Godin Progression 2008 Stratocaster style Guitar W/ Duncan Single Coil/Humbucking Pickups

Godin Electric Guitar 2008 Progression Trans Cream with Godin deluxe gig bag

This Godin Progression is in very good condition, and has upgraded Pickups, controls, tuners and control knobs. Included is a Godin gig bag. Stock pickups and controls have been replaced with Seymour Duncan “Hot Rails” dual-blade humbuckers, which can be split to single coils for the traditional Strat tones, or be used as humbuckers for a more ballsy tone. There is the traditional 5-way Strat style pickup selector, and the original Godin "Revoicer" circuit & pushbutton has been replaced with a mini toggle switch to change the pickups from single coil to humbuckers. This arrangement gives you 10 tones, 5 with single coil tones, and 5 with the hum buckers.

I will ship the guitar with the original pickups and controls in a separate bag in case you want them.

Specs

Rock Maple neck

Rosewood Fingerboard

12" fingerboard radius

25 1/2" Scale

1 11/16" nut width

Silver Leaf Maple body with poplar wings

(3) Seymour Duncan Hot Rails dual-blade humbucking pickups

Controls: 5-way pickup selector switch, 1 Volume, 1 Tone,

1 mini-toggle switch for coil split – single coil / humbucking operation

Color: Trans Cream

Supplied in Godin gig bag

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    The Godin Progressions have really good reviews on music vendor sites, and this one has some special modifications that put it a step above the stock progressions out there. The previous owner did the mods, and it looks like he did a neat & tidy job of re-wiring it. I have never had any issues with the electronics, they really sound great. I really like the pickups in this guitar, and considered pulling them out and keeping them to put in another guitar someday, but I decided to sell it as is. I like the Godin revoicer circuit, but having real humbuckers available at the flick of a switch is very nice. In single coil mode they have pretty good “Strat Spank” tones in position #2 & #4, and sound like good quality true single coils. They also have good “Strat-like” tones in humbucking mode when played through a clean amp channel, but meatier with more body, and gain, and are pretty much completely hum free in this mode.

     Known defects:

There are no major functional issues but there are a few minor defects which are described here and shown in the pictures.

 ·         There’s some minor pick hazing on the finish on the front - normal wear and tear, nothing significant.

·         There’s a small scratch in the finish hear the bridge & volume control where I slipped with a screwdriver while adjusting the bridge.

·         Also, I pulled the bridge inserts, and put in a different set of inserts to fit a bridge I put in for a while. Drilled hole for the insert was right above the tremolo route cavity on the back side, and there wasn't a lot of wood between them and I broke out a small chip of wood at the bottom of the hole into the tremolo route cutout on the back.

    I have replaced the stock Godin inserts and tremolo bridge. I filled the hole that broke out into the tremolo cavity with some wood filler. I’m mentioning this to be completely transparent. This has zero effect on the function, sound or playability of the guitar. The inserts are in there solid & glued in place. The defect is below the insert, and is only visible if you look for it in the tremolo spring cavity on the back of the guitar. It’s completely superficial and invisible in normal use.

 Other than these minor flaws, the guitar is in excellent condition. It plays and sounds great. I have owned several mid-level Fender Stratocasters that are not as nice playing or sounding as this guitar. Godin makes some very nice instruments.

  I have the bridge set up “Floating”, and adjusted for .010’s that are on the guitar currently. You may prefer to set this up differently but that’s the way I like it, and it plays well as it is IMHO. When I got the guitar, there was no tremolo bar supplied with the bridge, so I bought a replacement from Stewart-McDonald.

 Thanks for looking, and contact me through Reverb if you have any questions.