gwark
Published on 01/31/09 at 21:55
Well, as oncle_kenji KostBen and mine is just a short roadtar was manufactured in 1982 in Japan.
Bolt maple has 21 boxes with traditional benchmarks, solid mahogany body dark brown varnish that reveals the wood grain.
2 humbuckers (probably standard but effective), 1 volume, 1 tone micro (absolutely useless in my opinion), a selector 3 position type gibson pickups, a swith to switch the pickups from single to double coil and an easel type stratocaster (without function vivrato ???????????: s)
UTILIZATION
The handle is round but very nice and fast in the end (I am astonished to think that of a telecaster, the boxes are large and easily accessible
Easy access to the treble: the shape of the body (on top) eats the handle until the box 17 so it's cool but again the shape of the body is at right angles below the handle about 2 cm and it sucks!
Otherwise the shape is perfect for playing it cool so far but the weight ... it's something crazy! 1 h after repeated I suffer is one of the only guitar that was designed to be as a muscle machine!
SOUNDS
Personally I play mainly metal and level c not touch what I want but the sound is pretty wonderful, the pickups really make much saturation: another scratch my group has an ibanez rg 7 string on which he has installed a EMG87 the easel (the equivalent of 81 to 7-string) and I have as much saturation as him!
I use it with a tube Hugh & Kettner edition before with a metal zone but now with a metal monster and it Guyatone terriiiible! (Ok, it's still engl or mesa ca be said deposit but serious! )
We can get crystal clear sound very sweet but at the same time with the bridge pickup while the neck pickup gives a more rounded, warmer (I personally do not use it) and little reminder: the swith to go from a simple double coil!
We must say that I use for metal it is well suited to blues / rock / pop / jazz / reggae finally it is very versatile.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for over 5 years (my father gave it to me when I started) and I think that overall it is frankly a good guitar, it has its own personality, charm.
Poue the quality / price I could not say too much ... I know that in 1982 it was worth about 5,000 francs new, maintenent I know.
Otherwise it is true that we deplore the abscence of vibrato, the handle has only 21 boxes and stuff that I do not understand: for a volume 2 tone I find it pointless ...
Bolt maple has 21 boxes with traditional benchmarks, solid mahogany body dark brown varnish that reveals the wood grain.
2 humbuckers (probably standard but effective), 1 volume, 1 tone micro (absolutely useless in my opinion), a selector 3 position type gibson pickups, a swith to switch the pickups from single to double coil and an easel type stratocaster (without function vivrato ???????????: s)
UTILIZATION
The handle is round but very nice and fast in the end (I am astonished to think that of a telecaster, the boxes are large and easily accessible
Easy access to the treble: the shape of the body (on top) eats the handle until the box 17 so it's cool but again the shape of the body is at right angles below the handle about 2 cm and it sucks!
Otherwise the shape is perfect for playing it cool so far but the weight ... it's something crazy! 1 h after repeated I suffer is one of the only guitar that was designed to be as a muscle machine!
SOUNDS
Personally I play mainly metal and level c not touch what I want but the sound is pretty wonderful, the pickups really make much saturation: another scratch my group has an ibanez rg 7 string on which he has installed a EMG87 the easel (the equivalent of 81 to 7-string) and I have as much saturation as him!
I use it with a tube Hugh & Kettner edition before with a metal zone but now with a metal monster and it Guyatone terriiiible! (Ok, it's still engl or mesa ca be said deposit but serious! )
We can get crystal clear sound very sweet but at the same time with the bridge pickup while the neck pickup gives a more rounded, warmer (I personally do not use it) and little reminder: the swith to go from a simple double coil!
We must say that I use for metal it is well suited to blues / rock / pop / jazz / reggae finally it is very versatile.
OVERALL OPINION
I use it for over 5 years (my father gave it to me when I started) and I think that overall it is frankly a good guitar, it has its own personality, charm.
Poue the quality / price I could not say too much ... I know that in 1982 it was worth about 5,000 francs new, maintenent I know.
Otherwise it is true that we deplore the abscence of vibrato, the handle has only 21 boxes and stuff that I do not understand: for a volume 2 tone I find it pointless ...