Advice please: the best guitar for PGn/Custom5 combo?

[Guitarfan]

I totally get it- 'fit' is a very personal thing that isn't easily quantified.

One thing I have noticed within my small sample set of my students and friends- If they love the Revstars, they don't tend to like Reverends and vs versa.

Compelling observation! Makes sense aswell.

Earlier in this thread I just whined about Yamaha Revstar not feeling good at shop - aaaand as it happens, I have a Reverend at home.

The main difference is neck profile: Reverend is similar to modern C, whereas Revstar neck is fatter, has much more shoulder, a thick gloss and no elbow relief. So Fender feel vs Les Paul feel (small hands vs big hands?)

Mine is a fix bridge Flatroc (pictured). Quite an unpopular model, only a handful of them sold over the years, according to Ken Haas (although they have been in production since 2005). Visually, it’s gorgeous with a lot of character. Retroblast pickups are technically low output mini humbuckers: somewhere inbetween filtertrons and regular PAF. Very articulate, good clean sounds. Easily the best intonated guitar I have.

Since 2022 they’ve put bigsby on it and the price of Flatroc has has basically doubled :thumbsdow

 

[zionstrat]

Should have known I was preaching to the choir I've always wanted to play Flatroc!

I've got the original double agent which is essentially the opposite... A fat p90 in the neck and a hyperventage, that can parallel to self, in the bridge.

And yep you nailed the difference between the reverends and revstars.

 

[Juanhanglo]

Revstars are incredible, although I'm not impressed with the new transformer control... Looks like a great spot for a bass roll off to me.

I like the original bass cut switch. Some say that they can't hear a difference, but I sure can. Mine is a 502t, so it makes the p90s sound more fender like.