Reverend Reeves Gabrels Spacehawk Electric Guitar Black Sparkle

I've had this guitar for 2 years now. I play in a surf rock/instro band and use a few different Fender amps. I gig with this guitar 3-4 times a month. My style is loud, twangy, reverb-heavy. I was intrigued by the pickups of this guitar because of the humbucking and the P90 imitation feature. Also, it's one of the best-looking guitars I've seen. Mine is black. All of my guitars have a Bigsby, so that's a feature that I love. The spring is a little lighter but I adjusted to it pretty quickly. I also love having a kill switch. It's much easier than hitting my tuner between songs. Why don't more guitars have this? I really like this guitar but I'm not as sold on it as other people are. Without a doubt, it looks fantastic and I get a lot of compliments on it. But, sometimes the electronics freeze up and I have to toggle the kill switch and pickups to reset it. More importantly, I find that the bridge/lead pick-up is dramatically different from the other two settings. It's much more trebly and noisy. You may say, isn't that the point? But it's quite a departure. It almost sounds like a different guitar altogether. It's more useful with the bass roll-off maxed out (maybe that was the intention?). The Spacehawk stays in tune relatively well, but when I restring the guitar, I can't tune the E & B strings without using the tuning locks. I've never encountered this with other guitars. The string slips even if I've wrapped it a few times. I've tried a few different approaches. I also recently invested in a Vibramate, which I highly recommend. It makes restringing much easier on a Bigsby tailpiece. The Spacehawk allows you to take the guitar out-of-phase but I haven't found much use for it, but it's nice to have as a back pocket feature when wanted. I enjoy this guitar and would likely buy it again. It works very well within the style that I play. I wanted something a little different from the standard surf rock player. I was hoping that this guitar was going to provide everything I was looking for but maybe that was an unfair expectation on my part. That is why we collect guitars, right?

The design of this guitar allows you to get almost any tone. So easy to dial in what you want. the light bigsby spring feels wonderful. The railhammer pickups are fantastic. Highly recommended if you can find one.

One bad mutha

The amount of easily interchangeable and accessible option on this guitar have you going from a B.B. King walking twang dive bombing into a freaky deep low tone space exploration, and all before you've even switched on any of your pedals. This guitar is not for children.