SO! Its Friday the 13th and my guitar got dropped off a little while ago by the wonderful people from my music store who picked it up and brought it to me.
It cost me £85 for routing, a new pickguard, new pots and a set up. I cant tell what else theyve done until i take the pickguard off, but I'll do it eventually.
When I got it back, at first the lead circuit wasnt working properly, so I took the lower plate off to see if it had come unsoldered and everything was fine, so I put it back and it was fine all of a sudden. I think its the new shielding they put in touching some of the parts but, whatever, its fine now 😛
Pots I believe are upgraded to 500k from 1 meg, but they're full sized so I couldnt put my chrome knobs on them so I'll have to get some more.
All the parts back incase I want to restore it and sell it, I can still get more than I paid for it if I wanted to, even though Im the 3rd owner, but I'd never sell it 😉
Plugged it in and the sound was amazing. Quite a hot output from the humbucker, yet suprisingly versatile. Blends well with the neck pickup and gives a really unique tone. It suits surf really well, handles distortion amazingly, and when mixed with a big muff sounds really thick and dark, almost like a neck pickup but with more bite.
I'm not trying to chase Slash's tone, I just wanted to get the sound in my head, it does this pretty darn good. I'd definitaly reccomend this pickup to anyone of any genre, THATS how good it is.
To me this guitar is everything I want in an axe. Hands down beats any US model, and I may even go as far as saying better than a Les Paul. But that may just be because its to my specs and its custom preferences...I dunno..
But hey, Im pretty damn happy with this 😛
So, wha'dya think? 😉
