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  • #31
    Originally posted by Mincer View Post

    I know metal stuff does. Like the handles on the PA cabinets. Metal stages get incredibly hot- no way you could go barefoot on them. No black guitars here.
    Pretty much the same in AZ if not more so.

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    • #32
      So what is so unsatisfactory about this guitar? It seems good to me. I like the clean tone from the demos.

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      • #33
        Originally posted by PS412 View Post

        Yep, their website has headless models and you can find them in other online places, and yep same bridge.
        I actually want an aluminium neck. I have this and another aluminium body guitar and think an aluminium ( perhaps fretless ) neck would sound pretty neat.

        I like canoes.
        The problem with my aluminum-neck Kramer back in the 80s was thermal expansion.
        It heated up and went sharp under the stage lights. Could only play it for the first two songs in a set.
        After that our stage tech would have to retune it so the singer could use it for one tune mid-set.
        Can't even imagine what would happen under direct sunlight somewhere like FLA or AZ...

        On the plus side, wherever that guitar may be today, I'm sure the neck is still ruler straight.
        .
        "You should know better by now than to introduce science into a discussion of voodoo."
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        • #34
          Originally posted by Clint 55 View Post
          So what is so unsatisfactory about this guitar? It seems good to me. I like the clean tone from the demos.
          I Like the guitar. It does what a guitar should do and its not a fight to play.
          I know some guitarists are more finnicky than others so just pointing out some quirks.
          The bridge does what a bridge should do but it could be better.
          The pickups to my ear are on the thin side, if you like the lower end oomph, the stock pickups won't work well for you. To change the pickups will require modifying a standard pickup. ( Although it looks like pictures of other models they have drilled the screw holes for the pickups so a standard one will fit. )
          The volume knob is a little closer to the strings and maybe if you are a pinky out player you could bump it.
          The jack placement on the back may be awkward for some people.

          Now, if somebody saw one of these and was scratching their chin humming and hawing about buying before trying it, they may have a little bit better understanding of the guitar.

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          • #35
            Originally posted by eclecticsynergy View Post

            The problem with my aluminum-neck Kramer back in the 80s was thermal expansion.
            It heated up and went sharp under the stage lights. Could only play it for the first two songs in a set.
            After that our stage tech would have to retune it so the singer could use it for one tune mid-set.
            Can't even imagine what would happen under direct sunlight somewhere like FLA or AZ...

            On the plus side, wherever that guitar may be today, I'm sure the neck is still ruler straight.
            I may spring for one. I don't get under the stage lights too often to matter and I have choices for those situations. Besides when I pull of the " Hey look I'm a helicopter " move and swing the guitar around on a 10 foot by 10 foot stage, I need something that stays straight.

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            • #36
              Looks like a cool guitar to me. I'd play that.
              Join me in the fight against muscular atrophy!

              Originally posted by Douglas Adams
              This planet has - or rather had - a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movements of small green pieces of paper, which is odd because on the whole it wasn't the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

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