Product: Legra Guitars NH603 JagStangThang
Price Paid: 1360 (#)
Submitted
04/15/2006
at
03:42pm
by
Nathan Harmer
Email: punching_sandwiches<at>hotmail dot com
Features
:
10
24 Frets.
Volume, Tone, Kill switch, Jaguar style pickup controls and coiltaped humbucker.
H/S/S
1 X Bareknuckle Pickups Nailbomb Humbucker (Burnt chrome finish).
2 X Bareknuckle Pikcups Irishtour Singlecoils.
The body is made of Swamp Ash, the neck is made of Birdseye Maple and the fretboard is made of Amazon Rosewood.
Neck has a satin finish the body is finished in chameleon paint which changes colour from purple to green to blue depending on which angle you are looking at it from.
The body style is a left handed version of a standard fender Jaguar.
The bridge is a humbucker version of the Tele-style bridge with graphteck stringsaver saddles.
Schallar locking machineheads.
Jumbo frets
Strat/Wizard style neck
Scale length is 24.75"
Reverse Headstock.
Came with a high quality ritter gig bag (as requested), a set of larger jazz bass nobs, an alan key and some very sturdy and useful strap locks.
Sound
:
10
This instrument is perfect for my new music style which is influenced by all my favourite bands and mostly sticks into the pop and rock category, this guitar feels amazing, the neck is absolutly perfect in not being too thin but not being too thick either. The shape of the guitar also adds to the feel and satisfaction of playing aswell as the very well carved out contours.
I am using this guitar with a Marshall TSL and Orange 2X12 and an Electro Harmonix 16-second delay.
This guitar is obviously noisy on the single coil settings and with all the pickups turned off but that goes without saying really, other than that it isn't really noisy at all.
This guitar has a massive array of sounds but it mostly stays quite bright which suits me perfectly, it has a very full sound aswell though. It doesn't really sound like any other guitar i've heard before, although it does have some similaritys with a strat or telecaster.
It really can make all sorts of sounds tho for example.
The neck single coil by itself on the clean channel gives the most full sounding clean I have ever heard, somewhat jazzy but still quite brite and brittle at the same time.
The middle single coil on distortion gives a vaguely Jimi Hendrix like sound but much fatter.
The bridgepickup simply sounds emmense!
I am truely glad I requested Bareknuckle pickups on this guitar as they really do sound amazing.
I have tryed and tryed and tryed again in the time I have had this guitar and I really cannot find a fault on this instrument, Bob really has done a splendid job with this project.
I have the view that nothing is perfect but in this case it really is. 10/10 deffinately.
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
10
The guitar was set up very well although I needed to change it a bit due to a slight string buzz in some positions but that is just my playing style.
Again the pickups were adjusted perfectly in context with the rest of the instrument.
There are no flaws I can find anywhere, it has the precision of factory build but the tender love and care of a hand built guitar (which is what it is).
Reliability/Durability
:
10
This guitar is very sturdy, I cant see it falling appart ever, the included strap locks will also help protect it from anything. I will have no hesitation before gigging this instrument ever.
The hardware again seems very sturdy, as long as I dont go shoving it through a stack of marshall cabs and then smacking my drummer across the forehead with the remains it should hold up well.
The finish im sure is good enough to last but because of the type of finish on the body, I will be taking special precausion as to not chip the paint at all as unlike on sunburst finishes that abuse adds a nice quality to I really don't want to mess up this beautiful paintjob!
Deffinately gig without backup (although another one would be nice if I had the funds).
Customer Support
:
10
Bob is a very genuine and friendly guy, I spoke to him on the phone once and e-mailed him reguarly and he really does care about his customers, he was very helpful in helping me decide on some parts that I was unsure about and is deffinately top notch.
Overall Rating
:
10
I have been playing around 5 years and am currently at music collage in Brighton (BIMM) that requires me to have a very relyable and great sounding instrument. I also own an Ibanez RG and a Dean Dimabag (from my metal days) and have owned a variety of other effects pedals and amps in my time.
If this instrument was stolen, I would hunt down the person who stole it and play the ace of spades through a Plexi turned up to 11 in their face!
All I can say really is I love everything about this guitar, there is no hate, all love! My favourite feature has to be the jaguar style pickup selection as It gives complete versatility and lets you mix and match any pickup combination you so desire.
I really can't think of any other guitar I can posiably compare this to, it beats them all for me.
A job well done Mr Bob Johnson