It gives even the bright pickup, played clean, a quality tonality: the mix is rich and the neck pickup fuller. In some ways there's a 'hollowness' to this mini axe. "There's a beautiful feedback tail to the notes at higher gain, almost as if there's a Sustainer onboard" To many, this guitar will look like a toy, but it certainly doesn't sound like one. It's a lightweight and comfortable guitar and you're presented with basically just a neck and fingerboard, and as ever, without a headstock you have to get used to naturally playing 'higher' on the 'board. While it's not impossible to play seated, it's certainly a lot easier with a strap, Holdsworth-style. Neither bears any 'licensed by' logos, but the parts seem of excellent quality - the impression you get from anything with the Carvin logo. Made by a Korean company called JCustom Headless Research, these parts appear to be very close cousins to Steinberger's original parts, now no longer made. The strings' ball ends slot into the bridge end and are locked in place at the nut although it appears special double-ball strings could be used. At the other end, we have a bridge assembly with individual lock-down saddles and six knurled-knob tuners. There's no nut as such instead, we have a zero fret and a string anchor at the top of the neck.
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That leaves just enough room for a three-way mini-toggled pickup switch and a side-mounted jack on a metal plate that has the country of origin and the serial number stamped on. We get 22 adjustable poles to each of the standard H22 'buckers and a master volume and tone with black Strat-like knobs.
The neck profile is fairly chunky - 21.3mm at the first, 24.7mm at the 12th - with a fully shouldered D shape and we have a slightly trimmer 'nut' width of 42.8mm and a 508mm (20-inch) radius to its ebony board, with neatly installed jumbo frets. Peering inside the copper foil-shielded control cavity you can see that, there's plenty of air and what appears to be a block under the bridge and one for the neck joint.
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