The Comanche has landed

Fri Mar 23, 2018 4:23 pm

Just got my custom order USA Comanche via UPS on Monday, so I thought I'd post a picture of it.

It plays like a dream, and sounds magnificent! Such authority! The finest solid-body guitar I have ever laid my hands on.

Natural blonde with tortoise-shell sunglasses. Just like my wife.

Here's the specs:

1. Swamp Ash Body Wood (ASH)
2. Vintage Natural Body Finish (VNAT)
3. Quartersawn Hard Rock Maple Neck (QS)
4. Light Tint Satin Neck Finish (LTSN)
5. Modern Classic Neck Style (MCNK)
6. Maple Fingerboard with No Face Dots (MP-NTD)
7. 9.5” Fingerboard Radius (R95)
8. Gloss Headstock Face (GH)
9. Medium Jumbo Nickel Frets (MJF)
10. Model Logo Delete (LD)
11. Black-on-Silver G&L Logo (BSL)
12. Locking Tuners (LT)
13. Graph-Tech Nut and String Retainer (GTN-GTST)
14. 4-ply Tortoise Pickguard (TOR)
15. Dual-Fulcrum Vibrato (DFV)
16. Will Ray Bridge Pickup
17. Black Pickup Covers
18. Black Knobs for Controls
19. Black Knob for Pickup Selector

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Re: The Comanche has landed

Sat Mar 24, 2018 4:03 am

Awesome! -- Darwin

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:01 am

love it! congrats!

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:04 am

That looks like fun. Enjoy.

y2kc

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sat Mar 24, 2018 2:28 pm

Looks familiar and sweet! Enjoy your Comanche.

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:00 pm

Did you request it with no dots on the fingerboard? I would get lost but I'm sure some people prefer it that way.

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sat Mar 24, 2018 5:06 pm

As far as the dots go, I never look at them, on any guitar or bass.

I look at the side markers.

To me the dots just take away from the beauty of the wood.
So, yes, I ordered it that way.

Best

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sun Mar 25, 2018 1:39 am

Nice. I like that no fretboard dots option. I wish my Comanche had no dots.

I'm always happy when a Comanche has a Will Ray in the bridge position. I'll never understand why that isn't stock.

Re: The Comanche has landed

Sun Mar 25, 2018 10:27 am

Regarding the Will Ray bridge pickup.

I've had a few Strats over the years, and I always ended up swapping out the bridge pickup for a hotter one.

I figured I'd just start out that way for this guitar. I'm not disappointed.

Re: The Comanche has landed

Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:50 am

cbm wrote:Nice. I like that no fretboard dots option. I wish my Comanche had no dots.

I'm always happy when a Comanche has a Will Ray in the bridge position. I'll never understand why that isn't stock.


Same way I ordered mine. I agree wholeheartedly.

Re: The Comanche has landed

Mon Mar 26, 2018 8:00 pm

cbm wrote:Nice. I like that no fretboard dots option. I wish my Comanche had no dots.

I'm always happy when a Comanche has a Will Ray in the bridge position. I'll never understand why that isn't stock.


So does anyone have or know of a video comparing the sound of the Will Ray pickup to the stock one?

Re: The Comanche has landed

Mon Mar 26, 2018 9:40 pm

Nice Comanche!

dhgleaves wrote:So does anyone have or know of a video comparing the sound of the Will Ray pickup to the stock one?


I don't know of a video, but the WR version has more mids/body/thickness to the sound and a little more volume. I agree it should be stock.

Re: The Comanche has landed

Tue Mar 27, 2018 7:04 pm

Well, at this point I'll probably never know how the stock pickup sounds, but, that being said, the Will Ray is a strong pickup that still blends well with the others on the guitar.

I've always felt most comfortable having my bridge pickup being the strongest.

When I'm in the mood, I like to just slap that pickup selector back, and let 'er rip.