Placed my order for Suhr

4 to 7 months? Wow! Long wait. Definitely post some pics when you get it!

@chrisbrooks 10791 wrote:

Aside from making highly playable and lovely sounding guitars, they know how to make them frikkin pretty too.

Hey Chris, 🙂

LMAO from that one! 😀

~Bill Meehan~ 😉

My specs went like this:

Standard
Basswood Body
Quilt Maple Top
1pc Maple neck Quartersawn No BFTS
Even C slim neck profile, .800 – .880 10″ – 14″ radius
Tusq nut
Jumbo SS frets
Gotoh 510TS FE1 trem
1.65″ width nut
Chrome hardware
Sperzel locking machine heads
No pickguard, rear routed
Electronics: Volume, Tone, 5 way, Push-Pull coil tap for both HBs, blower switch
Side input jack
Chrome knobs
Neck p/up: SSV Zebra
Mid p/up: FL Standard Black
Bridge p/up: SSH+ Zebra
Finish: Trans Sky Blue Burst Quilt
Scraped Binding
MOP logo with gloss headstock (black face and side inlay dots though so I can see them on
stage)
Light/Medium hand-scalloping on last four frets
10-46 Elixir

When I got the pdf back to approve I think they’d put the trem with vintage saddles and I went “ok, go with that”.

Ed at Suhr was very knowledgeable and available to answer any questions or make suggestions, and he was very keen to help and get this thing rolling.

The guitar I’d been playing the most before I went with Suhr was a 1997 Lone Star strat which I hotted up with DiMarzios. It felt great but the alder wasn’t quite cutting it for me with the amp I use (Mesa Dual Rectifier 2ch head). My main guitar before that was a PRS with Mahogany body which was nice but I didn’t see the point in replicating tones I already had. So I went with the basswood/maple combo for the body as it’s John’s favorite and something I wanted to try. It was a good punt because it cuts beautifully through a mix, especially with the quartersawn maple neck which has loads of clarity, and the bent vintage saddles which sound very open. I chose the Even C slim neck profile because it seems like a good “not to small, not too big” balance, though I’m pretty flexible about neck shapes if they feel nice.

I went with the SSV and SSH+ humbuckers because they coil tap superbly, and the Fletcher/Landau single I was keen to try also. They both coil tap from my tone pot, The blower switch I chose for obvious reasons, and the scalloped frets were an idea I wanted to do myself on the Strat (but won’t bother with now as I will sell it soon I think).

I think the Aldrich will be too hot for the FL singles. With the SSV+ you should be able to cover most tones and still sound sweet.

@chrisbrooks 10791 wrote:

Great features! That’s going to look the business!

Why don’t you run us through your thought process when choosing the features? Guitar nerd-talk is always welcome.

I’m still adoring my Suhr CS, which is also blue:

Aside from making highly playable and lovely sounding guitars, they know how to make them frikkin pretty too.

Nice guitar, I’ve watched your excellent videos on youtube too.