Accidental NGD: UK-built guitar content

imalrightjack

Last week, I popped to see Haydn Williams to confirm the spec of my new 'St Evo' (Strat-style guitar).  While there, as always, we chatted and I asked to have a look at what he had knocking around.  After playing a wonderful Mojo (LP-style) and a 7-string Evo, I tried one of his traditional (non-traditional!) Evo.  I fell in love with it.  I bought it.

Really enjoying this.  I already owned an HJ Williams 'Lil '58 (NGD'd previously), a PRS-esque double-cut, which is my go-to guitar for all styles.  However, when I played this, I realised that the '58 just wasn't quite cutting it for heavier sounds.  It's a different neck profile, similar width and size but flatter.

Photos are a bit washed out unfortunately - it's more vibrant in the flesh.

Spec:

Buckeye curved top on one piece swamp ash body
Ovankgol and wenge neck
Seymour Duncan Pegasus and Sentient pickups
Schaller Hannes bridge

Roland

What do you think of the Hannes bridge?

WiresDreamDisasters

lovely bit of wood that!

imalrightjack

Roland said:

What do you think of the Hannes bridge?

@Roland What I like mostly is that I can't even tells it's there!

sawyer

Spectacular! Something refreshingly different you got yourself there dude!

skunkwerx

Thats awesome. 

As soon as I saw it I saw a first person view of a dying soldier  laying on his back looking to the firey sky through the Ardennes forest during ww2. 

The black in the centre is a deathly goat greeting him. 


I don't know why I'd see that. 
I've never seen wood like that before either, its great. 

imalrightjack

Thanks,@Sawyer and @skunkwerx it's nice to own a Rorschach test guitar!

Grumpyrocker

Why have you got a guitar with my parents fighting on it?

skunkwerx

The more I look, the more I like. Enjoy it dude!

imalrightjack

Grumpyrocker said:

Why have you got a guitar with my parents fighting on it?

@Grumpyrocker They’re my parents!

WiresDreamDisasters

They're actually both of your parents. And erm... they're not fighting. >grimace<

imalrightjack

WiresDreamDisasters said:

They're actually both of your parents. And erm... they're not fighting. >grimace<

And now we're getting sexual fantasies  

WiresDreamDisasters

Actually I was trying to avoid the unseemly - in that they're all sat around in brogues playing Kerplunk.

Bridgehouse

WiresDreamDisasters said:

Actually I was trying to avoid the unseemly - in that they're all sat around in brogues playing Kerplunk.

Thank god I’m not alone in my kerplunk and brogues world

Humbucked

Quite wonderful. I hope you enjoy it for many years to come.

imalrightjack

Humbucked said:

Quite wonderful. I hope you enjoy it for many years to come.

Thanks, @Humbucked!  

Moloch

Gorgeous, man! Funnily enough, I too am due to receive a UK-built superstrat with Pegasus and Sentient pickups in the next week or two.

zepp76

That top is stupendous! I see a war seen of soldiers holding spears on the left, some kind of figure on the right in a dear skin and what looks suspiciously like Ronnie James Dio in the centre! It’s pure madness and brilliant to boot! Congrats on a fantastic guitar.

imalrightjack

Darryl_Morris said:

Gorgeous, man! Funnily enough, I too am due to receive a UK-built superstrat with Pegasus and Sentient pickups in the next week or two.

Tag me in your NGD, if you do one @Darryl_Morris ;

Thanks, @zepp76 - I can definitely see Dio 

andy1839

Lovely guitar mate!
Love the neck.

John_A

Lovely!