Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: Lew on January 24, 2009, 07:31:52 PM
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I played a 513 out of curiosity yesterday and was gobsmacked, the neck is pretty deep and has big frets-not like a typical PRS at all.
I plugged it in to H@K combo(also very cool)and after a few strums knew I had to have it, it sounds friggin' awesome in just about all of the 13 positions :lol: !
It has a really cool scalloped nut, dark rosewood board, startrek style switching system and the 25 1/4" scale is great... the top isn't an 'uber10' or anything but it has tons of character and the colour is a really sexeh wine red.
What's cool is it doesn't have seem to have humbuckers, it looks like 5 singlecoils that get wired together when in bucker mode :harp:
I've sold a couple of bits that I didn't think I would part with to afford it :o
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Shop pic
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What's cool is it doesn't have seem to have humbuckers, it looks like 5 singlecoils that get wired together when in bucker mode.
I was reading the other day that they're actually modified PRS bass pickups! Pretty cool use of existing parts.
Very nice looking guitar! :D
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very very nice!
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What's cool is it doesn't have seem to have humbuckers, it looks like 5 singlecoils that get wired together when in bucker mode.
I was reading the other day that they're actually modified PRS bass pickups! Pretty cool use of existing parts.
Very nice looking guitar! :D
That would explain why they're so damn wide :lol:
I played a CU24 that looked hawt but the neck was tooooo skinny and I wasn't keen on the sounds, it did have 9s to be fair and a DGT with 11s, the DGT was cool but the sticky finish would drive me nuts and the neck was a tad on the thin side for me again.
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So is the 513 neck bigger than the Wide Fat too?
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it's a tiny weeny bit narrower and deeper with taller and wider frets
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congrats!!! looks great. how convincing does the hum mode appear? i've seen some reviews where players simply hated the sound.
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Incredible!
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I was reading the other day that they're actually modified PRS bass pickups! Pretty cool use of existing parts.
Very nice looking guitar! :D
i'm not sure "cool" is the correct adjective when the guitar's likely to cost several thousand pounds...
sweet guitar, though, i'm sure it's badass. :)
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congrats!!! looks great. how convincing does the hum mode appear? i've seen some reviews where players simply hated the sound.
Good question, in singlecoil mode it sounds pretty traditional but in bucker mode it doesn't sound like buckers really.
It sounds kind of like a really hot Tvtron shagged a p90 and had kids :lol:
It wasn't that expensive Dave 8) £2200, I think the retail is £3k. I got £2300 for selling some other gear so it doesn't hurt too much :lol:
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i'm not sure "cool" is the correct adjective when the guitar's likely to cost several thousand pounds...
:lol: Touché.
But I don't think they're was any suggestion of corner-cutting. They just experimented with the bass pickups in a guitar and thought they sounded amazing.
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congrats!!! looks great. how convincing does the hum mode appear? i've seen some reviews where players simply hated the sound.
Good question, in singlecoil mode it sounds pretty traditional but in bucker mode it doesn't sound like buckers really.
It sounds kind of like a really hot Tvtron shagged a p90 and had kids :lol:
thought so... still, I bet it is more than usable and versatile. enjoy :)
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Very nice!
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congrats!!! looks great. how convincing does the hum mode appear? i've seen some reviews where players simply hated the sound.
Good question, in singlecoil mode it sounds pretty traditional but in bucker mode it doesn't sound like buckers really.
It sounds kind of like a really hot Tvtron shagged a p90 and had kids :lol:
thought so... still, I bet it is more than usable and versatile. enjoy :)
I bought it because of the tone, it's not quite like anything else. I think most of the dissapointed people expected it to be the best strat and the best lespaul tones in one guitar-I only expected it to sound like a 513. It has MASSIVE bass response.
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i'm not sure "cool" is the correct adjective when the guitar's likely to cost several thousand pounds...
:lol: Touché.
But I don't think they're was any suggestion of corner-cutting. They just experimented with the bass pickups in a guitar and thought they sounded amazing.
yeah, i know. was just pointing it out... :lol:
It wasn't that expensive Dave 8) £2200, I think the retail is £3k. I got £2300 for selling some other gear so it doesn't hurt too much :lol:
that's a pretty good deal i think, compared to the usual UK prices, anyway (i think i've seen them over £3k? could be wrong though). still expensive, though, but something can be expensive but still a good deal. :)
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The Brazilian Rosewood neck ones were well expensive, Dave. Hog necks are more reasonable :)
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ah, maybe that's it. it is possible that the ones i saw advertised had brazilian rosewood necks, now that you mention it... :)
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I did notice that the whole heel cutaway area seems a lot different from most PRS guitars
It is a lot more Gibson like
The body now comes out to reach the neck rather than the neck going into the body
(http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1042/p1240005zw8.jpg)
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i'm not sure "cool" is the correct adjective when the guitar's likely to cost several thousand pounds...
:lol: Touché.
But I don't think they're was any suggestion of corner-cutting. They just experimented with the bass pickups in a guitar and thought they sounded amazing.
yeah, i know. was just pointing it out... :lol:
It wasn't that expensive Dave 8) £2200, I think the retail is £3k. I got £2300 for selling some other gear so it doesn't hurt too much :lol:
that's a pretty good deal i think, compared to the usual UK prices, anyway (i think i've seen them over £3k? could be wrong though). still expensive, though, but something can be expensive but still a good deal. :)
What's interesting is after I bought it the shop put the price on the website to £2600, possibly because of the price increase coming.
I was reading that the BRW 513 originally retailed for a bit more than the Moderneagle , obviously the price tanked when no one bought em :lol:
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I did notice that the whole heel cutaway area seems a lot different from most PRS guitars
It is a lot more Gibson like
The body now comes out to reach the neck rather than the neck going into the body
(http://img502.imageshack.us/img502/1042/p1240005zw8.jpg)
Aparantly the pickups are so deep that there's no room for the neck to go under the pickups.
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congrats!!! looks great. how convincing does the hum mode appear? i've seen some reviews where players simply hated the sound.
Good question, in singlecoil mode it sounds pretty traditional but in bucker mode it doesn't sound like buckers really.
It sounds kind of like a really hot Tvtron shagged a p90 and had kids :lol:
thought so... still, I bet it is more than usable and versatile. enjoy :)
I bought it because of the tone, it's not quite like anything else. I think most of the dissapointed people expected it to be the best strat and the best lespaul tones in one guitar-I only expected it to sound like a 513. It has MASSIVE bass response.
yeah, I presumed it has a voice of it own. well 13 of them, apparently. got any favorite pup combinations?
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What's interesting is after I bought it the shop put the price on the website to £2600, possibly because of the price increase coming.
I was reading that the BRW 513 originally retailed for a bit more than the Moderneagle , obviously the price tanked when no one bought em :lol:
haha, yeah. :lol:
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Hey Lew, looks stunning... I really like those. Congrats!
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yeah, I presumed it has a voice of it own. well 13 of them, apparently. got any favorite pup combinations?
I'm still working through them ;-P
...but yea, pos 2 on 'hot humbucker' mode, I think that's the three nearest the bridge wired in parallel- add some gain and trem vibrato and it nails those Lukather/Landau 1980s LAsession chord tones 8)
The middle single coil is a but dud on its own though!
Thanks all for the comments :-D
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double post!