Vela Reclaimed Ltd.
Sorry this has taken so long. I've already had it a couple weeks. Not being able to post pics via mobile anymore slowed things even more. Anyway... Got an ebay email for watched items a couple weeks back. I see a Vela Reclaimed and open immediately. Holy sh!t, there's four brand new ones at Wildwood Guitars! I almost just clicked and bought one right away. I decided to wait and call them when they opened in a couple hours. So I waste the next few hours at work looking at the 4 different guitars trying to decide which I liked best. So I call just before the store front opens and talk to Lance. I ask him if he can play them and give me some sort of evaluation. He was really accommodating and got it done within a couple hours and called me back. Naturally, it turns out that the one I like the looks of the least, sounds best to him.
I kick it around for a few minutes and decide, screw it, I want this guitar to sound awesome and the looks are secondary since they all look pretty cool. So I take his advice and run with it.
I got the guitar and thought it sounded good outta the box. I felt I wanted a little more...well...something, outta the neck pickup. So I decided to raise it a bit. Ah-ha! that really brought it's best out. I adjust the bridge pickup to match volume wise and played around for bit(more on that later). About a week passes and I finally have some time to get it out to our rehearsal space and play at some higher volume with my drummer. Decided to raise the pickups even a hair more. We jammed a bit with a new little tune I came up with on the spot(way different from what the band does) and it was a lot of fun!
Sorry this has taken so long. I've already had it a couple weeks. Not being able to post pics via mobile anymore slowed things even more. Anyway... Got an ebay email for watched items a couple weeks back. I see a Vela Reclaimed and open immediately. Holy sh!t, there's four brand new ones at Wildwood Guitars! I almost just clicked and bought one right away. I decided to wait and call them when they opened in a couple hours. So I waste the next few hours at work looking at the 4 different guitars trying to decide which I liked best. So I call just before the store front opens and talk to Lance. I ask him if he can play them and give me some sort of evaluation. He was really accommodating and got it done within a couple hours and called me back. Naturally, it turns out that the one I like the looks of the least, sounds best to him.
I kick it around for a few minutes and decide, screw it, I want this guitar to sound awesome and the looks are secondary since they all look pretty cool. So I take his advice and run with it.I got the guitar and thought it sounded good outta the box. I felt I wanted a little more...well...something, outta the neck pickup. So I decided to raise it a bit. Ah-ha! that really brought it's best out. I adjust the bridge pickup to match volume wise and played around for bit(more on that later). About a week passes and I finally have some time to get it out to our rehearsal space and play at some higher volume with my drummer. Decided to raise the pickups even a hair more. We jammed a bit with a new little tune I came up with on the spot(way different from what the band does) and it was a lot of fun!
