Reverend Guitars - thoughtful design features

Started by Elantric, March 29, 2016, 12:21:08 PM

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Elantric


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HecticArt

I'm obviously a big Reverand fan, so it's great to see the word being spread.
High quality, designed for players, affordable, and still the support and service of a small company. Worth picking up if you see one at your local guitar store.

Elantric

#3
Agreed on all the above
Jeep, Reverend Guitars are making Toledo a proud town!


I have a SpaceHawk arriving soon , and it's among the most wide varied tone machines one can buy today -no batteries just great engineering by the brilliant Joe Naylor

The Reverend exclusive "Bass Contour Control" is a wonderful thing !

If you see a Reverend Guitar at a local store , take the time to plug it in and play with all the controls and get educated!

HecticArt

Quote from: Elantric on March 31, 2016, 08:26:35 AM
Agreed on all the above
Jeep, Reverend Guitars, and HecticArt..... are making Toledo a proud town!


I have a SpaceHawk arriving soon , and it's among the most wide varied tone machines one can buy today -no batteries just great engineering by the brilliant Joe Naylor

The Reverend exclusive "Bass Contour Control" is a wonderful thing !

If you see a Reverend Guitar at a local store , take the time to plug it in and play with all the controls and get educated!
FIFY....

The Reverends are like crack; easy to get hooked on right away. The PA1 instantly felt right when I picked it up, and it took me less than a minute of playing to know I was going to buy one.
I've met Ken a couple of times. Probably only spoken to him for about a minute, but he seems like a good guy, and genuine guitar lover. I haven't met Joe, but the creative-guy, mad-scientist, ultimate-tinkerer vibe (or whatever you want to call it) is fascinating to me. The amps he used to make are supposed to be fantastic.

Elantric

Agreed  -was not sure about your approval for posting a link to your HecticArt site  - look like interesting work
http://hecticart.com/

GovernorSilver

#6
I own a Jetstream 390 and Club King.  The Bass Contour is a wonderful invention and really stands out on humbucking pickups.  The Jetstream sports a GK-3 for VG-99 usage.

I recently tried a PA-1 and agree it is an excellent axe. 

Elantric

#7
my Red Warhawk III 390 was a 2016 NAMM demo, exact guitar can be seen right in the middle of the Reverend Guitar wall and at the 11:50 minute mark Greg Koch check's out my guitar during the  the 2016 NAMM show Reverend Guitar booth video below:
(exact same guitar!)









Jaming on "BullFrog" with Fito de la Parra (Canned Heat)

I love the Warhawk III 390 so much, had to get a second one , this time Warhawk III RT with the RevTron PU's

The Revtron PU's are squarely in Gretsch Filtertron land. Using the Reverend Bass Contour Control, I can move it counterclockwise and dial in lipstick PU tones, Tele Tones and Gretsch tones. With Bass Contour full clockwise they deliver clean PAF PU tones too. And full hum bucking / no hum in any mode. It's the perfect surf guitar for me, and IMHO more versatile than my Gretsch 6120










Elantric

How to install a passive "Bass Cut" control on your guitar - similar to standard controls on G&L S-500 and most new Reverend Guitars 

( allows humbucker guitars to sound like single coils with no hum)


http://tonefiend.com/guitar/two-band-ptb-tone-control-useful-easy-cheap-awesome/


Elantric

#9
As an aid to sing more tunes in playable chord voicings with my band and sound a bit different,  I've discovered that I love specific Baritone Guitars at 26 3/4" scale length.

At noon today I just took delivery of a Reverend Descent baritone Guitar, and it really suits Surf music.

I was inspired from this video


and



Reverend Descent baritone Guitar (see Greg Koch above ^)  is an incredible easy guitar to play, and its frequency range (Tuned low to high)  B, E, A, D, F#, B  is very different from my other guitars.

They use this gauge string set

http://store.reverendguitars.com/product/reverend-sit-baritone-strings/

A search revealed Taylor used to make a 416ce-LTD Baritone Six with a similar 27" scale Length back in 2012 - I might become a singer after all


whippinpost91850

Sounds Cool. You'll have to demo it for us

HecticArt

How did I miss all of the updates to this thread?

Congrats on the additions to your family Elantric! I told you that the Reverends were like crack.
How many Reverends are you up to? And the bigger question is probably, how many guitars do you have in your collection?

Ken and Greg are a riot in those videos. Those guys couldn't do anything else for a living.


I only use the website as a placeholder and for the domain & email addresses.  I haven't done anything with it in 15 years or so.
The images were some funky test renderings I was goofing around with from a parking garage that never got built.
One of these days I'll get around to updating it.

Elantric


admin

#13
New Reverend Reeves Gabrel's Signature RG-SUS with Sustainiac

Plenty room For a GK Pickup

https://www.reverendguitars.com/guitars/reeves-gabrels-signature-rg-sus






Story

https://facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=342128887375715&id=100047358181757

admin

#14


I've recently come around to using my 2017 Reverend Warhawk III 390 guitars  with three P90 pickups -(I own 2 )

Sadly Discontinued , glad I got them when I could
http://web.archive.org/web/20190617164704/http://support.reverendguitars.com/instrument/warhawk-iii-390/

I love these because they feature locking tuners ,  Gibson type profile  necks 24.75" scale , straight string pull at nut. Gibson spaced T.O.M. roller bridge ( crucial for my playing technique) , And Bigsby tremolo which I love

I use 10- 52 skinny top heavy bottom strings (D'Addario)

I have replaced the soft Reverend Bigsby spring with a 1 1/8" tall stock Bigsby Spring. So it feels like a Gretsch Bigsby.

I've kept original P90 type pickups,  but removed all vol/tone pots and  rewired both guitars

Knob#1 = 500k push-push Vol pot with a treble bleed circuit comprised of  150k resistor & 680pf capacitor in parallel.
Push the pot and it goes full volume , push again and returns to rhythm and functional vol pot

Knob#2 = Fender TBX stacked Tone pot which provides wide range passive tone variations
https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0002KZE9A?ref=ppx_pt2_mob_b_prod_image

Knob#3 = 6 position 2 pole rotary switch which provides series/ parallel / out of phase pickup combinations using the stock 5 way PU selector switch -basically a Deaf Eddie Chromacaster circuit

And allows access to Neck + Bridge Pickups in parallel. For classic surf tone
https://www.tdpri.com/threads/review-of-the-chromacaster.998661/


HecticArt

#15
Dig. That gold is great.

I picked up a couple more Reverends over covid. I'm up to 6 now.

The last 2 are a couple of the USA made metal tops.


I haven't modded these, just the blue Reeves signature I shared in the mods thread.
I'm still a fan.