Thought it might be interesting to know which guitars people are keeping around and plugged in and in regularly use, .
My ”go to” is a 2006 MIK Washburn Wi66PRO which permanently lives on wall hanger over the amp and is used daily, if only for a quick practice session unplugged.
What I like about this guitar, other than obviously the sound is the very playable and comfortable fret board; It was always very good but even better after a custom shop standard fret job around 3 years ago. Also the weight for me at under 8 pounds is very comfortable. Another plus for this guitar has been an amazing rock solid tuning stability from the stock Grover tuners.
The stock Seymour Duncan pick ups ,a Custom Custom in the bridge and a 59 in the neck work well for all styles of music.
The guitar comes stock with no tone controls but a VCC system where double concentric pots give a variable series to parallel option. . Most owners I suspect ditch this in favor of more conventional wiring with tone controls. I have fitted 4 CTS 500k push pulls. The 2 vol pots put the pups in parallel, The neck tone is wired to give Arties col swap...with parallel also engaged I can get slug coil of one pup in parallel with the screw coil of the other; very usable. The bridge tone gives combined series and OOP an option I am fond of. It also acts as a kill switch when bridge pup is selected
This guitar also has something called the Buzz Feiten tuning system which I believe involves a shortened distance between nut and the first fret. I usually tune at the 5th fret.
Having no good pic handy of my guitar which does it justice have taken the liberty of showing some pics of a visually identical one.
My ”go to” is a 2006 MIK Washburn Wi66PRO which permanently lives on wall hanger over the amp and is used daily, if only for a quick practice session unplugged.
What I like about this guitar, other than obviously the sound is the very playable and comfortable fret board; It was always very good but even better after a custom shop standard fret job around 3 years ago. Also the weight for me at under 8 pounds is very comfortable. Another plus for this guitar has been an amazing rock solid tuning stability from the stock Grover tuners.
The stock Seymour Duncan pick ups ,a Custom Custom in the bridge and a 59 in the neck work well for all styles of music.
The guitar comes stock with no tone controls but a VCC system where double concentric pots give a variable series to parallel option. . Most owners I suspect ditch this in favor of more conventional wiring with tone controls. I have fitted 4 CTS 500k push pulls. The 2 vol pots put the pups in parallel, The neck tone is wired to give Arties col swap...with parallel also engaged I can get slug coil of one pup in parallel with the screw coil of the other; very usable. The bridge tone gives combined series and OOP an option I am fond of. It also acts as a kill switch when bridge pup is selected
This guitar also has something called the Buzz Feiten tuning system which I believe involves a shortened distance between nut and the first fret. I usually tune at the 5th fret.
Having no good pic handy of my guitar which does it justice have taken the liberty of showing some pics of a visually identical one.
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