john_kidder
Senior Member
Nightbird II, Hans says late 1989. What a beautiful guitar it is. Bird's-eye maple top, bound ebony board with narrow diamond inlays, gold fittings, 8-ply body binding, 5 plys on pickguard and headstock, slim narrow neck - Gloryosky, Sandy, I think I'm in heaven. Photos to come.
Plays like a dream, comfortable, beautiful tone, oh what tone, lovely tone, easy action, all the good things one might want. And my oh my, it's awfully pretty. I'll learn a lot with this instrument, I can feel it happening as soon as I begin to play.
I'll report again - in the meantime can anyone give me a quick tutorial on the electronics here? I know I've got EMG humbuckers, with "active electronics" (means what?), and a coil tap switch with a push/pull switch on the tone pot. The switches in combination give me various clean/out of phase/bright/single coil sounds, but it's sort of a random exercise at this point. Any guidance would be helpful.
I note from various sources that a number of players replace the EMGs with Seymour-Duncans or other pickups to lose the active electronics. These pickups sound awfully good to me - who has experience with others in this guitar?
I'm a happy camper again. There's just nothing like a new-to-you guitar, and expecially one so different from my other instruments. SmithfieldFair spoke in an earlier post about how playing his guitars seemed to banish the Christmas blues - all I can say is that it's pretty cheerful here right now.
Plays like a dream, comfortable, beautiful tone, oh what tone, lovely tone, easy action, all the good things one might want. And my oh my, it's awfully pretty. I'll learn a lot with this instrument, I can feel it happening as soon as I begin to play.
I'll report again - in the meantime can anyone give me a quick tutorial on the electronics here? I know I've got EMG humbuckers, with "active electronics" (means what?), and a coil tap switch with a push/pull switch on the tone pot. The switches in combination give me various clean/out of phase/bright/single coil sounds, but it's sort of a random exercise at this point. Any guidance would be helpful.
I note from various sources that a number of players replace the EMGs with Seymour-Duncans or other pickups to lose the active electronics. These pickups sound awfully good to me - who has experience with others in this guitar?
I'm a happy camper again. There's just nothing like a new-to-you guitar, and expecially one so different from my other instruments. SmithfieldFair spoke in an earlier post about how playing his guitars seemed to banish the Christmas blues - all I can say is that it's pretty cheerful here right now.