Ok.......whew.....man....whoa.....
So, I managed to get it all strung up, and fairly well set-up (a few minor tweaks to follow), and all I can say is Whoa! First, without even plugging in I could tell that what I have here is something special. The hollow/thinline body creates a really beautiful ring even sans-amplifier. The neck feels unreal, just so super smooth and still very natural feeling with just the Tung oil. But....plugging it in for the first time really blew me away. The Rio needed to be raised just a bit to get a good volume match with the Lollar, but once that was done, look out! Clean, both of these pickups sound amazing, crystal clear and glassy as can be, the p-90 being just slightly darker and moodier. The P-90 also breaks up a little easier than the humbucker, but definitely in the good way. Crank up, get some overdrive, and well that P-90 screams! THe humbucker gives plenty of good old crunch and chunk, and the middle position with both of them on is pretty kick-ass too! I think I just may have found what I was looking for.
Oh, yeah and just to answer to a few things...Nononsense, these tuners were from Warmoth, they have them in black, but I don't think they have the locking ones of this particular model. I've personally never really found a need for locking tuners, though, so these will do me just fine. And jimh, well I'm just one of the minority around here who actually like pickguards. I was a little afraid the tortoiseshell one would be a bit much, but I liked it on this body right when I opened the box. Something about rear-routed Teles just doesn't look right to me I'm afraid. And Orpheo, to paraphrase Charlton Heston, if you want to steal this guitar you will have to pry it from my cold dead hands! And -CB-, Thanks for your advice, and inspiration (P-90/HB) and I think that I have found a really sweet combo here!
Anyway, thanks everybody for looking, and for advice leading up to this one, like I said in the heading, it will probably be my last for a while, I really feel like I have all the sounds I'm looking for right now, I've got the dual Humbucker SG, the three single coil Warmoth Strat, and now this one! I'm going to concentrate on my amplifier projects for a little while now, well, that and my other hobby of not getting killed by the wife for spending too much money on guitar stuff!
