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http://www.thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/57632/
Yeah, but you can get the Gotoh bridge as an optional upgrade on the standard GS1 and presumably the new trussrod adjustment (everyone's copying Music Man these days) will be rolled out across the whole range.
It looks nice though.
;-)
I like it too...
Seriously: If you value it, take/fetch it yourself
I don't think I'd ever get on with the cramped control layout on the twin pickup models, and I don't like the knobs here, but otherwise it looks pretty good. Not sure on the brass nut. I guess it's a historic thing.
Brass nut belongs in the 70’s, as does their medeocre ceramic humbuckers.
The double cut above has always had slightly weird proportions like the horns are the too-small arms of a T-Rex.
When the new outfit started I actually was excited and placed a deposit and an order directly with the factory last year, but comms was crap and only came through when I chased after the original delivery date was up, then all of a sudden it was going to be ready the following week - which was odd as I was supplying the pickup and they hadn’t asked me for it. I got scared by lack of attention to the order so I bottled it, and never saw my deposit again.
As soon as I built it I realised that Matsumoku had done exactly the same for countless "original" designs and so had Gordon Smith.
Its very symmetry actually looks weirdly unbalanced to me.
Certainly the Tokai names reflected the price ranges. I've got an SG-155 which later became an SG-175 and might be an SG-195 or something now, for all I know. I think Edwards did something similar.
I don't know about Gibson, I never really understood names like the Firebird III, V and VII (although I've just Googled it so now I know). They certainly went up in price but I don't know if Gibson model numbers ever literally correlated with the prices.