I bought one of the first-issue Mexican ones of the Voodoo Strats last year, and while the tone is great the pickguard is a rather cheap-feeling single-ply jobby; I'd love to find a decent quality white or (preferably) cream 3-ply one to replace it, but I'm having a hell of a time finding one...
Eeek..quite a few wrong and fluffed notes in that second one (surprised they let that go on an instructional tape), and horrible tone in both. At one point Campbell and Jake E. Lee were the two up-and-coming names in guitar, and of the two I actually always preferred Jake's playing; he had at...
LOL, that's great! Made my evening...and may just have finally pushed me over the edge towards getting a 8-string... Maybe they come from Mosh Eisley :p
- or, in fact, any other guitars from abroad. I'd been wondering about how much I'd be likely to get stung for Customs duty etc. if I went for one of the Agile 8s, so I rang the Customs & Excise people (very nice + helpful, actually) and found out the following info: The customs code for...
My new toy arrived this morning: Yay! Finally they sent the right guitar...the setup's fairly dodgy at the moment (not least the very uneven spacing at the nut) and I'm reasonably sure the 7th string shouldn't be a nylon one...but the tone is actually pretty good straight out of the box...
Well, it finally arrived today. And they've sent me a fucking 7-string instead of the 10-string! GRRRRRRR. NOT happy about this. I've already emailed their customer services and am now waiting to hear back from them.