Agile 3100

This review is for the rootbeer flame wide neck 3100. The sound is pure les paul and is fat and warm. I'm a single coil man, myself and usually play either my Fender tele semi-hollowbody or my seafoam green Dean Palomino with 3 p-90's (my favorite for rockabilly, Beatles and Johnny A type tunes) and a Bigsby. I wanted a mahogany guitar with humbuckers to round out my sound palette. I also have an Agile tele with Texas special pups and a Bigsby, a Washburn wg-248 w/h-s-h and a Jeff Beck swapped at the bridge and an agile bass wich is great. This guitar has grovers, alnico 5 pups, upgraded electronics, ebony fingerboard with mother of pearl markers and an outstanding flame body. The toggle for the pups is ok, but may need to be either changed out or needs to be sprayed to fix the contacts. I had the one time issue (have had it for a day and about 6 hours of playing) of the contact not clicking in and moved the toggle back and forth once, it now is fine but we'll see)

My style, as stated above is from straight forward R&R like zep & pink floyd, to rockabilly ala Brian Setzer, scotty moore, to alternative like the Cure & the Clash. I also like challenging pieces like Johnny A stuff (love the tone & vibe & love all the tabs online nowadays that keep me from having to piece it out by ear like in the old days. Ain't technology grand? This guitar is a les paul sound period. I've had a 72 sg and have played other rich people's les paul's and PRS's. This tone and sustain is beautiful and is really, as others have said, a violin type tone when a distortion is added. Really f'ing beautiful. Superb sustain. The neck is warm and smooth, the bridge a little biting, but not near the single coil sound. Just nice. Humbuckers have a great sound for a no-name. I would use this guitar for r&r, blues, non-twangy country,r&b, & jazz, It's really quite nice. No hum, unless I have insane distortion on. Oh, I use behringer stuff once I got rid of my j-station (actually my son fried it by not hooking it up to the OBLIGATORY powerstrip in a thunderstorm. It's a Florida rule I thought they tought one in school...). I have distortion, compressor, graphic equalizer, chorus and tuner. I find I don't use the compressor with this guitar. It bites in with the Jazz 3 picks I use and has the sustain already (sounds like my compressor is on actually, but without the chicken pickin' quality of it.)

The finish is flawless. I read the other reviews before buying and felt that I could live with a little f-up on the finish, but it's perfect. No flaws that I can see. The adjustments, for me, were perfect right from the factory. The finish is almost violin like (which goes with the tone)with a great bookmatched flame top. It's even to each other. The ebony neck and mother of pearl fingerboard are flwaless as well. The frets are fine, nothing untoward that I can feel

This is a fine guitar. When I play out, I always bring a couple to bring out different sounds I'm going for. I don't play out that much anymore, but ripping through some leads, it makes me want to join a rock band again. Toggle keeps it from being a 10

I give it a 9 1/2. We'll see as time goes on. I haven't been disappointed from agile, except the pups on the tele. I think the 3100 pups are excellent though. It is a fantastic value for what it's pitted against in my book: Les Paul, ESP and PRS. Oh, I've been playing since I was 15, I'm a big ol 44 today so you do the math. I'm too busy sipping my scotch, but thought I'd add this review as I have had so much great info from these user reviews over the years. Oh, and I play through an older peavey classic 50 with 2 12's and Eurotubes