Legra MG6E

[Bob Johnson]

Hi Fellas,

I haven't been on the forum for ages. This is what I've been up to in the meantime; the new Legra MG6E.

[Toe-Knee]

It looks really nice but you appear to have built it backwards :S

[Bob Johnson]

OK, Here's another one.  :D

[Telerocker]

Tasty guitars!

[Toe-Knee]

Ooh I REALLY like the green MG.

What pickups are in each of the guitars? Also what are the specs/construction like?

[Bob Johnson]

The pickups are Mules in the lefty and a Nailbomb / Mississippi Queen in the green one. The neck is a five piece construction of Mahogany/Maple/Walnut or Purpleheart/Maple/Mahogany. The body is the same but with a 19mm thick hand carved flame maple top. The Mahogany is pukka Brazilian and was imported into the UK in the early sixties. What you see is the natural colour of the mahogany; no added colouring or sweeteners. Machine heads are Gotoh 501s on the green one and Schaller M6 locking on the lefty. All the humbuckers are coil tapped with push-push DPDT switches on the tone and volume controls.

[MDV]

Very cool.

They seem to be pretty closely related, structurally and in woods to the Aurora (and to a lesser extent the MDV602). In which case its no doubt a remarkable guitar. Mahogany is probably a more sensible choice than DRM for anyone thats playing in E (I like the extra top end and attack for my tunings though)

I know how you feel about through necks, but I am a little surprised to see no hannes on the fixed bridge one: I thought you were rather impressed with them?

Edit: for the info of those that dont know, I have 2 legras, and they are absolutely superb guitars.

[Bob Johnson]

Hi Mark,

I'm building one with a Hannes Bridge now. That has a BKP HSH layout and a Nanomag system. The bridge is a customer specified feature, as are the pickups, machine heads, etc. I've built five MG6Es since last summer and have orders for more. That's why I've been turning down all the full on custom stuff. The PG6s, like Craig's, are doing well also.

[MDV]

One sees, on the hardware choice. Its a kickass design at its core though, I very much appreciate the logic behind it.

[dave_mc]

very nice indeed :)

interesting how it's built like a neck-thru but is a bolt-on- what's the reasoning behind that, just out of interest?

[Bob Johnson]

Hi Dave,

The neck structure gives the tone I was looking for with this guitar. It's worked very well on a number of guitars that I've built so it was well tested.
The neck joint I use out performs a lot of glued neck joints, it doesn't have a load of polyester glue filling the gaps for one thing, there are no gaps. A bolt on neck keeps the manufacturing cost and therefore the price to the customer down and it's also cheaper for the owner to get it re-fretted, re-finished or repaired. The stripes in the body are cosmetic; they're there to match the neck. I guess I've become a little evangelical about bolt on necks over the years 'cos I did a lot of development work on this to get good acoustic coupling between the neck and body.

[dave_mc]

thanks bob

Yeah I really like bolt-on necks, too. Only I was concerned a bolt-on might look and feel a bit weird on a V, I'd have had no problem going bolt-on on it.

[MDV]

I had guessed that they body structure was similar logic to the neck structure: some extra rigidity. Less important and influential in the body, but still, that was my guess.

Its a nice distinguishing touch regardless.

[Bob Johnson]

Forgot to mention that the one that's getting the Hannes bridge is also going to have BKP Black Hawks......now that's gonna be interesting.  8) Boldly going etc etc.