Ampeg AMG100BLD Wood-Bodied Dan Armstrong Electric Guitar Electric Guitar, Blond Finish Review

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(More customer reviews)First, I need to explain that I really like good guitars with a single pickup. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's less magnetic pull on the string. Maybe it's less wire. Maybe it's just less parts, but there is a bond between a player and a good single pickup guitar that really communicates. I'm the same way about amps and effects. The less knobs the better. Make it sound good at the core and you don't need parametric notch frequency option doodads to even think about. It frees your mind to just play. I have my Strats, Teles, a '335, Les Paul, Brian May, Parker and other good stuff which I do enjoy and I am not remotely criticizing them for having more than one pickup. I am in fact a pickup switcher when the option is there (different selector positions, not pickup replacement) and that is useful too. But in my head, a good single pickup guitar frees me and I sound more like me.

These wood bodied versions of the famous plexiglass guitar is absolutely fitting for the design of this guitar. The body and finish are thin enough that the wood gets to party and add its signature to the tone. It plays absolutely great with a good medium fret that is not a honkin' jumbo, but large enough to reduce finger flesh drag on the fretboard wood when bending strings. The guitar is fun to play.

Now where can I get a Rock Treble single coil drop-in replacement pickup? I do like the Sustain Treble humbucker that comes with the guitar very much, but I'd sure like to try the other pickup since swapping is so simple. What is the point of an easy swap system if Ampeg (Armstrong) doesn't make optional pickups available for purchase? I'm having a bit of trouble with that concept. I'm sure that Dan Armstrong has loads of copyright protection for the quick connect system... enough to keep Seymour Duncan, DiMarzio, Lollar, Fralin etc away. Besides, comparatively speaking there really aren't that many of these guitars out there, so it wouldn't be an instantaneous cash cow to design and market pickup options because Armstrong is leaving that door wide open by their inaction.

It's a really good guitar with the included humbucker, so I'm not at any significant level of frustration over lack of pickup options, but the quick swap thing is a big selling feature... can I purchase something to swap to? Soon? Maybe I'll like the original 'bucker better after all, but I sure would like to have an official option or two to actually USE that quick swap feature.

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Product Description:
The AMG100 electric guitars are wood-bodied iterations of the Ampeg ADA6 Dan Armstrong "Plexi" guitar. They feature the same specifications as the ADA6, and are crafted from traditional vintage electric guitar tone woods. With 24 frets clear of the unique symmetrical double cutaway body and the same removable pickup system as the original Dan Armstrong design, they distinguish themselves from all other electric guitars.

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