Fully modded SE CU24 30th (complete)

[dkilpatrick]

New bridge- I upgraded the nut to a core nut on my SE CU24 30th and swapped the bridge for a MannMade trem. WOW what an improvement!
Definitely notice a difference right away. The guitar seems to resonate more and have more of a "chime" to it.
The notes seem less compressed and sustain longer.
Now its hard to choose which guitar to pick up and play. I have been favoring my S2 SC lately.

Before

Grover locking tuners and custom TRC

Seymour Duncan pickups (Sentient/Pegasus)

 

[toothace]

Sweet!

 

[Serenity]

Nice!

 

[CantankerousCarl]

Very nice - you cannot go wrong with MannMade stuff!

 

[bodia]

Sweet as sweet!

 

[AkiraSpectrum]

Looks great! How do you like the Duncan pickups in there?

 

[markintime]

Beautiful, too!

 

[dkilpatrick]

Looks great! How do you like the Duncan pickups in there?

I'm pretty happy with them, the SD website does a pretty good job of giving sound samples of all of their pickups.
I mostly play on the neck pickup so that is what I narrowed my search down to. The Sentient was the best sounding to me. Great clarity and note separation. They describe it as somewhere between the Jazz and the 59.
The sentient neck pup is only available in two matched sets (it can be purchased separately though) with the Pegasus - more for progressive rock, or with the nazgul - more for thrash metal. At first I felt the coil split was a bit lacking on them, but with the new Mannmade bridge installed they really came alive on the split mode.

 

[shupe13]

That guitar looks killer!

 

[bigcraigie_1]

That is one great looking guitar.