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So, picked this up yesterday, cut the strings off gave it a levelling, fret dress, rounded fret ends etc etc. Slapped on the Stetsbar. Immediately it felt pretty damn good. Nice chunky neck to it! Pickups were a bit lacking though. Remembered I had my SE Santana zebras in a box somewhere so in they went earlier. Now its a bloody good player.

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Even the stetsbar looks a bit less spastic on the tobacco burst! Got to say this is my 3rd SX and I'm constantly surprised at how good they are for not much cash. The levelling was literally a half dozen strokes (oh-err).

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Its satisfied my GAS for crap upper fret access and a hernia !
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Is it just me, or the photo angle, or is that bar so high you have to leave orbit to grab it?

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It's a bit of both, it's all adjustable, but I've set it a bit higher so I can use my pinky on it ;). Usually it would be level
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Nice
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Here you go, I've adjusted it down so its level, you can put it anywhere though with those two grubscrews.

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And one of my fret job, just because its feeling like buttah ;)
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That’s really cool.
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Single coil wrote:That’s really cool.
SX never fails to surprise, the standard pickups weren't bad, but I figured the PRS SE ones would be better...

It kind of reminds me of the Hondo LP a mate had back in the old days, that was a fucking good player too. Ratty as fuck but he made magic on it.
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Would hoon se pickups in something else.
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Single coil wrote:Would hoon se pickups in something else.
loving them in this so far.
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Play some van halen eh!
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Nice one BG :)
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Olderama wrote:Nice one BG :)
have to say its a cracker :frank carson:
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