After 5 months of anxious waiting I finally got my custom Fretless in the mail from the luthier
Steve Cyr .
As you can see from the pics it is quite pretty- I catch my breath every time I open the case and take it out. I just got it today and I've forgotten how to breath about 8 times today.
Here are the components in case you are wondering:
Maple body
Walnut center sandwich
Spalt maple top
Maple neck
Birdseye maple finger board
Flat wound nylon coated strings
Guided hand slow wound P style pickups and hum canceling J pick ups by
Ronnie Sweet .
The knobs are blend, vol, tone (although after having it in my hands I realized I don’t really need a tone control for the type of strings).
The great things:
It has crazy sustain. It is hard to explain but when I pluck a note it almost swells and gets louder before it dies away.
The vibrato on it is amazing. I feel like I can be super expressive and every little thing comes out cleanly.
The sounds is warm and even the bridge pick up has a mellow bitterness to it that sounds like a mournful bassoon.
I bought this for more of my acoustic type gigs where I would be the only one plugged in. It has this amazing presence (I'll try to make a recording but it might take me a few weeks).
Many thanks to Steve and the TB members who answered my questions when I was choosing what design and woods I wanted.
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