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SOLD via gumtree ... one day after paypal-ing monies for this ad ... funny how life goes

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Hi all. I've just joined on the recommendation of someone on thefretboard.co.uk. forum. I'm not a bassist, I'm a guitarist. The recommend was based on the fact that I have an Overwater 6-string to sell and he reckoned that you guys over here will be more clued up on the Overwater brand. So I hope you don't mind that I'm really just popping in to place an ad and hopefully generate a bit of interest. About me ... I was a regular on musicradar (until it went) ... on thefretboard ... on vanderbilly ... and I'm a mod / admin on justinguitar forum too. Thanks. Richard. I have advertised this on several guitar sites, on ebay and on gumtree etc for about £800+ then £750, £675 etc etc. Bottom line - no buyers. So, either I have it priced too high ... or no-one wants to risk money on a 'little known' hand-made guitar or both. So, here goes. . Overwater 24-fret Custom-built 6-string electric guitar. Custom built at a cost of more than £1500 approximately 10 years ago. This is a hand-built custom made guitar from Overwater. It needed some repair / maintenance etc. And so I have just had it back from Nigel Stockbridge of Richmond. The work included:·[list] [*]a full fret dress (I am now strongly resisting the urge to say it plays like butter lol) [*]manufacturing a custom aluminium jack socket to replace the existing one that had cracked; [*]reducing the visible 'ghosting on the rear of the body with some careful buffing / polishing / sanding etc ... note .. it is still there but much less obvious; [*]performing a full set-up including truss rod adjustment, intonation etc and set-up for hybrid gauge 9s. [/list] The improvement is amazing and playing it now is so smooth. It is absolutely stunning. This work was necessary whether to keep or to sell. And I have decided to sell. For two main reasons. For all the improved playability, I still find the fingerboard a little too flat for my hands and playing style. And I prefer bigger frets on a chunkier neck. I would love it to be just right. It is a really comfortable guitar standing or sitting, It feels right in so many aspects. It is a good weight. I love the sounds from it whether in humbucker or tapped mode. It has great tones that work especially well in a band ... 'it cuts through the mix'. Photos (taken before luthier work). Specification:[list] [*]Mahogany through neck, mahogany body 'wings' [*]Maple cap [*]Seymour Duncan pickups ... Duncan Custom SH-5 in the neck and Custom Custom SH-11 in the bridge [*]Tonepot acts as a coil-split on both [*]24 frets [*]1 Meg volume pot [*]Schaller tuning pegs (old Schaller ... Made in W Germany) [*]Schallerstrap locks [*]Scale length 25" [*]Neck: 41.5 mm width at nut / 52mm width at fret 12 / 20mm depth at nut / 23 mm depth at fret 12 [*]Guitar hand built in the UK [*]Comes with Hiscox Liteflite case [/list] Defects, wear & tear etc ... There remains some slight 'ghosting' in the finish on the rear. There are some little dings and knocks at various places ... the usual places really for a guitar that has been used ... headstock, edge of body and neck etc ... nothing to worry about or effect playability. One of the spring mechanisms of the strap locks is a bit faulty so I have just worn it with a normal strap. Here is some extra info, summarised from various messages back and forward, about the pickups, that I got on good authority (i.e. folk that know a lot more than me) over at Seymour Duncan. It has a Duncan Custom SH-5 in the neck and a Custom Custom SH-11 in the bridge. The pairing fits well on a 24-fret guitar. They were made from about 1988 - 2002, judging from the labels and the MiA and the finisher of the pickup (not the winder!) was someone named Lidia. Both are wired standard (black to hot, green + bare to ground) with split (red+white to the push-pull). With a 1Meg volume pot. The 1Meg pot enhances the treble on both pickups. This is there to balance the characterstics of each ... the CC can be 'middy' sounding and the DC can be quite 'dark' in the neck slot. The 1Meg pot doesn't really enchance the highs, it's more like "the next best thing to having the pickup wired directly to the output jack". The pot allows the fullest power of the pickup to go to the jack. So, what I have found using it, whether clean, overdriven, madly distorted, the humbuckers stay clear and defined. They handle whatever you put through them. I've played growling fuzz and crisp, bright funk, and with careful dynamic playing, use of the volume / tone controls, you can get what you want to hear. Then, you can go in to single coil mode. There is a definite dip in the output when you do this. Again, using volume control, or a boost pedal etc negates this if you want to keep levls balanced. The single coil tones are not strat-like ... not glassy / shrill. They are quite rounded, mellow and balanced. I have mainly used them playing light funky rhythms, or with an acoustic sim on my fx or for a contrasting when jamming on some blues and I want to take it down a notch or two from humbucker power. They are very useful sounds. Any questions get in touch