Hot or Not? DNG Custom Guitars Kalos

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The body of the Kalos was designed and built around a laminated solid maple rim assembly. The top and back are set into, not on top of, the rim assembly resulting in a sound box that is increadibly strong and most importantly very resonant with less glue joints connecting everything together.

The necks on the Kalos are all laminated 3 piece eastern figured maple and feature the new for 2016 large DGN headstock. Standard is a low profile 2 way truss rod to keep the neck straight as and arrow no matter the thickness. The fingerboard wood of choice is Wenge with our new small block mother of pearl inlay standard.

A Cocobolo or Rosewood type top gives the Kalos a cutting almost nastily upper mid bite. Throw a little (or a lot) of overdrive on it and you are guaranteed to cut through the mix like a knife. Single notes have a very distinct fatness and clarity towards the brighter side of the spectrum without ever being harsh. A Redwood or Spruce top gives the Kalos acoustic like properties. The overall feel of the guitar leans towards the mid to lower mid of the spectrum. Full strummed chords are huge sounding and single notes are full and snappy. A Walnut top ends up somewhere right in the middle of those choices.

The Kalos is available with DGN True-PAF Humbuckers w/ Series/Parallel switching option, DGN Tru-Split Coil Tap optimized humbuckers or our Vintage Style Dog Ear P-90's. Also new for 2016 is a DGN Hand Built vintage style onboard blaster option.

http://www.dgncustomguitars.com/kalos.html

 
The craftsmanship seems rather nice and the construction seems quite cool, but the body-as-biding aesthetic isn't pleasing me.
 
Dogsinotpalc said:
The craftsmanship seems rather nice and the construction seems quite cool, but the body-as-biding aesthetic isn't pleasing me.
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yeah, this. Maybe a different, less contrasting pairing of wood would be better for me.
 
Dan's like my east coast Bizaro-Me. Love that guy.

This wouldn't be normally my style guitar and while I'd prefer a simpler fretboard inlay, over all I really dig it.
 
That is cool, and I would love to get my hands on one.

I dig that a lot. Not sure about the 12th fret inlay, but very cool.
 
dougk said:
Dan's like my east coast Bizaro-Me. Love that guy.

This wouldn't be normally my style guitar and while I'd prefer a simpler fretboard inlay, over all I really dig it.
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I like the inlays down to the 9th fret and would like them continued up the neck. It's a neat guitar all things considered.
 
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