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[TonyEVH5150]

I finally got the Axis Sport that I won on eBay last week.

Sounds and feels great! I'm not sure if the pickups are original or not, but they sound good. I thought all the pickups were the cream and black zebras, but I've seen pics of other Sports with the all-black humbuckers.

The guitar is definitely a player. It's got some dents, cracks, and pick scrapes all over the place. I think it gives it a little character. (It also makes me wonder what the previous owner did to this guitar . . .)

My only issue with it is that the trem arm angle is a little tight. It swings a little too close to the vol knobs and the 5-way switch. It's one of the screw-in arms. Anybody know where I can get a replacement????

 

[Sub1 Zero]

I don't know about the trem arm, but I know where you can send it to be "watched" next time you go out of town

 

[robelinda2]

fantastic! Ive decided i need to get a sport, in either SSH or SSS. i must play one!

 

[Dizzy]

What a great Sport !

Well done mate.

 

[Colin]

are you sure those pickups are original?

 

[fogman]

cool

 

[Larry]

I don't think the pickups are original but its a cool looking ball none the less.

 

[Jimmyb]

Hey Tony, glad you won it, sweet looking guitar.

I'm pretty sure that the trem will be a push in type, it might just be that they lost the original arm, so it's been replaced with a screw in one. Both my '97 Sports have the push in arm.

Congratulations.

 

[dg5150]

Thats a cracker Tony !! Congrats !!

Doug

 

[JMB27]

nice lookin' Ball. thanks for posting

 

[Fusionman]

The pickups are likely stock. My Axis Sport also has black bobbin pickups and Im the only owner. Apparently, they changed to black p/ups near the last few runs of this gtr. Mine is a 2002.

They also stopped recessing the neck plate. Request a born on date from the serial number.

I believe the trem bar tension adjustment screw is under the top plate like on any other MM gtr w/a vintage trem. Uses a 1.5 mm hex key.

Its probably a pop in bar like mine.

 

[TonyEVH5150]

Thanks guys. You may be right . . . the bar might be a pop-in. This is a 1998 model, and I don't know if EBMM used pop in or screw in at that time. I'll CS a call and see if I can get a new trem arm for it. The arm screws in easily like it is threaded. Maybe CS can help me figure that one out.

As far as the pickups being stock, I don't really know. There was another Sport model for sale on eBay the same time as this one, and it had black hb's. But, I've seen just as many with zebras. I think guitarball has a used one that has zebra pickups.

I might also see if I can get a set of stock humbuckers for the Axis. I don't know if CS will let people buy them. If I can't, I'll just go the Dimarzio Tone Zone-Air Norton route. OR whichever set matches the original Axis pickups.

I'm trying to decide if the pickguard needs to be a different color. I can't tell of it was white, and it's mellowed into cream, or if it's been cream colored the whole time. I've always thought the black pickguards looked cool.

 

[lumberjack]

Nice one, Tony. Congrats!!

 

[Codyyyn]

Really awesome - I'm digging the blue with the maple fretboard.

 

[Tim O'Sullivan]

Nice axe!

 

[dwells]

great color i love those babies !!!!