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I was shopping hard for a Soloist recently. Wound up with an LTD M-1000, but that’s a sweet looking guitar.
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“I can play the hell out of a riff. The rest of it’s all bulls**t anyway,” Gary Holt -
Here's the 'exotic' or just nice-looking woods I'm seeing (from presumably most expensive down to the X series I bought):Originally posted by Mincer View Post
Phil Collen sig model
Wildcard Series Poplar Burl
Wildcard Series Flame Maple
Pro Series Ash
Pro 'Modern' Ash
Poplar Burl top / Alder
Poplar Burl / Mahogany
Another/Different Poplar Burl / Mahogany
Quilt Maple / Mahogany
Flame Maple / Mahogany
Ash top / Mahogany
This is the 'affordable' sub $1K range where I was looking, in addition to the zebrawood, there is...
Tamo Ash
Quilt Maple Kelly
Nato Warrior (not 'exotic' but looks nice)
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Well, I have to say, congrats to them in celebrating new woods in electric guitar, like laurel, nato, and tamo ash. I know they have been used in guitar making before, but they are usually covered up with opaque finishes.Administrator of the SDUGFComment
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they have a weird thing going on with the beauty shots... On the WildCard series they even photoshopped out the serials on all but one shot...Originally posted by beaubrummels View Post
Some speculated that it was to cover up that they are made in Korea (KWJ= presumably Korea World Jackson). For the USA Select WR1, they have a computer graphic of the guitar up on the site, with string BADLY photoshopped on the picture... They take the time to take pictures of their 300 USD stuff but won't shoot a single pic of their top-of-the-line... Go figure....
By the way when they launched, those WC Soloist gave me a bad case of GAS. Thankfully their pricing keeps me away from them - for the time being at least... And their ash topped mahogany looks gorgeous! Thankfully the WR= I have doesn't have that circular pattern as the soloist in one of your links... that grainpattern reminded me of a baboon's backside... the mahogany part is a bit suspect though (as usual), it feels way too light unless a huge parts of the body is ash. Not that I care, whatever it is made of, it sounds phenomenal (to my ears at least).
Also congrats on the axe! The X series needs work, but when done they are great players. Just don't look under the hood, there are some ugly details there, at least on mine... Like trem claw screws poking up into the neck pickup cavity...
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