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I'd wanted an archtop for years and started looking again. Spotted Coda were knocking the last of these out with a big fat ol' discount, so went for it. Black's not my first choice but cheap it was -
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Chuffed with it, can't fault the build - nice big frets perfectly levelled, nut perfectly cut. Headstock the size of Surrey but somehow less gigantic in real life vs pics. Pickup's not the greatest so will swap that at some point, and make a new p/g then also. Prob darken the board a bit and slightly age the inlays to tamp down the plasteek-ness a bit.
It's a big change for a dirty fuzz-based life form. Sure you can play jazz on anything but it stops me slipping back into filthy rock mode. You just have to play to it's strengths.
First step is flatwounds, I've never had any before, any tips? Seems to be lots of types & makes.
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I like the black by the way. Love the controls on the scratch plate too.
As far as flat wound's are concerned, Thomastik are considered the finest by many, but they're really, really expensive D addrios Chromes are great and last for ages too. Not that sounding dark is ever an issue with jazz strings.
Oh, and what a lovely guitar. Congratulations!
Speaking as a man who used to play an ES295-a-like in a punk band 50p says it’ll actually do fuzztastic filthy rock just fine...
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Just my opinion but you're already playing what will be a dark sounding guitar probably into a dark sounding tone, you want a touch of sizzle from somewhere.
Thanks a lot everyone, cheers. And ta for the strings advice, and @DB1 especially thanks mate! I spent a long time surfing & reading last night and ordered Thomastik flats, the ones with the tin coated top two. Thought I'd start somewhere darker and move to brighter things if I don't like 'em. Such a minefield of choice.
(What actually *is* it, btw?)