The HG Thor Viking
Randy McStine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Features:

Carved AAA flame maple top for attack and definition.

Mahogany back for richness and low end.

Moses graphite neck for focus and sustain.

Recessed solid stainless steel neck bolts and sculpted heel..

Faux binding.

Water based aniline dyes for UV fade resistance with nitro cellulose lacquer finish.

Selected pickups: Neck/DiMarzio 'Chopper', Middle/DiMarzio 'Class of 55', Bridge/Duncan Distortion Trembucker.

Tuners: LSR Chrome. The chromes were a limited run- these are now available in satin chrome, black and gold.

Headstock laminated with curly maple and colored same as top, logo in hologram sheen.

Bridge: Wilkinson V-100 solid steel in satin chrome.

Examples as played by yours truly through an Egnater TOL 100 head into a 4x12 loaded with Celestion V-30's:
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thunder1.ra
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nasty.ra
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Headstock Close-up: Check out the hologram logo.
The colors change depending on the origin of the light source.

Options and pricing:

• Base price: $1999, body choices include mahogany, alder, swamp ash, maple and many others; ask for your favorite.
• Custom wiring: Parallel configs (13 combinations) add $150, Parallel plus Series configs (5 more) add $250.
• RMC piezo saddle pickups w/ passive circuit, add $475. Check out how excellent they sound on this guitar: Dave1!!s.mp3 or Dave1.ra

• Built-in RMC midi guitar controller compatible with Roland and Axon 13 pin DIN (requires piezo option), includes all controls and active mix for passives, add $475.
• Levy's thick padded gig bag: add $75.
• Sperzels no extra charge.
• Moses NT-27 T-style headstock no extra charge, available in 'standard' or 'wide-thin' graphite-composite necks.

Randy McStine plays HG Thor custom guitars. These shots are from the day in 1998 he and his dad, Bill McStine, picked up his Viking custom order. Some of Randy's comments were: "Its so easy to bend!", and "I can't believe how deep that blue is.", and "Its the ultimate!"

Bill says: "You would not believe how incredible the sustain is!"

Randy was 10 years old when he first received this guitar (1999). He had a killer set of guitar chops even then as is documented by these RealAudio files:
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Now I am proud as a peacock to offer you some samples of his first cd: "Shredding Skin", recorded at age 13 exclusively with his Viking One and a Marshall DSL 2000! You will simply not believe his now ridiculous chops:
Six String Whiplash
House Full Of Bullets
Shredding Skin

Randy has another cd out: Second Shot. Go to his website: http://www.randymcstine.com/  for all the latest info.

His teacher is Jim Wilding from Binghamton, NY, an old high school classmate of mine and also an A1 guitar player.

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