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Found a perfect LIII

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She was light, gorgeous and a hammer of a guitar. Brought her home and tap tested the neck and the body and they are tuned to E. Even tone from the nut to the 22 fret and the guitar plays itself.

Awesome guitar and flat out my favorite new Music Man !!!! 7.9 LBS, roasted maple HH in Bodhi blue.
Killer color and it's such a strat and a Les Paul at the same time. Love the Transition pups.

I have a little pinging with trem use but don't know if it's the saddle or the nut so I will lube them up with nut sauce.
 
Congrats! The Luke III is my favorite model now. The body feels so comfortable and I love the soft V neck shape.
 
This is funny. I literally put the L III up against my strat and now I hate my strat. The L III ate it up and was 10 times more stratty than a $ 1800 Eric Johnson Strat. To storage it goes. I have been playing the Luke model since 95, but these roasted necks just sound old and feel so alive. It took my original Luke's a long time to get that way. When EB and Luke stopped making the Floyd version, I never played an L II because I thought I would hate the trem. I am an idiot.

The transition pups are just so versatile and perfectly voiced and the boost is such a killer tool. Today I ran her through my Bogner Ecstacy 101B's and it just makes the blue channel so versatile. The volume pot rolled down cleans up nice, blue channel with no amp boost, blue channel with guitar boost and blue channel with both amp and guitar boost. What a pallete of tones. Played it through my Diezel Herbert and the guitar does death metal too......

Lastly, I checked the setup and it was a 2/64'ths or 1.5 MM and no buzz. HA !!!!!! Thats fretwork.

Ordering another L III tomorrow in black.
 
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