With thanks
@Pete24v for meeting me in a service station car park this morning, I'm now the happy care provider for this little beauty ...
It's set-up just about perfectly, and made it home perfectly in tune too. Neck is wide-ish, thin-ish, and quite comfortable. Body is a happy weight too - somewhere around high 7lbs / low 8lbs, I'd guess. Good balance. Pickups are apparently a pair of Bulldog fat PAFs, which sounded fat and smooth when I plugged it in briefly.
I think I might be putting straplock buttons on this one.
(Straplock buttons means that it's staying).
Comments
Do you need to sell your Nighthawk yet to "make room"?
LOLs ... you're not having it!!!
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
There are a few non-standard features on that one for a 90's Berlin. You've already mentioned the back plates not being recessed (they're usually recessed on all Berlins but on Los Angeles models the trem covers are not recessed). There's usually a belly carve on a Berlin and any made after mid 1992 had a volute. It would also be highly unusual for the top to be a veneer. All this suggests it might have been an employee guitar or a special order. Might be worth a post on the Eggle forum if you want more info as there are some very knowledgeable people on there.
Anyway, it looks great so enjoy!!