I rarely ever treat myself to new guitars. But a few weeks back, I was scrolling through my facebook feed, and there I see a random post from a lefty buy/sell/trade group featuring this babe of a guitar.
Dude who was selling it plays lefties with the strings in reverse order. Shortly after getting it, he realized the multiscale would work against him in that regard, and boom, on for sale she went! After seeing that fb post, I actually had a dream that I was playing that guitar (something that's never happened to me before), and the next day I knew I had to go for it. After some delay bs with UPS, the Ormsby finally got to me yesterday. Anyway, onto the porn:
Oh my god, that burl top is dreamy
I gotta admit, I didn't know too much about Ormsby guitars when I first saw the guitar for sale. Upon doing all my research, I realized this is a gamble I'm willing to take due to the high volume of positive reviews I've seen regarding these Gtr runs.
I've owned an Ibanez RG, a Schecter C7 Blackjack, and a Carvin DC727 (last two guits I've been using consistently). This Ormsby is far beyond any of those guitars in terms of playability and build. I feel like this is my first time playing on a legitimate guitar, and what I used before was not the real deal. Also, I have to add, this is the first guitar I got where the string spacing on the nut is ACTUALLY EVEN. I don't understand how that sh|t is difficult, but Perry, god bless you for keeping the quality control professional.
The multiscale took me 2 seconds to get used to. If anything, a lot of weird chords I play are actually easier now.
It's got a set neck, but it might as well be considered neck-thru because that carve is the sexiest thing I've seen.
The pickups are wonderful. I've been adjusting them all morning because when I got the guitar, the pickups were WAY too close to the strings. To the point where my high E would touch the bottom pole on the neck pickup whenever I fretted above the 21st fret. I also had to take care of a bit of back-bow and the action was way too low, there was fret buzz basically all over the fretboard. But it's all good now, this babe's been traveling all around the world, which warrants some tweaking. Just slapped some 11's on her an hour ago (felt like I was shredding spaghetti with the 9's that came with it) and now she's in playing order. I'm amazed at how responsive the pickups are to your playing dynamics.
My one issue with the guitar is a mystery that I've had to deal with on my Carvin. Even when I'm playing unplugged, there are some kind of metallic, overtone harmonics ringing out from the bridge/pickup area that is pretty damn loud. It's most apparent during stop/start chugs, and I can tell it's getting in the way of my tone a bit. I had the same issue with the Carvin, and I've tried shoving packing foam under every piece of metal hardware attached to the guitar, and the sound never went away. I just adjusted my playing style and kept my noise gate within arm's distance always. If anyone has any idea what this is, and how to fix it, I'm all ears.
That being said, I'm loving the way this guitar feels and sounds (minus that mysterious metallic harmonic noise). Perry, you're doing an amazing thing with these production runs! Thank you for keeping us lefties in the loop.
Dude who was selling it plays lefties with the strings in reverse order. Shortly after getting it, he realized the multiscale would work against him in that regard, and boom, on for sale she went! After seeing that fb post, I actually had a dream that I was playing that guitar (something that's never happened to me before), and the next day I knew I had to go for it. After some delay bs with UPS, the Ormsby finally got to me yesterday. Anyway, onto the porn:
Oh my god, that burl top is dreamy
I gotta admit, I didn't know too much about Ormsby guitars when I first saw the guitar for sale. Upon doing all my research, I realized this is a gamble I'm willing to take due to the high volume of positive reviews I've seen regarding these Gtr runs.
I've owned an Ibanez RG, a Schecter C7 Blackjack, and a Carvin DC727 (last two guits I've been using consistently). This Ormsby is far beyond any of those guitars in terms of playability and build. I feel like this is my first time playing on a legitimate guitar, and what I used before was not the real deal. Also, I have to add, this is the first guitar I got where the string spacing on the nut is ACTUALLY EVEN. I don't understand how that sh|t is difficult, but Perry, god bless you for keeping the quality control professional.
The multiscale took me 2 seconds to get used to. If anything, a lot of weird chords I play are actually easier now.
It's got a set neck, but it might as well be considered neck-thru because that carve is the sexiest thing I've seen.
The pickups are wonderful. I've been adjusting them all morning because when I got the guitar, the pickups were WAY too close to the strings. To the point where my high E would touch the bottom pole on the neck pickup whenever I fretted above the 21st fret. I also had to take care of a bit of back-bow and the action was way too low, there was fret buzz basically all over the fretboard. But it's all good now, this babe's been traveling all around the world, which warrants some tweaking. Just slapped some 11's on her an hour ago (felt like I was shredding spaghetti with the 9's that came with it) and now she's in playing order. I'm amazed at how responsive the pickups are to your playing dynamics.
My one issue with the guitar is a mystery that I've had to deal with on my Carvin. Even when I'm playing unplugged, there are some kind of metallic, overtone harmonics ringing out from the bridge/pickup area that is pretty damn loud. It's most apparent during stop/start chugs, and I can tell it's getting in the way of my tone a bit. I had the same issue with the Carvin, and I've tried shoving packing foam under every piece of metal hardware attached to the guitar, and the sound never went away. I just adjusted my playing style and kept my noise gate within arm's distance always. If anyone has any idea what this is, and how to fix it, I'm all ears.
That being said, I'm loving the way this guitar feels and sounds (minus that mysterious metallic harmonic noise). Perry, you're doing an amazing thing with these production runs! Thank you for keeping us lefties in the loop.
