Depends on how you define medium jumbo, I guess. My 2016 Trad was advertised as having “medium jumbo”... but frankly they’ve never felt very jumbo to me... medium or otherwise. My 2021 R9 (and 3 other R8s I’ve had from the 2014-2016 model years) have more what would seem medium jumbo to me...
If you tried it in person, you must be somewhat close to them. Go back down there in person with the guitar and demand the proper stuff for it (or you'll return it). I'll bet they can find it. :)
Uhhh... you do know that we are in a guitar forum talking about very high-end (ie, expensive) guitars and that any comments made herein are made within that context, right? IOW, no one's comments (except maybe yours) are in any way referring to anyone across the globe who is struggling...
Man, this was an awfully long thread for a quickly and easily refuted (ie, untrue) premise (and a thread that wandered all over the place)... yet, I read the whole dang thing. What’s wrong with me?:facepalm::laugh2:
Being “blown away” is very subjective and also relative to what else you’ve played and/or been exposed to. As was said above, CS guitars generally start with a better baseline. If you are someone like me who is very enamored with vintage Bursts but will NEVER be able to afford one (nor probably...
Let me just say, for clarity’s sake, that those of us who do swap stuff on LPs don’t buy guitars we don’t like the tone of either. We have just learned from experience and tinkering that we can often make them even better. We chose guitars we like as well. Especially if they have certain...
Yep, though I mean to say “screws” instead of “studs” in my previous post. IOW, you replace the ABR-1 bridge mounting screws with longer steel ones. But yeah, a user on the other LP forum named “mapleflame” came up with the idea several years ago and it became known as the “mapleflame mod”...