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Steel Blue Axis BFR

You sir have a difficult, how shall we say, first world problem! You simply can't make a bad choice here!
Post pics!!
 
beej said:
Personally I dig the burl.
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I actually went for the burl. The guy was off work for a few days and I could not get a hold of anyone at the store. The sales guy finally got up with on the 4th and someone had put it on layaway on the 3rd. The guy has 30 days to pay it off. I am hoping he doesn’t. The salesman said I will be his first call.

I did find a smoking deal on a used Sabre. Boujee burst. Not a thing wrong with it. It was at a guitar center in CT. They wanted $2300. I just got it today. Only Thing wrong with it was someone didn’t know how to use the locking tuners. The strings started popping out when I started tuning it. I replaced the strings made some tweaks on the setup and man the guitar plays like a dream. The pickups sound great but not as hot as I am use to. I am use to my transition in my Luke’s and silos. I think the pickups sound better than the Luke just not as hot. Volume boost on the way in and problem solved.

I have not officially made a NGD thread yet.
 
WillyD said:
Hello,

The frets are indeed stainless, sorry for the confusion here.
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@WilllyD. I feel like stainless frets are such a hot thing these days and a real selling point. Can you elaborate on why Music Man would not list this feature as one of the highlights of this guitar in any of the online descriptions?
 
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I need to do a NGD post. The guitar is great other than some tuning issues I am having with it. Trying figure it out. Bridge is to the body. I put new strings all be it 9s instead of the factory installed 10s.just needed a slight adjust on the intonation not much. Neck is where I like it and action. Is right at 1.5mm. I need to start looking at the nut and saddles. I will say the neck feels fabulous. I am liking the neck better than my silos and Luke. It is close to the feel of a jp but more curved. The neck even feels better than my jp12. The pickups sound great but not as hot as I would like them to be. They seem to be 10 15 dB quite than my Luke when I plug into my interface. Still hoping that axis burl top comes available.
 
guitarheadhunt said:
Dropbox - 20200710_011618.jpg - Simplify your life

Dropbox - 20200710_011553.jpg - Simplify your life

Dropbox - 20200710_011540.jpg - Simplify your life

I need to do a NGD post. The guitar is great other than some tuning issues I am having with it. Trying figure it out. Bridge is to the body. I put new strings all be it 9s instead of the factory installed 10s.just needed a slight adjust on the intonation not much. Neck is where I like it and action. Is right at 1.5mm. I need to start looking at the nut and saddles. I will say the neck feels fabulous. I am liking the neck better than my silos and Luke. It is close to the feel of a jp but more curved. The neck even feels better than my jp12. The pickups sound great but not as hot as I would like them to be. They seem to be 10 15 dB quite than my Luke when I plug into my interface. Still hoping that axis burl top comes available.
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Mate, that sabre has my mouth watering like Pavlov’s dog
 
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