gigawatt
Experienced
You guys must hate me . Hey I'm just replenishing my inventory, 3 months ago I only had one guitar, but then I got my check (divorce), so now it's payback time! $m$ \m/. I don't know how I found this one, must have come up as a suggestion in an eBay listing I was looking at, I received it early yesterday along with NGD Number 2. It was an Epiphone '58 Goth Flying V, now it's a Camo Fubar, Tracker, whatever. I appreciate unique pieces of art done with good ole American blood and sweat from Portage Michigan . The seller painted this himself, I know how much work that is, so I also know what he didn't do that he said he did. I had asked him if the guitar was silky smooth or are there drips, orange peel or waves in the finish to which he replied: "It's been sanded smooth with 1200 grit wet sand paper." Huh, no it hasn't. He also said he put "5 coats of clear satin lacquer over Rustoleum Camouflage" spray paint. There's about an 80% chance they won't be compatable and the lacquer will wrinkle, I could be wrong, but It doesn't look like there's any lacquer on this guitar, and the finish isn't smooth, nor is it rough, It's like a spray painted surface that hasn't been sanded and buffed.
The good about this guitar is it plays great! Naturally it has a thicker neck than my Jem, Jacksons, ESP KH, but the frets are well broken in and super smooth. It also comes with a Dimarzio "Crunch Lab" ala John Petrucci pickup and it sounds awesome! It an 11K pup although it feel like more, I was using headphones so it was hard to hear its dynamics. Its lead tone was fantastic, rhythm was average, like I said I was using headphones, (roommate asleep again). It's an all mahogany body and neck with a rosewood fretboard so I was expecting it to be dark and it prolly would be without the Crunch Lab.
Despite its finish flaws, oh and the fubar'd output jack! I had to pull it out and bend the tip tang back into the right postion, that took all my finger tip strength! but I got that sucker . It's great looking from a couple feet away, it plays great, and it sounds great, all for $325, not bad . Ok now for som pics, I post a couple from the listing and then I have some I'll have to do from my phone...
Why do people take pic of a guitar half naked? There's no truss rod cover! and as you'll see in the pics I took it's really cool looking.
Unfortunately it did not come with those knobs, I kinda like them, it came with the original slippery top hat Gibson/Epiphone knobs like these.
The good about this guitar is it plays great! Naturally it has a thicker neck than my Jem, Jacksons, ESP KH, but the frets are well broken in and super smooth. It also comes with a Dimarzio "Crunch Lab" ala John Petrucci pickup and it sounds awesome! It an 11K pup although it feel like more, I was using headphones so it was hard to hear its dynamics. Its lead tone was fantastic, rhythm was average, like I said I was using headphones, (roommate asleep again). It's an all mahogany body and neck with a rosewood fretboard so I was expecting it to be dark and it prolly would be without the Crunch Lab.
Despite its finish flaws, oh and the fubar'd output jack! I had to pull it out and bend the tip tang back into the right postion, that took all my finger tip strength! but I got that sucker . It's great looking from a couple feet away, it plays great, and it sounds great, all for $325, not bad . Ok now for som pics, I post a couple from the listing and then I have some I'll have to do from my phone...
Why do people take pic of a guitar half naked? There's no truss rod cover! and as you'll see in the pics I took it's really cool looking.
Unfortunately it did not come with those knobs, I kinda like them, it came with the original slippery top hat Gibson/Epiphone knobs like these.