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WoW!

and ABR posts, ABR type bridge instead of a TOM bridge!

very nice touch Sir! congrats!

 
0054 said:
How you digging it?
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Quite a bit, but with a few minor criticisms.  As mentioned before, the neck pickup is just perfect for slow, sultry cleans and mildly overdriven settings which are very much my wheelhouse.  I rarely use the bridge pickup alone, but it's a great match for the bridge.  The middle position isn't doing it for me.  I don't remember reading it anywhere, but the pickups are OOP and with the low friction pots it's too difficult to make small adjustments on the fly to be useful for me.*  A string change is needed (D'Addario's feel immediately old to me) so maybe I can kill two birds with one stone when I get around to that.

The resonance really is unreal.  I'd really like to A/B the Shishkov with a chambered Standard to see if it's something inherent to chambered explorer style guitars or if it's unique to Shishkov.  There are members here who know so maybe they can answer that.  It still feels a ittle weird to me though.  I'm starting to believe I can hear a reduction in sustain if I place my hand on the face of the body in the same way a drum head can be muted by touch, but my mind is probably playing tricks.

The jury is still out on the neck.  It's very comfortable in the hand, but on the big side for me and I've had some numbness while playing.  Strap adjustments may fix that...we'll see.

None of the above can take away from the build quality, which is as good as anything I've seen.

* The middle position is now doing it for me in spades.  Thanks Mike and Josh for straightening this/me out :)

 
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Do talk to Josh, Cynic. The middle position on these Ultimates is gloriously sweet, chimey, & pretty...and mine stays that when when OD. Unless you asked for it , I don't think you should have OOP pickups. The Shlabotnik girls play very well together indeed.....

 
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