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My LPC has an ebony FB and I wouldn't have it any other way. That said, I've played a couple acoustic guitars with Richlite and found it to be a fine fingerboard material. If I was buying a guitar that didn't have an ebony FB genealogy it would be just fine.
I have one from 2004 and really like it. All mahogany, fat neck, ebony, nice frets, great sound. To my ear it sounds a bit sweeter than a regular maple cap LPC. Less "plinky" too. The analogy I offer is that if a regular maple capped LPC custom rings like a brass bell, the all mahogany version...
I tried Duncan Rails in a Strat and was very disappointed. The guitar lost all character. It was louder but just sounded blah.
I have a Nocaster that I wanted to add some punch to. I installed a set of Lollars. A Charlie Christian in the neck and a BS in the bridge. They have the output of a...
It's about 10#. The body/top is a single piece of Mahogany. The neck is nice and fat. I swapped the speed knobs for the reflectors as I prefer the look with the nickel hardware. I really like the tone. It has Classic '57 humbuckers. It's plenty bright but not plinky and brittle like Maple top...
An Explorer is actually more comfortable to play than a Les Paul. It's bigger, but it hangs perfectly and the upper fret access is much better. Firebirds? Not so much. They hang all wrong unless you play in D all the time.
That Black Explorer Custom looks great.
I really like the '57 Custom reissues. All Mahogany sounds better to my ear than a maple cap and the girthy neck is just perfect. I'd like to have a Black one as a companion to my TV Yellow version.
That has always been my problem with three pickup Customs. Strats to some degree too. I dig deep at times and am always banging off the top of the pickups. I guess you can lower the middle pickup as low as you want, it will just effect the "out of phase" tonality of the middle position somewhat.