An
electric guitar. This guitar has two
cutaways and is often described as a cheap cross between a
strat and a
Gibson. I'm not sure this description is fair, or more to the point, useful, though it must be said it isn't expensive (yet). The body shape is aesthetically closer to one of the seventies
Ovation solidbodies you occasionally see, and there is no scratchplate on the front, like you'd find on a
Jackson. The
headstock is an unremarkable 3 + 3 affair.
The Gibson comparison probably comes from its electronics. It's
pickups are four
lipsticks wired and placed like two
humbuckers. The
selector switch switches between either or both pickup just as on a Gibson, and the tone/volume knobs are positioned similarly, but can be pulled on for out-of-phase and
coil tapping effects. It is available in
tremolo and
fixed bridge models.
It does sound like a humbucker guitar but the output is weaker than a current model
SG. If you wanted to push an amplifier or a distortion/overdrive effect harder with it there are many inexpensive
clean boost pedals available. One EQ/clean boost I tried worked wonderfully in pushing the music store
Laney stack to
sabbathy goodness. I must say the tremolo seemed to me to be a piece of shit, but then again I like
Floyd Roses if I want to use a trem at all.
The model I'm getting the cash together to buy has a retro shiny light blue metallic finish. This is both absurdly
tasteless, spectacular, tacky and undeniably
cool, just like cheap mirrored
shades. Speaking of such I'm surprised that
Billy Gibbons isn't seen playing these more often.
At the time of writing these guitars are available for sale new.