Just Bought a Luke! (Pics. Attached)

[zyx345]

Just picked up a Luke. I already own a Petrucci & wanted another strat style EBMM w. a thicker neck. So far I like the tone & feel of this guitar. One difference I notice is that the frets on my Luke are smaller than my Petrucci. Is this normal?

 

[cbpmmjp05]

That's a beautiful guitar. Holy birdseye!

 

[jongitarz]

The fret wire on the Luke is smaller than the JP. The JP uses the same fret wire as our basses.

 

[GWDavis28]

OOOOHHHHH Nice sparkle!!!!

Dude, how much did you pay for that???

Glenn |B)

 

[francric]

Very nice indeed!!!!!!!! Nice sparkle and man the birdseye, wow!!!!!!! When you play the two, what's the major difference that you notice?

 

[zyx345]

The fret wire on the Luke is smaller than the JP. The JP uses the same fret wire as our basses.

Thanks Jon.

 

[zyx345]

Very nice indeed!!!!!!!! Nice sparkle and man the birdseye, wow!!!!!!! When you play the two, what's the major difference that you notice?

Both sound incredible. Unplugged the Petrucci is louder but the Luke also sounds great too but brighter. The plugged in sound of the Petrucci is slighly darker to me. The Luke has much better single coil sounds as it uses real single coils vs the split HBs on the Petrucci. There is little to no noise on the Luke's coil sounds.

IMO the Luke is slighly more versitle. I thought that the middle pickup would bother me while picking & strumming, but it is really not a problem.

The Petrucci has a better Trem. I also like the bridge saddles on the Petrucci becasue they have rollers on them & feel more smooth when palm muting. The Luke has vintage saddles with "rough " screws which I am def. going to replace.

Finally I found that the Luke body was more comfortable for playing & palm muting as I never got used to the Petrucci deep fore arm cut.

 

[OrangeChannel]

The Petrucci trem does not have rollers on it....they're inserts that take the place of the piezo elements, but they're not rollers. It's pretty similar deal to the new IBZ edge pro trems in that sense, but I like the JP design better.

 

[vexed73]

Man I am jealous! that birds eye is awesome. I have about 1% of the birds eye you have. Super buy.

 

[slukather]

That is a very sexy looking Luke, what can l say, l'm jealous.

Scott.

 

[chanminator]

man thats awesome man ... i wish my luke will come with just as much birds eye... one can never have too much birds eye... i think my luke is still around 2 months or more away....

big poppa if you see this pls bless my White luke with matching headstock!!!! like just touch it or sumthing...

 

[darchirnoj]

Nice..

Awesome info. and just in time to help me decide between the two instruments. One question, which is more fun/easier to play based on feel? I have small hands. While I have played a JP, and loved the neck, I noticed that the Luke has a smaller radius and might be easier for me to play. No luck in finding a Luke locally, so I am unable to try it out.
Thanks,
darchirnoj

 

[zyx345]

Awesome info. and just in time to help me decide between the two instruments. One question, which is more fun/easier to play based on feel? I have small hands. While I have played a JP, and loved the neck, I noticed that the Luke has a smaller radius and might be easier for me to play. No luck in finding a Luke locally, so I am unable to try it out.
Thanks,
darchirnoj

Having owned both and having medium sized hands I can say that the Luke II is better for small hands as its a much narrower neck than the JP and that to me makes much more of a difference than the thickness of the neck.

With the Luke I could easily wrap my thumb around for chords. I can do this on the JP also but it is not nearly as easy.

I think the bigger question you should ask yourself is can you live with an asymetrical hard V shaped neck or do you prefer a flat thin super strat like neck?

 

[brentrocks]

very nice guitar....you got a nice neck!!

 

[GHWelles]

How did you post so many pictures without hitting the upload limit?

 

[jongitarz]

Yeah! WTF????

 

[Warg Master]

They're hosted elsewhere with the

 

[phatduckk]

They're hosted elsewhere with the tags in the body of the post[/QUOTE]

ya, get with it guys

 

[zyx345]

They're hosted elsewhere with the tags in the body of the post[/QUOTE]

Yeah, I used image tags.