Product: Rarebird Osprey
Price Paid: US $1150
Submitted
06/08/2003
at
08:05pm
by
Tom Ivan
Features
:
9
Made by Bruce Phillip Clay Rarebird Guitar Lab
Guitar has flamed ash top and cherry back & sides
Strat body shape and pickup configuration, single coil EMGs on neck,
center position, EMG with push pull switch on volume control that makes it either a single coil or a humbucker.
5 way tone switch
volume control push/pull knob
tone control know
active electronic super treble tone control knob
3 tuners each side of headstock
The range of sounds you can get from this guitar is unreal
As other users have said, the neck feels great.
guitar is very well balanced.
This guitar was already made when I saw/played it. I think this is the way to go, hearing experiences of other users. Bruce is an artisan and not a businessman.
Buy one of his guitars that is already made if you like it. After you play it some you can always get it set up differently to your exact specs. Again, Bruce may not have time to do this when you need it, so you may have to have set up done eleswhere
Sound
:
9
I play blues mostly, thru Fender Blues Junior or Fender Ultimate Chorus amp. Can get Stevie Ray, just about everything else. Huge range of sound possible
Action, Fit, & Finish
:
8
Needed some neck adjustment. I use 11-48, so a little heavier than a lot of rockers
Reliability/Durability
:
10
Guitar is very solid
Customer Support
:
6
Bruce will eventually do what he promises. If time is an issue, get the guitar from Bruce, have the setup/adjustments done by somebody else
Overall Rating
:
9
Have been playing off/on 34 years. Have 15 guitars, 2 other Rarebirds,Taylor 555, Rich Pardun tele, Rich Pardun rebuilt Harmony Rocket, Rich Pardun rebuilt '54 Kay Jazz Guitar, Gibson Howard Roberts Custom, Larry Pogreba archback acoustic, 2 Liberty Resos, Dobro squareneck, Dobro ResoLectric, Amistar Tricone... I think that's most of them
