Ramblings
This sunburst guitar is an HSS Strat-styled solidbody, for want of a better description. Boasting an alder body, bolt-on hard rock maple neck, classic six-screw tremolo bridge and 21 medium jumbo frets on a 21.5" scale rosewood fingerboard; the S402 delivers the goods.
There isn't much to complain about this guitar: it's solidly built and sonically versatile, thanks in part to the combination of neck/middle Stagg ceramic single coils and beefy bridge humbucker. To be fair, the oversized adjustable pickup polepieces do remind me of the "Invader" series of pickups from a well-known manufacturer. But, as they say, if you've got to copy something; copy from the best. I almost forgot, the sleek 12" radius rosewood fingerboard and nicely crowned frets are a dream to bend on.
Now, at the risk of stretching the truth, I'll go ahead and say that the S402 sounds pretty darn convincing either sparkling clean, on the edge of breakup; or fully overdriven. Think Mark Knopfler meets Joe Walsh meets Billy F. Gibbons. Yes, it's that good.
However, the lack of body cavity shielding and generic electronics did not sit well with the owner. So we took care of the shielding and upgraded the electronics to full-sized Alpha A500K pots, a Sprague "Orange Drop" 0.022uF tone cap; and Switchcraft #11 output jack. Now he's quite happy. I say "quite" because we couldn't squeeze in a CRL five-way switch due to budget constraints. Sometimes you have no choice but to settle for what you can afford.
References
Stagg S402 Guitar - Sunburst - Long & McQuade Musical Instruments
This sunburst guitar is an HSS Strat-styled solidbody, for want of a better description. Boasting an alder body, bolt-on hard rock maple neck, classic six-screw tremolo bridge and 21 medium jumbo frets on a 21.5" scale rosewood fingerboard; the S402 delivers the goods.
There isn't much to complain about this guitar: it's solidly built and sonically versatile, thanks in part to the combination of neck/middle Stagg ceramic single coils and beefy bridge humbucker. To be fair, the oversized adjustable pickup polepieces do remind me of the "Invader" series of pickups from a well-known manufacturer. But, as they say, if you've got to copy something; copy from the best. I almost forgot, the sleek 12" radius rosewood fingerboard and nicely crowned frets are a dream to bend on.
Now, at the risk of stretching the truth, I'll go ahead and say that the S402 sounds pretty darn convincing either sparkling clean, on the edge of breakup; or fully overdriven. Think Mark Knopfler meets Joe Walsh meets Billy F. Gibbons. Yes, it's that good.
However, the lack of body cavity shielding and generic electronics did not sit well with the owner. So we took care of the shielding and upgraded the electronics to full-sized Alpha A500K pots, a Sprague "Orange Drop" 0.022uF tone cap; and Switchcraft #11 output jack. Now he's quite happy. I say "quite" because we couldn't squeeze in a CRL five-way switch due to budget constraints. Sometimes you have no choice but to settle for what you can afford.
References
Stagg S402 Guitar - Sunburst - Long & McQuade Musical Instruments
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