It is indeed a rosewood board, the soloist XL didn't get the ebony board treatment like most of the higher end soloists got, but that doesn't bother me too much. And yeah the paint is in shockingly good shape, plus it even came with the case candy, never imagined that!
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Apologies in advance to anyone who may have seen this one on Reverb the other night, but I had to do a double take when i saw the price this thing was listed at, especially considering how much people want to charge for these things lately. So yeah, bit of an impulse...
Would you believe I only paid $2500 for the Custom Shop one too? Crazy to think with what these are going for these days that I got both for under $5k total. But even crazier to think that I paid under $1k for the first one of these I had a few years ago. Wild times, wild times indeed lol
Thanks man! I think I'm probably gonna swap the pickup out to something else, not a huge fan of the X2N but honestly not sure what I want to put in here yet. Part of me wants to keep it authentic and put an EMG back in but I also feel like there are some other options that would work well...
Okay so I completely forgot to post this until I saw @Blytheryn post their absolutely insane Alexi NGD so this is a few months late, but better than never right?
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With it's big brother:
So I scored this thing for a stupid price on Reverb after a getting a few drinks in me, but...
Nah I got a steal on one from Chicago Music Exchange: snagged this for $2200
My CS is the Scythe though so I've got that one covered :lol:
Just need to track down a blacky or a pinky and I'll be content
Welcome to the CS Alexi club! It's a great place to be! I'm so happy with the one I picked up earlier this year and it looks like this one is probably even nicer!
The Alexi GAS is always there though....always there. I have another ESP Standard Series one on the way right now....LOL
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And the pair;
Feeling like it's Groundhog Day this year. Went from having 0 ESP CS guitars at the start of the year to having 3 ESP CS guitars at this point in the year! Was offered the chance to snag this really cool CS Eclipse with an evertune AND a 26.5" scale...
I actually don't know! I'll have to take a look when I change the strings and see. I have M7s and M8s in other guitars and they don't sound like an M, so I'll find out.
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So I know I JUST got my first ESP Custom Shop guitar like a month ago with the ESP Alexi I brought in but you know what they say about GAS....
So I'm in the process of trying to downsize my collection a bit and had a few things up for trade and got offered this bad boy, so who am...
Hmmm this is a good question since I've been fortunate enough to be able to try a ton of guitars.
It's a pretty short list right now:
Strandberg Varberg - unlikely unless they ever offer it outside of the custom shop
Ibanez S5470 WCB - still have never seen one come up second hand :lol...