The build quality on both of these is the best I have seen from Rondo in quite a while. The both are flawless, and the fretwork on both is not perfect, but pretty good. The weight on each one is about 9.5 LBS. I did warm up to the Giovanni GVH-1 PAF-style humbuckers. For some reason, they sounded way better in the Silverburst than the blue guitar. But, I decided to pull them simply because I have tons of guitars with PAF humbuckers already, I wanted to do something different.
I changed to pots to Bournes low friction pots, and redid the witring to 50's style wiring with orange drop caps on both. The Silverburst has a Giovanni GCH-2 high output pickup in the bridge, and a GFS Mean 90 in the neck, for a variety of tones. They both work pretty well together actually. Most of us already know that the Mean 90 is an excellent value P-90 in a humbucker shell, but I have to add that the Giovanni GCH-2 at 15k resistance is an excellent high gain pickup that has plenty of brightness and clarity. I am very pleased with this pickup. In the blue guitar I installed Giovanni GVH-Rock hot humbuckers. These pickups are at about 11.5k, and I an not so sure I am sold on these. I need to give them a chance, but I am already thinking of other alternatives.
