Hi all,
I just got this guitar off eBay in the US. Arrived yesterday and I had a chance to play it briefly yesterday and today. Really loving it. Love the sustain, and the tone with the DiMarzio PAFs and the mahogany.
It seems to be one solid piece of mahogany all the way through? Hard to tell with the dark wood. Anyone else know?
(Edit: Discovered it is a 1 piece top over 1 piece body after opening pickup cavity)
Also, no nibs. I am wondering if someone replaced the frets? I was scratching my head because it is so clean and has no wear on the fret board, but am now wondering if they wanted bigger frets? I don’t even see remnants of nibs. Special order?? I may need to measure these frets and see if they are bigger than their standard wire. Sounds amazing tho.
(Edit: Discovered it was re-fretted while still in Japan, sold on eBay in 2018 to and American buyer and disclosed by Japanese seller then.)
Seems to be all original otherwise except the bridge was switched to a TABR-1 (I have the original), and a new jack/jack plate.
(Edit: TRC changed to Gibson type TRC)
And it’s a chunk. The seller said 9 lbs 10 oz. I saw another post where someone called these hogs. Now I get the double entendre.
Anyway, just wanted to share since I just figured out how to host pics again since Photobucket really let me down when they started charging folks for access to pics they already had posted on their site when it was free.... Grrr.
Hope you like it. Still looking for an appropriate case for it. The dark wood on this guitar kind of disappears in that generic black lined case.
I just got this guitar off eBay in the US. Arrived yesterday and I had a chance to play it briefly yesterday and today. Really loving it. Love the sustain, and the tone with the DiMarzio PAFs and the mahogany.
It seems to be one solid piece of mahogany all the way through? Hard to tell with the dark wood. Anyone else know?
(Edit: Discovered it is a 1 piece top over 1 piece body after opening pickup cavity)
Also, no nibs. I am wondering if someone replaced the frets? I was scratching my head because it is so clean and has no wear on the fret board, but am now wondering if they wanted bigger frets? I don’t even see remnants of nibs. Special order?? I may need to measure these frets and see if they are bigger than their standard wire. Sounds amazing tho.
(Edit: Discovered it was re-fretted while still in Japan, sold on eBay in 2018 to and American buyer and disclosed by Japanese seller then.)
Seems to be all original otherwise except the bridge was switched to a TABR-1 (I have the original), and a new jack/jack plate.
(Edit: TRC changed to Gibson type TRC)
And it’s a chunk. The seller said 9 lbs 10 oz. I saw another post where someone called these hogs. Now I get the double entendre.
Anyway, just wanted to share since I just figured out how to host pics again since Photobucket really let me down when they started charging folks for access to pics they already had posted on their site when it was free.... Grrr.
Hope you like it. Still looking for an appropriate case for it. The dark wood on this guitar kind of disappears in that generic black lined case.