Anyone here knows that feeling? When you've always dreamed about having that one guitar, and then when you do try it out in the shop, you realise expectations differ from reality?
I've always been a fan of SGs. I love the 2-horned look, the lighter weight, the bright and brash hard rock sound that's always associated with the SGs. It's like a more stripped-down, yet upgraded version of the Les Paul (personal opinion), more "my style". So I found a couple of really high quality SG knock-offs made by Vintage guitars in the shop. All fitted with Wilkinson parts which are good stuff, and I couldn't really find any noticeable flaw in the fit and finish. I've only been admiring it for the past month, never pulled it out from the rack and plug it in. Until 2 days ago, I finally mustered enough courage.
While seated down, I noticed the playing position was different. Since I started out on an SE Custom, the Vintage's neck, in comparison, feels like it's extended towards the headstock side, and the bridge was positioned forward a bit. I have no idea how it hangs from a strap, but playing seated down feels weird, the whole fretboard suddenly became unknown territory to me because of the "extended" neck. The neck plays like butter, the last fret can be reached without even touching the cutaway, the action is very low and the pickups are actually really good, very PAF-sounding. All thanks to the whole "forward-positioned" neck, I realised the SG is actually not my type of guitar, sadly. :dontknow:
Anyone here had experiences like that? Next guitar down my wishlist will be Epiphone Explorer/Jackson Kelly. And I'm praying real hard that the SG incident will not happen again for the Explorer-shapes.
I've always been a fan of SGs. I love the 2-horned look, the lighter weight, the bright and brash hard rock sound that's always associated with the SGs. It's like a more stripped-down, yet upgraded version of the Les Paul (personal opinion), more "my style". So I found a couple of really high quality SG knock-offs made by Vintage guitars in the shop. All fitted with Wilkinson parts which are good stuff, and I couldn't really find any noticeable flaw in the fit and finish. I've only been admiring it for the past month, never pulled it out from the rack and plug it in. Until 2 days ago, I finally mustered enough courage.
While seated down, I noticed the playing position was different. Since I started out on an SE Custom, the Vintage's neck, in comparison, feels like it's extended towards the headstock side, and the bridge was positioned forward a bit. I have no idea how it hangs from a strap, but playing seated down feels weird, the whole fretboard suddenly became unknown territory to me because of the "extended" neck. The neck plays like butter, the last fret can be reached without even touching the cutaway, the action is very low and the pickups are actually really good, very PAF-sounding. All thanks to the whole "forward-positioned" neck, I realised the SG is actually not my type of guitar, sadly. :dontknow:
Anyone here had experiences like that? Next guitar down my wishlist will be Epiphone Explorer/Jackson Kelly. And I'm praying real hard that the SG incident will not happen again for the Explorer-shapes.