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REVIEWS
Relish the thought:
Seymour Duncan and
Bare Knuckle pickups
are also available via
the Relish website
The neck humbucker doesn’t pop out IN USE A balanced but unspectacular acoustic
quite as easily as it should but the openings The Trinity arrives with humbuckers voice translates into an amplified tone that’s
on production guitars will apparently be installed, so that’s where we begin. This thick and honky, with plenty of bass thump
slightly wider than on this prototype. fusion of Gibson-style electronics with but not much in the way of air. That makes
Note that although we’re testing the Fender-influenced construction (it’s a the Trinity’s humbucking mode a less than
Trinity with three different varieties of bolt-on neck with a 25.5-inch scale length) ideal choice for brisk rhythm playing but
pickup, the price shown here includes two seems to have become the default formula means that a bit of overdrive really brings
pickup sets. Want more? Extra pickups are for the industry’s modern-day indie it to life. Chords are chunky but taut, while
available with Relish’s magnetic mounts builders, and it’s always interesting to find lead lines are smooth and assured.
fitted, including some Seymour Duncan and out where on the line between those classic When we whip out the humbuckers and
Bare Knuckle models, and prices start at reference points a guitar’s sound falls. Here, give Relish’s P-90s a spin, the contrast could
about £300 a pair. it’s initially towards the Gibson end. hardly be more extreme if we put down
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