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[Joop]

[jacco]

I have to back up Joop here regarding price. I bought a MIJ a few months back for 66000 yen which ended up being 1090 euro (that's 1460 USD) in Holland.

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[JohnA]

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[JohnA]

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[Koubayashi]

[japanstrat]

Just about all guitar factories are going to cut costs on lower models by using what's around at the factory at the time.

With solid colours, they can hide multiple pieces of wood, especially for the top of a LP.

In my playing experience, the number of pieces of wood is not such a big deal to the final sound. I'ts more about what type the wood piecs are and also the state of the wood (moisture content etc) and how well the pickups match that particular guitar and pickup/guitar matching is a lot about personal taste and trial and error.

A guitar made from multiple pieces of wood and considered to be junk by the way it looks can often be made to sing with the right pickups that match that body according to personal taste.

Some pickups work well in some guitars and don't work as well in other guitars, it's a roulette wheel.

There are so many pickup variables, like windings, magnets coils spacings etc etc and combine this with wood variables like wood type, what part of the tree the wood pieces came from, wood moisture content and texture etc etc then it's just not really predictable what the final sound will be.

The guitar body combined with the pickups really form a frequency filter (like a EQ) that sets the overall frequency response just like speakers do and speaker frequency response is variable and so is the combined guitar/pickups frequency response and sustain also depends on how steep the filter cut off slope is..

Some guitar/pickup combos will cut the mids,highs,lows or boost the mids,highs or lows and it's not really predictable beforehand just what is going to happen with certain guitar/pickup combinations.

I can't really judge a guitar until I can try 5 or 6 different pickups in it.

A so called lemon is often a diamond if you can mix and match pickups.

Of course, multiple pieces of wood puts off guitar lookers who like to look at their guitars as if they were some exotic piece of furniture or whatever.
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[mojo hobo]

When i saw that orville on the bay...i had a look at it..Nothing special ,just a stripped terada made custom..probadly a K-sticker .I have not seen a lot of stripped custom mij guitars,but what i do know is that a good percentage of custom orville,grecos,burnys are made using multiple bits of lumber.
Now the guitar in question is a real orville..but a k-sticker orville ,now because of this i would never buy it ,I had a k orville that was made like a jigsaw puzzle ,It was my 1 st MADE IN JAPAN LES PAUL i purchased ,At the time i when i first got it , i thought it was a good guitar..But i was never really 100% ,Its action was terrible ,i could never get it right ,But i was kinda happy with it ,after all it was a real ORVILLE it had to be good,why were everybody on these guitar forums raving about orvilles..
About 5 months later the gas hit again ,i went shopping for an OBG ,i brought a OBG reissue which turned out to be a OBG LPS-57C MODEL.

Well let me tell you the moment my hands picked up that OBG i knew what all the fuss was about..I played it for a hour and it rocked my world ,it blew the Sh**y K orville out of the water...

I am not saying that all k-orville are a plie of pooh ,like anything in life ,it is hit and miss ,as japanstrat said it all about the wood and how it sounds when put together..I am in two minds about the guitar in the auction ...Ok its a k-orville ,but it might just be a freaking good sounding example,What i do know is that removing the thick custom finish will have a effect of the sound of the thing in a positive way,I had a stripped top orville fujigen made and the difference to the tone was to open the guitar out a bit,more presence!

I guess will we ever know how good or bad that guitar might be ,we never played it...but we already played it in our minds and came to the conclusion it was crap...a conclusion influenced by the looks and the way the thing was and is constructed ...Yes!!! no!!!

Somebody brought it for ?557 ,a pretty good price for a k-orville.

MOJO HOBO

[Joop]

Hi,

I am just wondering why some people are jumping to the conclusion that it was a K serial number Orville. I have never seen a Custom version with a K serial number but maybe that is just my lack of information....

The way that Orvilles have ink are stamped serial numbers, it would be logical that if you're going to strip a guitar of its paint, the serial number will disappear as well. So, again it does not have to be a K serial Orville.

To me, a guitar is as good as the hands that play it. If you hear a pro guitarist play an Orville (with some mods) you'll know exactly what I mean. No doubt, the guy I have in mind would make the guitar in this topic sing like a nighting gale in a huricane!

Let's await the feedback on the auction. I hope that the person will be pleased with his guitar...

[barburny]

[Washington Irving]

After all, the seller did write, that it was a K serial. It's in the Q&A part of the listing. You don't have to wonder anymore