NGD: My first Axis! (attn. verbose content)

[RobW]

awesome guitar

PBB is the best...yours is sort of a sibling to mine, built 7/18/07:

pics:

"Official" pics-o-my-guitar Thread

PBB Goodness - Photobucket

[leftyguitarblue]

great story and purchase, congrats!

[cm_17]

Thanks guys. I adjusted a couple of things (anyone noticed how the 3-way switch has pre-drilled set holes in the back of the cavity for horizontal, diagonal or vertical position? Nice touch!), and now it plays super for my taste. And the tone...whatever amp I tried, the guitar has a very own character. I still can't stop grinning .

Originally Posted by sixtyfour

My knobs are like that too - I imagine it might be part of the manufacturing process where they're broken off of a tree mold or something.

That would explain it. I guess I'm just picky .

Originally Posted by Spudmurphy

I bet that the action is super low with that shim adjustment

I put the bridge all the way down so it sits right on the body. The neck has minimal to no relief, and the action at the 22nd fret is about 1.2mm. My Ibanez and Lag axes have lower action than this, but they have way flatter fretboards with radius-matched bridges, so that's an unfair comparison. I'm a light picker, and the current action suits the guitar very well - no fretting out on bends and full cords.

Originally Posted by RobW

PBB is the best...yours is sort of a sibling to mine, built 7/18/07

Cool to see one of her sisters . I remember browsing through your pictures, there aren't too many PBB pics of such good quality online. But then, it's hard to capture the color properly - environmental light greatly affects its perception. Killer neck figuring on yours!

Here's one more shot under slightly bad light, together with one of her non-Ball (sorry) stable mates - guitars from opposite shores of the Pacific:

[RobW]

Originally Posted by cm_17

Cool to see one of her sisters . I remember browsing through your pictures, there aren't too many PBB pics of such good quality online. But then, it's hard to capture the color properly - environmental light greatly affects its perception. Killer neck figuring on yours!

That is so true, it's a very hard color to capture properly. It's a trippy color in general, and like you said, the lighting affects it a lot. On stage especially, and at times even looks black from some angles...in photos it can look electric blue when the flash hits it...

The lighter-center area of the burst is kind of a turquoise color and it's rare to see a picture that shows it properly. I don't think any of my pics show it correctly. I think your first pic at the top of the thread is a pretty decent pic in that regard - there's a hint of that blue-greenish hue happening there:

[Phrat]

Congrats, along with natural, i think PBB is the perfect Axis colour. I have had mine for 3 years now and it is still my main workhorse and I dont ever see that changing!

Difficult colour to capture on film but this was my best atempt



Enjoy!

PS, i have the notch on the volume control as well...its just a little character

[cm_17]

Indeed, some of my pictures turned out so dark that it looked like a black guitar. I should play in front of a mirror more often with it to actually see the color changing . The body binding contrasts it also very well. A highly enjoyable instrument so far.

Originally Posted by Phrat

i have the notch on the volume control as well...its just a little character

Well, then I accept it as a mandatory "feature" .

[RobW]

Originally Posted by Phrat

Congrats, along with natural, i think PBB is the perfect Axis colour. I have had mine for 3 years now and it is still my main workhorse and I dont ever see that changing!

Difficult colour to capture on film but this was my best atempt



Enjoy!

PS, i have the notch on the volume control as well...its just a little character

Now THAT is one of the most awesome PBB Axisesss ever. It's one of the ones I drooled over before I got mine. I was pretty much sold on PBB due in part to that guitar - and the pic, for that matter, as it's also one of the better representations of the true color I've seen in a picture.

[cm_17]

Fully agree - blue awesomeness. There is also a great Axis Super Sport in the for sale thread, btw! Seems there are more quilts than flames around of these somehow.

Hmmm...I'm getting curious about that knob though. We are in the 21st century last time I checked...and we can't make plastic knobs that are not perfectly round? :/