These are great rock guitars. I was still looking to fill that SG slot on the cheap, and I found this. They’re odd guitars, certainly. Small maple solid bodies that look a bit like an angular Les Paul TV Model with an even more angular tele style guard, the hockey stick headstock I love: gratuitously odd guitars.

They’re also an unusual 24.5″ scale and loaded with mysterious, hot Japanese humbuckers that, while they’re still arguably PAF clones, are hot enough to tilt a little ways toward DiMarzio super distortions. Maple too bright? Not with these, but the voice is distinct and focused.

They came with a Leo Quan Badass bridge, but I don’t like those, so I swapped it for this Schroeder and changed the posts to locking TonePros for a big improvement.

This guitar also boasts a distinctive skate key style truss rod tool (of course) and adjusts at the heel. GHS 11s.