Patrick Eggle Berlin Pro

1992 made in coventry england 24 frets quilt top, coil tapped two humbuckers three way switching plus toggle which can give out of phase. wilkingson trem. the one thing that they could have put on is a tone pot. just as when your on stage you can make them suttle adjustments. but on saying that the swtching can do this!

this is the most vesatile solid body guitar i've ever played,
i've a marshall 9100 but played through a mesa boggie to. Awsome!!
whith the switch i and sound it equally if not better than a PRS.

this was bought second hand so can't comment from factory but is perfectly set up and have found the finish immaculate,

i've bought this for gigging and find the guitar a top pro piece of kit. all the hardware on it is very well made and had not one problem. am very happy with it

I've been playing 40 years i own a les paul,musicman silloette,peavey wolfgang,patric eggle new york,stineburgh,mesa boggie and marshalls.digiteck legend 2 and boss GT8.
i would not be without one of these now!
this is a comfortable guitar as not as heavy as your les pauls but has the sound.

Mine is a 94, with a lovely cherry sunburst. Usual issues, the trem is rubbish and the coil taps are a novelty.

This guitar goes through a JCM2000 TSL. How can such a pretty guitar much such a devil of a noise? It is bloody brilliant. I play heavy rock, most of the time on channel 2 of the Marshall with the mids on full and the gain set to about 4 or 5. You get the power and the clarity of the Kent Armstrongs and it feels just great to play. On to channel 3 with the gain all the way up and this thing just screams. I've also been lucky enough to use this guitar through a 1962 AC30 and I thought I'd died and become Keith Richards.

The Wilkinson Trem makes this a very difficult guitar to set up and if I was traveling the world it would be a right pain. The screws have corroded and it would be impossible now to alter anything. The guitar is now semi-retired and still plays great so this isn't an issue, especially as it couldn't be improved upon in terms of current set up. The bridge itself was quickly blocked off with a combination of off cuts and a plastic ruler! This hasn't affected the sound at all but this isn't the easiest guitar in the world to get to feedback, this might have something to do with it. The falling leaf inlays do make it a cut above nearly every other guitar, the PRS birds don't even come close!

I got this guitar when I was young (!) and it saw the inside of just about every toilet we-want-to-be-famous venue in the country. It has picked up one or two blemishes but has withstood the usual temperature changes going from the cold van straight on to stage under the lights and back again routine, beer and fags, sweat and blood treatment. I now fully respect what abuse this was and it only comes out now for special occasions to preserve it for future generations!

Never had any need

I got this guitar because no one else was using them and I wanted to be different. It has always been a source of conflict really, why on earth aren't these wonderful guitars seen across stages across the world, but then I get to be unique and in on one of the best kept secrets in guitar land. If it were stolen then the perp would be hunted down! PRS' are often mentioned but in all honesty, I keep trying them to see if our cousins from across the water do do it better but...these brummies are the best!

I posted a review about a year ago and I just want to give some follow-up info. (Ollie)

I sold a couple of my other guitars and bought some new ones. I sold the Schecter, the ESP/LTD and bought a Patrick Eggle Berlin Std and a Blade R4 instead. I must say I am very pleased with both guitars but I keep returning to my Berlin Pro E-VE-RY-TIME. I am done with the hardcore/metal stuff and play now in a "speed"rock band. This means I am tuned differently and play with another set of strings (regulars). I enjoy it even more, the easiness with which every note is played and bended is simply amazing. This is the most playable neck I encountered in all guitars I tested beforehand. Even a mediocre player like myself can produce nice tunes with this gear :)
The Berlin Std possesses the same neck so no diffrence here, but the Berlin is built with better materials and electronics which therefore makes it my instrument of choice. The R4 is also an amazing guitar, but way less playable, especially for soloing (bolt-on neck, broader neck, 21frets).
Oh yeah, I replaced the awful early Wilkinson with a new one and it suits me better this time. So I recommend everyone who had problems with this piece before, swap it out for the new wlkinsons, they are much better.

I own two Belin Pro`s, the early one has alnico Kent Armstrong pickups and the latter Seymour Duncans. Tone woods used are a mahogany body and neck with figured maple cap and ebony fingerboard.
Both have two pots v & T with coil tap on tone pot and toggle selector. Both have wilkinson locking trems and both are strung light
9-42. Both have sperzel tuners. The early one has a box case, the latter a shaped green Eggle case. The early one has jumbo frets and the latter medium.

Of the two my favourite is the early one,owing to the blusey tone from Kent Armstrong alnico humbuckers, the seymours are brighter but lack the soul of those Armstrongs. The set up with coil taps allows these guitars to cover nearly all guitar tones from bright purcussive to woman tone aka Cream. They`ll rock all day as well and sustain well, ZZ top no problem yet on single coil neck, sound clear and sweet, back off the vol after selecting both single coils and you`ve got reggae. Can`t ask for much more can you! I`m not a whammy bar man but good use can be put to the floating trem which is smooth topped for a comfy palm rest where vibrato can be added by slight movement of the wrist. No need for a chorus pedal and always ready to go, esp useful on open chords. Given that I use super lights which do not tension the trem springs to a great deal, tuning is always spot on. These Berlin Pro`s are super versatile and look great and sound great. In my book they offer the best value for money on the UK market when a top class instrument is required.

This guitar is designed perfectly. Slick ebony action, no sticking at the nut, perfectly aligned string routes over nut owing to the perfect positioning of the tuners and Sperzels at that! The best!!
Keep your PRS, I sent one back, the heel on the Berlin is far better designed being a smooth arc into the body and small. The PRS heel is like a cart horse by comparison and makes access to the 24th fret a joke. With the Berlin access to the highest fret [24th] is easy and my fingers are not long ! The PRS did not have coil taps either, it was the sigle cut away, the Berlin is a better designed guitar.

My early one is still playing as well as new, in all these years it has only needed a change of pots, owing to dust crackle. All trem guitars are an acquired taste and I personally love the small and smooth topped Wilkinson. Who wants a trem thats a metre long with a cluster of fine tuner screws in your elbow! A scrap merchant or Schwartzenegar. I must admit PRS trems are neat.

Over the years I`ve been in touch twice with the firm, helpful and always polite.

Playing 20 yrs plus, been semi pro and still jamming every week. Odd party turn out. Play into two Marshall AVT`s, split via Boss CE3 pedal. Own early Yamaha SA 2000s and Tokai MIK Loverock `les paul`.
Given that the Berlin Pro is far cheaper than the PRS yet offers more
tone variation, equals it in finish & woods, has spertzels as standard and a far more playable neck to body join. Buy The BERLIN, let the name tag posers blow it on an inferior US copy!

Bought this October 1992 Eggle from a chap on eBay for #680. This was made when the man himself was stil involved with the day-to-day running of the factory and rumour has it that quality control was better then...

This is totally original, maple top under transparent green 'Emeraldburst' finish, mahogany set neck, ebony fingerboard with dot inlays, two Kent Armstrong open HB's (we'll come to them later) 24 frets, Volume, 3-way tone selector (coil tap) and three way pick-up selector. Sperzel locking tuners and the nefarious Wilkinson trem. Came with Patrick Eggle monogrammed case.

I play Bluesy/Metal type stuff (Gary Moore, Zakk, Slash, all your pentatonic stuff...) and this guitar is great; I can get a thick Gibson sound and when I hit the coiltap biting Strat/Telesounds too.. In fact, if I've got a criticism its that the Bridge Pickup is a little too bright and harsh on the ear.

I play through a Line 6 Flextone live and Guitarport at home the PC. I don't need any external pedals. NOW, lets talk about the Wilkinson Trem...I've never been a divebomber a la EVH....just as well as this thing is dreadful!!! I've had it professionally rebuilt and now I can get away with the odd harmonic wiggle but anything harder and I;m tuning up all over again - good job I'm not a big trem user I suppose...

It needed work when I bought it, frets uneven truss-rod needed adjusting and of course the Wilkinson unit needed attention. The pickups are OK - I've toyed with idea of replacing them with more powerful units but as the guitar is totally standard I thought better of it. The overall finish on his guitar is superb and aside from replacing the nut I've had no problems with it, the neck and fingerboard are great and allow for a really fast action.

The only comment I would make is that the 3-way coiltap selector looks a bit odd, juys a big black control knob with nothing on it and looks like I've stuck it on myself!! but its standard so I am told.

These days I just do a few numbers at my local blues club so I don't really put this guitar through its paces anymore, Its not a super strong instrument but will withstand normal use..... the finish and hardware is in very good condition bearing in mind the little raver is 13 years old.

Its never ever let me down but I always take two guitars to any gig out of habit.

Haven't had any issue with the company I'm afraid so no comment. (I like their website and user forum though)

Ive been playing professionally and for fun for 25 years and have owned more guitars than I can recall - I do remember from my youth (mid 70's) my Avon SG copy, my Kimbara Strat Copy (superb quality) and then my first Gibbo, a 1970s LP deluxe Goldtop.

These days I have my 1992 Eggle and my 1979 Yamaha SG2000 (frightening instrument, weighs a ton, sustains forever and for playing rock music, beats anything that exists in the modern world including all yer pointy headstocks, PRS's and funny shapes).

If I lost this guitar I'd scour the earth for an equivalent. Its one of those guitars that really endears itself to you and I be heartbroken if I lost it.

In terms of comparisons, quite honestly when I play about with other guitars I think 'thank god i've got the Eggle at home' There was a Gibson Les Paul once that wa on a par but it was #5000 so there you go!!!

*My PE was built in 1995/1996 in Birmingham,
*24 frets, 3-way toggle with 3 way selector (9 ways in total)
*2 passive humbuckers: neck: Seymour Duncan Alnico; bridge: Seymour Duncan Custom Custom
*Body: Mahogany with a thick maple top; neck: mahogany with ebony fingerboard (yes!!!)
*Finish: yellow translucid fornt and red translucid in the back
*Body style: PRS
*Bridge: AWFULL WILKINSON TREM :(:(:(:(
*Tuners: Sperzel Locking Tuners
*Neck: thin, whith slightlky rounded frets and -as I said- ebony fingerboard; very low action: PLAYS LIKE HEAVEN!! Extremely smooth, fast and precise!!!

I give it a 9 because of the WILKINSOM TREM.
I bought this guitar because the other guitar player of my band already owned a PE Berlin DLX for years and it sounded and played soooo well I HAD to buy one. He didn't use the trem at all and blocked it at both sides with pieces of carton. The trem is parallel with the strings and completely blocked now, so it works like a hardtail. I did the same thing and the guitar stays marvelously in tune and the action stays very low. Without blocking the trem: it's bullshit. It's detuning all the time!!! Actually, I got blessed by the previous owner for buying this piece of junk (can you imagine???) He'd bought this guitar to play with tremolo: BIG MISTAKE: DON'T DO THIS!!!

I play mostly Metal and Hardcore. This guitar doesn't look metal at all (think Santana). But I don't care; it is very versatile and -did I mention it before?- it plays unbelievably smooth.
You can make it sound very close to a Strat or a Les Paul. Turn your volume knob to the max and you ahve a very fat, rich sound; cut it down a bit and you will have a very crisp and bright tone (with quasi no feedback when distirted!!) but with a huge amount of attack. The sound of the guitar at low volume follows an exponential curve: when you hit the strings slightly it sounds like playing "acoustic"; hit them fiercely and it opens the gates as if the volume knob was turned to the max!!!
It's as good for blues, funk, rock as it is for death metal or furious hardcore.
One problem: sometimes the guitar picks up the local radio station :)

Original set-up: good except for the tremolo I guess
Pick-ups: perfectly adjusted
Top & Bridge: see tremolo
The previuos owner said he had problems with the 3 way toggle and he had to replace it.

I play in C with this guitar, I use a .013 -.056 set of strings so I had to make few adjustments to the guitar, but now it sounds perfectly well and the action is even lower!!!
The rest of the guitar is very well built and finished beautifully. Most amazing feature: the neck!!!!

PS/ top string saddle doesn't accept much wider strings than .056!!!

This is alreday ten years old and looks like new (except for a little dent in the body work (I think the instrument fell on a blade or something)
the other guitar player seems to have problems with the backside of the neck, as the laque seems to wear of, but I can't really compare beacause it is an other model and it has been built in another era (1992) of PE manufacturing.
I would certainly use it without a backup! it is a quite but not too heavy piece of machinery (and I like it beacause it helps for the sustain) and you can easily knock some fans out with it in a mosh pit.. :)

I've been a few times on thei website, and they are very dedicated personnel and proud of their products. When you tell them the serial n? of your guitar, they almost remeber making it!

But I actually do not have been in contact with them for any problems

PS: they have a lot of useful tricks how to set up your axe!!! Check out their website!! www.patrickeggleguitars.com

I play for over ten years now. I am currently playing in three bands and do occasional fill in gigs.
Amplification: I have a Hughes&Kettner 120W WARP-T amp and a ENGL Tube Toner preamp (my gig gear), a Hughes&Kettner Tubeman preamp, an KMD GV-100 SD (for blues), a ADA Microfer 2*50 poweramp and a Peavey Studio Pro 110 for home use.
Guitars: I own an Ibanez (RG series), a Shecher Scorpion (bariton), a Viper-400 (LTD) and a 1989 customized Gibson SG Deluxe (Dimarzio X2N pickup and Schaller locking keys).

My PE is my favourite guitar but it as also the worst features that I ever encountered.
I am deeply in love with the versitality of the instrument, the sound, the neck and it's action and the great craftmanship. I hate the trem, but since I manage to block it, it shouldn't be considered as a problem. I am thinking of selling all my guitars and a big deal of my amplification to buy another one. I wouldn't sell my Schecter because it is a different instrument (feels like a bass) and it is completely made to be tortured at Hardcore shows (but it has lousy pick-ups), but my PE does everything else my other guitars (my 1699? Gibson included) do and won't do. If anyone is interested in a trade :) ??

The reviewed guitar is a Patrick Eggle Berlin Pro with 22 Frets and a Wilkinson Trem.
The serial number is 8121 and - according to Patrick Eggle - indicates, it was made in 1998.
I bought it new in 1999 at the Music Factory - a guitar store in Mannheim - Germany.
The guitar has a very beautiful turquoise finish with dark horizontal stripes, Sperzel lockers and a Wilkinson Trem.
The Sperzel lockers are so good, reliable and easy to handle, that it makes me wonder, why Sperzel lockers are not the standard on every guitar, which is sold today).
The only thing about this guitar, that really sucks, is the Wilkinson locking trem. It's not worth, to describe in detail how horrible this thing is - it should just be replaced - the sooner the better!
I also had some trouble about the neck, because 5 frets had to be worked over just a few weeks ago, cause they moved upright from their original position - but to my surprise, that wasn't expensive at all and now it works perfect again.

Anything else was described in other reviews, so I guess it doesn't make sense, to repeat that in this review.
Without the Trem I would give 10 points but the Trem was part of the guitar, so it's only 8.

I play this guitar maosty through an Engl Screamer 50 Combo and it really offers a broad variaty of great sounds - clean and distorted.

Specially the clean sounds with the "single-coil" setting are really incredible - very powerfull rich and open sound.

Beside this Patrick Eggle I use a Gibson Les Paul Classic and a Gibson Les Paul 1954 Oxblood and the Patrick Eggle covers all the rest of sounds that might be needed beyond the two Gibsons - there is no need for any Fender guitars if you own an Patrick Eggle.

Beside the serious trouble with the Wilkinson Trem and the trouble with the frets - the fret problem interfered with the Trem Problem and all that ended in an action that was much to high, so that the playability of the guitar really wasn't that good at all for a while.

Now everything is great and the guitar feels wonderful and is very easy and a lot of fun to play.

The finish and everything is very, very beautiful - I would never give it away just for the looks. Everything is done at a high quality level - specially the neck with the natural wood at the back and the ebony at the top looks incredible and I enjoy it literally every time I see it - this guitar is a gem.
It would be 10 points without the Wikinson Trem - so it's only 8.

Got serious problems with the trem and problems with the neck, so that could have been better.

Only contacted them once via E Mail, to find out about the date when my guitar was manufactured. They answered within 3 days, which is really good.

I would never give it away, because it's great to play, sounds incredible, offers a broad variety of great sounds and looks awesome.

Beside these aspects, Patrick Eggle is a small company, so the distribution of these guitars is relative small, which is another attribute, that makes this guitar something special.

I would buy it again.

My PE must have been made in England. Birmingham, to be precise (that's the only place they make them, so there's no other option really). There's nothing on the truss-rod cover, so I'm not exactly sure which model it is. AT first I even had doubts as regards its authenticity. But hey, who'd make copies of such fancy gear. You get Strat copies, LP copies, PRS copies, and so on, but PE ain't that popular. Presumably its the Pro V model. The guy who sold it to me didn't know either, so i took it to Mr Witkowski, one of the best luthiers in Poland (check out his site) and he certified to its authenticity. What's more, he was very impressed with the guitar. He set it up for me but admitted it was an ordeal. 24 thin frets. Mahogany body with maple top. 2 Kent Armstrong humbuckers. Translucent ocean blue finish. Beautifil. Wilkinson tremolo. Select mahogany set-neck with ebony fingerboard. Sperzel locking tuners.

A truly universal guitar. I play the blues-rock kind of stuff and it suits perfectly. The previous owner of my PE played in a lousy punk-rock band so i guess it works with punk rock just as well. Great for jazz too. I play it thru a Marshall JCM900 head into a soundman 2*12 Celestion Vintage box. Lovable. Thanks to the 3-way toggle swith you can get a wide range of sounds. I usually use the bridge humbucker for distorted playing (rich and bright sound) and the neck one for clean playing (marvellous!). the material is so good that you can tell it's gonna sound great even before you plug it in. No dislikes whatsoever.

I don't know about the factory set-up. The Witkowski guy told me my PE was built aroud 1994 when Patrick Eggle Guitars was a small workshop run by Mr Eggle and some helpers. This means that my PE might have been made by Mr Eggle himself so I guess the set-up was fine originally. I don't know the history of this guitar but surely previous owners knew how to bungle the set-up. Now everything works great, though perhaps I'll change the 11 to 10 strings, which means setting up the Wilkinson bridge again. This ain't easy but once done works fine forever. You'd have to bludgeon it to put it out of order.
I've examined this babe to a hair and found no flaws at all.

This PE has withstood dozens of punk-rock gigs, bigger and smaller. I ain't used it on stage yet but I'm certain it'll do fine. I play it a couple of hours every day, plugged in and everything. Nothing's been wrong for two months. This babe is unbreakable! You can play it on a gig without any backup, no question about it.

I don't know. I ain't dealt with those guys. I didn't need to.

I've been playing this cutie for 2 months now and I'm absolutely charmed. I also own a Fender Standard Strat and I must say I can play a lot of different thing now. Those two guitars perfectly complement each other. I only wish I could learn the history of this guitar. I don't know how to do it. The serial number isn't there any more. I guess it might have been grinded away during some treatment, if there ever was a serial number at all. I'd get seriously depressed if it was stolen. There's nothing I hate about this guitar. The sound is gorgeous and I get praised on the looks (the ocean blue colour is simply wonderful). My girlfriend fell in love with this guitar at first sight and she still hates my Strat. PE is a fabulous instrument, no doubt about it!

year: 1992
frets: 24
cherry burst quilted top
controls: volume tone with coil tap and 3 way selector
pickups: h/h
make of Pickups: Kent Armstrong
mahogany body and neck ebony fingerboard
was fitted with wilkinson locking trem with sperzel locking tuners

Suites my music style perfectly, i play a lot of blues jazz and melodic and it hasnt failed me yet,
currently running it through a line 6 spider 212 which really complements the guitar, dont honestly dislike anything about this guitar really

the setup when i got it was perfect really low action and not a fault i could pick up, i believe that it was professionally setup by the man himself before it left the factory

only guitar i will play now even though its taking long enough to find one like it

10/10 quality instrument

Made 1994 at the old factory just before they went T**s up. Hardtail 24 frets,Honeyburst quilted top with mahogany body & neck with a beutiful ebony board that slips under your fingers like a dream.
Seymour Duncs(don't know the model) non locking tuners with a pull coil tap.

I have played most styles,soul, blues ,RnB,rock.At the moment I play in a covers band playing everything!
My rig at present is a Marshall JTM60 combo with a JCM900 2x12 extention, Marshall Bluesbreaker and Supervibe pedals.I have just got a Behringer V-Amp effects but no comment yet as I have not gigged it.
This set up gives me everything,no adverse comments at all really, great guitar that gives any sound I want.

I swapped a US strat and an old Antoria Les Paul for my "Paddy" with a guitar dealer friend of my brother in 1998.It was a bit of a dog when I got it but Ritchie at Tomson Guitars (Wigan)soon sorted that out.
The guitar itself was Immaculate, as brand new.

I have been gigging virtualy non stop since '96 and I have used my Paddy on nearly every one since I got it.
It still looks great, even after some real heavy treatment.
A couple of fret dresses and set ups, plus my own fiddling and it is exactly the way I want it.
Suits my little chubby fingers down to the ground!!
The only thing I have had to change is a volume pot in all the time I have had it.

I found them very helpful.I wanted to trace the history of my guitar and they told me when it was made etc.Apparently it was destined for Germany.

I have been playing since I was about 14.
I also own a '79 Strat, Fender DeLuxe Tele, Tokai Tele, and I have tried or owned many,many others (including PRS Eggle copies)this is what happens when your big 'Bro is a collector, play them all at no cost!,but every time i come back to this guitar.I really don't need any other as I cannot think of one negative.Looks great,sounds great,plays like a dream.What else is there to say.
For sheer value for money I dont know any other guitar to touch it and I would have another one tommorow.

seymour duncans the lot plus a coil tap top of kewl i love mine

the coil tap allows you to have a cleaner more straight ahead sound while when its pushed u u get a solid wall of sound when i first plaid it thru a line 6 flextone 3 it almost sounded like a 12 string, resornates for a long time too to to the lack of bolted neck and lack off scarf joint in the neck

kicks the hell out of PRS the cap is 1 peice maple on mine PRS would charge #3000 plus probley for the eqivelent

the tuners lock the string amazingly, solid build with ellegence

coz my guitar is second hand i phoned them up to find history they are currently searching for all details for me very friendly

i got a #1375 left hand 2nd hand for #450 its only a year old are they insane????

its a amzing guitar with a great sound if ur lookin 4 a UK alternitive 2 PRS thats better and cheaper go for this

An update to the review I posted a couple of years ago (see further down the page) -
I still love this guitar, but I just could not stand the ****ing Wilkinson trem. No matter what we tried, we couldn't get it to work properly - anyone who thinks it works should try bending a note up maybe a tone, pulling the arm round and fluttering the trem slightly, then let go of the trem. It catches on the edge of the the hole the base of the arm is supposed to slot into, and puts the whole guitar out of tune... Useless.
So I had the awesome Robbie Gladwell (Dr Robert from Guitarist magazine) replace the thing with a double locking Floyd Rose. I'd recommend this mod to anyone, finally this guitar lives up to it's potential!

I have the standard hard-tail version, built in 1996. I bought it direct from Patrick Eggle at a guitar fair. It cost #1045. It has two seymour duncan humbuckers, (one of which is a Sd custom custom). This a a classy looking guitar in a cherry suburst finish. It has a classy sound as well ! The tuners are Sperzel locking tuners and they are very good. There are 22 frets and the quality of the frets is good - no overlapping on the side of the neck. The neck is fairly thick and has a "chunky" feel to it. The action, once set up properly is superb - VERY fast and very low if that's what you want (like me),

This for me is the strong point of this model. It produces a superb sound on virtually any combination of settings you can think of. Wether you are playing heavy rock, jazz, blues or whatever, you are sure to get the sound you want. I have been playing for 35 years and this is the best electric guitar I have played..and Iv'e played quite a few over the years! All in all this guitar produces quality sounds over the complete range of styles you might want to play.

The factory set was not to my liking, but then I always set up my own guitars as I know many other players do. The finish is lovely. this guitar looks as if it's come straight from the factory and this is after 5 years of hard playing.

This is a dependable guitar which is very well construced. The strap buttons are good and solid and after nearly 6 years it still looks and plays like a new guitar!

I find it impossible trak down anyone associated with Patrick Eggle guitars !! I believe that they were taken over by Musical exchanges in Birmingham (U.K.) but despite repeated attempts i have been unable to access their website .

I also own a Martin dm, an Epiphone Sheraton, fender musicmaster bass and a Yamaha RBX270l bass. IF I lost My Berlin pro i would be gutted ! No other electric guitar could replace it as far as I'm concerned. In my opinion the Berlin out classes both fender and gibson models and I prefer it to PRS as well.

2002. Made in the new factory in Birmingham, England, by a great bunch of chaps. It is a 24 fret mahogany beauty with a gorgeous maple cap. It has a mahogany neck with an ebony fingerboard and real perl dot inlays-not Mother-of-Toilet Seat like a modern Les Paul! It has a natural finish that I love to bits. This kept the price down. I went for the hard tail version in the end because money was a little tight. It has Sperzel locking tuners, 2 SD split humbuckers a volume control and a 3 way selector which gives an excellent range of tones-the classic strat tone, the out of phase tele sound and the Brit blues grunt a la Clapton circa 1966. Lovely! The body style is PRS but here the analogy ends. This babe knocks spots of the competition. The chaps at Patrick Eggle made it to my exacting specifications and it feels like the intstument I have waited for all my playing life! It came with a fitted hard Hiscox case.

I play rock and roll and r and b in a London outfit and it complements my Gibson L4 CES and my Fender slide strat perfectly. I use the slide for swamp, the Gibbo for rockabilly and the Eggle for the odd slow or rocking blues. The sounds are various but I like the strat sounds-first class; kills a fender, and the Les Paul sound-great clean and beutiful slightlt distorted. I use it with a Marshall JCM 800 head and a Marshall JCM 900 2/12 box. Beutiful. We also carry 2 spare heads-JTM 45's and the Eggle sings throiugh both of them. It records well too. Our producer loves it! It is as quiet as can be. Awesome.

here is where a hand made axe slaughters the competition. No flaws, everything done perfectly. I did nag the chaps to death when it was being made but I think they put in a bit of extra effort for this one. The action was perfect-as I had requested it, the neck a beautiful piece of craftmanship, the wood chosen well. It has a natural finish so it is not covered up. All components are brill.

I have only had it for a short time and gigged with it a few times but ut stands up well. We always take out a load of gear but I would never gig without a backup! The hadware should last a fair while but hey! Nothing is infallible or free from wear and tear! Our guitar tech is always tinkering with my gear!

At Patrick Eggle they are very responsive. They asked me lots of questions and built an instrument that would fit the design purpose as closely as possible. Warranty until death!

Fantastic value for #!! It is the best geetar I have ever had and I have had them all-you name it I have had it. The chaps did a great deal for me and I cannot speak too highly of them. A parting shot..a well known London session chap I know played it last week and went utterly potty over it.

My guitar was made in March 1992, here in England. It has 24 frets in an ebony board, with a mahogany neck, mahogany body and a carved flame maple front; a similar construction to my Les Paul, but much lighter for some reason. It has an 'aqua' finish to the body which brings out the grain beautifully, with the entire body and neck covered in a high gloss laquer. The neck has no binding.

The hardware is all in gold; the wilkinson trem, the sperzel locking machine heads, the output jack and it's mounting plate, and the pickup surrounds for the two Seymour Duncan humbuckers. A truly beautiful guitar.

I hated the sound of this guitar! It had a Seymour Duncan JB and a '59 (I can't remember in which positions . . .) with the rotary switch. I could use both pickups together in single coil mode clean (very funky) and I could use the bridge humbucker with loads of gain for lead (loads of pinched harmonics) and that was it.

Now, it has a Seymour Duncan Custom Custom at the bridge and an Alnico Pro II at the neck. The rotary switch has been replaced by a tone pot with a push / pull coil tap for both pickups. I can use every sound now, it's so very versatile. It has all the tone of my Les Paul, at half the weight. Absolutely incredible.

By the way, it's used through a MESA/Boogie Triaxis, Rocktron Intellifex, MESA Simul-Class 2:Ninety, and a couple of Marshall 4 x 12"s, loaded with Celestion Greenbacks. I use this with a Jim Dunlop Crybaby, which is no longer stock.

So I'll have to put 'No Opinion' for this category, as I used to hate it; now, after a lot of work, I love it!

This guitar was secondhand when I bought it, from a spoiled 11 year old brat whos' parents also bought him a MESA/Boogie Mark IV (as well as the biggest grand piano I've ever seen, in case he wanted to learn that instead . . .)

The guitar really was in bad shape; there was a film of muck all over it, the gold had worn off the pickup surrounds (easily replaced) more importantly the corroded strings had cut grooves into the frets and the nut had been replaced with a big plastic one off a classical guitar!

NOW, it sports a full fret dress, as well as a Graphtech nut and saddles (to fit the Wilkinson trem). I've changed the trem springs too as these can affect the responsiveness of a Wilkinson. It's now set up with a fast action, using 10-52 strings.

I also routed away some wood from under the trem so I could use it a lot more. It stays in tune!

This is now my main guitar. My Les Paul is always there on stage too, but hasn't been used for ages!

The finish is durable. It has to be! It polishes up nicely too, when the mood takes me . . .

I can't find Patrick Eggle. Apparently, they're now run by a music store in Birmingham whos' name escapes me. I contacted them to find out about this guitar, but they didn't want to know.

I've been playing for most of my 34 years (since I was 9!) and this is my main guitar now. I play in a rock covers band, a function band, as well as sessions (local radio adverts, etc) and I just take this guitar now. Name a style, this guitar (and the rest of my rig) can cover it easily.

If this guitar was stolen, I'd hunt the ****ers down, as now it's irreplaceable. It's so much better now, with the Graphtech saddles and nut. As for the electronics, I've changed the pickups like I said, with the usual 3 way selector, and a tone pot with a coil tap. And I've made submissions for what I think of the pickups in the respective categories.

I bought this secondhand, at a fantastic price as the sellers had no concept of its' value. It was a dog when I bought it, but with potential. That potential has now been realised.

My gorgeous Eggle is a 94 Berlin Pro Hardtail model. No trem for me. It's got 24 frets, placed on the most amazing Ebony fretboard I've ever played. It's got a 3-way switch, and the tone control can be pulled for coil switching on the bridge pu. Seymour Duncan PU's, all mahogany body, maple top with natural finish (YES!!!) and locking tuners. I do miss coil switching on the neck pu. I bought it last year, and one of the earlier owners had given it a rough time. But with the natural finish, its quite charming!

I play everything. It goes from the screaming solos of led zeppelin to the clean heaven of Mark Knpfler. No noise at all, the PU's are just perfect. I play it trough a Zoom GFX-8 board into a Peavey Classic 30. Tone, tone and more tone!

I bought it used from my guitar teacher who bought it used in a store half a year earlier. It's frets were beaten up, but after a trip to a guitar builder, its better than new. Nows its perfect.

Two words: No backup.

Been playing for 4 years, and I been lucky to find this guitar! I never play my modded Epi LP anymore. It is was stolen, I would break down, cause I've only seen one other like it in Denmark. I compared it to my teachers Paul Reed Smith, and this baby shines in comparison. I love it to death

Made in the uk i have 2 of these beauties 1st made in coventry and 2nd made in new birmingham factory.
1st 24 2nd 22 frets
1st 5 way selector 2nd 3 way toggle.
1st 2*hb with coil tap 2nd 2*p90's
1st passive 2nd passive
1st manogany back and neck mapel top on both
1st 5a quilt cherry sun burst 2nd gold top
Both berlin shape carved top
1st stop tail 2nd wilkinson vintage trem
both came with hard case

wicked sounds from both, they are the same model of guitar the 1st has more sound due to the humbuckers splittin gin to may different combination the 2nd no so many sounds due to only 3 positions for the p 90's

i brought both guitars direct from the factories, i brought the first in 95 i think when i was 14 and the 2nd last year 2001. from the very fisrt time i saw the berlins i knew i wated one so i did with a loan from my dad. i have always kliked them. I took my guitar to the eggle facory for a set up and then asked if they had any already made with p90's they did i saw it and fell in love once more. the guitar is acctually the first one they made with p90s and a gold top and i believe it is the one pictured on the www.patrickeggleguitars.co.uk web site. No flaws on these babies there perfect

th ereason for me taking my 1 st in to the factory was a faulty switch on the guitar but i later found that it was just some dust in there so cant blame them for that. the tuning is great on both guitars and never have to re tune when in live situations. i woul dgig with no back up for these but i always take a spare guitar in case a string breaks

very good lads, all work i have ever had don eon my guitars has been free of charge they even put a couple of nrew stings on once for me.

i have been playing guitar for about 8 years and i love it. If any of my patrick eggles were stolen i would get a load of money from the insurance company and go stratight down to the factory and order another two straight away custom jobs. Patrick eggle have been lying low the past couple of years but i have been told they are almost redy for a big come back.if u want a guitar that is different to every one else and would like some thing that can be made to your spec go for it you will not be dissapointed (same price as a les paul but twice as good and twice the " what the f*u^ is that - i like it what is it, i want one" if you know what i mean). By the way i do not work for patrick eggle guitars if you think i like these so much but i am just giving an honest opinion. i have other guitars gibson sg-x, a warwick corvette strandard bass and washburn mg74 all of which are good but i always use my eggles when i want to play a quality guitar. My next purchase is going to be a New york broadway made by you guessed it patrick eggle. i might go down next week. If u like eggles to drop me a line an dtell me what u have got.

My Berlin Pro was made in 1992 and comes from england. It has a mahogany body and 24 frets.It also has 2 seymour duncan humbuckers.I hope you know the rest of the other submits.
I really miss a tone control

Really great for blues, jazz, rock, hard rock, or what ever you like.I think it is an allround guitat.

I had no problems neither the guitar is 9 years old. There are still all original parts.

It is a great guitar for all kinds of music. I have been playing for 5 years and it is the best guitar i ever heard.

My Berlin pro has a mahogany body with a bird's eye maple top,mahogany neck and african ebony fingerboard.The pickups are two Seymour Duncan humbuckers(I don't know the model,If someone knows that can write me ane mail,thank you).The machine heads are sperzel locking and the bridge is a wilkinson VS 100 CV.There are 2 knobs:one is a master volume and one is a 3 way rotary knob to select the coils (inner,outer,or humbucker).There's a 3 way toggle switch to select the pickups.The finish is blue and violet with a few burst(I think it's called "artic burst" finish.Magnificent look.The guitar has a small binding on the body.I bought in 1997,but I don't know when it was made.

This guitar sounds great!!!I like to play mainly blues and jazz,and my Eggle has great clean tones to smooth overdriven sounds.I think this axe gives its best in clean and crunch tones,but maybe i'm sayin' that because i connect it to a Fender Twin Reverb and I play with heavy gauges (0.11-0.49).Maybe if you plug this guitar to a loud amp like a Marshall mark II,or a JCM 800 you could play rage against the machine too!But this is not what I want to play,anyway.The instrument and the pickups "feels" the touch of the musician,and react to it,great!The single coil sounds are OK for funky rhythms,but don't turn the Eggle into the Strat.If you want to play jazz you can get good clean warm tones,but it's a solid body guitar,not a Gibson ES 175.Nothin' is perfect.The neck picup is very warm and smooth,the center position of the switch produces a sweet sound with a lot of pops,especially if you play with the fingers,the bridge pickup is a bit louder and compressed

The set up at the factory was really bad made.Especially the bridge.Set up a wilkinson is harder than build a Jumbo jet!!!I set it up but myself,and now it works great,but it took me a month!!!One suggestion:take more seriously factory set up.The finish is good,but the craftsmanship is not as good as a PRS or a Gibson.

Tis guitar is surely very soild.The harware is good,except the volume control(I had to change it after 2 months from the purchase).The guitar is good for live plaing,it's less heavy than a les paul,has a good tuning stability and great versatile sounds.The strap buttons are the best I've ever seen.I don't think that I would use my Eggle on a Gig without a backup.

I don't know anything about that.

I,ve been playing from 8 years,and I do the musician as a job since 3 years(what a bad life,guys).I own the Eggle ,a Maton acoustic guitar,and a Warmoth Strat.I,ve got a Fender twin Reverb amp,but sometimes i play with a VOC AC 30(It's an incerdible amp!)I,ve recorded a lot of differnt stuff with the Eggle,and I'm really impressed by its versatility and by the sound that it can produce.Great guitar!

Made in England, 22 frets, solid quilted maple top, solid mahogany back, ebony fretboard, maple neck. Red to yellow transparent sunburst. 2 single coils, 1 humbucker - all Seymour Duncan. 1 volume control, 1 tone control, a 5-way pickup selector. No coil tap, but I will fit one soon. Sperzel locking machine heads, locking Wilkinson trem. The neck is lacquered and feels good. Feels chunkier than a Strat, but I'm not sure if it is.

Haven't had it too long, so can't comment too much. A lot brighter than my strat on the neck and middle, warmer on the bridge (but my strat has a SD humbucker there). I miss the coil tap on the humbucker, so I'll have to add one at some point. It's not perfectly set up yet because I changed from 10s to 9s when I brought it, but even badly set up I like it so far! But I won't rate its sound just yet.

The guitar had been in the shop for 18 months and then I changed from 10s to 9s which messed the setup, so I can't comment on that. It took around half an hour to get the trem to float again, but now it works really well, and always returns to pitch. The finish is just about perfect. The quilted maple top isn't perfectly smooth - it is slightly rippled - but I don't like an inch thick layer of laquer anyway. The neck join is very neat. The frets I'm not so sure about - they're not as wide as the neck and don't look as if they've been done quite right, but they still play perfectly.

I don't know if this guitar will last. I hope so. It's such a nice guitar that I'll have to look after it. It seems pretty solid to me. The strap buttons in particular are very firm - unlike my last guitar where they fell off. But I'll change them for locking lugs at some point. The pickups should last, being SDs. I wouldn't use this guitar without a backup - only because I wouldn't go anywhere without my Strat.

Support is excellent. I emailed them yesterday to ask what size allen keys I need - received a reply today saying they've posted me some!!

I've been playing for about 13 years now. I also own a Fender Strat, a Cry Baby, an E-Bow, a Boss GT-5 and a Takamine acoustic. I play though a Carlsbro GLX80 amp. I chose this guitar because they'd reduced it from 1300 pounds to 500, and then I part exchanged my old bass and electric guitars as well. 280 quid for a 1300 pound guitar can't be bad!

My guitar was made in 1994. This model has 24 frets, Wilkinson Trem, Sperzel Tuners, but as I bought the guitar second hand I dont know what the pickups are.

I play most styles - Blues, Christian music in church, Metal, Jazz etc. The sound is good (esp distortion)but can be very harsh at times when played clean (even when bypassing my pedalboard). I run the guitar through a fairly complex pedalboard into a Marshall VS265R.

The only complaint about the finish is that you can see glue from between the fretboard and the neck under the finish.

I have giged with guitar and I expect it to stay the distance.

I tried to use the online webb site to find more information about the guitar but had no luck.

I have been playing for 20 years consistntly and I am impressed with the guitar. I would probably buy another if this one got stolen.

I own a '95 Berlin Pro Model that is obviously made in England. It has 22 Frets with a beautyful honeyblond solid-top maple body. It allthough has a ebony fingerboard, two Seamour Duncan humbuckers, one volume, one three ways toggle switch as pick-up selector and one rotary three way selector for coil tap (externe coils, humbucker, interne coils). In other words: You get every tone you want. Wilkinson locking tremolo and Locking Sperzel tuners. The neck is great and fits to my hand. The intonation is perfect all over the 24 frets. There's no binding at all on the guitar. It came including a real goog case.

I love the sound of this guitar. I play everything from blues to funk to rock and it fits all my needs. In every way this is a guitar with a huge spectrum of sound. Forget PRS! My amp is a Fender Champ 12 ( the old ones made by rivera) over a 4X12 Marshall box. The guitar is very quit.

The set-up was bad made by the factory. Especially the Wilkinson locking tremolo was and is still nearly unadjustable. Another problem is the neck. It makes sound because of the internal screws that are not fixable. That problem came up after one year of playing. Everything else is really topquality

It is a good guitar for live playing. Most of the other guy are very impressed by the sounds that guitar can produce. The finish nis very worthy and i still use on stage.

What customer support???

Patrick Eggle and his team even do not care about the shops! My guitar shop has taken the guitars out of there program because of the non-existing support. Do i have to say more?

I am playing for almost 20 years now and when found that guitar i though this could be the one i was searching for. I own a Fender Telecaster Standrad and a Blade Strat. I love the sound and the playability on the Patrick Eggle - it is really better soundiing than every PRS and Gibson i have ever heard. On the other hand the craftmanship is not that good. All the adjustment are a sign of sloopy work. If it would be stolen i would look for another one. But i ould look carefully for the quality. MY suggestion: Take your time in testing Eggle's guitars - at least severall hours. They are pretty good. But make sure that you will have one of the well made guitars.

As stated in earlier reviews it's a UK made guitar, PRS style but definitly NOT a copy. Mine was built in 1992. Maple (AA grade) top, mahogany back and neck, ebony fingerboard, maple head top matching body top (great look!). Finish is 'transparent honey burst' flamed but not too exessive and not too regular. Two Seamour Duncan humbuckers, one volume, one three ways toggle switch as pick-up selector and one rotary three way selector for coil tap (externe coils, humbucker, interne coils), no tone wich I tend to miss a bit, probably my only complain on the guitar. Wilkinson locking tremolo and Locking Sperzel tuners. The neck is great and fits to my hand. It's just a tad wider than the neck on my Guibson 355 so switching guitars is almost unnoticed. The intonation is perfect all over the 24 frets. There's no binding at all on the guitar, so it looks very pure and natural. The case is ugly but very good and it came with all the keys needed to adjust neck and bridge.

Sound is not as fat as a Les Paul but much fatter than a Fender. On the neck humbucker it's warm and rich but still very clear. On the bridge humbucker it's crisp but not agressive. When coil tapping to externe coils you can get close to a tele sound on the neck pu or using both pu and the interne coils sound soft. In total nine different tones and all usable. Too bad there is no tone control. I currently play mostly jazz so my main guitar is the Gibson 355 but fora more modern sound I play the Eggle and it suits the band and serves the music well. I play it through a Digitech RP6 and a Boogie 50/50 stereo into two 1x12" Celestions open back and I really love the sound I get from it, as well clean as overdriven. Great blues raw sound and heavy distortions, it sings. Chords overdriven stay clear.

The guitar dates from '92 but was new so after so many years I doubt that the setting was the factory one but it was good. It was fitted with 0.009 strings so I changed to 0.010 and had to readjust the set-up anyway but I didn't need to touch the truss rod. The Wilkinson tremolo is a bitch to set-up but the good news is that you have to do it only once. Anyway the fine tuning of an instrument is a very personal matter. With the exception of one little ditch on the body, condition was mint, a wonder for a six years old guitar even if it stayed in the shop.

It's a premium quality instrument hand made by excellent luthiers and it's totally dependable. Patrick Eggle-the man left the company in '95 I believe but he had to leave his name and design behind. He worked then with Gary Levinson (from Blade Guitars) for awhile and recently started a new brand, Maximum Guitars (MXG) built in California. Connaisseurs say that the quality of products lowered after he left. My guitar beeing from '92 could even be built by the man himself (nice thought even if it's only a dream) but it's definitly from the earlier Eggle period and I like it better than any later versions of the Berlin.

I e-mailed the company in september to ask what model of pick-ups was it based on the serial number. Seems to me a simple question but I'm still waiting for the answer. So either Patrick Eggle took his archive with him and they have no clue or I'm considered as a Patrick Eggle-the man customer and their relationship is so bad that they don't even want to talk to me! The warranty is 2 or 3 years from manufaction date so I'm way off but the store has a 24 months waranty anyway

I've been playing for 25 years, much too long for the skills I actually have but... The other solid bodies I've owned where a Gibson SG and an Ibanez Artist, both great axes but times change and so does the man and his preferences. The Eggle replaced the Ibanez for one main reason : the neck is a bit narrower and thicker on the Eggle and when I put may hand on it I instantly knew that that was it, love at first play! With the Ibanez I always had it like : I love the guitar but I wish the neck was a bit narrower and thicker. It's a very comfortable guitar, the way it rests on your body, the way your arm rests on the top, the general position, the weight (it's light) and it has a great design, in my opinion even better than a PRS. Until now I've only had stop tail guitars except on my Gibson 355 that has a Gibson trem : touch it once and you can retune. So I wasn't enthusiastic at first about buying an axe with tremolo but after 5 min. of trying to put it out of tune I was convinced by the Wilkinson: after extreme pushing and pulling Steve Vai stuff (not my style anyway), the G string was a bit out and the lower E very slightly out. The best is if the G string is slightly out, just one trem action the other direction and it's back in tune. And it doesn't have that bulky nut string locker. If you break a string it stays in tune and in combination with the Sperzel locking tuners replacing the broken string is fast and easy. And in lock position it feels like a stop tail, only probably less sustain. Something specific with the volume is that on most guitars if you turn the vol pot down, you loose high frequecies and your tone gets a bit muddyier, but on the Eggle you loose low frequecies and get a brighter tone! Annoying at first, I quickly realized that this way you cut through the mix better at lower (comping) volume and get the full fat tone for lines and solos. In combination with a pedal volume you get all possibilities. If it was stolen I would probably run around like a mad man to try to find the same model from the same period in the same colour. Lucky I was to find that combination and still new! Of course all these apreciations are based on personal preferences and will differ from person to person but I think that Eggle guitars deserve more fame and recognitions than they currently have.

Made in 1996 (I think), hand crafted in England, 22 frets, ebony fingerboard, with the most gorgeous green sunburst finish (even my girlfriend likes it), 2 humbuckers (Duncans, but I'm afraid I don't know any more than that), 5 way selector switch, tone & volume controls, coil taps for positions 2,3&4, passive electronics. It's kind of PRS-shaped, but it looks more curvy. Wilkinson locking trem (very impressive - it's like having a hardtail and an tremolo), Sperzel locking machine heads. The neck is wide (which I like - great for vibrato), and has a great feel to it. It came with a full Hiscox flight case, and when I registered the guitar, they sent me a box with guitar polishes, oils and cloths (now that's service).

My style is progressive (when I have good day), sometimes mindlessly heavy rock, and sometimes bluesy. Make no mistake, this hand made English beauty ROCKS. The bridge humbucker has so much kick that I hardly ever want to turn off overdrive - there is just so much oomph in this guitar that it's almost impossible to put down. I use it through my Marshall Valvestate (no other effects - if it's good enough for Angus, it's good enough for me). There's no noise when switching, there's no hum or fuzz or anything. There's total variety of sound, the coil taps making a great single coil sound. There's tons of sustain, and the sound is rich, deep and bright. No dislikes at all. It's as if someone wrote down everything I wanted from a guitar, painted it green and sold it to me.

The action when I got it was not too good. It took me a while to summon the courage to let anybody touch it, but my local music shop set it up for me (changing down from .10 to .9), adjusting the trem (which is a real arse of a thing to look after - it's so precise, if it's even slightly wrong, you get loads of problems). The pickups are nicely adjusted. The colour is fantastic, and the finish on it so so gorgeous that I can spend hours just looking at it... No flaws at all.

This guitar will take anything you care to fling at it - it's never let me down, and the locking Sperzel machine heads mean that changing strings takes a matter of moments (just pull it through, clamp it, snip the end, tune up, and a couple of full dive-bombs and you're away). Strap buttons are great. Dependable as my Dad (which is saying something). I'd happily gig with this guitar alone - nothing else could give me the feel of this anyway, and I can't afford another one.

Don't know - they seemed friendly, but I've not had any problems.

I've been playing about 4 years now. I've got a Fender Roadhouse strat, and I've played a whole load of other stuff (Jackson, Ibanez, Charvel, Fenix, Peavey, even Casio but that's another story). This is just the best guitar I've ever played in my life. It's no frills - no bird inlays, gold bits, or anything like that. It's all stock, as bought, but I wouldn't change anything. If I lost it (apart from beating myself over the head for being so stupid), I'd go straight to the Eggle factory in Birmingham and order the same again. I chose it because I saw it hanging up amongst hundreds of strats, les pauls, other Eggles, PRS and so on, and it yelled "BUY ME!" at me from the other side of the shop. So I did. I'd recommend Patrick Eggle to anyone - I even tried a PRS at the same time, and the Eggle just felt so right. However, this is a serious amount of money for a guitar, so you've got to be very sure that yours is as good as mine before you buy it. It won't suit everyone, but then I don't want a Les Paul and Jimmy Page does...

I love this English guitar because it is super versatile. It is way more versatile than my Strat Deluxe and also much more attractive. The body is like a more offset PRS shape, and is made of mahogany with a carved birds' eye quilted maple top finished in honeyburst, which goes from a darkish yellow colour at the edge to natural. The mahogany back is finished in natural (dark brown). It it supremely beautiful. The mahogany neck is capped with a black ebony fingerboard, perfectly inlaid with abalone shell dots, which to me look like planets. It has 24 medium frets, which could do with a dress. The 3+3 headstock, which is like a more curvy PRS design is capped with quilted maple and is finished in the same hue as the body. It is home to 6 nickel Sperzel locking tuners, which are great because you don't have to wind the strings! Just stick them through, lock them in and clip them off. It has two humbuckers, which are both Seymour Duncans', a '59 and a Custom, both of which are coil tappable via the push/pull tone pot. It has Wilkinson trem, which is the best non-locking trem I have ever played.(Never goes out of tune)

I play mostly rock and blues and occasionly jazz, and this guitar is perfect for all styles. The custom produces great high-octane rock sounds, and the single-coil settings produce great SRV and Clapton blues tones. The neck 'bucker with the tone rolled off a bit creates a great Wes Montgomery tone. I play with a Fender Hot-Rod Deluxe Amp, which is a 40 watt all valve 1 x 12 combo (see me review), and it cannot produce a single bad sound

Mine was immaculate when I got it. Action was perfect, the strings were great. (happened to be my string of choice, D'addario 10's) As I have said, it could have done with a fret dress, but this doesn't affect the playability at all, just the looks. (I won't put 10 down to 9 just for that) The finish is flawless, except for a few dings courtesy of the last owner, and as I have said is exceptionaly beautiful.

I wouldn't know myself as I have only had it a week

I haven't had to contact them before but I will soon because mine came with no literature, and I would like some, and I would also like to find out if the small chip in it could be repaired. As the company consists of only 5 people, I'm sure customer support is very good.

This guitar is perfect! I had been looking for a new guitar for nearly a year and had tried many (Wolfgangs, Music Men, Ibanez, Jackson) before finaly settling on a PRS Standard, but along came this at a fraction of the cost and to me, is better than the PRS. I can't say enough good things about it! It will probably be my number one guitar for quite a while now, although I don't know how old it is. I love it!