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Post by Vincent on Jun 23, 2018 11:08:57 GMT
You showed a tilted front photo in another thread of this guitar (I think it was you). It a Westone guitar from the 80s? I remember someone having something similar. It was quite nice as I remember.
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 23, 2018 11:17:12 GMT
The CST24 mahogany necks are 5 piece (headstock, heel plus 3 piece neck shaft). Interesting. They should advertise it in the product description. I count a multi-part shaft as an advantage.
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 23, 2018 11:52:02 GMT
You showed a tilted front photo in another thread of this guitar (I think it was you). It a Westone guitar from the 80s? I remember someone having something similar. It was quite nice as I remember. If you mean this, it's a 1980 Aria pro II TS-600:
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 23, 2018 14:26:31 GMT
I think mine was a Westone, also made by Matsumoku. You didn't keep it? It was the time of guitars in natural finish and I loved it. I remember looking at the new Vantage models, which had just come out and didn't like them as much. Besides, Aria Pro II had been recommended by the older brother of a friend who "knew what he was talking about". He was right. This guitar has more tonal versatility than most modern ones, clear and loud humbuckers with individual coil split, an out of phase switch, a brass nut, 24 frets and a neck profile which is close to Wizard dimensions. The neck has never moved in 38 years, the electronics are unaltered (not even scratching noises anywhere). I never knew what people meant when they talked about losing high frequencies by using the volume knob. Nonsense. What sort of crap guitars were they talking about? Mine never did that. Even the active booster works when I put a battery inside. Yes, there's an active booster for guaranteed distortion, with its own volume control. And a 6-way low pass filter selector for more variety in case I'm bored. I don't know what these guys were thinking about I'm never going to sell it. The Vantage of the time looked like this one. Nice too, but a lot simpler:
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Post by LeoThunder on Jun 24, 2018 4:07:42 GMT
I felt the guitar was heavy too at first but it's only 3,4 Kg. My Basswood ST-62 weighs about the same (it's thicker) and my SC-Custom was 4 Kg, mostly because of that fat, round bottom Les Pauls have (no, never been a Queen fan). I read the headstock shape was contested byFender and they had to replace it with the one shown on the Vantage: With some luck, mine might have some extra value.
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Post by priyal on Jun 29, 2018 21:49:30 GMT
I just got the CST-24 Black Cherry last month. It is undoubtedly the best sounding guitar out of the box that I have used. I guess I like the Santana-esque sound it produces and has re-united me with that sound which I had lost after changing guitars etc., I play the HB through a Digitech GSP2101 and using the Warm Sweet Solo sound on that gives me a Carbon copy of the old Carlos sound. When it is clean I can also get some punchy jazz sounds that I have been wanting to get for a long time. Now I want to get similar sounds on my Ibanez MC 200 Musician (because it slightly less weight than the HB and find it difficult to play the HB standing up for more than 1 set) and was wondering about putting the Roswell HAF-B/N pickup pair. I can also confirm the Bridge pickup on my CST measured at ~16 kOhm, which threw me a bit (until I read this thread). The only bad points about the HB were the neck is a bit on the thin side and a bit uncomfortable when stretching to play bar chords and secondly my fingers are not German and I had to get the frets redressed a bit and the action-lowered. Now when friends try it they are all amazed at its quality and playability. Thanks HB for this amazing sounding x_xguitar.
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