Well after ages of umming and arring, lots of shopping and emailing around and my own personal indecision I decded the guitar I was gunna buy this time around had to be of a custom or near custom grade, I wanted something lesser known, I wanted Swamp Ash and a true hardtail, DiMarzios, and I didn't want figured maple, but I did want a slightly less ordinary finish/look.
Then I found this.
It's a Mayones Regius Gothic, I bought it brand new which really isn't like me, and FUUUUUUUUUU.
This is genuinely incredible, forgetting about how superbly well made it is, how much I love the look and how insanely cool that top is, the clarity of this thing is just like nothing else I've ever heard. Even rolling through some of my silly high gain patches on the Axe, every single note on every string has massive power and depth, you hear every detail and it's truly wonderful to play. The construction is actually flawless, I now have a silly low action and with my 11-54 on there there's a bit more feel. The neck is comfortably thick. It's not as noticeable in the hand as my Jackson RR1, but it makes something like a JPX feel really tiny. It's wider than say my strat neck though. The bridge is actually a trem spacing, not tunematic spacing, which is really nice. The bridge feels very nice under the hand, is very easy to set up, and seems to be the source of the sound when played acoustically which is a weird feeling. I've never heard a guitar sound this clear, punchy and versatile, it is just phenomenal.
As a buyer of such an expensive, custom (ish) grade guitar, I did expect to get more silly case crap but got none
I used to sell Techra cases though, and they're very good indeed, it's nice to have a Mayo logo on it too, shows they put some effort in and didn't just stick it in any old case haha.
I will definitely be buying another, I'd love to say before the end of the year but I have other stuff to buy.
I had massive expectations for this and it blew them away, this is on a whole other level than anything I've experienced before. Just an amazing sound.
MOAR PICS (definitely worth clicking the enlarge button, they obviously aren't full size though, the internet would break)
Then I found this.
It's a Mayones Regius Gothic, I bought it brand new which really isn't like me, and FUUUUUUUUUU.
This is genuinely incredible, forgetting about how superbly well made it is, how much I love the look and how insanely cool that top is, the clarity of this thing is just like nothing else I've ever heard. Even rolling through some of my silly high gain patches on the Axe, every single note on every string has massive power and depth, you hear every detail and it's truly wonderful to play. The construction is actually flawless, I now have a silly low action and with my 11-54 on there there's a bit more feel. The neck is comfortably thick. It's not as noticeable in the hand as my Jackson RR1, but it makes something like a JPX feel really tiny. It's wider than say my strat neck though. The bridge is actually a trem spacing, not tunematic spacing, which is really nice. The bridge feels very nice under the hand, is very easy to set up, and seems to be the source of the sound when played acoustically which is a weird feeling. I've never heard a guitar sound this clear, punchy and versatile, it is just phenomenal.
As a buyer of such an expensive, custom (ish) grade guitar, I did expect to get more silly case crap but got none
I used to sell Techra cases though, and they're very good indeed, it's nice to have a Mayo logo on it too, shows they put some effort in and didn't just stick it in any old case haha.I will definitely be buying another, I'd love to say before the end of the year but I have other stuff to buy.
I had massive expectations for this and it blew them away, this is on a whole other level than anything I've experienced before. Just an amazing sound.
MOAR PICS (definitely worth clicking the enlarge button, they obviously aren't full size though, the internet would break)
Now I have even more GAS for a Mayones. 
