BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 05:28PM

I think that is mother of pearl (which is the same material pearls are composed of) and the outer inlay looks like abalone shell, very beautiful. What a great looking guitar.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 06:22PM

My God that guy makes some absolutely gorgeous guitars! All the stuff on his site is fantastic!

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 07:05PM

i could never bring myself to play something like that. put it in a locked bulletproof display case and turn the light on.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 07:07PM

more here

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 07:17PM

Yep that's where I went to look at them. Awesome. I'd play the things, even if I had to suit up in a clean room to do so. Definitely works of art.

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 07:19PM

the Bass made me drool.

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 07:47PM

They all made me drool and start baby-talking... agablagagagaggah...

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 07:58PM

next time i'm in austin...i wanna hear that pearly

fossil_digger Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 08:43PM

Flikr

BlahX3 Report This Comment
Date: February 20, 2012 11:55PM

His self reviews make me laugh.

I know that it is technically impossible to make an electric guitar REALLY sound like an acoustic with passive circuitry. It has all been tried before, so where are the patent numbers boy?

What really got a chuckle out of me was him comparing his "Mood Control" to the sound of an Ovation acoustic. Ovations are some of the crappiest sounding acoustics ever made IMO; thin, tinny and lifeless. Sure, I can accomplish the same effect with an electric guitar using a high pass filter too. I think his black boxed passive circuit is probably a knock off variation of Gibson's old LS-6 filter, which was abandoned because it cut output signal too much, as all passive filters do. I bet he potted it in epoxy so it would be more difficult to expose it for what it is.

Don't get me wrong. That doesn't mean his axes might not sound great but let's be honest. They certainly look absolutely wonderful and if they sound like a damn good electric then isn't that enough?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 21/02/2012 08:25PM by BlahX3.