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Published on 11/02/05 at 14:52
Value For Money : Excellent
Made in America, neck 22 frets medium, Tune-o-matic with stop bar. guitar hamer like most is based on the shape of the Les Paul Special double cutaway. Here the body and neck with rosewood fingerboard are made of Honduras mahogany. Finish TV, a tone a little mustard to it seems his name to the fact that the color was fine in black and white TV during the 50s and gave a beautiful gray on the screen ...
Side microphones, we have 2 P90 Seymour controlled by a 3-position switch, a microphone and volume by a general tone.

UTILIZATION

The handle is very nice, straight as an "i". Very good access to acute, the set neck has a thin enough profile and D is very clear from the body much like a SG. the guitar sounds great vacuum, with the attack, a good definition and balance. notes stand out well, no complaints on that side. I have this guitar for about 10 years, bought second hand for 4500F. It is a foolproof mechanical stability, never needed adjustment, but a small quarter turn truss rod during a particularly hot summer. The good and beautiful violin, simple and efficient, no frills but with quality materials. All with a weight that is reasonable. The sound is excellent and is located halfway between the thickness of a Les Paul and biting and attacking a Telecaster, while retaining his personality, if you have never tasted the P90, c ' is the kind of guitar that can convert. Ideal when a Les Paul too and gives a strat not enough, it's the perfect compromise. > More versatile than you might expect due to the presence of a separate volume by micro, which enables a lot of subtleties in the mixture of the two microphones.

SOUNDS

Well suited to blues to rock to AC / DC, Led Zep through and others, is a guitar that sounds authentic, whose simplicity and strength to get to the point (no floyd, no humbuckers) . The clean sounds are clear and beautiful, the neck pickup is majestic in the lower register. The bridge pickup has a lot of bite and attack without being garish, the output level remains relatively high, which is part of the charm of this guitar that sounds good at crunches and saturated enough to play hard rock, even the metal, keeping a good definition

OVERALL OPINION

Excellent value for money for a guitar made in honduras USD.
I own several guitars but it is perhaps this that I will carry on a desert island, because of its simplicity and effectiveness.