Help choosing a new guitar please

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SepultuRick

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Hi, i currently own a jackson kvx10 king v and a godin detour. both with duncans in the bridge. They are great guitars but after owning many others i am starting to really know what i want from a guitar.

I have decided i want a mahogany bodied guitar or a wood with similar tonal qualities. I would lke a rosewood or ebony fretboard (neer actually used an ebony fretboard on a guitar but i have heared good things). I also want a set neck and fixed bridge. I have kind of small fingers aswell so i need to consider that when i buy the guitar. Not sure which neck scale i am after yet (what factors should i condier there?). I play a bit of rythm and lead guitar, mainly metal but hardly ever downtuned.

My current short list is this:

Epiphone Les Paul Standard
Parker p 10
Parker p 20
Parker p 42
Cort EVL Z4
Washburn WI65
Schecter C1 Classic
Lag Roxanne 200

Does anybody have any experience with these guitars? Whats are they like etc?

Also if anybody is looking ot buy a fantastic condition Jackson kvx10 king v with seymour dunan distortion in the brodge then feel free to contact me. I want about £200 for it which i think is excellent value.

Also if anybody could recommend any other guitars not on my list that wold be great. Thanks
 
Re: Help choosing a new guitar please

The only one of these I've played is the Epi Les Paul. I played it at the store for a while. It's neck is pretty easy to play, but I have massive hands, so I don't know if it would be for you. My suggestion, is to go to the store, and try them all out, and see which one you like the best.
 
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Either the Epiphone Les Paul or the Schecter.

The Epi is a good guitar. If you can find one that speaks to you, you can get a really nice axe with just a few small upgrades/mods. You just have to play a load of them and find the best. IIRC, the Schecter C1 Classic comes with JB/Jazz as standard, so there isn't as much room for improvement as with teh Epi, so remember, the C1 has to blow you away to warrant buying it?
 
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Best bang for the buck in imports:

Dean MIKs.

They are on par with Schecter and higher end LTDs build-wise, but I find they generally have much better quality mahogany (tonally).

Where Shecter and high end LTDS have the Deans beat is hardware quality...at least bridges and nut(Schecters have Tonepros on many models) and Schecter/LTDs often come with Duncan or EMG pups.

But the Deans cost less and come with grovers...so you can upgrade the bridge and pups to whatever you want. I've yet to handle a bad sounding Dean MIK. some are better than others but the "most dead" Deans sound as good as the best LTDS and Schecters I've encountered (barring one stellar Schecter Exotic C1 I found at a local GC).

Hamer imports are very nice as well.
 
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Other suggestions? One of the PRS SE models. They have really, really nice playing necks. They are great guitars, and (keeping within your price range still) you can drop a pair of your favourite Duncans in there, because PRS pickups aren't that great.
 
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i would go for i parker, i always liked them, but since i'm lefthanded i never could try one... and they don't do lefthanded models....
 
Re: Help choosing a new guitar please

SepultuRick said:
. I play a bit of rythm and lead guitar, mainly metal but hardly ever downtuned.

Schecter C1 Classic

Does anybody have any experience with these guitars? Whats are they like etc?
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That guitar is nice. I think the one I tried was the Jazz/JB, but it sounds great! Beautiful tones, nice set neck and sculpted where it joins the body. The guitar is very tempting (and should my Showmaster truly be "cursed", I'll be buying that and selling the Showmaster, that's how good this guitar is). For what it's worth, I tried only one.
 
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SepultuRick said:
I think those models are pretty ex*****ve. I should have mentioned my budget is no higher than £500 really and thats pushing it a bit
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Corvettes are actually pretty cheap. They're in the Elctromatic series. Set in neck. all Mohogany, and it's 290 quid. I took the price off Musician's Friend and did the conversion. so it'd be in your price range.

There's also a few Elctromatic (Pro, Doucle) Jets that are in your price range
 
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sorry i completley ignored your second question. :smack: well, first of all, the guitar is beautiful. i love the neck, it is round but not big. more like a smaller gibson rather than ibanez. tone unplugged is sort of bright, but not strat bright. i love the fact that it has a coil split option. and the jazz and distiortion sound awesome split. i think that the only downfall to this guitar is the pots. the change in volume and tone are not gradual, it more of a sudden change. more for the tone knob though. i love this guitar, i'm sure you will too. BTW it is neckthru, not set neck.
 
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Could somebody tell me a bit about set neck vs neck through? I kind of assumed them to be the same for some reason.
 
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From what i've read set-neck has more warmth, and neck-thru has more snap, or something. Like the sounds traveling better from the body to the neck, or something
 
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You can always do what I did, and slap a pickup on an acoustic. While it's difficult to mount two (damn near impossible with the modern structure of an acoustic guitar), it sounds like you are playing on clouds. Once you got the guitar itself, the parts only cost like $50 total (25 GBP), which is a pretty hott deal.
 
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If you want a guitar that has the best players neck on it then go for a washburn , I haven't had a bad experience with them yet and I've owned 2 and played probably around 8. If you like the schecter c-1 you should go for a washburn x-50. Better than the schecter in every way, washburn uses great wood, and doesnt do a crap job on the wiring and other little details like I've seen on a lot of schecters. The x-50 feels 10x more sturdy than the C-1's I have played. You can nab an older x-50 on ebay as well for around 300 bucks which is a steal for a normally 500-600 dollar guitar.
 
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