[7deadlysins]

My friend made me an offer I can't refuse, traded for this. We may end up trading back, but this goes quite nicely with my V.

The camera on my phone is freaking out for some reason so only a few shitty pics for now.

Needs a little TLC, but i'll nurse her back to badassed ness. :yesway:

 

[eleven59]

:hbang:

 

[TMatt142]

That's sweet man....I've always (secretly) wanted one of those.....Thanks to Mathias of the Scorpions...

 

[Ryan]

Eh, I'd tap it.

 

[7deadlysins]

...and the strings are off and cleansing/slight modding has begun. :lol:

 

[Jsb515]

awesome what guitar did you trade for it?

 

[Timmy301]

you mentioned you might trade back??? guitar of the month right there...Its not a Fender

 

[stealthtastic]

Hell yea dude!

 

[7deadlysins]

you mentioned you might trade back??? guitar of the month right there...Its not a Fender

If we decide we don't like either of them, we'll trade back and I'll seek out the original reason I was selling the SE. :yesway:

Don't think this is awesome enough to be GOTM. :lol:

 

[sami]

nice!!!

 

[progrmr]

yea - that's hot...what's the neck like? Thick profile or thin?

 

[7deadlysins]

yea - that's hot...what's the neck like? Thick profile or thin?

Its seems a little thicker than my V's neck, which I still prefer over any of my guitars.. but I do feel a little more at home on the Explorer than I did with the SE. Its really comfy and well balanced. Wood looks great again after a little lemon oil on the fretboard and body. I also replaced the flat head screws in the bridge pickups with black oxide hex screws....which seem to be slightly more magnetic than the flathead. I didn't notice much of a tonal difference, looks cool though.

 

[Jsb515]

take a photo of the V by your other gibson.

how is your friend like the PRS so far?

 

[7deadlysins]

take a photo of the V by your other gibson.

how is your friend like the PRS so far?

We're going to give it a few more days but so far I think he's kinda wanting the Explorer back. :rofl: Hope he changes his mind because its growing on me. The PRS is nice, but I don't think either of us are single cut guys.

I did take a picture of both of them on the wall but my phone was freaking out last night. Hopefully i'll have better luck when I get home tonight.

Hoping he decides to keep the PRS soon so I can continue with mods. Want to throw a black treadplate pickguard on it and new pickups.

 

[Sebastian]

That looks really nice :metal:

 

[7deadlysins]

Here she is cleaned and restringed. Fretboard still looks a bit dry, way better though. I'll deal with it for now since I just put the strings on the other day. Also as you can see I swapped the bridge pickup's screws out for black oxide hex screws. Didn't make much of a difference in tone, maybe a tiny difference. The black oxide screws seem to be more magnetic than the flathead ones. I also got tired of the scratches on the pickguard and had some unused carbon fiber adhesive vinyl laying around so....

and some group shots for good measure

Thinking about doing the carbon fiber thing to the V too, but I need a black gibson trussrod cover to match first.