AL or STV?

AL or STV?

I have a bizarre hankering for a quirky, offset guitar with an unconventional pickup configuration. I’m gravitating toward a couple of options, one being a SBMM AL40 which I’d gut and put in a trio of P90s and a Free-Way 10-way toggle, something like this:

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I’ve also been watching some demo videos of the Sterling St. Vincent model, and I’m really intrigued.

The problem is, there don’t seem to be any of either in the sales channel here in Canada, so I have zero opportunity to try either. How do they compare in terms of feel and sound?

My main EBMM experience was with a Petrucci 7 I owned about 10 years ago.

(And to any EBMM folks… any chance of a triple-P90 AL model? An AL90 perhaps?)

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