Hello, an introduction and gear

[marc_odijk]

Hi there!

My name is Marc, and I'm from The Netherlands.
I'm a 35 year-old guitarplayer, and I'm playing for about 19 years now.
Went through a LOT of stuff over the years and have played anything from bluesrock thrashmetal and back.
Found this forum through Estin, who is also a member here, who I´ve met a few years ago on a forum about Engl-amps.

Feel free to ask questions about my gear, i´ll try to post alink to my pictures


Oh yeah, sorry for my lame English by the way.

let's hope it works, hehehe

http://community.webshots.com/user/marcodijk


for some reason the link does not work properly, but if you copy it to your browser, it does..hmm

 

[Jimi D]

Welcome to the Forum, Marc!

That's some nice gear you've got there... That Eggle Berlin looks special - I wish I could find one of those guitars over here on this side of the Atlantic; I've always wanted to try one....

 

[marc_odijk]

Those Eggles are great, as long as you find one wich was built before Patrick Eggle left that company, wich was somewhere in 1995.
This one is customised, the pickups are splittable in a lot of ways. The tone-knob is replaced by a three-way-rotary (no-one uses tone anyway) and now I can choose wich part of the humbuckers I want to use.
I can choose for the whole humbucker, or one of the coils. In combination with the toggle-switch wich functions normal there are a lot of sounds, from thin clean sounds to the heavy stuff.
Pickups are a dimarzio super distortion at the bridge and a apf pro at the neck.
they go for around 1000 euro's over here, if you can find one and 1 euro is 1,10 dollar or so.

 

[Estin]

marc! thats the axis sport i'm looking for! i'd ask to buy it, but there actually worth money over there used. here about $500 jimi d got one just like it with a vintage tremelo in awesome shape for only $399 off ebay. bastard!

 

[tvanveen]

Woo hoo, another dutchman! Welcome aboard!

 

[marc_odijk]

Thanks for the welcome.

Prizes here are not normal.

I took an Axis supersport purple ash body, vintage trem and two humbuckers to the guitarshop and swapped it for a Rivera Fandango.
It is now a secondhand Axis supersport and the shop asks 1995 euro for it, wich is around 2200 US dollar....wich is also the newprice.

Good EVH's go for over 3000 euro's here, and if the Top is wvery good, maybe up to 3500 euro, wich is 3850 dollar....secondhand.

hehehehehe