Bludave
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In early March of last year I ordered this great guitar from Brian. For those of you who are unfamiliar with him, Brian is a great Canadian builder and is known for doing great vintage restoration work as well as building his own line of "Gibson" style guitars.
http://www.montyguitars.com/
The Blues Queen is a solid "carved" maple guitar with solid sides as well as top & back. It is essentially a 335 with solid back, sides, and rims. It has a Mahogany center block as well as Mahogany neck with Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. I actually received this guitar about a week after Thanksgiving of last year and just really haven't taken the time to post anything about it.
When I first got it, it needed a good setup and a few other minor tweaks. After playing it for about a month or so I felt the pickups that were in it were a tad too bright. The pickups were hand wound by James Moore in Canada, but he used an Alnico 5 magnet and in this particular guitar I felt they were too bright. So I posted some questions here about which pickups would be suitable and after reading through it all I settled on a set of Gibson 57 classics. I have a set of these in a similar guitar and I felt these would work well. I was right. They have been in the guitar for about 3 weeks now & all of my concerns are gone. The brightness is gone and I now have a beautiful full warm tone with the neck pickup & all notes are clear and defined. The middle position just has a beautiful clean tone and the bridge pickup does what I wanted/needed it to do. I may still raise the action a bit but right now all is good. I tried to attach a few photos here so you can see how beautiful this guitar is. The two natural shots were sent to me from Brian. The picture of me holding the guitar was taken the day I go it. The other shots were taken with my Iphone when I was setting it up & the photo on the bench was taken after the pickups were replaced & the pickguard was installed. It needed a guard as I was scratching the top pretty good. Great axe!!!
http://www.montyguitars.com/
The Blues Queen is a solid "carved" maple guitar with solid sides as well as top & back. It is essentially a 335 with solid back, sides, and rims. It has a Mahogany center block as well as Mahogany neck with Brazilian Rosewood fingerboard. I actually received this guitar about a week after Thanksgiving of last year and just really haven't taken the time to post anything about it.
When I first got it, it needed a good setup and a few other minor tweaks. After playing it for about a month or so I felt the pickups that were in it were a tad too bright. The pickups were hand wound by James Moore in Canada, but he used an Alnico 5 magnet and in this particular guitar I felt they were too bright. So I posted some questions here about which pickups would be suitable and after reading through it all I settled on a set of Gibson 57 classics. I have a set of these in a similar guitar and I felt these would work well. I was right. They have been in the guitar for about 3 weeks now & all of my concerns are gone. The brightness is gone and I now have a beautiful full warm tone with the neck pickup & all notes are clear and defined. The middle position just has a beautiful clean tone and the bridge pickup does what I wanted/needed it to do. I may still raise the action a bit but right now all is good. I tried to attach a few photos here so you can see how beautiful this guitar is. The two natural shots were sent to me from Brian. The picture of me holding the guitar was taken the day I go it. The other shots were taken with my Iphone when I was setting it up & the photo on the bench was taken after the pickups were replaced & the pickguard was installed. It needed a guard as I was scratching the top pretty good. Great axe!!!
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