NGD! This Zach Myers SE just arrived.
Ordered it for my birthday to have a complementary guitar to my USA 2005 20th anniversary McCarty equiped with \m/ bridge pickup. Never had a semi hollow before and I’m impressed at its resonance when playing unplugged.
It came well setup, action a tad too high but anyway I’ll replace the strings with 10-52 as my other guitars and will have to set up myself to my liking. Other than that I’m really impressed overall. The perfect fret work, the amazing wide fat neck finish, etc is on pair to my USA PRS.
As a negative I’d say that the veneer top looks a bit fake when looked in close vs the real top 10 maple cap from my McCarty, but we are comparing two very different priced guitars. On the other hand, the back looks like a 2 piece mahoany when probably it's 3 pieces.
I’m so happy and really looking forward to come back home from holidays so I can plug it into my rehearsal equipment and play it loud with my band. My plan is to use it for the cleans and softer rock songs while the McCarty will keep taking care of the heavier ones, but let’s see.
As mods I might swap the pick rings to cream ones and maybe at some point try the original McCarty pickups on it as I have them sitting around. I see some people talking bad about the Kluson style tunners feeling to stiff but honestly I don't find them very different from the McCarty ones and after some playing it keeps in tune perfectly, don't see myself replacing them anytime soon. What I'll search to replace soon is the truss rod cover, I don't like to have somebody's else name on my guitar, despite liking Shinedown myself.
Ordered it for my birthday to have a complementary guitar to my USA 2005 20th anniversary McCarty equiped with \m/ bridge pickup. Never had a semi hollow before and I’m impressed at its resonance when playing unplugged.
It came well setup, action a tad too high but anyway I’ll replace the strings with 10-52 as my other guitars and will have to set up myself to my liking. Other than that I’m really impressed overall. The perfect fret work, the amazing wide fat neck finish, etc is on pair to my USA PRS.
As a negative I’d say that the veneer top looks a bit fake when looked in close vs the real top 10 maple cap from my McCarty, but we are comparing two very different priced guitars. On the other hand, the back looks like a 2 piece mahoany when probably it's 3 pieces.
I’m so happy and really looking forward to come back home from holidays so I can plug it into my rehearsal equipment and play it loud with my band. My plan is to use it for the cleans and softer rock songs while the McCarty will keep taking care of the heavier ones, but let’s see.
As mods I might swap the pick rings to cream ones and maybe at some point try the original McCarty pickups on it as I have them sitting around. I see some people talking bad about the Kluson style tunners feeling to stiff but honestly I don't find them very different from the McCarty ones and after some playing it keeps in tune perfectly, don't see myself replacing them anytime soon. What I'll search to replace soon is the truss rod cover, I don't like to have somebody's else name on my guitar, despite liking Shinedown myself.
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