Got mine in the post the other week. Currently getting the nut filed for some heavier strings, but I managed to record a demo for the In Limbo delay, which of course utilises the Nelson. As the key to my rehearsal room is broken I haven't tested it with the gig rig, but it plays awefully nicely. Took a while to get used to the 24.75" scale length, and it's the first guitar I've played that doesn't have jumbo frets. But now everything is starting to sit well under my fingers and I'm loving it!
Deets:
No neck pickup, no tone control, ebony fretboard. Raspberry red finish.
The neck is perfect. It is thick enough that it gives a good solid starting point while playing, but it's thin enough such that you don't really think about it when you're playing. I much prefer it to both of my other guitars, one with a Wizard neck (toothpick) and a generic strat copy neck (not bad, but not comfortable either).
The pickup is my first excursion outside of humbucker territory, and to prepare I've been playing my humbuckers in split mode, just to get used to something different. It has more clarity than a humbucker, isn't as hot, but has more punch than a single. Really nice bite in the top end that works well for nice plinky plonky cleans, or for getting snarl out of fuzz.
I tune to D and use 12-54 strings, with a wound G (though I stupidly bought a set with a plain 0.24 G, which is one of the worst sounding strings I've ever bought. You can hear it in the demo...). After the initial adjustment period after shipping it holds its tuning really well, and the hipshot tuners are the best I've used. And they look hot. haha.
In the demo I tuned the lowest string to a G for a minute or three and it was surprisingly quite ok. I'd say it lost more attack in G than the Ibanez, but the overall feel was actually better than on the longer scale neck - go figure
It is light as hell, but still feels substantial. I dig. It is relatively well balanced - it is a tiny bit heavy towards the headstock, but the weight is so low that it isn't noticeable at all.
Will dump some pics here later, but I might as well spam up the vid as much as I can.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0YpeEoDXJI[/youtube]
Note that that is recorded direct with a cab sim. The sound coming out of the cab sim was fairly close to the sound coming out of my Marshall JTM-1 - it is probably a little more scooped than in real life, but not much.
sounds really great.
