Luke Color question, need help

[jcm900]

Hi there!

I'm a newbie here.

I've just played a second-hand Luke ,which is for sale, and it had a paintjob which I've never seen before.

It's somewhere between red and brown. (not metallic)

The guitar is a Luke ll. Has anyone else seen a color like this?

Could it be repainted or is this a color, which has been discontinued? (It's not in the color chart on the MM website)

Please help, because the guitar plays great.

Thank you in advance!

Jcm900

 

[Wick3d.]

That was probably Rolls Burgundy, which has been discontinued a while ago.

Maybe Foggy could give us some pics, just to make sure

 

[jcm900]

Thank you for the quick reply!

I cannot post pics,unfortunately.

Can MM tell the color from the serial number?

Man , that neck is just great!

Just asked for it from the owner.

 

[koogie2k]

Yes they can.

 

[fogman]

It does sound like it's Rolls Burgundy.
Here's a couple pics

 

[jcm900]

Thank you for the pics,mr. Fogman!

Yeah,I think it was a Burgundy colored one. It was a bit dark where I played it .

By the way,guys: Is it normal, that the High E string is a bit closer to the edge of the neck ,than the low E string?

 

[PugNinjas]

That was probably Rolls Burgundy, which has been discontinued a while ago.

Are you sure Rolls Burgundy has been discontinued? I saw it on the new MusicMan website that BP let us take a peek at......

 

[jcm900]

I'm not 100% sure, that the guitar is a burgundy coloured one.

but,yeah, I've seen it on the website,that it hasn't been discontinued.The owner of the guitar told me, that it's been discontinued.

 

[robelinda2]

ive seen ebay auctions where they say black is a super rare color on a Luke, idiots! As in the X Files, trust no-one. Except us of course.

 

[jcm900]

Is it normal, that the High E string is a bit closer to the edge of the neck ,than the low E string?

 

[Ricman]

Foggy - I need the benefit of your wisdom. I thought that the Luke Mk 1 was only available in Pearl red or Pearl Blue. Is Pearl Red the same as Rolls Burgundy? The pics and DVDs I have seen of Luke usng the Mk 1 (mainly the Los Lobotomys - Candyman), the red Luke looks different to the Rolls colour.

 

[DavidOfOz]

Is it normal, that the High E string is a bit closer to the edge of the neck ,than the low E string?

Disclaimer: my eyes are shocking and I'm no judge of linear dimensions...even with measuring equipment!

On my Lukes, at a first casual glance, it seems that the high E is a fraction closer to the fretboard edge than the lower E. But when I look more closely, they seem to be about the same at the 12th fret. If there's a difference, it's pretty miniscual...too small for my blind eyes.

To clarify, I'm talking about the edge of the fretboard to the edge of the string. If you use the centre of the string as your reference point, then maybe the high E is a little "closer". (This makes sense, because for the low E string edge to be the same distance from the fretboard edge, you have to offset it slightly to allow for its greater width.)

 

[jcm900]

Thank you David!

On that guitar the edge of high E string is a little closer to the edge of the fretboard. When I was playing , it wasn't strange, only when I looked at it.

Can this distance be adjusted with the saddles "pushed" to the right direction a little bit? Or are they too hard to adjust them in this way?

 

[starsky]

I'd say that on the Luke I've got out of its case at the moment the outer edge of the low and high E strings are aligned about the same, i.e. there's a similar distance from the outer edge of the strings to the edge of the fretboard.

Whether that would make you think the high E is closer to the edge, given that the low E is obviously a thicker string depends on how you view these things! To me it looks OK.

You may be able to push the saddle in a little bit, but I doubt there's much room for a major adjustment. Maybe the neck on the RB Luke needs a slight adjustment if the high E's too close to the edge.

 

[jcm900]

thanks for your reply, starsky!

There's almost no space in the neck pocket ,at the upper (low E) side of the neck, so I'm afraid ,that this kind of adjustment of the neck wouldn't solve the problem.

 

[kbaim]

Infrequent occurrance if the high e string is noticebly closer to the edge than low e.

Of my 7 Lukes, only one had this happen. And the company stepped in and made things more than right.

I think the smallishness of the Luke neck makes any string spacing more noticeable than to say, the JP model. JMO

 

[jcm900]

Infrequent occurrance if the high e string is noticebly closer to the edge than low e.

Of my 7 Lukes, only one had this happen. And the company stepped in and made things more than right.

I think the smallishness of the Luke neck makes any string spacing more noticeable than to say, the JP model. JMO

"And the company stepped in and made things more than right."

what do you mean on that? did you send the guitar back to them and they fixed it?

on this guitar the string are 'offset' like they are on this JP:

 

[jcm900]

one more question:

an issue ,like on the picture above, how can it be fixed? is this a problem of the tremolo studs?

 

[RocketRalf]

It can be:

1)the angle that you're viewing it from. It seems to be what happens in that photo. Also from a playing angle, it will look that way.

2)the bridge saddles are not perfectly aligned. You can move them a bit when you change strings. It was happening on my guitar, and I felt the high E string was a little weaker than the rest because it was further away from the pickup pole, so I moved the bridge saddles a little towards the low E. You might have to check intonation afterwards, but it's pretty easy.

3)there's a very remote chance that your guitar has a defect and it's not perfectly aligned bridge-neck. I don't really know how to check that.

 

[kbaim]

one more question:

an issue ,like on the picture above, how can it be fixed? is this a problem of the tremolo studs?

On mine it seemed to be trem studs drilled a bit off towards the treble side of guitar. This was a guitar I special ordered Jan '07 NAMM. One of the first BFR's ordered. They redid it. Another in a long list of reasons why I'm so loyal to this company.