SECTOR SPOTLIGHT ELECTRIC GUITARS
Godin Freeway SA £1,149
About the only major manufacturer making guitars fitted with a pickup compatible with the Roland GR synth range, the Freeway SA combines everything that is good about an electric. Great looks, superb, silky playability and the chance to make an unlimited amount of sounds. A rock maple neck with silverleaf maple centre with maple wings on the body, Godin custom pickups… What’s not to like?
BC Rich Zoltan Bathory Signature Assassin From £893
The guitarist of Five Finger Death Punch has worked closely with BC Rich for this metal monster, which has a maple neck- thru-mahogany archtop body with quilted maple on natural finish or maple on both onyx finishes, ebony or maple fingerboard, Grover tuners and Rockfield Mafia pickups.
CONTACTS
Fender (Fender, Charvel, EVH) 01342 331700 Westside (Schecter) 0141 248 4812 Bill Lewington (Dean) 01268 413366 High Tech (Vigier) 01722 410002 JHS (Fret King, Vintage) 0113 286 5381 Rosetti (BC Rich) 01761 300301 Strings & Things (Musicman) 01273 440442 Blue Rock (Godin) 0845 388 1183 440 Distribution (Godin) 0113 258 9599 Patrick Eggle 08454 304044 Patrick James Eggle 01691 661777 Yamaha 01908 366700 Headstock (Ibanez) 0121 508 6666
Charvel San Dimas Wild Card £840
This limited run Wild Card has a very cool ‘molten crust burst’ finish that certainly catches the eye – particularly with the black hardware and Grover machines. The Japanese-made special has an alder body and quartersawn maple neck with rosewood fingerboard, Floyd Rose trem bridge and a Seymour Duncan JB model bridge humbucker and two Seymour single coils – the STK4M Classic Stack to be precise.
(tracking) of the synth. After about 12 prototypes, Godin had not only achieved workable guitar synth tracking, but had done it all on a nylon string guitar, which, I’m sure you’ll agree, is quite a feat.
BACK IN BRITAIN Several years have passed since the first Multiac made its debut and Godin continues to refine the designs and explore new possibilities such as the new Multiac Fretless. There are now 12 Godin models that include synth access, including the Freeway SA, the XTSA, the LGX SA and the LGX T – all scooting in at around the £1,400 price point. The UK’s very own Patrick Eggle
brand is celebrating its 20th Anniversary year and is producing some limited editions, using a variety of exotic woods. Original 1991 patterns for necks and bodies have been utilised to exactly reproduce the feel, playability and sounds of those first models. The Berlin EVO Legend 50 is being made with a unique one-piece quilted burl maple top matched to a 1950s Honduras mahogany back, from the 1991
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stock sourced worldwide. The neck is quarter sawn Honduran mahogany Smoothflow with an ebony fingerboard and solid abalone falling maple leaf inlays as well as gold Sperzel Trimlock locking tuning heads and 20th Anniversary gold signature. Eggle hand- wound pickups – with gold plated covers through the Patrick Eggle nine-way system – give full range sounds, including single coil permutations for classic tones as well as the Berlin’s complete humbucker sounds. Adding a moment of delightful
synchronicity, Patrick James Eggle, the man who gave his name to the company he founded, before selling up and heading off to the States, has announced that his new brand-name of the highest quality acoustic guitars is now making a limited series of 20 electric guitars, christened The Lizard.
The bodies are Honduran mahogany
and are being capped with what the luthier describes as "some really outstanding pieces of walnut, maple and redwood". The 30 year old Brazilian rosewood fingerboards are hand inlayed
with a lizard featuring over 200 pieces of shell and wood. The guitars will be modern double-
cutaway designs, flat, drop-topped and will house two custom wound humbuckers – made by Bulldog – and will retail at £4,995 from select stores and from the PJE workshop in Oswestry, Wales. Yamaha developed the SG series in the 70s with the goal of creating the best electric guitar possible. The design was based upon the top guitars at the time, but every single detail was considered from the ground up. Not only were the body and neck redesigned, but everything, right down to the circuitry and strap pins. Some features, which are now
considered standard on any guitar, were first developed for the SG. The SG2000 features a long sustain and is very popular with jazz and fusion artists. The SG1000 was created with rock guitarists in mind and is characterised by a sharper attack. Both are handcrafted and the longevity of their popularity is a testament to this quality.
The guitars are crafted by a team of master luthiers on a dedicated production line at Yamaha Music Craft in Hamamatsu, where top-of-the-line handcrafted acoustic and custom guitars are produced. Both guitars also feature Initial
Response Acceleration (IRA), a Yamaha original manufacturing technique that is utilised on many of its stringed instruments. There are now, in total, no fewer than eight SG models in the range today. The Ibanez RG Prestige series was
introduced in 1987 on the wave of big hair, big rock sounds and styles, and is still thriving and evolving. These instruments are renowned for
their characteristic thin, fast necks, and hard-edged tones, and are made in Japan by Ibanez's finest luthiers. The Wizard necks and Prestige
finishing, Edge Zero and Edge Pro bridges, and a broad range of powerful pickups in different configurations make up these rock essentials, which also include a choice of seven and eight-string models.
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