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Fretted instrument fan
NGD: Carvin ST300 with a bunch of bling
I'd meant BLING but.....
Well I posted about ten days ago about that Carvin I saw at my local store. I ended up being near it again because I was helping a friend buy his first guitar and he didn't have the experience so wanted me to help him get something that wasn't a total doghouse. He ended up with a nice Yamaha Pacifica, about the cheapest decent guitar in that whole store.
So, this guy ends up ordering a custom guitar from Carvin plus a BelAir amp with special V30 speakers and a nicer tolex covering than usual and then has some kind of catastrophic loss of income - his car blows up or something and he needs money quick so he sells those things to the store.
The BelAir amp gets bought by my friend Mike who traded another amp in on it but I kept thinking about that guitar.
So I traded in an old guitar and a hundred bucks and walked out with the "newest used guitar I've ever encountered":
New Carvin ST300 with Allan Holdsworth Neck Carve (20" radius), stainless steel jumbo frets, Allan Holdsworth headstock, bookmatched flamed maple top with matching headstock overlay, honeyburst finish, Wilkinson tremelo with Sperzel locking tuners, abalone dots on the ebony fingerboard. Pretty swanky.
Some audio of this one:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/guitars/carvin/ST300_Demo.mp3
Pics:
In the case:
The backside and all the paperwork:
Another angle with the ridiculous bookmatched flametop:
One angle with the ridiculous bookmatched flametop:
Holdsworth headstock with Sperzels:
Check out that chunky neck:
Nicely shielded innards:
I've had it for 3 days and already used it on 4 tracks on a new album project my new group is putting together for the RPM project. It's got a nice bright clean tone and a real nice melancholy single note lead voice and fat squawky humbucker tones for chording with distortion.
I'd meant BLING but.....
Well I posted about ten days ago about that Carvin I saw at my local store. I ended up being near it again because I was helping a friend buy his first guitar and he didn't have the experience so wanted me to help him get something that wasn't a total doghouse. He ended up with a nice Yamaha Pacifica, about the cheapest decent guitar in that whole store.
So, this guy ends up ordering a custom guitar from Carvin plus a BelAir amp with special V30 speakers and a nicer tolex covering than usual and then has some kind of catastrophic loss of income - his car blows up or something and he needs money quick so he sells those things to the store.
The BelAir amp gets bought by my friend Mike who traded another amp in on it but I kept thinking about that guitar.
So I traded in an old guitar and a hundred bucks and walked out with the "newest used guitar I've ever encountered":
New Carvin ST300 with Allan Holdsworth Neck Carve (20" radius), stainless steel jumbo frets, Allan Holdsworth headstock, bookmatched flamed maple top with matching headstock overlay, honeyburst finish, Wilkinson tremelo with Sperzel locking tuners, abalone dots on the ebony fingerboard. Pretty swanky.
Some audio of this one:
http://madsound.dyndns.org/guitars/carvin/ST300_Demo.mp3
Pics:
In the case:
The backside and all the paperwork:
Another angle with the ridiculous bookmatched flametop:
One angle with the ridiculous bookmatched flametop:
Holdsworth headstock with Sperzels:
Check out that chunky neck:
Nicely shielded innards:
I've had it for 3 days and already used it on 4 tracks on a new album project my new group is putting together for the RPM project. It's got a nice bright clean tone and a real nice melancholy single note lead voice and fat squawky humbucker tones for chording with distortion.
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