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Pickups weren't much cop either.
Cheapest guitar was a early 90s Washburn PRS copy thing with a Floyd and EMG copies (.... model was RS8V apparently) - but I did really like it at the time
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Really, why?
Bought it as it was a particular model/graphic that I wanted for years. Turns up, rust on every piece of metal, never stayed in tune, pickups were awful and the neck wasn't original (It was sold as original).
I tried to keep it and change certain things but it was so bad that I sold it on 3 weeks after getting it.
A Rickenbacker 425V63 reissue - I'd always wanted one, and when they made a limited run of them in 1999 I ordered one via the shop I worked for. The shop also ordered a 450 for their own stock. When they arrived, the 450 was clearly by far the better guitar, and I should have bought that instead, but I really really wanted the 425, so I went through with the original deal. They quickly sold the 450, so I couldn't change my mind.
Mistake. It had a weird nasal tonality that really annoyed me - I tried different pickups, a Rick High-Gain and even a Gibson P100 (which fits inside a Rick Toaster cover if you shave a bit off the edges of the bobbin!), but it still sounded nearly as bad. I even put a Bigsby on it in the vain hope that it would change the natural sound of the guitar, but it didn't... it must have just had some sort of odd resonance that gave it that sound.
But it did look really cool.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
I must have caught a bad one
Never made that mistake again!
Maybe you have to play them hard for 30 years or so for the wood to loosen up a bit.
The problem was the sound of thing - it had horrible very noticeable overtones in every pickup selection position (Kent Armstrong Pickups).
Tried everything we could think of working with the shop we bought it from (Music City in Worcester), checked all the wiring. Simplified the wiring to replace the 3 way rotary with a treble roll off (tone control) - no improvement.
The final thing that was tried was to replace the pickups with new Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates and Custom Custom to see if it was something inherent with the Kent Armstrongs - microphonic or duff examples, or if they were just crap pickups- but sadly no improvement.
...and the very clever Wiliknson Trem was practically impossible to get set up with the off centre drum in the rear cover
Real shame because on paper it was the perfect guitar - gave up on it as a bad job in the end - something wrong going on in there somehow - a mystery.
Ended trading it for a 6 bolt Music Man Silhouette - which was a just great guitar - and a model I've had several of over the years.
That experience put me off Eggles ever since rightly or wrongly.
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer SS2 & T62
* Music Man Luke 1
Please drop me a message.
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer SS2 & T62
* Music Man Luke 1
Please drop me a message.
Also a no-name copy of John Lennon's Rickenbacker that I bought off eBay. Absolute shite, but because it looked like John Lennon's Rickenbacker someone paid a couple of hundred quid for it when I put it back on eBay.