JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Mine is a Carvin DC-something, wanting to say 135. Got it along with a DC-125 in a trade last summer, and it became the surprise favorite of all my guitars. Never liked neck-thru before, but they're both fantastic. This one is mahogany body and neck, flame cap, pretty flat (maybe 16") ebony board, abalone blocks, Sperzel tuners, Fishman bridge, and Kiesel Lithium pickups. When I got it, it had the piezo pickup, active volume and treble boost/cut, balance knob for the magnetic and piezo, treble boost/cut for the piezo, and 3 mini-toggles (2 splits and phase).
It sounded great as it was, but the controls are all placed too close together, and I really wanted to hear it completely passive. I also couldn't figure out how I wanted to deal with the absurd amount of holes if I took out the knobs (and obviously still haven't). A couple weeks ago I said to hell with it, ripped out all the PCB nonsense, the piezo saddle and second output, picked a better location for the volume knob (had to open up the hole very slightly), and replaced all the active stuff with a 500K Dunlop Super Pot and a Pure Tone jack (both of which are awesome).
I got everything I wanted tonally. Absolutely love the Lithium pickups. The bridge is 13-ish K, A5 with ceramic boosters, has all the chugz and does harmonics effortlessly. The neck balances with it output wise, does the liquid lead tone, and the middle is all sorts of percussive for cool funky chord stuff. The pickups split very well, so I may end up putting a single mini-switch back in for that, but I love the simplicity of the layout.
Another bonus of ripping out all the BS is it took a little over 7 oz off the weight, bringing it down to just over 7 lbs (the other Carvin is alder/maple, 1 pickup, tune-o-matic bridge and like 6.5 lbs). It's overall tone is very much in the Les Paul realm, with all the sustain you'd expect from a 10 lb Gibson.
It sounded great as it was, but the controls are all placed too close together, and I really wanted to hear it completely passive. I also couldn't figure out how I wanted to deal with the absurd amount of holes if I took out the knobs (and obviously still haven't). A couple weeks ago I said to hell with it, ripped out all the PCB nonsense, the piezo saddle and second output, picked a better location for the volume knob (had to open up the hole very slightly), and replaced all the active stuff with a 500K Dunlop Super Pot and a Pure Tone jack (both of which are awesome).
I got everything I wanted tonally. Absolutely love the Lithium pickups. The bridge is 13-ish K, A5 with ceramic boosters, has all the chugz and does harmonics effortlessly. The neck balances with it output wise, does the liquid lead tone, and the middle is all sorts of percussive for cool funky chord stuff. The pickups split very well, so I may end up putting a single mini-switch back in for that, but I love the simplicity of the layout.
Another bonus of ripping out all the BS is it took a little over 7 oz off the weight, bringing it down to just over 7 lbs (the other Carvin is alder/maple, 1 pickup, tune-o-matic bridge and like 6.5 lbs). It's overall tone is very much in the Les Paul realm, with all the sustain you'd expect from a 10 lb Gibson.
. For me, it's probably my Ibanez PL1770. Alder body, ebony board, oiled neck (Ultra type profile, like what came on the later Radius models), Edge trem is non-recessed, per first year spec. 
