My new Ball (20th Silo Content)

[petruccirocks02]

Here are some pics of my newly acquired 20th Anniversary Silhouette. Its one 1 of 13 made I believe. The piezo on this thing just blows the piezo on my JP out of the water. I'm assuming its from the combination of woods and the MTB. I got this used, but it is indeed in mint condition. The plastic was still on the case latches . The neck is going to take some getting used to cuz of how thick it is, but it'll be worth it. And man does the top on this thing ever suck! Geez! Here are some pics:

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-Phil

 

[Sweat]

Wow, nice grap man, 20ths are great, sitting here playing mine when you posted this, love the top and maple fretboard is awesome, congrats, you will enjoy it

 

[INMT]

ahhh the 20th. Good to see you were able to find one. True beauty!

 

[dstockden]

Ive got GAS!

 

[petruccirocks02]

ahhh the 20th. Good to see you were able to find one. True beauty!

Thanks. I'm glad I scooped this one up while I could. The only thing is there's these strange blue marks on the back of the neck, almost like ink or something, would there be any way to get that off that anyone knows of?

-Phil

 

[leftyguitarblue]

I want to GAS for one, but not for lefties. I still love it though. Awesome looking.

 

[GuitarHack]

Great axe, you'll have much happiness with this one.

 

[GWDavis28]

Dude, I've got the samething except mine is non-matching headstock!!

Great looking guitar!!! Congrats.

Glenn |B)

 

[petruccirocks02]

Great axe, you'll have much happiness with this one.

Indeed I will. So far, I'm still kind of struggling with the neck thickness cuz I'm so used to my JP. Also, I'm not too fond of the bridge pickup too much. It doesn't seem to have enough bite through my Mark IV. I'm guessing the 20th is kinda geared towards classic rock/country type stuff, not metal/prog haha.

-Phil

 

[petruccirocks02]

Dude, I've got the samething except mine is non-matching headstock!!

Great looking guitar!!! Congrats.

Glenn |B)

Sweet. If I'm correct, 11 other users have them too. I demand you other 11 people post pics! Haha.

-Phil

 

[RobW]

wow, that top is reeeally sucky

Love the figuring on the neck too. Could we see more?

 

[petruccirocks02]

wow, that top is reeeally sucky

Love the figuring on the neck too. Could we see more?

I'll def. shoot some more pics, but it'll have to be a couple days from now. I wanna take outside pics but rain is in the forecast here for the next 3 days. So when its sunny I'll take some nice ones. If I forget, shoot me a pm or something.

-Phil

 

[INMT]

Thanks. I'm glad I scooped this one up while I could. The only thing is there's these strange blue marks on the back of the neck, almost like ink or something, would there be any way to get that off that anyone knows of?

-Phil

Oh I can get that off, send it to me I'll take care of it.
It won't take more than 20 or 30 years I'm sure LOL.
Try Goo Gone.

Also, I'm not too fond of the bridge pickup too much. It doesn't seem to have enough bite through my Mark IV. I'm guessing the 20th is kinda geared towards classic rock/country type stuff, not metal/prog haha.

Funny, I said almost the same thing about my JP7 so I changed the pickups.

 

[petruccirocks02]

Oh I can get that off, send it to me I'll take care of it.
It won't take more than 20 or 30 years I'm sure LOL.
Try Goo Gone.



Funny, I said almost the same thing about my JP7 so I changed the pickups.

30 years huh? Haha. I'll try the goo gone. Thanks for the suggestion. As far as the bridge pickup goes, I ordered a chrome covered Air Norton this morning to try out in the bridge. If I don't like it I suppose I'll go with a D-Sonic or something, but I'd like to stick with something chrome covered that can do metal and DT stuff. How do any of you think a Steve's Special would sound in the 20th, being that the SS has a scooped midrange? Just curious.

-Phil

 

[PeteDuBaldo]

Sweet. If I'm correct, 11 other users have them too. I demand you other 11 people post pics! Haha.

-Phil

Phil, I'm glad you were able to find a used one! The 20th has an awesome tone and the piezo is fantastic on it.

I have pics of 5 of the others (from the old watermark days)...

Std "code 80"

Std "code 80" - mine

Ordered as Flame code "SF"

Ordered as Flame code "SF"

Ordered as Quilt code "SQ"

 

[petruccirocks02]

Phil, I'm glad you were able to find a used one! The 20th has an awesome tone and the piezo is fantastic on it.

I have pics of 5 of the others (from the old watermark days)...

Std "code 80"

Std "code 80" - mine

Ordered as Flame code "SF"

Ordered as Flame code "SF"

Ordered as Quilt code "SQ"

Damn Pete, those are nice. I'm gonna shoot you a PM real quick about something if you don't mind.

-Phil

 

[INMT]

If I don't like it I suppose I'll go with a D-Sonic or something, but I'd like to stick with something chrome covered that can do metal and DT stuff.

-Phil

Remember you can stick a chrome cover on just about any pickup.

 

[petruccirocks02]

Remember you can stick a chrome cover on just about any pickup.

I don't think its possible to stick one over the D-Sonic though because of the rail, is that correct?

-Phil

 

[INMT]

I don't think its possible to stick one over the D-Sonic though because of the rail, is that correct?

-Phil

Just use ones like these

 

[petruccirocks02]

Just use ones like these

Damn. They'd actually look really good on the 20th. Do you know where I can find a set of those?

EDIT: I found em. Maybe I'm just kinda dumb when it comes to this sort of thing, but how would the pickups pick up (sorry bad pun) the vibrations from the strings if there's a cover like that over the pickup with no holes cut out for the polepieces?

-Phil