Crook Custom Guitars- Paisley Tele with PRS Dragon II's

[Developband]

Very pleasant to watch and to hear.

Terrific sound, play and features on the guitar!

[odlbrian]

Bill ordered the pickups from PRS in 2005. I know that I spoke with Paul Reed Smith about it at a shop one time. He said that he hates selling pickups for use outside of his guitars. But then, where would he have started without Seymour Duncan?

[SuperGuitarMark]

where do you ge the prs pickups

[guitarman4079]

can we please here more of the guitar and not the distortion pedal? thank you

[jcedozer]

put my guitar down brian

[deadinside1]

love that tone man.

[pbcollins85]

i love that guitar man. i cant wait to get my own crook... right now ive got a 63 gibson sg with p90's in it, and a fender roadhouse strat, which ive put slider vintage pickups in, sounds amazing, especially through my fender tweed blues deville. also have a real cool sounding Kustom 300 watt solidstate amp, great rock sound and some cool built in effects including a bad ass tremelo. nice review!

[DJEvilWayz]

I just got a pair of dragon II's to put in my SE custom, hopefully it'll sound as sweet as yours. Good lookin out!

[usncpg45]

Awesome guitar, Awesome playing man! I'm huge Crook fan, don't own one, but its in the works. I'm a "Gear-Head" too, in a bad way! I play a Fender Nashville (all tricked out!) with Rio Grande pickups through a Mesa/Boogie F-30 (w/custom Eminence speakers). For country it kicks, for metal it really screams. For rockin', I'm on a PRS SE, or Highway 1 HSS Strat!

Keep up the good work, and keep pickin'! We can talk gear anytime you want! lol

[thenewchance]

If you don't mind me asking also, where did you get the drop D from standard thing for your 6th string?

[odlbrian]

Bill ordered it for me, but you can get them out of StewMac catalogs. It's made by Hipshot.

[stipecountry]

By any chance, are you the one who created that Crook Custom Guitars group on Facebook?

I'd love to try a Crook one day, but I'm not sure I'll ever have the money to buy one!

By the way, great playing!

[odlbrian]

Yeah, that was me. I've met some cool folks through that.

[odlbrian]

I think the Dragon II's work for just about anything. I've used them for praise/worship, hard rock/metal tones, country playing, and blues. I think they are versatile and very, defined. However, they don't sound cold and brittle.  It's just that every note is articulate. A lot depends on what you run it through. If you use a Mesa(like I used to), you can easily get metal. If you use an old Fender Bassman, you've got a great blues tone. I highly recommend them.

[thenewchance]

The problem for most people is that they're not very affordable :)

[odlbrian]

Well, they're not the cheapest p-ups, but sometimes you get what you pay for.  They're worth saving up a bit.

[thenewchance]

Yeah I think I get what you mean. I'm 15 though, can't afford a like $30,000 guitar. Might start saving up for a SE custom and install the locking tuners, of save up for a Mira.

[odlbrian]

Actually that Crook was under $3,000. As I said, very affordable for a custom axe. Maybe you're thinking of the Dragon guitars by PRS at $30k. Those pickups are only around $130 if memoy serves correct. Good luck with whatever you buy, though. Let me know. I love to hear about gear.

[pastorkev777]

Hi all guitars sound great. You check out xaviere guitars and look at rondo music. Demo the mcpherson please.

[migueljorjino]

Ohhhhhh yeeeeaaaahhhh! Dig It!