New Morse owner has a question
I bought a 2016 Morse from eBay. It’s my first MusicMan guitar, one I’ve wanted for years and I have some first newbie impressions as well as a question. I’ll do the impressions first:
- It’s small. Actually, comparing it against other guitars I have it’s not but it looks and feels compact.
- It’s a lovely colour — the website doesn’t do it justice
- Pickups are very well balanced, the single coils aren’t overwhelmed by the humbuckers and the guitar reacts well as you turn the volume up to control distortion
- Neck is amazingly comfortable, I find it really easy on my little hands
- *That* switching — not hard after a few minutes. Much harder is keeping your right hand from hitting that +Bridge switch. This is not a casual strumming guitar, your picking hand needs to be accurate. I briefly wondered about how hard it would be to change that switch to a Brian May style slider to lower the profile.
Overall, it’s a lovely thing. I do wish it had a bit of a carve but the slab body’s not uncomfortable. Here’s the question:
Sometimes it feels lie there’s a tiny bit of “give” in the neck joint. Nothing visibly moves and the tuning’s solid but it feels like there’s a very slight click or twitch as I get the guitar off the stand or into playing position. Is this normal for this guitar, or bolt-ons in general? All my other guitars are set-necks or through necks and this is the first Morse I’ve seen so…?
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