Product: Dommenget Kingsize
Price Paid: US $3.750
Submitted
04/19/2001
at
09:13pm
by
Jan Whruick
Features
:
10
Handmade by luthier supreme Boris Dommenget in Germany.Mahogany body and neck, ebony fretboard. Bodyshape of a Les Paul but bigger but not
heavier. AAA bookmatched mapletop. 21 frets. 2 volumepots, one tonepot
and a filtering pot that works like a wha-wha. Push-pull pot for splitting to single coil. 3-way toggle switch.
2 x Humbucker. Passive electonics. Tune-O-matic bridge.
24,75 scale. Medium fat neck with a smooth round vintage profile.
All and all a refined Les Paul.
Sound
:
10
Extreme variety in tonal possibilities. The filter pot + splitting
gives You everything from vintage whimpy single-coil to fat,fat humbucker.
The sustain in this guitar is unreal. I'm not a Les Paul man but
I totally fell in love with this guitar. I have played very expensive
vintage Les Pauls and this guitar beats them in any respect soundwise.
This guitar is good for any music style. I have tried it with vintage
Vox, Fender and Hiwatt amps and High gain amps like Mesa and Soldano
and it sounds great thru anything.
I use it regularly for progressive metal and jazz.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
I have tried to find a flaw on this guitar and I'm an experienced
guitarfreak but this guitar is perfect. It's 6 years old and it has
been played a lot but still theres absolutely nothing to critize.
I seems to me that Mr Dommenget is a perfection freak and the materials that this guitar is made of are simple the best there is on
the market.
Reliability/Durability
:
10
This is an instrument for life. It's built to last forever.
I have own 18 guitars all of them top of the line but this one stands
in a class of its own.
Customer Support
:
No Opinion
Never dealt with the man himself
Overall Rating
:
10
If I lost it I would go to Germany and order and new one from the Master himself.
I have been playing for 25 years. I started out as a classic player
at the age of 8. I'm a pro player and do mostly studiowork. The only
thing this guitar lacks is a whammybar otherwise it has everything
I could ask for. If I had to bring only one guitar to a studio or
a live gig this would be the one.
