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Thanks for the link. Here we go again!
The Muse I Adorn
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eSGEe
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Oh I cant wait to see which you choose........FYI check out the "blem" and "markdown CLEARANCE section on GFS--- can sometimes get an AMAZING deal.
Like this.......
XV-570 Rockabilly Semi-Hollowbody Minitron Humbuckers Bamboo Tan - Blem
Like this.......
XV-570 Rockabilly Semi-Hollowbody Minitron Humbuckers Bamboo Tan - Blem
I hav had an XV-500 for, like, a decade now. Good guitar, with a couple of mods. It backed up my LP Studio at gigs for a few years.
I kept the neck pickup, and swapped the bridge for a BurstBucker Pro. The first thing I did was swap in some locking tuners(Grover I think), as the stock ones were not good.
I kept the neck pickup, and swapped the bridge for a BurstBucker Pro. The first thing I did was swap in some locking tuners(Grover I think), as the stock ones were not good.
Today, it’s been this one up for clean up, and trussrod adjustment(very slight):
trying to get you to put some pickups with BALLS in your Strat......and trying to get RVA to buy an Xavier florentine so I can trade him a Dean Sarasota for it later
In the spirit of teamwork, and just because I had the polishing rags out....
I gave my XV-500 a long overdue wipe down. The tuners are Sperzel...just what I found in
black lockers. The bridge pickup is, as I mentioned in another post, a Burst Bucker Pro. The pickup switch is now a Switchcraft. I wired it 50s style and threw in some Orange Drop tone caps. I don’t think I replaced the pots.
It’s weird how smooth the fretboard is on this thing too.
Ray, I hope this helps.
Edit: I can’t speak to their current models. As can be seen in the pic's above, mine is the older, Art Deco style headstock.
It has been a perfectly serviceable cheapie guitar, after a couple of mod's though.
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Thank you for this. I am all for mods, and your opinion good opinion goes a long way!
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I started playing this. I even added new abalone string pegs
Then my wife asked if I could lower it. Since I had already played the songs I know that are suitable for acoustic and it was not plugged in, I switched to this.
2012 Custom 24 made for the PRS Experience convention and featured on the site as the introduction of new color, Autumn Sky. Coincidentally , I named it Xavier!
Then my wife asked if I could lower it. Since I had already played the songs I know that are suitable for acoustic and it was not plugged in, I switched to this.
2012 Custom 24 made for the PRS Experience convention and featured on the site as the introduction of new color, Autumn Sky. Coincidentally , I named it Xavier!
Holy flamey goodness Ray!
That PRS is crazy cool in the looks department!
Gorgeous!
I went back to thrashing my crescent moon SG to enjoy the newly set action, and slick, shiny, body treatment.
I even fired up the Mesa Dual Rec to shake the dust off the ceilings.
Haven’t done that in a while.
Maybe I’ll give the XV a spa day this week.
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Thanks brother. Sounds good too. It has the same 53/10 pickups I just sold a pair of, and in this guitar they work perfectly. Pampering your guitars is fun. They always show their appreciation!
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Unfortunately, I do not think the folks in the bar would appreciate it if I did that!They also like it when you drag them into bars and get all sweaty with them.
eSGEe
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Last bar I played in was the west end pizza/pub in malvern Ohio ---if they worked hard it would achieve "dive" status....the rats avoided the place....2 of us weren't even old enough to be IN the bar---..the gig ended when the bass player knocked a drunk OFF the stage who was heading up to show us how to play Sweet Home Al. ..........good times......
we stuck to friends parties in garages and basements and back yards after that---
we stuck to friends parties in garages and basements and back yards after that---
Funny how things work out.
I don't get the whole "signature model"
concept and yet I have 2 signature model guitars,
both named for guys named Steve, neither of which
I really paid any attention to until after I got
their signature model guitars.
Steve played Valley Arts guitars for years before his Music Man phase...
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Martin DCPA4 with a custom saddle by yours truly and the newly added abalone string pegs.