my recently acquired guitar however is honestly the most beautiful guitar I can remember seeing in my entire life. It's not just the blue on black quilted maple top or the neck through or the abalone inlays (sexiest inlays I've ever seen on a guitar) or the matching neck (matching to body AND inlays) but how all these things add up. This is what obviously got me about the guitar first.
well no, first it was the fact that a friend called me up early one morning raving about this new guitar in our favourite music store that happened to be one of my favourite solo artiste's signature guitars.. went to check it out and THEN fell in love. Picked it up and that was it. Paid down one time.
It's a floyd rose, which I've hated before, but it's not double locking; there is no locking nut at the neck and head so that made things a little easier for me to get past. Also I've always wanted a trem.. just not a floyd rose. I've been having a lot of fun with it though so I'm pretty much past my dislike for this particular one.
24 frets.. which was important to me. Not because I have any great NEED or USE for the last two frets but because I just have a mental block against 22 fret guitars.. seems like something's missing. I like my gear to have as much features as possible that will allow me to expand my playing and not limit me.. in short, I'd rather have it than not.
Alder body, which I've previously been kinddd of against but it makes the guitar lighter than my LTD AND the quilted maple top covers up for it.
one of the coolest features is that the volume knob is a push/pull switch that cuts the distortion from the guitar (EVEN WHEN PLUGGED INTO MY LINE6 POD!!) and cleans up the signal/tone. This works especially well with the neck pickup. Thus any clean parts in our songs, I just switch to neck pup and pull the switch up. NICENESS!!!
There is also veryyyyyy little info about this guitar and its fellow models on the www. This made it that much more appealing to me as there's a mystery to it. There IS talk about the models etc but definitely no where near the extent of other carvin models. Or other brand models for that matter.
so all in all.. I'm extremely grateful for this new guitar and I love both my friend who first told me about the guitar AND helped me to pay down for it and the guitar itself. I was polishing it some night ago and I just sat and stared at it for a good few minutes. My neighbours were victims of attempted robbery last week so the day after before leaving home I actually hid my guitar. Leaving all other gear and equipment in the open eh..
it's just... wow.
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Now that is a very sexy guitar...in as much as guitars can be sexy...if you're into that sort of thing
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