What Guitar Are You Playing At This Very Moment...

One of three pre-Nashville Novo Serus Athena (24.75") built by Dennis Fano in the early Pennsylvania days of Novo Guitars.

Emerson Custom Electronics (fast pots), Gotoh Magnum locking tuners, Lollatron Bridge PU, Arcane Neck PU, Schroeder wraparound tailpiece, Jescar stainless steel frets, clay dots, tempered pine body, tempered maple neck, Rosewood fingerboard, and finished in aged Pelham Blue over 3 Tone Burst.


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I am seriously torn about this guitar ('78 Ibby Musician MC500). I'm not a guitar collector at all (I've never owned more than three electrics at once) but I wanted one of these for a decade based purely on aesthetics and Church of Magic Japanese Weirdness, and it came up locally this spring. Bought it from the first owner. All the insane onboards work perfectly. I love the look, I love the idea of it, but I'm meh on the sound and it plays like a guitar from 1978 because, well, it's a guitar from 1978. It dooms harder than two ancient wizards with a Circle of Dooming (I took it to rehearsal and the other guitarist kept telling me to take off my shirt and play Dopesmoker) but i'm a solo-transcribing tech-death weenie at heart. I don't even smoke weed.
 
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