Drove to Reading straight from work to bring this home, it's been a sloooow week waiting for them to get it from the supplier (ordered monday). I'm dead impressed, I've not owned a new guitar before! So.. lotsa pictures;
obligatory box shot:
the manual isn't specifically for this model, but it does describe this bridge, also get a free cheap and nasty lead, yay!
that looks uh.. wide
not sure putting the battery compartment slap bang in the centre is a great idea, probably not the best place to be removing wood from. It's for two AA's.
the neck construction is very much like my RG7321, shame the fretboard is not bound
love this headstock shape
access looks good enough for me, I don't play too much of the meedley meedley stuff anyway.
obligatory body-shot
the bridge gets alot of hate but i think it's pretty cool, it's nice and smooth and the tuners are really fine
they've done a nice job with the socket, much nicer than the way it's done on the RG7321 imo
i see a red door and ...
got a bit of brand loyalty going on
and tucked away where it belongs
I've not actually played it much yet so I'm not sure what the pups are like, but I do have this left over from my DIY 8-string which I never got finished, it wasn't particularly suitable anyway so if I don't like them there's a high probability it'll end up being swapped into the bridge.
As a side note, the strings it's come with are way too light for me, I've had it set up detuned half-step (starting at F) and the tension is way off. On my RG7321 I'm used to using an elixir .010 - .046 set with a .058 B. Any ideas what would be the equivalent on the 27" scale length in terms of tension (or slightly higher tension preferably but not much).
Rough measurements with my cheapo vernier calipers say the strings that came with it are: .064 .052 .044 .035 .025 .016 .012 .009 ..ish
Anyway, I gotta go
obligatory box shot:
the manual isn't specifically for this model, but it does describe this bridge, also get a free cheap and nasty lead, yay!
that looks uh.. wide
not sure putting the battery compartment slap bang in the centre is a great idea, probably not the best place to be removing wood from. It's for two AA's.
the neck construction is very much like my RG7321, shame the fretboard is not bound
love this headstock shape
access looks good enough for me, I don't play too much of the meedley meedley stuff anyway.
obligatory body-shot
the bridge gets alot of hate but i think it's pretty cool, it's nice and smooth and the tuners are really fine
they've done a nice job with the socket, much nicer than the way it's done on the RG7321 imo
i see a red door and ...
got a bit of brand loyalty going on
and tucked away where it belongs
I've not actually played it much yet so I'm not sure what the pups are like, but I do have this left over from my DIY 8-string which I never got finished, it wasn't particularly suitable anyway so if I don't like them there's a high probability it'll end up being swapped into the bridge.
As a side note, the strings it's come with are way too light for me, I've had it set up detuned half-step (starting at F) and the tension is way off. On my RG7321 I'm used to using an elixir .010 - .046 set with a .058 B. Any ideas what would be the equivalent on the 27" scale length in terms of tension (or slightly higher tension preferably but not much).
Rough measurements with my cheapo vernier calipers say the strings that came with it are: .064 .052 .044 .035 .025 .016 .012 .009 ..ish
Anyway, I gotta go
Hows the neck feel?
i was just wondering hows the upper fret access with that thing?
