NGD - Alder with walnut top & ebony fretboard/stainless frets..

[Phantasmagoria]

Like them Laboga heads too, they look like little beasts. Never seen those before. I just know him from the k100/v30 speaker cabs.

Thanks....that's 'cause they literally are little beasts lol. 'The Beast 30 Plus' & 'The Beast Classic 30'...both 30 watts ..& they both sound really nice. The Plus is a bit more modern/gainier (Metallica/Arch Enemy/Andy Sneap type stuff/80's metal/thrash/old school death metal) & the Classic 30 is great for anything from 70's rock/Sabbath/Soundgarden/modern Sabbath/80's metal..

They also make the 100W "Mr. Hector" amp (& the Jeff Waters signature variant) which is pretty damn awesome for anything metal....

 

[Phantasmagoria]

...and shred ..they're both pretty sweet for shred

This is with Mooer GE300 'tone captures' but they're pretty much the same thing...



Classic 30

30 Plus

 

[GuitarDoc]

That looks like a lot of guitar for $150. Wow, Tusk XL nut on a cheap guitar! I like how even though it's 3x3 the strings still have a pretty straight line over the nut (not like the Gibson type headstock). Congrats on your new acquisition.

What is the fretboard radius?
What is the width at the nut?

Some interesting observations:
You say the body top is walnut but it's definitely not. Looks like rosewood or mahogany to me.
The specs say chrome tuners but obviously they are black.
Specs also say toggle switch, but it's a blade.
Looks like the humbucker was mounted too close to the bridge, you can see some of the rout showing beyond the ring on the neck side. That could easily be corrected though.

But like I said, it seems to be a pretty dang nice looking guitar for the price.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Thanks..yeah, it's definitely great bang for the buck...& soundwise I can't think of a guitar I own that sounds 'better' tbh...

Sorry I have no idea regarding the radius...other than that it's extremely comfortable to fret and play in general...regarding nut width I can't find anything to measure that with right now. I'll look around in the morning.

The top of the first guitar I bought (on page 1 of the thread) is listed as walnut..the second one up there is Rosewood.



If you zoom in to the venner pic It looks like this sort of walnut that's been stained:

http://www.veneer-factory-outlet.com...s-savings-q-c/


I mean that's what the grain pattern looks like...with the stripey things. It's pretty much identical.

I also saw some of the walnut topped guitars with swirly grained tops (definitely looked like walnut to me) when I went to their own store to buy the last Rosewood-top one they had.

I don't think they'd get away with calling it walnut if it was'nt ..even here in India :lmao:

Yeah, some bright spark screwed the pup-ring in a bit low ...you can't tell Unless you look at it from an angle. did'nt noticed that till a couple of days ago. But yeah, easy fix....I just like the way it sounds right now so I left it as it is

 

[GuitarDoc]

The top of the first guitar I bought (on page 1 of the thread) is listed as walnut..the second one up there is Rosewood.

Yeah, they also "list" chrome tuners and toggle switch. It still doesn't look like walnut to me.

If you zoom in to the venner pic It looks like this sort of walnut that's been stained

http://www.veneer-factory-outlet.com...s-savings-q-c/

I mean that's what the grain pattern looks like...with the stripey things. It's pretty much identical.

The grain pattern looks similar to the ones in your link, but walnut has very small tight pores, almost non-existent, your pores are very open like rosewood almost even like mahogany. It could be some species of walnut that I'm not familiar with however. I am no expert on every wood type.

I don't think they'd get away with calling it walnut if it was'nt ..even here in India :lmao:

Like I said, they get away with calling that a toggle and chrome tuners. It's a lot easier to get away with calling wood a different type

 

[Phantasmagoria]

haha...but not the same thing..

They do say "5-way toggle" (& toggles are 2-3 way at the most..) I submit the word they were looking for is "switch" (English is a second & often 3rd or 4th language here)

Regarding tuners well...they do have another walnut-top model with chrome ones and a chrome tremolo bridge...they may have just mixed it up (someone got lazy & cut/pasted some specs :lmao Don't think they were tryng to fool anyone by passing off black tuners as chrome :laugh2:. I mean their online listings have umpteen pics of the guitar and it's tuners & people have eyes. (same goes for the toggle)

The difference is they're being sold under the monicker's/heading's "Alder with walnut top" & "Alder with rosewood top" in all the stores, physical & online everywhere... that's not something that's tucked into their specs list.....'

Lastly the dude at their store said that when they introduced them three years ago they were priced at Rs.30.000 (USD 410) not 10,000-12,000 like they are now after being heavily discounted (like I said in a previous post people here don't buy Indian guitars. as a rule, so that initial price was a bit adventurous of them). The nut is a Tusq XL (43mm) & def looks like the real thing ..I have them on 3 other guitars....plus, these things keep perfect tune, both of them.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

This stuff ("Indian Walnut" on the right....might have to zoom in) looks close enough to what's on the guitar for me.. ..it's even practically the same color :bigthumb:

Now it might be Walnut the way asian "Mahogany" is Mahogany as used by Ibanez, Epi, Schecter, Ltd, PRS SE, BC Rich etc.. etc..but I think it's legit enough...

 

[Mincer]

I don't know if it is a 'true' walnut, as that doesn't have as much red in there. It is a pretty wood, though, no matter what they call it.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

They've definitely stained it a bit...but to my eye it looks like "Indian Walnut" (whether that's actually walnut or not I have no idea ...but it's what passes for it here )

Close up..

I'm no expert but I'm pretty sure that's ^^ what it is..

 

[dave74]

Sorry if I missed it but; What is $150 price = compared to USA market? Is it like paying double that here?
I'mean not $ exchange rate, but more in terms of how much people make there vs the $150 price.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

Yeah, at least guitar-wise I think something costing the equivalent of $150 here would probably cost closer to 3 times as much in the US. But it depends and varies a lot depending on the commodity ..a McDonald's burger here for instance costs exactly what it does in the US....it's not 3 times cheaper.

Also, thanks to massive social/financial inequality, corruption and all that cool stuff....a guy working a high-paying job here might earn the same or more pay than what someone doing the same job in the US would be paid. Yet someone with a menial job here could be paid a fifth..maybe even a tenth of what someone doing the same menial job in the US is earning. That's how it goes in the third world....nothing makes any sense and it totally sucks to be poor :laugh2:

 

[GuitarDoc]

That really sucks about your economy. Sorry man.

You could be right on about the wood...I am no expert. Thanks for the info and references. I learned something new.

Yeah, the nut definitely looked like Tusk. I had no doubt about that. Thanks for including the length. 43 mm is 1 11/16". My favorite neck width at the nut and what I use in all my builds.

 

[Phantasmagoria]

It's cool.....personally I'm kinda stuck in the middle economy-wise :laugh2:. It's been better for the middle class the last couple of decades..

Regarding wood..I'm no expert either lol....but to me it looks like "Indian Walnut" is most likely what they used for this guitar

Yeah....most of my guitars have Floyd roses/locking bridges and are 43mm at the nut too. I guess that's probably what I'm most comfortable with myself. If I were a builder I'd probably be much more aware of stuff like that, but all I do is play & most of the time I don't think about any of that other stuff at all :laugh2: