Opinions on the Gibson Flying V Faded...

[itamar101]

Shame we can't buy an A5 Mule any more, but I guess between the Riff Raff, VHII and regular A4 Mule we can get close enough for most purposes!

Why is that? Will Tim not do a special if you call and ask him?

From what I've heard BKP are now just getting way too big/too many orders to do custom orders any more. :/
Good for them... unfortunate for us. :D

[Philly Q]

Shame we can't buy an A5 Mule any more, but I guess between the Riff Raff, VHII and regular A4 Mule we can get close enough for most purposes!

Why is that? Will Tim not do a special if you call and ask him?

From what I've heard BKP are now just getting way too big/too many orders to do custom orders any more. :/
Good for them... unfortunate for us. :D

Yeah, I think that's about right.  BKP is still a highly customer-friendly business, but it's not quite "whatever you want" like it was a few years ago.

The range of pickups and options is pretty comprehensive now, each pickup has been designed/voiced a certain way, and as I understand it they don't want to deviate from that in terms of different magnets, over- or under-winding etc.

I know Jonathan wasn't able to order AV Mules for his planned run of 20th Anniversary Lions, for example.

[AndyR]

Yeah, I wasn't originally too worried by the change to custom orders personally. But reading gwEm's description of his A5 Mule earlier did get me thinking "pity you can't get one of these anymore".

[Philly Q]

Yeah, the AV/AIV Mule set appealed to me because I've always had a slight suspicion that the standard AIV Mule set will be a bit too subtle for me (i.e. not enough difference between neck and bridge!)

Oh well, should've struck while the iron was hot.

[Telerocker]

Yeah, the AV/AIV Mule set appealed to me because I've always had a slight suspicion that the standard AIV Mule set will be a bit too subtle for me (i.e. not enough difference between neck and bridge!)

I love the calibrated set and for me (but that's my taste) the bridge and neck differ enough, but the advantage of the calibrated set is the immaculate in between position, which I use a lot.

[Philly Q]

Again, the in-between position is a bit subtle for me....

I'm more from the Ritchie Blackmore "one-extreme-or-the-other" school - bridge (tone on 10) or neck (tone on 0), never mind the bits in the middle!  :lol:

I will get a set of Mules at some point, though - maybe for that old Hamer Special.  Wired out of phase, so the middle position sounds sufficiently different from neck and bridge.

[ericsabbath]

you can always take the long A5 magnet out of your vhII or nailbomb and stick it into a mule  :D

[gwEm]

Shame we can't buy an A5 Mule any more, but I guess between the Riff Raff, VHII and regular A4 Mule we can get close enough for most purposes!

Why is that? Will Tim not do a special if you call and ask him?

From what I've heard BKP are now just getting way too big/too many orders to do custom orders any more. :/
Good for them... unfortunate for us. :D

Yeah, I think that's about right.  BKP is still a highly customer-friendly business, but it's not quite "whatever you want" like it was a few years ago.

The range of pickups and options is pretty comprehensive now, each pickup has been designed/voiced a certain way, and as I understand it they don't want to deviate from that in terms of different magnets, over- or under-winding etc.

I know Jonathan wasn't able to order AV Mules for his planned run of 20th Anniversary Lions, for example.

I wasn't aware that was now the case.

Real pity!

[Telerocker]

Again, the in-between position is a bit subtle for me....

I'm more from the Ritchie Blackmore "one-extreme-or-the-other" school - bridge (tone on 10) or neck (tone on 0), never mind the bits in the middle!  :lol:

I will get a set of Mules at some point, though - maybe for that old Hamer Special.  Wired out of phase, so the middle position sounds sufficiently different from neck and bridge.

Yeah, it's a matter of preferences and taste. That's good, otherwise BKP would just be selling calibrated Mules-set.