Hey everyone, this is Jim from Slipknot and I'm here to show you my new Charvel Pro Mod Sandinus models. What is going on to you guys? Welcome back to the channel, my name is Jay. Today we're going to take a real quick look at the brand new Charvel Sandinus Jim Rute Signature Guitar. Real quick, I just want to give a quick shout out to the fine folks at zounds.com who are so gracious as to lonely this instrument so I can review it for you guys here today. Definitely check out zounds. They have a whole lot to offer on their website, very competitive pricing, new and used gear, all kinds of stuff, guitars, amplifiers, home recording studio gear, I mean everything you could possibly need for the home musician and the traveling musician as well. Okay, so what are we looking at here? This is the latest signature series guitar for Jim Rute. Now Jim Rute, if you've been living under a rock, is one of two guitar players for a little band called Slipknot. They've been around for quite a while and they're really awesome. This is really the working man's guitar right here. This is very simple in the way it's led out. I like to say it's elegant in its simplicity. What I mean by that essentially is that the specs that you have here are just basically what you just need to get the job done. This guitar feels great. This guitar plays really great. You know, he's got his signature pickups in there which are EMGs, active pickups, they are the demonums they're called. I'm not too familiar with them but they sound great here and they have a nice roll off on the high end. So there's not too much brittle trouble getting through piercing your ears. They just sound great. And I think because of that fact, he just decided to just delete the whole tone knob altogether which in all honesty and this kind of guitar you don't need it because you're dialing in the tone you want on your amplifier, on your pedals, what have you and then you're just good to go. So here are a few sound samples with the pickups starting with the bridge position. And the middle position which is both humbuckers together. And finally the neck position alone. There are no issues with this guitar. I can find nothing to nitpick about this at all. I just love this thing. So what we have here is a Mahogany body, maple neck, ebony fingerboard which I love ebony fingerboard. I love the color of the feel of it. It's just great. The fret, fret work is amazing. Jumbo frets, there is absolutely zero. Fret sprout, there's no catching this to it at all. It's just extremely comfortable to play. Now the Sandeemus model here, style one, has the typical Charvel kind of their signature neck profile which I really love. It's thin, it's comfortable but it's not Ivan S. Wizard neck thing. It's not ridiculously thin where you're like, you know, what am I holding nothing. It's comfortable, it just has a very nice shape to it. It's kind of that modern U-shaped I guess with a little bit of a flat spot in the middle, just the way it's kind of, you know, filed down and sanded. And it feels unbelievable. This guitar just does what it does very, very well. I really love this thing. This is definitely a keeper. This is the kind of guitar you just want to keep for decades and just kind of break it in, play it in, get it all dirty and worn out. It's just going to be great. And then someday if you have, you feel so inclined, you can, you know, paint it, draw on. It's stick put stickers on. I mean, Jim Rue even suggests that in the demo commercial trailer for the guitar, just kind of make it your own. It feels great. This thing is staying with me for a while because this is really a foreign guitar to play. It just sounds so good out of the box, so comfortable. It weighs about 8 1-1-1 1-1-1-1 2 pounds, but you know, the curves on this thing are just so smooth. It's just so comfortable all around to hold, put it on your lap. It feels great. And it just feels very solid. Now I tend to say that a lot with guitars, they feel solid. What do I mean by that? Well essentially it is a bolt-on neck, right? So the neck is bolted on with, you know, four screws there in the neckplate, but it just feels like one piece of wood. It doesn't feel like two pieces of wood working against each other. It's just very solid, I mean just well built. I absolutely love this guitar. I'm having a lot of fun with it. Wrote some new riffs with it. The demo track is all on this guitar here and just a lot of fun. So real quick, we're gonna wrap this one up quick guys. Floyd Rose 1500 series, double locking tremolo system. It's the same kind of profile as the 1000 series. So you kind of have those high protruding fine tuners but you get used to it. But the difference between this one and the 1000 series is that this tremolo arm just pops right in. There's no ring around it to screw in. You just push it down, give it a good push. It's locked into place. And there is a small retention screw on the back of the sleeve there to help you just kind of set the tension of how tight you want the arm to be. So it stays in place wherever you want it. Unless you want it to loose and swing down here, which nobody does. So you don't wanna do that. Doesn't make much sense. It's a great system. I really like it a lot. Double locking, so it's locking at the nut. And it even has Charvel branded locking tuners, which some people think is overkill because you've already got the locking nut anyways. But really what those do is those just aid in helping you to have faster string changing times, essentially, just feed it through there, lock it down, snip it, and then wind it up and you're good to go. My recommendation is to put locking tuners on every guitar, whatever kind of trim system you do or don't have. On there, it just makes string changes that much quicker, a lot quicker. It's a great feature to have, and the guitar should have it, along with stainless steel frets. These are not stainless steel, but they're polished to a high shine. They're so smooth and comfortable. Jumbo frets, no frets brought whatsoever. Extremely nice fret work on this guitar. It looks great. It feels and sounds great. There's no grittiness to it, you know, with slides and bends and stuff like that. This thing is made to shred. This thing is made to chug. It's a lot of fun. Loving this guitar, this one's gonna stay with me for a little while. I'm gonna keep doing some new music with it as it's got me really inspired to, you know, rock out. So that's pretty much it for today, guys. Jim Root Signature Series, Sharvel. This is like his seventh signature guitar apparently. He's gone through the whole gamut of jazz masters, telecasters. I guess whatever the wind is of the day, he gets to have it because he's Jim Root. So while this is still his current signature model, do yourself a favor, go check it out at a local store. He better yet order one through Zowns.com. You will not be disappointed. Thanks a lot for watching, guys. I really appreciate it. I'll be back with another one real soon. Until then, I'm outta here. See ya!