Start standart mexico 1996, Poplar body, maple neck round, 21 boxes olympic white color, original pickups, vintage bridge, mechanical oil bath.

Transformation: complete disassembly, scouring the handle, adjustable handle, sanding and varnishing of the body in natural (cellulosic nito) after applying a golden oak stain to give some warmth to the color, placement of a nut wilkinson, changing jumpers (graph tech), mechanical self-locking Schaller, neck and middle pickups took a blade texas standart, taken on a micro acute gibson SG (490 b), plate scale, acastillage (CAHE microphones + buttons, etc ...) black and re-wire shielded wiring installation of a switch with 5 positions Schaller.

UTILIZATION

Handle very nice, very good action low profile and easy to play, highly accurate intonation and no action despite the frieze very low.
Access to acute very correct but it's not a baritone neck (21 c) so ... okay no more.
Very light weight, really nice.
The acoustic sound is very resonant, one feels that the wood (even poplar) is of good quality.
Once connected, sounds are typical of the stratum except in position 4 and 5, which is due to micro gibson.

SOUNDS

She is perfect for clean sounds or crunch on position 4 and 5, ideal for rhythmic arpeggios hendrix or air.

With distortion, thanks to shield the sound is bold and defined, responding perfectly to the attack but did not reach sufficient levels to engage in the hard metal.
gilmour type sounds going very well, the crystalline Knopfler also with somewhat less precision and can be a bit of too acute, due to the maple fingerboard.
My favorite sounds are the register air hendrix (All Along the Watchtower, Littell wing) and biting staurations serious type of micro Gilmour.
Note that changes in Gitare increased my score of 2 points compared to the standart.

OVERALL OPINION

I have been using 97 or 8 years, it does not move and it's really a good point.

What I like least is the size of the hoops, I opted for medium strips, easiest and 21 boxes.
In contrast, thin frets and tuning fender can play very specific nuances while ... Anyway must admit ... it is earned and learned because initially it can feel a little perduu if it has a gibson or a jackson.
The report quelité exeptional price without being interesting. it's a guitar if you like you can move forward and improve its level of its accessories by installing more efficient as an example wilkinson vibrato, as well as microphones with which it progresses is both nuanced and sound quality.
In this connection I set up the virtual vintage and hor rails before putting the blade and the gibson and if the hot rails in acute brings a lot of double type virtual vintage Di Marzio were not convincing at all, yet it is d excellent mics, but ... is trying that one learns.
With the experience I would do this choice because these guitars without being clean and beautiful can be improved and still remain authentic and reliable instruments, timeless, and if you like the strata, it can only attach and grow.
However, compared to a good American, it will resolve it finer in his hand, but you will get almost the same performance as a U.S. or a Start Deluxe, a condition well to change.