garrettb
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It's a lovely 66 degrees here on the Florida Gulf Coast, but the delivery man brought some frost this morning. Frost Green Metallic, that is...
Been wanting to get back in the 24 fret game for a while. Was thinking hard about picking up one of the new 35th S2 Customs, but the Standards have an undeniable appeal to me. Lean, mean, tone machines. Even less cost and easier to mod.
First impressions:
I think this is the best representation of the color:
It changes like crazy due to all the angles:
Gorgeous board:
Mmmm, sparkles...

Been wanting to get back in the 24 fret game for a while. Was thinking hard about picking up one of the new 35th S2 Customs, but the Standards have an undeniable appeal to me. Lean, mean, tone machines. Even less cost and easier to mod.
First impressions:
- This color looks amazing. No wonder they're using it on the SE Starla.
- I really appreciate the improvements made to the S2 gig bag since the last one I had (which was a '14).
- The guitar is flawless. (Well I did have to wipe off a bit of buffing compound from the neck joint, GASP!)
- The Pattern Regular neck is pleasantly, surprisingly beefy. More girth than I remember my old S2 Singlecut Standard having.
- Very resonant
- Was pretty much in tune, except the D & G (which usually happens in a gig bag). Not too shabby since it took a trip from Indiana to Florida during winter!
- Plays fantastic and sounds quite good.
- Not a huge fan of the taper on the volume and tone pots.
- I can see why folks don't like the push/pull on these. The knobs float just barely above the pickguard, so the push/pull is hard to grab.
- The molded tremolo is fantastic (and I've used all three generations of USA bridges). I haven't made it go out of tune yet. Credit also due to the nut.
- The 85/15 S pickups really are quite good. They are a bit hotter wind than the 85/15 in my CU22, but right in line with humbucking mode of the 85/15 MT set I have laying around. They're maybe lacking a little bit of clarity, but hard to say just yet as I've only been running through my THR10. Will live with them a bit before making a final decision, but they rock for sure!
- Frost Green Metallic is a pain in the butt to photograph.
- So far the control locations are fine. The slightly more compact setup on the guard puts the whammy bar less in the way of the blade.
I think this is the best representation of the color:

It changes like crazy due to all the angles:

Gorgeous board:

Mmmm, sparkles...
