see photo)

and add a touch of light oil on the bridge saddles for each string. The

bone nut was replaced with a graphite one for better tuning stability

when using the trem and better tone. Yes, bone is the current trend

(along with reverse tuners), but for a non-locking trem, graphite is the
way to go (hear that, Leo Jaymz?). The tone was much improved with the
graphite giving the guitar more warmer mids and sustain with less

snappy highs. The pickups are also very good (and worth keeping in the

guitar), with added springs on the direct mounts to help with height

adjustments. I reset the pickups with pickup rings (which I favor).

The good thing is that the factory didn't strip the screw holders on the
bases which made it easy to find matching height screws. The guitar was
wired with cloth covered shielded wires and the factory tried to do

some shielding in the control cavity. Wasn't enough and there was no

shielding in the pickup cavities. Because of this, the guitar was noisy
and especially worse in single coil modes. I added more shielding paint
in both cavities which resulted in a super quiet guitar. True, the

pickup poles don't exactly line up with the strings. Doesn't matter with
15K bridge and 7.3K neck - the guitar still rips and has good sustain.
I added the vinyl abalone inlays to match the abalone purfling which is
a nice touch. A great looking guitar and well worth the low cost - I

couldn't build a guitar cheaper with parts and it's amazing what these

CNC machines are doing!