I don’t have to tell you that when I first read the description of Eastwood’s new Joey Leone Signature RBC I was more than skeptical of Leone’s claims of a full 27 different, not to mention useable, guitar tones.
Hey, but I guy can be pleasantly surprised, right?
While I didn’t actually count the distinct tones that were on display, Eastwood’s new demo for the Joey Leone Signature is mighty, mighty impressive. And coming from Eastwood I guess I shouldn’t be surprised.
With three P-90s packed into a semi-hollow ES-335-style body, and a plethora of odd specs––including a Fender-style 25.5” scale length on a Gibson-style body, an extra-wide fretboard, and some special coil-tapping mojo on those P-90s (controlled by three switches)––Eastwood has managed to build a guitar that seems to be equally at home with the quack of a singlecoil, snarl of a P-90, or even the warm punch of a true humbucker.
The Joey Leone Signature RBC will be available in Antique Sunburst and Natural finishes, and is expected to begin shipping in late April of 2007. The current street price is $1199.
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March 20th, 2007 at 9:07 am
3^3 = 27 There’s three three position toggles, so a possible twenty seven positions. The obvious way to wire a switch would be off/on/tapped for each pickup but then one of the 27 is off/off/off. That’s usable, but not really a tone.
And reading further, a longer scale length so you can easily bend heavier strings without hand fatigue? Sure he didn’t get this backwards and want a Jaguar or Byrdland scale length?
“Next I wanted to have the scale length be longer then the standard Gibson, so I created a Fender scale (25 ½ inch) on a Gibson style frame. This would afford the player the opportunity to use heavier gauge strings without the hand fatigue that we incessant pickers tend to experience. Also this would make bending strings more pleasurable.”
March 20th, 2007 at 7:03 pm
1200? ouch.
some of their designs look very cool, and they have some pretty hip endorsees.