Problem with a lot of these builders mentioned is no 24 fretters. That limits me - I GOTTA have 24 frets period.
I am currently wrestiling with who to order my next custom from.
I really got a superb custom Demon from Jackson. Its as nice of a guitar as I have ever played - and I have played Suhrs, Andersons, zions, Bakers, Warriors etc...
The couple critiques I have on the Demon are that you have to have big slim hands with long fingers (which I happen to have) to get around the large neck heel and narrow lower horn - Jackson should have made the horn pocket wider like the rest of their guitars.
I love the neck but may go with a little skinnier neck on my next guitar. Other than that the sound of it is as good as I have ever heard. Very organic, notes just swell and bloom and sustain is incredible.
I am looking to take the Demon design and change the lower horn to make it a little shorter, increase the width of the neck pocket, maybe slim the neck heel a bit and slim the neck a bit. That would be my ideal guitar.
But I think it would involve actually bringing my Demon on a plane to some builder to let them check it out. Hill is one possibility I found. But I am close enough to drive to US Custom in WI. But US Custom may be limited in body style so I may be back to square one.
Actually there is one local builder in MPLS now that I think about it - they make guitars for Johnny Lang and such....
I am currently wrestiling with who to order my next custom from.
I really got a superb custom Demon from Jackson. Its as nice of a guitar as I have ever played - and I have played Suhrs, Andersons, zions, Bakers, Warriors etc...
The couple critiques I have on the Demon are that you have to have big slim hands with long fingers (which I happen to have) to get around the large neck heel and narrow lower horn - Jackson should have made the horn pocket wider like the rest of their guitars.
I love the neck but may go with a little skinnier neck on my next guitar. Other than that the sound of it is as good as I have ever heard. Very organic, notes just swell and bloom and sustain is incredible.
I am looking to take the Demon design and change the lower horn to make it a little shorter, increase the width of the neck pocket, maybe slim the neck heel a bit and slim the neck a bit. That would be my ideal guitar.
But I think it would involve actually bringing my Demon on a plane to some builder to let them check it out. Hill is one possibility I found. But I am close enough to drive to US Custom in WI. But US Custom may be limited in body style so I may be back to square one.
Actually there is one local builder in MPLS now that I think about it - they make guitars for Johnny Lang and such....
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