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It is indeed a Hagstrom Viking Deluxe, but I do not have it in hand yet, bought it on Reverb this afternoon. My understanding is that these have a shallow (thin?) C-shaped neck, with an interesting manufactured composite fingerboard, that supposedly emulates ebony quite well. Not a ton of reviews for these, but everything I saw was very positive. I'll definitely post more once I have it in hand... I'm thinking it should be called Bragi, the Norse god of music...too pretentious?
Hiwatts and Gibsons
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I had a Viking Deluxe Tremar for a while. It was an awesome playing guitar. The neck was reminiscent of an Ibenez Wizard II neck with a little more shoulder. It felt more shallow D than C shaped to me. Their composite fretboard is incredibly smooth and slick feeling. Tbt it feels more like a brand new finished maple board than ebony imo. It had good fretwork. Overall it was one of the fastest playing guitars I ever had, right there with my old Ibenez Sabre and Firebird. Fast runs and rhythms with rapid position changes felt effortless.
The stock pickups are nice vintage voiced humbuckers.
Overall I thought it was an amazingly good instrument at that price point, and cemented my love for thin bodied semi-hollow and hollow body guitars. It served as my first toe dip in that pond. Quite comfy to play sitting, and standing.
Nowadays I have an Eastman 330 copy filling that niche, but if I had the cash on hand and was looking for a good reasonably priced semi-hollow if one came up at the price I was willing to spend I would buy another in a heartbeat.
Hope you love it.
The stock pickups are nice vintage voiced humbuckers.
Overall I thought it was an amazingly good instrument at that price point, and cemented my love for thin bodied semi-hollow and hollow body guitars. It served as my first toe dip in that pond. Quite comfy to play sitting, and standing.
Nowadays I have an Eastman 330 copy filling that niche, but if I had the cash on hand and was looking for a good reasonably priced semi-hollow if one came up at the price I was willing to spend I would buy another in a heartbeat.
Hope you love it.
Explorer84
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That's really nice!
Hiwatts and Gibsons
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Has it arrived yet?
I just got my new toy out of the box yesterday, did a full setup on it, and I'm pretty pleased, not over-the-moon, but I like it. First, it's absolutely beautiful, the grain is stunning, and the fit and finish are 9's. The fret ends were a little sharp, so I tamed them down a bit, the tuners look like any Ibanez, except for the stepped buttons, not bad, not amazing. The neck is very nice, kind of a shallow 'C', good relief and action right out of the box (thank you Cream City Music), and plays really well. The pups, stock Hagstrom HJ-50's, made by BHC, are... fine...not a very inspiring set, but quite useable. I let the boys at my local shop all play it today, as they're all better players than I, and the consensus was that it was really pretty, and not many comments on tone. Upgrades in order: V/T knobs (boring old-school black and silver), locking tuners (I like 'em, that's why), tone pots (zero effect until it gets to '2'), then I'll look at new pups and switching options (just cause I can).
Artie
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I've always wanted to try a set. It's funny that the Benedetto A6, B6, and P.A.F. are only available in a "neck" model. I guess they're intended to go back to the old days of N/B being wound the same.
Nice axe too.
Artie
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The Benedetto "Benny", has a pair of A6's in it. I've lusted over that guitar since I first saw it over a decade ago. But at $5k+, it's a little out of my paygrade.
"Google" it. It's gorgeous and simple clean.
Plus, at least with the A6 and B6, they have a pretty high output, so they work just dandily in either position. Sometime I'm going to loan my guitar with the A6's in it to my rocker friend, and have him put it through its paces with high volume, distortion, etc., and get his opinion of the pups as a non-jazz option... Should be interesting...
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