This is the one that has really, truly relieved me of my GAS for a while...maybe!
solid mahogany / 5a flame maple top.
RW / black ebony neck, 24.75, '59 contour, 6130 frets (still waiting for ss6130, Gregg!). Pro construction, compound radius.
Dangerous plate, PW tuners, yadda yadda. Truss rod cover from Bryan England's custom inlay - ebony with MOP design.
SD jazz neck / Pearly Gates bridge, independent coil taps.
Body, hard case, and hardware came from a used LP sold on this board. Ebay'ed the parts I didn't want and ordered the ultimate neck for this rig. Ordered the neck in April, waited three months while they made two that weren't right for one reason or another (lots here know the story). Don't mind anymore because the neck is absolutely, totally, perfect.
She is heavy, solid, sustaining, substantial. Feels more like a les paul than any les pauls I've played in a long time.
Sound: The jazz is even better than I thought it would be - this is just a great, great neck pickup - fantastic clean and very articulate, also sounds great overdriven. Pearly Gates is okay - it sounds like it's supposed to, I guess. I'll probably swap it out eventually. The only coil tap position that's worth using at all, is the bridge hb / tapped neck combo - basically the PG sound with some more articulation and treble in there.
solid mahogany / 5a flame maple top.
RW / black ebony neck, 24.75, '59 contour, 6130 frets (still waiting for ss6130, Gregg!). Pro construction, compound radius.
Dangerous plate, PW tuners, yadda yadda. Truss rod cover from Bryan England's custom inlay - ebony with MOP design.
SD jazz neck / Pearly Gates bridge, independent coil taps.
Body, hard case, and hardware came from a used LP sold on this board. Ebay'ed the parts I didn't want and ordered the ultimate neck for this rig. Ordered the neck in April, waited three months while they made two that weren't right for one reason or another (lots here know the story). Don't mind anymore because the neck is absolutely, totally, perfect.
She is heavy, solid, sustaining, substantial. Feels more like a les paul than any les pauls I've played in a long time.
Sound: The jazz is even better than I thought it would be - this is just a great, great neck pickup - fantastic clean and very articulate, also sounds great overdriven. Pearly Gates is okay - it sounds like it's supposed to, I guess. I'll probably swap it out eventually. The only coil tap position that's worth using at all, is the bridge hb / tapped neck combo - basically the PG sound with some more articulation and treble in there.