Guitars With Jon Way Episode 14 Raven West Guitars RM300DX

Jon Demo's another spectacular lefty instrument from Raven West Guitars. The RM300DX looks as good as it plays. Please take a few minutes to tune in so you can see and hear it for yourself. Produced & Shot by Brian Way & Ben Proulx. Edited by Brian Way. If you'd like one of these guitars, you can reach Eric at Raven West Guitars in Temple City, CA: http://www.ravenwestguitar.com/
And as always, we love feedback so feel free to write or post comments to us...Thanks, and have a good night.

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[crazymike1706]

How would you compare these to the Agile 3100 line?

[brianway1]

@crazymike1706

I'd say they are pretty evenly matched. Different features, but the build quality is close.

[Hysteriskull]

More stuff from the Un Sung factory in Incheon, South Korea.

If this is true to most of the stuff they produce, the top is just a veneer and everything that looks like Mahogany is really just Sapele.

The binding makes it easy to veneer the top, back and sides so it's quite possible the body is just basswood.

That would explain how microphonic the pickups sound. Duncans don't do that in mahogany.

A few years ago this same factory was calling extra dark, close grained rosewood Macassar Ebony.

[brianway1]

@Hysteriskull

I thought these were coming out of the Wolf factory in Korea. No question about the quilt top being veneer, but on mine the veneer is on a piece of maple (not 3/4" like a les paul), and the body is mahogany. This one has the wood grain that runs consistantly from the back to the sides, but I can't speak for the others that came out later in the 90s. There has been a lot of magic trick rosewood to ebony boards put in a few guitar lines now. pick one. rosewood OR ebony; right?

[Hysteriskull]

@brianway1

Wolf isn't actually a manufacturer. They're just a trading company.

[brianway1]

@Hysteriskull good info..thanks

[Tony23533]

Ran a blind test with both up against my Gibson Les Paul Standard Traditional Pro which has in it BurstBucker 3 and a '57 Classic humbucker. Blind test was using members of the band I play in and through a Pevey 75 watt modeling amp. The results of the test in short, were that between the Agile and Gibson the guess on which was which was about 50%. Was hard for them to hear the difference. They picked the Rm out everytime between both the gibson and Agile. Rw sounds ok pup change coming 4 it.

[Tony23533]

Crazymike1706, You are mistaken. The AL 3000 to 3110 all come with triple edge binding. The AL 3100 comes with Solid mahogany (not a multi-ply!) arch top body

Graph Tec NVS 2 Bridge with string saver saddles , Tusq nut, Alnico V Humbuckers and is quite easy to tone tap by simply installing push pull pots and conecting the wires already there.

TONE! Umm Agile is Awsome compared to my RW. Granted the Abolone looks better on the RW, but the Agile tone wise, smokes my RW.

[Tony23533]

I own one each Al 3110 and a Rw Rm300DX in Sun quilt finish. The Rm was a bit less expensive than the AL 3110. RM cost me 329.00 and the Al cost me 429.00. Rm came with VOICED HUMBUCKERS BY G+B) and the AL came with Alnico V humbuckers. In short, my Agile is a whole lot more guitar than the RW. I also own a Gibson Les Paul Standard Traditional Pro. Hard to tell the diffence in tone between the Gibson and Agile. Gibson has BurstBucker 3 and '57 Classic pickups.

[ncemt]

@crazymike1706 I like the RW guitars better. I think the RWG have higher grade quilt and flame tops than the Agiles, both use real flame or quilt tops and not photofinishes or veneers. Also the RWG seem to have a sweeter tone. I did lots of research on both and I made sure I found a way to play both. I ordered the RWG RM300DX in Lizard Quilt. The tone it has, and not to mention the abalone block inlays, body binding, and headstock binding that Agiles don't have made me decide to buy the RWG.

[ncemt]

@crazymike1706 I like the RW guitars better. I think the RWG have higher grade quilt and flame tops than the Agiles, both use real flame or quilt tops and not photofinishes or veneers. Also the RWG seem to have a sweeter tone. I did lots of research on both and I made sure I found a way to play both. I ordered the RWG RM300DX in Lizard Quilt. The tone it has, and not to mention the abalone block inlays, body binding, and headstock binding that Agiles don't have made me decide to buy the RWG.

[Greenie93]

Sure is a beauty. I definitely have to look into these guitars!