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I've always liked those Seymour Duncan Woody pickups. Much better than piezo to my ears
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Faith Mango, 1 of a kind ? - but Denni's is a more brown/wine colour ?
OP - https://thefretboard.co.uk/discussion/243280/the-what-i-bought-at-the-guitar-show-thread/p1
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
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What makes each one 'unique' isn't the wood - they're both fully solid mango - it's the way Faith have finished them. They had another mango one on the stand finished in what I think they described as 'midnight' staining, so a really, really dark blue, with another figuring pattern.
I may be wrong, but I think the neck joins may be designed in a slightly different way, too - so on my Avalon cutaway, the neck is joined smoothly down through the cutaway arch. On my Faith, the arch starts slightly away from the neck. I think I saw the Avalon style arch on one or two of the other Neptune cutaways, but I may be wrong (ie, they may have been other models).
And I think the fingerboards and binding are different too - mine has an ebony fingerboard and maple binding. Not sure what that is on @myrman's.
When I was talking to Alex, who said he was the Faith head honcho (at least on the stand, anyway), he said the plan had been to see how the guitars would sound, how easy the wood was to work with, what people thought of them and then decide on future production based on that. As it turned out, the supply wouldn't have worked out for a Faith-level production run, so mango was shelved. (I may have misunderstood, so if anyone knows any different, I'm ready to be corrected.)
They brought the guitars along to the show because they decided they'd sell the prototypes anyway, just to see how they went down. Mine certainly went down very well, and when I went back on Sunday afternoon, they said they'd sold pretty much everything they'd brought and had to bring out some standard models just so the stand didn't look bare.
Oh, and we also bought them at the same show, by the way.
did you manage to play any of the other variants ? (and @myrman ) or were yours the only ones of their kind at the respective shows ?
be interesting to know/hear the tonal differences
just because you do, doesn't mean you should.
They had a Venus that was pretty much perfect for me in terms of looks, because it was a matt/satin finish, which I absolutely adore, but it was spruce and rosewood, and as I said in the other tread, I've already got three of those.
My mango Neptune is really bright and zingy, but not in a sharp way - its quite rounded, and not as crisp as, say something with mahogany would be (like my LArrivee, for example). And it seems to have plenty of volume.
If I was capable of playing something worth recording, and I was capable of recording it, I'd happily put a soundclip up, so you could hear what I mean.
I absolutely love it. It's the only guitar after my Avalon I've ever bought that I didn't go off within a couple of days.
I tried a couple of the other guitars, not sure which models they were, and they were all really nice, and were cracking guitars, but I couldn't justify them.
And then out of nowhere, I absolutely fell in love with the one I bought. I'm really not that into bling at all, I much prefer the understated stuff, but I simply couldn't resist this. Childish, I know, but as the saying goes, if we only pass this way but once...