ESP LTD EC-256 with Iron Gear Rolling Mill pickups.
I had wanted a Les Paul type, set neck, HH guitar for quite a while. And found this one with upgraded pick ups for $350. Received it yesterday. Quite happy with it!
Tiniest bit of fat sprout on the uphill side of the fretboard from about the 20th fret up. I probably would never get there anyway but will fix those with a little filing at some point.
The rolling mill pick ups are a PAF type and sound very articulate and clear. The neck is clearer than the neck to pick up in my Hagstrom. That is the one nagging little thing and I have had with that Hagstrom and still will maybe replace that neck pick up. But in any case, the feel, attack, and the sound is different from the Hagstrom with the Hegstrom having more of that round, semi hollow, feel and tone. This is a little bit more direct and rock oriented attack. Very fun into my Peavey C30 driving my Marshall cabinet with greenbacks in it, especially with my Catalinbread dirty little secret Marshall in a box pedal turned on. And I like the contours and neck. Nice and comfy. And the guitar is not too heavy.
Steve Thompson
Sun Valley, Idaho
Guitars: Fender 60th Anniversary Std. Strat, Squier CVC Tele Hagstrom Viking Semi-hollow, Joshua beach guitar, Martin SPD-16TR Dreadnought
Amphs: Peavey Classic 30, '61 Fender Concert
Effects and such: Boss: DS-1, CE-5, NS-2 and RC20XL looper, Digitech Bad Monkey, Korg AX1G Multi-effects, Berhinger: TU100 tuner, PB100 Clean Boost, Line 6 Toneport UX2, Electro Harmonix Little Big Muff Pi, DuhVoodooMan's Rabid Rodent Rat Clone, Zonkin Yellow Screamer Mk. II, MXR Carbon Copy Delay
love is the answer, at least for most of the questions in my heart. . .
- j. johnson