Acid Reflex

[izzy]

Here's my dream ...

Built on the strong shoulders of the 25th (chambered, tone block, series/parallel ...), simply add piezo pup and a different color.

Is it ok to dream out loud?

 

[threeminutesboy]

green guitars don't sell

 

[GWDavis28]

green guitars don't sell

Agreed!! But it does look nice.

Glenn |B)

 

[threeminutesboy]

and I have 3 dargie myself

This green Reflex looks nice but I doubt about Piezo (maybe changing/altering the tone of the original 25th)

 

[mbgreene]

I Like Green Guitars

(but they still don't sell)

 

[izzy]

green guitars don't sell

I just picked a color that would be striking -- given the option natural would be my choice, just hard to fake in photoshop convincingly (with my modest skills).

 

[izzy]

I doubt about Piezo (maybe changing/altering the tone of the original 25th)

that's the most important difference, color was just an aside

 

[Jack FFR1846]

Maple 24 fret board, non-matching headstock and I'll put my order in right now! I like green.

 

[Ripper]

Put a all rosewood neck on it!

 

[jamminjim]

It doesn't hurt to dream big.. or green..

 

[bkrumme]

That's pretty nice, but the controls seem cluttered (for me).

I'd put the piezo switch on the upper 'horn' just like on the JP guitars, put the piezo volume where the series/parallel switch is, and use a push/pull for series/parallel. OR eliminate the extra controls alltogether by use of the "Game Changer" BP showed us back at Summer NAMM.

+1 for an all rosewood neck

 

[izzy]

Good ideas guys! Tell a wood n00b, what impacts on the tone does a full rosewood neck bring?

Game changer? Sounds cool but what the heck is it? Link? Izzy goes a searchin' ...

 

[bkrumme]

The all rosewood neck is more a feel thing than a tone thing, but it does add a little more "woodyness" to the tone. I want to say the attack won't be quite as sharp as with maple.

The Game Changer:

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/38977-gamechanger.html?highlight=game+changer

 

[ScoobySteve]

Piezo on a chambered body would be VERY interesting.

 

[bkrumme]

Piezo on a chambered body would be VERY interesting.

I like the idea. I'd buy one...

 

[dannymusic]

oh man....

if i even heard a HINT that you would put a piezo on it. I'm all over it.


PIEZO, PIEZO, PIEZO!!!!!

 

[izzy]

The all rosewood neck is more a feel thing than a tone thing, but it does add a little more "woodyness" to the tone. I want to say the attack won't be quite as sharp as with maple.

Thanks bkrumme! I just learned of a possible rw neck 25th coming available to me!!! Wonder if it would still be tone appropriate for an old finger picker (ala knopfler) like me.

The Game Changer:

http://www.ernieball.com/forums/music-man-guitars/38977-gamechanger.html?highlight=game+changer

In a word: innomazing (innovative+amazing). I swear I daily ready something about EBMM that impresses me and ups my opinion of the company. Having previously owned a EBMM Steve Morse Sig my vantage point was already "highly impressed". Kudos to BP + crew for <once again> thinking outside the box and coming up with an innovative and original solution.

 

[bkrumme]

Thanks bkrumme! I just learned of a possible rw neck 25th coming available to me!!! Wonder if it would still be tone appropriate for an old finger picker (ala knopfler) like me.

In a word: YES

 

[izzy]

In a word: YES

You guys are killin' me.

 

[Pain-Free Music]

Here's my dream ...

Built on the strong shoulders of the 25th (chambered, tone block, series/parallel ...), simply add piezo pup and a different color.

Is it ok to dream out loud?

This is my dream guitar, but with a maple fretboard!!!

Though, my thoughts wonder if the series/parallel switch couldn't be made into a push pull pot under the tone knob. Down, it's parallel, up it's series. That would remove the need for one more hole in a piezo equipped guitar. So then you'd have a total of four holes in that area.

Again, my dream is for a emerald green Reflex like some of the green Axis's I have seen. But I understand that emerald green guitars don't sell well. BP did say if someone would order 25 at a time he'd do a run....and if I had the money I'd buy each of those 25. (maybe I'll become a guitar dealer...dreaming, dreaming, dreaming...then smacked back to reality by my wife...) I'd glady get a blue one, or natural though, but definitely with a piezo.

(Though I'd be part of an order of 25 greens and i'd wait however long needed for a full run of orders to be placed. A man can dream.)