Patrick Eggle LA Plus

These guiys have said it all. Love the wilkie locking trem and love sperzels. Better than a floyd unless you're a satch/vai wanna be. The kick back switch is mighty useful. Great neck, gibbo scale not fender. Finish on neck wearing a bit esp the maple finger board and i am probably going to need to refret it soon. Yes its been played that much!
came with case and hiscox. This guitar comes well equiped. Its red and I didn't buy it for its colur or look, I just couldn't put it down. I only went in for a packet of strings!!!

Any sound you want really. It kicks butt. Very full sound from the heavy body. Can get strat/tele through to les/rg sounds. Tis my main electric

Action is really adjustable. Only gripe finish gone a bit greenish. But i don't care about looks its action i'm after!

It will undoubtedly outlive me. It is a one man and his guitar thing. Its so quick to chage a string. I think i'm more likely to taker a spare amp!

They are great people who care about guitars and customers. Never needed a service.

If you see one buy it, they are excellent. As are all of eggles older models.
Want a pro 11 and a ny and an sg as well! But slim pickings to be had in this department world wide.
Mine was traded in to the shop for a usa standard strat, by a loser with no taste and no ears evidently. I'd have swapped a usa strat and paid the money i did as well! Hence it was cheap. Also store owner a relic with no fiscal savvy. Be different buy british, buy a good axe!

Ash body, quilted maple top, maple neck, wilkinson tremolo, like strat, no sctratchplate, small swithc htat can be wired for different functions according to the owner. Locking machineheads. Really good all around.

Great for almost all styles. I changed the humbucking pickups for Lindy Fralin pickups. Much better. I thjink the single coil types are better in this guitar. The sound is clear and tight. Nice bass. I like it all here. Sustain is wonderful.

Everything spot on... no complaints. I bought second hand so I cant comment on the factory set-up. I'm giving it ten as there was nothing at all wrong. The trans-purple finish was applied perfectly. I bought it used so it had some scratches and dings. The guitar is mean to be played so I dont care. Still the finish was perfect I'm sure when it was new. The playability is wonderful, easy, especially for those with smaller hands, not cramped though at all. The body is light and comfortable.

Used it for years with no trouble.

Cant comment.. although I have rang them once about a Patrick eggle Berlin and they were very helpful.

Great aound great playability. It would take LOTS more money to beat this. Much nicer than Fender American series in my opinion. I have waited a month now before writing as I wanted to make an honest review. It is very nice. No complaints. I will keep it for a long time.

Greetings...Im the proud owner of LA 10-92 140 a rather fetching "Purple Haze" coloured Los Angeles Plus. I paid #600 pounds for it back in 1993 and it's been my main stage guitar ever since. It's a one piece body 7/8 "sucked sweet" shaped Sratish body with a slight quilt visible under the transparent purple (any woodheads know what it is then please tell me). A maple neck with a slightly flamed maple board completes the woodwork. It had three Kent Armstrong rail pick-ups initially but soon after I got it I changed the bridge one to a Seymour Duncan Hot Rail, just to get a bit more output. It's got Sperzels and a Wilkinson trem. On the electrics side it's got a five way rotary pick-up selector with a coil tap push/pull on the tone pot but (and here's the neat bit) it's got this little switch and when it's in the up position you get whatever you've selected via the coil tap and pick-up selector but when you click it down it by-passes everything and just goes straight to the bridge pick-up. Excellent !!

Being in a covers band I have to do everything from Pretenders to Van Halen and this guitar nearly does it all. OK, it doesn't quite sound like a Strat and it doesn't sound quite like a Les Paul on full tilt but 95% of the way there is better than lugging a dozen guitars to every gig. The only one it doesn't do is a Tele on the bridge (only Teles do that)so my Telecaster always comes along.

I can honestly say that this was perfect straight off the wall. The Patrick Eggles of this period were embarassingly good. (Top Tip..if you are after one then look for "by Patrick Eggle" on the headstock the later ones just had "Eggle" and weren't as good). Construction wise (and this is only a very minor niggle) is that the neck body join is a bit thick ie the neck sits about 11mm above the body and makes the pick-ups sit a little too high, a few mill of the neck would be better. This is just my opinion. Some locking strap buttons would have been nice.

I've played this guitar everyday for 8 years and when not in use it hangs on the wall. I always change the strap buttons if the guitar doesn't come with strap loks and anyone out there who doesn't wants their head feeling! I do take a back-up guitar (a tele) to every gig but that is only for if a break a string. I've only ever broken a string once and that was my fault. This guitar has never let me down.

I filled in the warrenty card and sent it of. One week later a matching strap arrived in the post. I wish the original company was still out there

I've been playing since 1974. And I've kept every guitar I've ever bought, so I own quite a few. If I was playing in one particular style (say doing Commitments covers all evening) then OK, out with the Telecaster, whereas fingerstyle jazz means out comes the Godin ACS. But for sheer versatility I would be stuffed without the Eggles.

Year of construction 1993 in England price #300 Plus trade in of a Washburn N3

This guitar is basically a Strat but one that has evolved.

Starting at the headstock we have a three aside typical Eggle headstock with locking Spertzel tuners, the headsstock is natural.

The neck on mine is maple with a bird's eye maple (24) fretboard. The neck is bolt on with a All access neck joint somewhat similar to Ibanez's but left a little square.

The body is 2 piece downsized strat style no pickguard made from swamp ash which gives weight and an over all feeling of quality. It has a Wilkanson locking trem unit the type that the trem arm is sprung loaded which locks the trem so that while doing string bends does not detune other strings.

The pickups are by Kent Armstrong, three single coil sized passive humbuckers. The controls are 1 volume 1 tone 1 five way rotary switch and a toggle switch. The Tone is also a push pull pot which is for the coil tap on the neck and middle humbuckers. The toggle switch is an override switch which on one side enables the 5 way rotary and on the other cut's to the bridge humbucker.

The neck profile is I would say C shaped a kind of cross between Gibson and Fender.

The finish on my particular LA is emerald burst gloss.

The only problem is the rotary switch since it is awkward to change settings fast. But I only use A few and the bridge humbucker over-ride is a godsend

I originally bought this guitar as I was getting into blues and wanted something to slow me down so I'd play more chords as I was into fast rock and Ibanez guitars constantly playing scales. Ironically it has a better neck for me personally and I actually got faster.
This guitar can play any type of music. The pickups are very powerful and getting a cleansound is only a matter of selecting the single coil option.
The sound is great but slightly trebly but it's simply a matter of rolling the treble down slightly.
I use it through a variety of amps such as ADA MP-1, Mesa studio preamp, Lanely GH100L and a POD.

The sound is great no dislikes here

It also distorts more than my RG with Dimarzio Evos

I bought this guitar in 96-97 and it had been lying in the shop for three years with a bunch more. The thing was covered in dust since it was hanging from the rafters. The action was terrible as it had been set up so the whammy bar could be pulled back which it's not really designed for. The guitar wasn't bookmatched. I don't know how you describe it but the grain flows from one side to the other so it's been properly matched up but it's not symetrical.

This guitar had no flaws except the poor set up. I have another that the bridge is a couple of mm towards the bass strings also the bridge humbucker is a couple of mm towards the treble side which means the low E string is right on th eedge of the pickup. The pickups have blade pole pieces so alignment is not an issue. I did read a review once and their guitar was the same.

This guitar would survive live giging no problem. I bought another to be my live instrument as the finish is go good i wouldn't want to get it too badly beat up (Overly protective) I block th e trem as I feel the only decent trem system is the edge and lo-pro from Ibanez I would like to buy another of these to get one put on it. But I WILL not mess up my existing two +'s

I'd only take a back up for string breakages other than that NO

I mailed the company several years after they pulled the model from production enquiring about a custom model and they mailed back after a day or so. So pretty good and Th factory is about 6 hours drive in Birmingham

I've been playing for about 9 years now. I've got a lot of stuff 2 ibanez 2 Yamaha 3 Eggles (1 pro II) 2 Strats
I wish i'd asked if these guitars were addictive before buying but i'd still have bought it. I traded a Nuno N3 for it and althought there are times I wish I had that guitar back I'll never get rid of this guitar or it's siblings
I love everything about this guitar. I'm not a tall guy and strats look too big and I love 24 frets and easy access to high frets the pickups are fantastic and the neck has the best profile ever.
I's go buy another even if it wasn't stolen, it's a shame that they stopped producing them but then again it makes them more special to me and a good thing since I'd probabbly have about 10 if they still made them.
The only thing I wish it had is an Ibanez locking trem but i don't use whammy bars much and that was why I bought an RG550

I've played a lot of guitars and own lots Fender HM strat Ibanez Rg550 540 power, Yamaha VG-std, Pacifica 303-12 and it's teh best I've ever played

I think it's a shame that only a few people have ever heard of these guitars. I can't say enough how I like these guitars.