Not thoughts about the pics!
Anyway, it doesnt need a new thread, thats just spamming.
Initial impressions - its kind of tricky to explain because reference points are hard to find; the closest reference point is the MDV602, which is unique enough, so I could tell Bob what I thought comparing to that, but few other people have played that so it doesnt really help here :lol:
But.....
Its got a very, very strong acoustic response, and even though it hasnt even settled in yet, let alone broken in with a couple of years playing its my loudest guitar acoustically and amped up by a considerable margin, and memory may decieve, and setups arent all equal, but the most resonant guitar I (recall) ever playing. The low end it produced rumbles strongly (many guitars do this but not to this extent) in your ribs and leg. Bob and I seem to have destroyed this 'wings arent included' thing with the laminate body, because the body resonates A LOT. So does the neck. Freakishly so.
The high end is the biggest departure from the norm - it sounds like its half piano. Really strong 'chime' to all notes, even down below 5th on the 60 and up at 24th. Incredibly clear with tonnes of punch and dynamics. These are all things that the 602 was designed to do as well, and it does, and did so better than anything else I've found, but that sounds much more like a conventional guitar; it has a lot more warmth and bloom and less attack and tightness (and it lacks nothing whatsoever in attack and tightness) than this. Its also got more low end and low mids, but they arent as tight or clear.
Its taking some getting used to, because its so energetic in its response and so unforgivingly tight and clear, but when I pick it up I soon forget all this 'yay, new guitar, lets analyse the sound to all hell and back' and find myself just playing it, and thoroughly enjoying it. The playbility of it really helps with that, too: the guitar is 'invisble'. The necks the right thickness that I can stick my thumb in the back and it feels right, and the right profile that I can wrap my hand around it and it falls in naturally (its like an RG thickness and profile, but its more curved in the sides). The bridge is extremely comfortable, the heel actually threw me off the first time I went up on high frets, because muscle memory said 'well, theres going to be a big chunk of wood here, so get ready to wrap your thumb around it and reach up', and there wasnt, I latched onto $%&# all and messed up! So I just played up there normally, thumb in the back of the neck or wrapped around the top of it, and its perfectly comfortable like that, which was the plan to begin with.
And the pickups have 'Urban Camo' covers that tim made on special request: a camo variation of black distressed covers with the camo in blacks and tarnished metal. They look very cool.
Edit - I'll update with pics and change the title when I get the pics.
