Russ Lackey custom
Russ Lackey custom
One of the best decisions I ever made, was having someone build me the solidbody electric guitar I've always wanted. I have other guitars which I love, but I just got tired of buying a guitar, changing things, playing it for awhile, changing more things ...
I credit the builder of this instrument with finding a light piece of mahogany for the body, a lovely piece of maple, coming up with the right neck shape for my hand, and really, building me a guitar that I'm still happy with these 15 years later! Apparently, he is no longer building/repairing guitars - he quit to become a fire fighter. I have no idea how that turned out.
Specifications:
Body shape: similar to a Godin guitar that was popular at the time (late-1990's)
Honduras Mahogany, curly maple cap, ebony fretboard.
Frets: super-jumbo (whatever the bigger wide ones are called, common on some of the "shredder" type guitars) 24 frets.
Tuners: Gotoh
Bridge: gotoh, fixed, string-through-body. (saddles changed to Graph Tech Tusq type).
Electronics: EMG
Bridge pickup: EMG 60 (probably going to swap this out for an 89R)
Neck: 60A
PI2 phaze switch
VMC: variable midrange control. (double knob - upper part boosts/cuts 12dB, lower part adjusts frequency of boost or cut from 300HZ-3KHZ).
The above are all running at 18V. If you've tried EMG in the past and find the internal preamp in the pickups clipping harshly, running things at 18V gives you much more head room on transients.
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