MANSON GUITAR WORKS ORYX VI £2,899
CONTACT Manson Guitar Works PHONE 01364 653751 WEB www.mansonguitarworks.com
What You Need To Know
1 So, is this a signature guitar?
The ORYX is described as “an all-new range of Manson Guitars… designed and built in collaboration with Adam ‘Nolly’ Getgood of Periphery and GetGood Drums fame”. So, no, as we’ll learn, this model is very much a co-design.
2 It uses DiMarzios by the look of it…
C’mon, this is a British endeavour and while the double-cream humbuckers might ape classic DiMarzio style these Polymath pickups have again been designed in collaboration with Nolly, this time by Tim Mills at Bare Knuckle Pickups. We discussed their development in our New Wave cover feature back in issue 479.
3 Any tricky switching?
Manson worked with Free-Way to create a custom three-position lever pickup selector switch that offers its usual six pickup selections. But it allows you to instantly move from series humbucking to parallel humbucking without any additional mini-toggle or pull-switches.
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