This guitar plays and sounds good. I would not recommend this guitar if you are not a good tinkerer. Even though it plays good and stays in tune good, things could slip and cause a problem. If you are a good hands on person, would be easy to fix. About like a P/P to work on. It has never happened to me and have played this guitar out quite a bit with no problem.
I bought just to see if I could improve the old crossbar mechanism without any draw backs and think that I did. I saw not difference in tone from original crossbars to bell cranks. This guitar has pedal noise bleeding in to the pickups but not noticeable when playing with a band. It did before converted to bell cranks. If I kept, I would replace pickups so they are mounted on springs or foam. These are mounted to body of guitar.
The E9th neck uses the yoke type mechanics for pulls and lowers which works great and smooth. The C6th neck has compression springs like a P/P and also works great. Right now has Day setup but can easily be changed to Emmons or other. C6th is standard. It has 8 X 4. It is easy to add pulls or lowers to this guitar and you can make your own parts. It will include extra bell cranks that I didn't use. 4 or 5 I think. If you want any more info on this guitar, please email or PM me thru the forum. Also more pictures if wanted.
This would really make a nice 2nd guitar for someone because its a D-10 for $1500 and remember, you need to have some knowledge of under carriage as most P/P players.
