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Well, it came last Friday and is every bit as pretty as the pictures on the Guild web site. In fact, it probably is the one shown in the pictures on the Guild site, I'm pretty certain that it is the prototype. It has two serial numbers, one on a tag inside the body and a second stamped into the back of the headstock. The one on the back of the headstock ends in 001.
The sound is tremendous with a very broad palette which ranges from Jazz guitar warmth on the neck pickup to Telecaster spank on the bridge pickup. It Surfs like a Jaguar too. Both pickups together provide a very pleasant sound, useful for most of the material I do as a member of the Lug Nuts.
From the factory, it was strung with D'Addario EXL 110s which, IMO, were too light for this axe. The 010, 013 and 017's up top were fine so I stuck a set of 050, 037 and 027s on the bottom, Thomastik Jazz Swing flat wounds. I also put a Compton Compensated bridge made of titanium.
Titanium has a bell-like quality that proved to be a dual edged sword. I went to band practice yesterday and fought feedback issues of incredible magnitude. There was a peak resonance at A below middle C and any time I played an A or a D the octave harmonic of the open A string would resonate sympathetically triggering Jimi Hendrix levels of feedback.
After rehearsal I went home and changed the bridge to a stainless steel version of that same Compton design and that took care of the resonance on A, but opened the door to Wolf Tones, but those are easily dealt with.
I'll post more, including some photos, as time permits.
The sound is tremendous with a very broad palette which ranges from Jazz guitar warmth on the neck pickup to Telecaster spank on the bridge pickup. It Surfs like a Jaguar too. Both pickups together provide a very pleasant sound, useful for most of the material I do as a member of the Lug Nuts.
From the factory, it was strung with D'Addario EXL 110s which, IMO, were too light for this axe. The 010, 013 and 017's up top were fine so I stuck a set of 050, 037 and 027s on the bottom, Thomastik Jazz Swing flat wounds. I also put a Compton Compensated bridge made of titanium.
Titanium has a bell-like quality that proved to be a dual edged sword. I went to band practice yesterday and fought feedback issues of incredible magnitude. There was a peak resonance at A below middle C and any time I played an A or a D the octave harmonic of the open A string would resonate sympathetically triggering Jimi Hendrix levels of feedback.
After rehearsal I went home and changed the bridge to a stainless steel version of that same Compton design and that took care of the resonance on A, but opened the door to Wolf Tones, but those are easily dealt with.
I'll post more, including some photos, as time permits.
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