Recent content by Ironwolf

Absolutely put tens on it, they play beautiful I left the 50 on the low E, but absolutely 10gauge NYXL and a simple two or three turns of the claw screw to level the tremolo, super simple. I love doing 2 step bends.... Pink Floyd is my fun pack of songs on the DGT .

I have a 2009 Ted McCarty double cut Limited edition as well. Which I absolutely love. I bought it in approximately 2016 picked it up off of reverb for $1800. It comes in at 7.2 pounds, one of the main reasons it is so spectacular is that lightweight. Look at that beautiful red mahogany grain...

Beautiful guitar. If it sounds a little bit mushy many of us recommend an upgrade to the PRS adjustable stop tail. I have owned six different PRS stoptails, they all improved string to string note clarity and sparkle. In my opinion it is in a remarkable upgrade. I cannot go back to the...

I had three or four different pickups in my DGT, I did not get along with the Grissom pickups. it seemed like too many mids, I definitely wanted it to be vintage 8 to 9K winding I put the 5909 in but that had too much distortion a little too hot. I tried the 8515 that was close, but something...

Jimmy did drink from the PRS Kool-Aid..... He clearly liked telecaster's and Martin acoustics. His songs allow me to reboot perspective. great musician.

I agree very strongly with the idea of much better tone with the mann-made bridge with individual brass saddles, when replacing the aluminum stop tail. I actually did do the experiment, I switched back and forth several times, On my 2009 DC 245 Limited edition Ted McCarty (7.4 lbs). Absolutely...

My experience with les Paul's...... firstly we have way too many expectations about one particular guitar, i.e.that it can cover every LP tone ever made, It seemed like every guitar song I wanted to learn needed a Les Paul, guns and roses Slash, Jimmy page, Mick Jones of foreigner, Billy...

it's kind of the reason it's adjustable. The DGT has a lot of variables. 11gauge strings, 5 tremolo springs, jumbo frets. even a slight tilt of the tremolo causes the strings to go quite high. With just some minor tweaking my DGT is 1 of the best playing low set ups I have, impressively no...

It's definitely the pickups, I also think you should upgrade the bridge, as I have learned the one piece nonadjustable stop tail creates A Slight slurry Tone effect. I have a 2009 limited edition Ted DC 245. I've transformed it into the best guitar I've ever owned. Factory set up was nice, The...

based on my experience of 3 ebony fretboards, that appears to be rosewood. You are correct it's a very dark rosewood, and the photos are not high-resolution enough to say with 100% certainty. But the pieces of evidence; I've always noticed ebony is much more shiny, the surface is more...

you have to be a reasonably skilled player to understand what a really good guitar is so it's a journey of both player and guitar. I found 2 holy Grail guitars I recently did a count I've owned 84 different guitars in 22 years, so I'm about 1 to 2% hit rate. It took a long time to filter...

I just now looked more closely at your photo, I agree with you that saddle does not belong, it is an oddball. It even looks like it's raising the action of that particular string not matching the fretboard radius. I'm absolutely certain John will send you a new saddle for free. He was going...

I'm also in the middle-of-the-road it's a pretty safe place to be as said before spent 20,000 maybe it's worth 12,000. Safely in the middle-of-the-road where you can rationalize to your wife......

excellent choice, beautiful, it is such a perfect recipe of wood, and design, it is very receptive to putting whatever PAF floats your boat, I ended up with bare knuckle mule's, it makes me drool every time I pick up the guitar. You will enjoy it regardless of your pickup choice.

I believe John may have brass mounting screws (posts) with a thinner bottom washer, there is a difference between SE models and the core mounting posts. Here are some pictures of my Ted. absolutely the best playing guitar I've ever owned. I've set my low E string 0.072 " I believe that's...