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Johnny Alien
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Agreed.
RJKANEAO
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Thanks, I was really surprised how well made it was.. I think the street price is like $199 and literally and hour after I got it I had it at my gig and it was fabulous even with the stick strings on. The color (finish) is quite lovely.. I'm thinking about getting a regular EBMM silhouette with the HSH pups with a close to same finish with a black pearloid pickgaurd.. But idk, maybe even a black finish with the black pearl PG.. But I recommend the silo3 to anyone wanting to pick-up a jam guitar. Like I said I'm not sure what the price is but I'm al it's certain it's like $199 street.. So well worth it!
SBMM
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You Da'Man braddah! How's that 7 string treating you so far?
NickLee
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Steering my students toward the Sterling line and away from the typical epi/squire choices. Also good for the kids who are growing up, but still find the full size guitar a little awkward!
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RJKANEAO
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Brian.. Its awesome.. I used both jp70 n silo3 last night at our show for a group of 5000 people in attendance and the sound company flew in and shipped their gear in was based out of Orange County one of the best companies I've had the Pleasure of working with lately called "claire audio" , Have you heard of them?
RJKANEAO
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More to come as soon as I can get some time in to do more editing. Aloha
More to come as soon as I can get some time in to do more editing. Aloha
Well, I wanted to replace the Sterling bridge with a Gotoh but I had issues aquiring one. They seem to be on endless back order or way over priced. The Sterling bridge is pretty good but I had problems installing a D-Tuna so that's why I wanted to replace it. I came across some Gotoh saddles while looking for an affordable Gotoh bridge so I bought them. I replaced the stock saddles, fine tuner tension plate and added a brass tremolo block basically rebuilding the tremolo. I had returned the D-Tuna I purchased when I bought the guitar and had ordered a new one when I decided to replace the bridge. After I rebuilt the bridge the D-Tuna works like a champ! I may still replace the bridge later on down the line but for now I'm happy with it and I saved some money. Other parts I've replaced are the pick up switch, volume pot & knob, the string retainer & tremolo arm assembly. It was pretty good stock but I'm really happy with the upgrades I've made so far.
Ben
Ben
SBMM
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Ben - great job there!
What I would suggest is to start another thread detailing the extent of your work on this upgrade.
I always get a ton of requests regarding this mod, but, since we don't offer it, and thus, I have no hands on experience with modding it, I think it would be a tremendous service of experience that you could offer to other owners that are interested in doing this.
What I would suggest: A concise list of the parts used to mod, with name/manufacturer/part numbers. If you could possibly take it apart and detail pictures of what you changed out, etc. I know that is asking a lot, but since it is new and fresh, and you hopefully have this information handy, would be excellent!
I know I'd for sure at least have a T-Shirt and Hat sent out your way for your trouble
What I would suggest is to start another thread detailing the extent of your work on this upgrade.
I always get a ton of requests regarding this mod, but, since we don't offer it, and thus, I have no hands on experience with modding it, I think it would be a tremendous service of experience that you could offer to other owners that are interested in doing this.
What I would suggest: A concise list of the parts used to mod, with name/manufacturer/part numbers. If you could possibly take it apart and detail pictures of what you changed out, etc. I know that is asking a lot, but since it is new and fresh, and you hopefully have this information handy, would be excellent!
I know I'd for sure at least have a T-Shirt and Hat sent out your way for your trouble
puppiesonacid
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are there plans to do the silohette bass or petrucci baritone for the sbmm line? how about both? lots o people using baritones lately! i would definetly get both
SBMM
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We've been kicking it around for some time, but no market research going on yet. It's something I'd love to do but nothing really moving forward as of yet.
We do however, have some pretty cool things cooking for Winter NAMM 2014
puppiesonacid
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We've been kicking it around for some time, but no market research going on yet. It's something I'd love to do but nothing really moving forward as of yet.
We do however, have some pretty cool things cooking for Winter NAMM 2014
i understand. well if you ever unload a baritone prototype, let me know
also wondering if you guys will be expanding the color palette on the ax30 model? i would love to pick one up but i dont dig the sunburst finish. i dont like floyds otherwise id go with the ax40 . how come you guys dont offer the ax30 in the same finishes as the ax40 line?
thanks for getting back to me.
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SBMM
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We are looking at some finish additions for the AX30, stay tuned on that.
We don't do similar finishes on models other than the basses just to keep things confusing
CountOfTuscany
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Some awesome guitars in this thread! The JP's look incredible!
Ok guys today I got the final piece to finish off upgrading my AX40. I bought this guitar new right when the blue models came out. They play really well stock, but I wanted to do a few personal upgrades to it and made it a monster:
EVH Volume pot
Peavey Wolfgang bridge pickup
Gotoh GE1996T Floyd trem
I had a decent Gotoh knockoff on it for a couple years, but the small zinc sustain block was just not cutting it. The Gotoh unit is much better - my favorite Floyd trem.
This edges just it a little closer to the USA Axis
EVH Volume pot
Peavey Wolfgang bridge pickup
Gotoh GE1996T Floyd trem
I had a decent Gotoh knockoff on it for a couple years, but the small zinc sustain block was just not cutting it. The Gotoh unit is much better - my favorite Floyd trem.
This edges just it a little closer to the USA Axis
benoa
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Nice guitar Cale Sahl!!! How easy/difficult was the swap for the Gotoh?
Actually I just swapped tremolo for tremolo (and springs) - didn't pull the studs or anything advanced like that.
If you guys care about what posts are in the AX40 - they ARE fine threaded posts, unlike the coarse threaded junk that comes on 99% of the licensed Floyds out there. Fine threaded posts (these come with OFRs) have very little wiggle room, therefore virtually eliminating those tuning issues we usually experience with less than higher quality Floyds.
Anyway, like I mentioned earlier I had a knockoff Gotoh that actually is a decent tremolo for the money, but for ~$50 more I got the real thing
Totally worth it for a nice big brass sustain block vs thin zinc alloy junkI did notice the Gotoh naturally sits a touch higher than the knockoff trem I had prior, but I just raised the posts slightly to compensate to make the base plate sit flush and it's all good. Didn't need to re-intonate as much as I thought because I basically eyeballed the intonation positions before I installed the Gotoh, and worked out just fine. If anything later on I might put a small shim in the neck to raise the profile a little to sit better with the Gotoh, but honestly it intonates just fine and the action isn't really that high.
Knockoff
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Another Noob
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Picked up an AX30D this week! Lovin' the top!
