bubs_42 Posted April 6, 2023 Posted April 6, 2023 Team Shishkov is amazing and just when I didn’t think it could get better… WELL!! Take the stunning KOA Top out of the equation and this is still my favorite Shishkov to date. The longer 25.5 Scale, with the WM Bridge and a set of Low Wind Gravelin’s make this thing the “Grand Piano” of my Shishkov lineup. Plugging it in, I didn’t have to touch a thing on my setup and it fit right in with my Tele’s and SG’s sonically. The Back, let’s talk about the back color! Lots of back and fourth about the back needing to let the top stand on its own and not hide the sides or disappear into the Mahogany. It’s very hard to photograph, it is indeed transparent and easy to see the wood grain in person, just as wonderful as the front. How to make that top the the focus of the build is easier said than done. Inlays, hardware, bridge could have been a distraction and I didn’t want any of that. Less is more, but what is there gently pulls your eyes around to the next little detail. You can seamlessly scan the guitar from top to bottom and its a smooth elegant transition from the top to the Ebony Board with a splash of Koa in the inlays to the ebony truss rod cover and tip with even more Koa laying beneath. The logo sure does POP! @JGravelinBro, I don’t hold back telling you want I think and I always let you do your thing based off what I want to hear. We had such a long conversation about this set and it seems like forever ago. I’ve told you that your neck pickups are the best of the best, but this set of pups in this guitar are better than the best. OVER THE TOP, the clarity, punch, detail, and I had yet to hear the perfect middle position in a set of humbuckers, but I have now. The WMB is fantastic, it is not sonically distracting, it looks familiar and yet it is its own animal. If I could order another Shishkov right now, I would order another SCIII for sure, no doubt that it is my favorite Shishkov to date.
cmatthes Posted April 6, 2023 Posted April 6, 2023 NICE!!!! Ive been looking forward to seeing this one all finished…
BubbaVO Posted April 6, 2023 Posted April 6, 2023 That’s Frigg’n awesome. Love that top. Just so elegant and simple. Can’t decide if I like #70 more than that one.
bubs_42 Posted April 6, 2023 Author Posted April 6, 2023 Some of us still have to work for a living. Go find some old man shit to do. 😜
hamerhead Posted April 6, 2023 Posted April 6, 2023 I've been doing that all day - sittin' in the chair, sittin' on the couch, sittin' in a different chair..... it's exhausting. I need a nap.
kizanski Posted April 6, 2023 Posted April 6, 2023 2 minutes ago, hamerhead said: I've been doing that all day - sittin' in the chair, sittin' on the couch, sittin' in a different chair... ...posting boobies and booties...
bubs_42 Posted April 6, 2023 Author Posted April 6, 2023 I will add this here instead of mucking up the top. In 1999 my future wife and I had been dating about a year when she asked if I wanted to go to Hawaii with her. The collage she was attending was sending their basketball teams over for a tournament. I was reluctant to go, only because I had barely been anywhere and I had never flown before. So 12hrs on a direct flight from ST. Louis wasn’t really that inviting, but my older sister put a boot in my ass and family chipped in money in place of Christmas gifts that year and off we went. I took my first flight, I felt the sand on a beach for the first time, swam in the ocean for the first time, and even got to see dolphins and whales in the wild. We even spent New Years Y2K at Pearl Harbor. Pretty amazing first trip. Fast forward 4 years later, I proposed and when we started talking about the wedding I said “Let’s just go get married on the beach in Maui.” Slight pause, but I think it was just because she hadn’t considered it, but she said YES. So 2004 we are back in Hawaii, getting married on the beach. 10 Days with family, hanging, drinking, guitar hunting (No luck). It was a blast. So many memories. 2009 We decided since we just exited our 20’s and still had no kids we asked our friends group to go to Hawaii for our 5th anniversary. Just before the trip I had started a conversion with Elduave about ordering a Koa Topped Studio. But Hamer had been bought by Fender and things were just on shaky ground. They had no KOA, and they wanted me to pay a high price for a billet of KOA that I could not see what the top was going to look like until they cut it. Then they fired the purchasing guy and another guy took the position and it was like starting over again. It got to the point ELduave was like “I wouldn’t do it, but it’s up to you.”. So I bowed out, but I got another gift that year, my first child. So I still came out ahead! I started to think about our 15th anniversary and having a Koa Guitar built to mark the occasion. I had to reach out to Mike after I received 0090 and said, “Hey do you have any KOA” and the journey began on 0105. Long journey, but life happens and people, friends, are more important than worrying about how long the process takes. It doesn’t matter if you have ordered something that is going to be part of you for a long time. Everything was special about this build. My life journey, Mikes life journey, and frankly the world stopped and started right in the middle of this build. Thanks Mike and everyone that it takes to allow the chips to fly at Team Shishkov.
veatch Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 Everything about that guitar kicks arse. I love the two tone inlays!
JGale Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 Well .. now we known what the sunrise off Hawaii looks like...
django49 Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 Good grief! I have the one bookmatched koa top that I thou9ght was pretty cool, but this one puts it to shame.
veatch Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 I think we need a group pic of 0090 and 0105... Just sayin'.
atomicwash Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 SCIII's are the best! Congrats on an amazing guitar!
Hamerica Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 Bubs_42, congrats on your latest, you summed up your guitar nicely. Every single Mike Shishkov's guitars have been extraordinary different and yet very familiar. While it maybe usually true the sum of the parts are much than the whole, #0105 is a stellar example of "Art of the Guitar. The top initially is throwing me off, It looks like it is the whole damn tree. I love Koa yet it has an Earthen Maple LE vibe to it, with the mineral streaks. Add Josh Gravelin pickups and the WMB and you have something very, very unique and special. It truly has "Got It Going On." Everything the OP stated is true but it is so much more. Congratulations to you and Team Shishkov! I'm looking forward to the tone report on this one! Hamerica
soli'd Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 11 hours ago, bubs_42 said: I will add this here instead of mucking up the top. In 1999 my future wife and I had been dating about a year when she asked if I wanted to go to Hawaii with her. The collage she was attending was sending their basketball teams over for a tournament. I was reluctant to go, only because I had barely been anywhere and I had never flown before. So 12hrs on a direct flight from ST. Louis wasn’t really that inviting, but my older sister put a boot in my ass and family chipped in money in place of Christmas gifts that year and off we went. I took my first flight, I felt the sand on a beach for the first time, swam in the ocean for the first time, and even got to see dolphins and whales in the wild. We even spent New Years Y2K at Pearl Harbor. Pretty amazing first trip. Fast forward 4 years later, I proposed and when we started talking about the wedding I said “Let’s just go get married on the beach in Maui.” Slight pause, but I think it was just because she hadn’t considered it, but she said YES. So 2004 we are back in Hawaii, getting married on the beach. 10 Days with family, hanging, drinking, guitar hunting (No luck). It was a blast. So many memories. 2009 We decided since we just exited our 20’s and still had no kids we asked our friends group to go to Hawaii for our 5th anniversary. Just before the trip I had started a conversion with Elduave about ordering a Koa Topped Studio. But Hamer had been bought by Fender and things were just on shaky ground. They had no KOA, and they wanted me to pay a high price for a billet of KOA that I could not see what the top was going to look like until they cut it. Then they fired the purchasing guy and another guy took the position and it was like starting over again. It got to the point ELduave was like “I wouldn’t do it, but it’s up to you.”. So I bowed out, but I got another gift that year, my first child. So I still came out ahead! I started to think about our 15th anniversary and having a Koa Guitar built to mark the occasion. I had to reach out to Mike after I received 0090 and said, “Hey do you have any KOA” and the journey began on 0105. Long journey, but life happens and people, friends, are more important than worrying about how long the process takes. It doesn’t matter if you have ordered something that is going to be part of you for a long time. Everything was special about this build. My life journey, Mikes life journey, and frankly the world stopped and started right in the middle of this build. Thanks Mike and everyone that it takes to allow the chips to fly at Team Shishkov. Great post, Shawn. And what an instrument! All the best.
Travis Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 12 hours ago, bubs_42 said: I will add this here instead of mucking up the top. In 1999 my future wife and I had been dating about a year when she asked if I wanted to go to Hawaii with her. The collage she was attending was sending their basketball teams over for a tournament. I was reluctant to go, only because I had barely been anywhere and I had never flown before. So 12hrs on a direct flight from ST. Louis wasn’t really that inviting, but my older sister put a boot in my ass and family chipped in money in place of Christmas gifts that year and off we went. I took my first flight, I felt the sand on a beach for the first time, swam in the ocean for the first time, and even got to see dolphins and whales in the wild. We even spent New Years Y2K at Pearl Harbor. Pretty amazing first trip. Fast forward 4 years later, I proposed and when we started talking about the wedding I said “Let’s just go get married on the beach in Maui.” Slight pause, but I think it was just because she hadn’t considered it, but she said YES. So 2004 we are back in Hawaii, getting married on the beach. 10 Days with family, hanging, drinking, guitar hunting (No luck). It was a blast. So many memories. 2009 We decided since we just exited our 20’s and still had no kids we asked our friends group to go to Hawaii for our 5th anniversary. Just before the trip I had started a conversion with Elduave about ordering a Koa Topped Studio. But Hamer had been bought by Fender and things were just on shaky ground. They had no KOA, and they wanted me to pay a high price for a billet of KOA that I could not see what the top was going to look like until they cut it. Then they fired the purchasing guy and another guy took the position and it was like starting over again. It got to the point ELduave was like “I wouldn’t do it, but it’s up to you.”. So I bowed out, but I got another gift that year, my first child. So I still came out ahead! I started to think about our 15th anniversary and having a Koa Guitar built to mark the occasion. I had to reach out to Mike after I received 0090 and said, “Hey do you have any KOA” and the journey began on 0105. Long journey, but life happens and people, friends, are more important than worrying about how long the process takes. It doesn’t matter if you have ordered something that is going to be part of you for a long time. Everything was special about this build. My life journey, Mikes life journey, and frankly the world stopped and started right in the middle of this build. Thanks Mike and everyone that it takes to allow the chips to fly at Team Shishkov. Well, that puts to shame the reason why I love Koa so much. Now I gotta go to Hawaii… 😂
bubs_42 Posted April 7, 2023 Author Posted April 7, 2023 1 hour ago, Travis said: Well, that puts to shame the reason why I love Koa so much. Now I gotta go to Hawaii… 😂 If it makes you feel better that first trip cost me $850 flight and hotel. I think it was a week stay. 🤔
Travis Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 40 minutes ago, bubs_42 said: If it makes you feel better that first trip cost me $850 flight and hotel. I think it was a week stay. 🤔 Yeah…. That makes me feel “better”….
Feynman Posted April 7, 2023 Posted April 7, 2023 I'm happy for you. Your excitement and appreciation of your beautiful new guitar is apparent. Enjoy it. Hug your wife too.
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