New Nolly Signature with Manson Guitar Works

[profwoot]

I hadn't heard of Manson until Nolly's recent vids. His sounds great but everything he does sounds great so

Nolly's basses have a similar forearm bevel, although not as pronounced, and I find them comfy. I get why they leave an angle on the bevel, since your picking hand comes away from the body while playing, allowing your forearm to lie against the bevel's flat surface. Then again, I mostly play carved tops with no regard to the forearm and it's never bothered me.

 

[Stiman]

 

[Spicypickles]

Damn his playing is nasty.

 

[Kyle Jordan]

Kind of an RGD meets Maxxfly. Good specs so far too. Too bad there's no 8 string option, and it sounds like they'll be or are ready to be doing non-British versions.

Cool.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

From the YT comments

Pricing is £2900 for the 6-string and £2999 for the 7-string. Full spec, images and deposit reservations will be live from 2pm tomorrow 25th January. In brief; full UK build, 2 piece alder body, Bare Knuckle Polymath pickups, Tone Pros bridges, Gotoh hardware, locking 510 series machineheads, Freeway 6-ways electro switching, 24 frets stainless steel, Richlite fingerboard, U profile maple neck. The best of everything...as you'd expect when Nolly is in charge of the tone department!

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

yes my internet tripped.

 

[Avedas]

I don't really have much of an opinion on the guitar but that track sounded really damn nice

 

[Albake21]

Kinda reminds of a Harley Benton and a Vik put together. I'm not so sure I like it or not...

 

[shpence]

Looks and sounds awesome. Love that is has a TOM bridge. Best for palm mutting imo.

 

[Mathemagician]

Those tuners look SO fucking convenient to use. Assuming they aren’t too heavy I want some.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

I wonder how he has the toggle switch wired. It's using something called the Freeway 3B3. Gives you the standard 3-position switch, but then adds another row of switching to get the usual splitting and whatnot.

 

[StevenC]

I wonder how he has the toggle switch wired. It's using something called the Freeway 3B3. Gives you the standard 3-position switch, but then adds another row of switching to get the usual splitting and whatnot.

@odibrom might have some insight. They use Freeways in a lot of guitars.

Also, Gibson put a Freeway 3X3 in the Jimmy Page LPC way back when for combinations of all 3 humbuckers, then had coil taps on push/pulls. I imagine Nolly is using it for combinations of humbuckers on one side and single coils on the other.

Also there's a Freeway in the Toone in @CW7's avatar.

 

[FitRocker33]

$4000 USD for that thing? Lolzzzzzz

Hard pass.

 

[bostjan]

I always felt like Manson guitars were unobtainable. I guess at over $4k USD preordered before we even see a proper picture of it or get full specs, it basically still is.

 

[odibrom]

The Freeway 3B3 switch was designed with teles in mind, delivering all 6 possibilities that 2 singles can have, but I think it also can be wired with hums...

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

The Freeway 3B3 switch was designed with teles in mind, delivering all 6 possibilities that 2 singles can have, but I think it also can be wired with hums...

I imagine it can. I'm guessing it'll have the "normal" row be the standard 3-way, then the 2nd row will be 3 way with the coils split.

 

[sakeido]

That's sick it has a tune-o-matic. That was all I played for the longest time. Even better that it's sorta recessed/flush mounted. They sound fine and you can play the shit out of em. Very easy to setup and nice and stable when used with good machine heads, too.

After playing guitars with flat bridges like any trem for so long, I couldn't change gears back to my old TOM guitars anymore because the traditional way of mounting them was to have them pushed waaaay out from the body. Totally changes the angle of your arm. Having it flat against the face of the guitar makes way, way more sense and is best of both worlds.

Unfortunately that ain't $5,000 CAD (plus shipping and tax) worth of guitar. Kinda sad the market has gotten to this point

 

[Jeffrey Bain]

These should be legit, Manson makes some very legit instruments. Had a feeling something was brewing when he had his signature pickups loaded into their tele during those videos a few months back

 

[gunch]

That's sick it has a tune-o-matic. That was all I played for the longest time. Even better that it's sorta recessed/flush mounted. They sound fine and you can play the shit out of em. Very easy to setup and nice and stable when used with good machine heads, too.

After playing guitars with flat bridges like any trem for so long, I couldn't change gears back to my old TOM guitars anymore because the traditional way of mounting them was to have them pushed waaaay out from the body. Totally changes the angle of your arm. Having it flat against the face of the guitar makes way, way more sense and is best of both worlds.

Unfortunately that ain't $5,000 CAD (plus shipping and tax) worth of guitar. Kinda sad the market has gotten to this point

does Kiesel still recess their TOMs. That used to be a Carvin thing

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

does Kiesel still recess their TOMs. That used to be a Carvin thing

Yeah they do.

Ibanez did it as well (With the Apex at least) and I think KXK did it as well.