NGD! Jackson Phil Collen Pro Archtop!

[rjohnstone]

Love that guitar.
It needs a sustainer retrofit.

[vklobucar]

LOL!!

Nah!!

I'll just keep this stock save for some new pups and trem upgrades.

The new CS Archtop will of course have tbe unit installed.

And will probably be defective after only 6 months!lol !

[rjohnstone]

LOL!!

Nah!!

I'll just keep this stock save for some new pups and trem upgrades.

The new CS Archtop will of course have tbe unit installed.

And will probably be defective after only 6 months!lol !

No.... no more defective sustainers!

That last one you sent me is still on my work bench.
It passes every bench and meter test yet it still refuses to work. Real head scratcher.
I even built an entire new harness for it (verified the harness works with a known good board) and that thing still craps out once power is applied.

[vader13]

i think i drooled on the tv like 10,000 times GASing for one of these when i was a kid but alas they are so rare and i am so broke

[vklobucar]

Finally had a bit of time to tackle the Collen this afternoon.

Did not do much more than install the new Schaller that I ordered and string it up. Need to fine tune it still and eventually swap out the pups etc...

Sounds great and sustains for days as well!!

I'm simply loving this one!!

[vklobucar]

[Mudlark]

Cool pic. 'Tis the season...

[Bryan]

Great pic!

[MartinBarre]

Watched some "In The Round" last night and that guitar just looked SO playable! Why did he switch from neck-thru to bolt-on? I don't understand why anyone would do that.

[vklobucar]

For the longest time Phil told me that the bolt on's ring better and can be set up better as well. However his fav guitar these days is his Jackson Supreme which is a neck thru like the old Collen Archtop.

However who knows what the future will bring?

[leftykingv2]

That things super sweet bro!! HNGD!

[rjohnstone]

Still jealous.
Great fiddle you got there.

[vklobucar]

Thank you!!!

It gets played an awful lot!!!

Im hoping to send it off in the new year for a refin in silver sparkle as well as have the trem routed to take an OFR instead of the Schaller. May even have the paint removed from the neck as well.

Then I will swap out the pups for a Super 3 and Fast Track and have an even sweeter axe.

And to think the CS version is coming soon too!

[MartinBarre]

For the longest time Phil told me that the bolt on's ring better and can be set up better as well. However his fav guitar these days is his Jackson Supreme which is a neck thru like the old Collen Archtop.

However who knows what the future will bring?

The PC1 is, IMO, the best looking of them all, but I don't quite understand how a bolt-on can be setup better than a neck-thru. Where's the logic in that? Surely he wouldn't be setting them up anyway, he'll have a tech doing it?

[vklobucar]

Its not so much that Phil needs to set up his own guitars, because trust me he has some of the best tech's in the business on stage right waiting to hand off another guitar.

Its more to the fact that he felt that bolt ons just rang better and sounded better. His opinion, thats all.

There can be a deadness to a set neck that a bolt on my not have. Taste and tone is subjective as we all know.

I even find my PC1's to be more shall we say, crisper than say my neck thru's.