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Here's a gratuitous pic of the Silhouette that's been my main guitar since 1989...
https://www.dropbox.com/s/mxc7hkgv4sj7viw/IMG_1710.jpg?raw=1
my Silo Special - sports a HB in bridge now
https://i1232.photobucket.com/albums/ff362/jmp220478/Mobile Uploads/C7C34739-6030-41BF-B87D-A35E7904A0E6.jpg
At the moment I'm looking for:
* Hamer SS2 & T62
* Music Man Luke 1
Please drop me a message.
Classy looking guitar that.
I'm on the hunt for one
My Axis is currently my favourite guitar but I wish it had 24 frets.
i.call it Bouncer because it’s been nicked twice but came bouncing back!
Now, since I spent 3 full days playing only the Silo, I can write something like a review/overview.
I was really excited about this guitar. I’ve red so many cool reviews and opinions over the Internet. I even bought marching Ernie Ball strap, knobs and strap locks while I was waiting for the guitar to arrive.
- Extremely light instrument
- Probably the most comfortable guitar that I’ve ever played. The counties of the body are simply amazing. I really enjoy playing it standing up.
- The satin neck feels great
- Those DiMarzio virtual PAFs are really good sounding and versatile. Besides that I have coil taps. I could get modern sounds out of it and almost mimic Strat and Tele sounds.
- The build quality seems to be very good
- Access to the upper frets is super easy due to the neck joint
The bad stuff
- Only one - the neck. It feels too small/narrow for me. I expected it to be thinner. Maybe it’s because of the frets, don’t know. But I have difficulties adjusting to that guitar. I don’t lose speed but I lose accuracy.
Surely they'd sell even more if they offered a choice of neck profiles?
The original pickups were radio-receptive-friendly Di Marzios. The keen-eyed will have seen that I replaced them with Kinman noiseless. Ernie Ball hadn't started fitting their noise cancelling circuit when they made mine. The Kinmans work much better at being quiet on stage at volume with lots of interference flying around.
The last thing that I've got, but have never used, was the concept of easily-detachable scratchplates. The idea was you could have a different pickup/control configuration and just swap them without any soldering or string removal - just a screwdriver. Have they dropped that feature now, I wonder?
I've just been reading the EBMM specsheet that came with my Silhouette but covered their entire range. In 1989, the (first) Steve Morse model body was 12 1/2in wide instead of 12 3/8in, same depth, poplar. The neck width was the same, but only 22 frets instead of 24 and jumbo frets instead of the higher but vintage width of the Silhouette. 12in radius.