Had a great night of fine food, good whisky, almost-full moonlit nocturnal deep snow dogwalking, and trick fun noisemaking at my friend's farmhouse last night. He'd recently picked up this Custom Shop White Falcon on a trip to New York, so I took my beloved MIJ semi and my 'clean' pedal selection round to see how they paired up.
I think a White Falcon is about the only guitar that can shrug off the handicap of gold hardware, but I have to say the knob adornment on this one seems unnecessarily gaudy. 'Needs tort' fans may dig the freaky binding; I liked the Hagstromesque deco machine heads best, personally. Plus I'm a sucker for that quintessential '70s must-have mod, the brass top nut.
It's undoubtedly a nice guitar by most people's standards, but I'm still content with my 335 copy which cost me about a 30th of what this beast did. Took a few (crappy mobile phone) pictures this morning and this seems like the best thread to share them in: