Had to go to Jax yest to get my pain pump refilled, so I popped into GC to have a look around. Mostly wanted to check out accoustic stuff oddly or not.. Played a few things on the wall that caught my eye. Mostly inexpensive and used stuff. This store has a cheap Jackson Rhoads V that really impressed me. Read more on that here:
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?309060-NGD-Jackson-JS32T-King-V
They had a few different Used Charvels of recent years' Desolation series. Of course, being pointy, the single pickup black star was the first I grabbed! It definately needed some set up love, so was hard to truly get a feel for it, but the fit and finish was well done, fretwork was nice. Not huge on sustain, but Im sure the cheap floyd would benefit from a big block upgrade. And again, proper set up would make a big difference. Price made it quite tempting.. They also had one of the Soloist type models (DX1?). It was VERY nicely done! Played Excellent! l was really impressed with this one too! Sustained great, nice punchy tone, great fit and finish. taped off at "heel" area so the neck was not painted. Only negative to it for me personally, is the color being a teal and all the abalone inlays, binding and bling, really looked to feminine for my tastes.
Sadly, looking at charvel's website, looks like they have discontinued all of the desolation series..
They happened to have one other from the Desolation series. ( I found it interesting that they had all these charvels.) any how, they had a surfcaster type one. Also very nice fit and finish and a great player. Just not my thing.
They had a gorgeous top PRS SE series with a blue flame top. I was very disappointed with that one. Had NO mojo, sounded very "plinky". No girth to the tone accoustically. Ive played so VERY impressive PRS Se models, but this one was a dog..
Last guitar I wanted to mention.. I have never been fond of the looks of a Les Paul Jr type of guitar. Just never struck my fancy visually or features wise. But recently, Ive started to appreciate the raw, stripped down nature of it. Figure it would be cool to have a no frills guitar like that to kinda of force myself to step to the plate as there is nothing to hide behind there. At I have huge respect for dudes like Wattage who can rock a no frills/no excuses axe like that. Anyhow, there was a beautiful blue Epi LP Jr on the wall. It was a limited edition blue color and was gorgeous!!! Plus it was pretty cheap too. It was a low end one and had a neck plate and all. But... It had very impressive fit and finish, fretwork and playability was excellent and it had a huge accoustic tone and was an absolute monster player!! I was really blown away considering this was the low end model.. The only negative was that it had a regular humbucker. If I were to get one, Id want the p90, otherwise, no other point in getting one to me.
Ok, well, thats all I got. Thanks for reading and hopefully someone will get something useful out of this..
https://forum.seymourduncan.com/showthread.php?309060-NGD-Jackson-JS32T-King-V
They had a few different Used Charvels of recent years' Desolation series. Of course, being pointy, the single pickup black star was the first I grabbed! It definately needed some set up love, so was hard to truly get a feel for it, but the fit and finish was well done, fretwork was nice. Not huge on sustain, but Im sure the cheap floyd would benefit from a big block upgrade. And again, proper set up would make a big difference. Price made it quite tempting.. They also had one of the Soloist type models (DX1?). It was VERY nicely done! Played Excellent! l was really impressed with this one too! Sustained great, nice punchy tone, great fit and finish. taped off at "heel" area so the neck was not painted. Only negative to it for me personally, is the color being a teal and all the abalone inlays, binding and bling, really looked to feminine for my tastes.
Sadly, looking at charvel's website, looks like they have discontinued all of the desolation series..
They happened to have one other from the Desolation series. ( I found it interesting that they had all these charvels.) any how, they had a surfcaster type one. Also very nice fit and finish and a great player. Just not my thing.
They had a gorgeous top PRS SE series with a blue flame top. I was very disappointed with that one. Had NO mojo, sounded very "plinky". No girth to the tone accoustically. Ive played so VERY impressive PRS Se models, but this one was a dog..
Last guitar I wanted to mention.. I have never been fond of the looks of a Les Paul Jr type of guitar. Just never struck my fancy visually or features wise. But recently, Ive started to appreciate the raw, stripped down nature of it. Figure it would be cool to have a no frills guitar like that to kinda of force myself to step to the plate as there is nothing to hide behind there. At I have huge respect for dudes like Wattage who can rock a no frills/no excuses axe like that. Anyhow, there was a beautiful blue Epi LP Jr on the wall. It was a limited edition blue color and was gorgeous!!! Plus it was pretty cheap too. It was a low end one and had a neck plate and all. But... It had very impressive fit and finish, fretwork and playability was excellent and it had a huge accoustic tone and was an absolute monster player!! I was really blown away considering this was the low end model.. The only negative was that it had a regular humbucker. If I were to get one, Id want the p90, otherwise, no other point in getting one to me.
Ok, well, thats all I got. Thanks for reading and hopefully someone will get something useful out of this..
And if you want the P90 tone then I would say get it and throw in a Phat Cat 
