Guess what showed up at my office today? HNHGD

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baimun

Funkasaurus Rex
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I originally ordered it as a travel guitar to fit in the airplane overheads... but then it wasn’t going to be here until February... but then it showed up today.

I am pretty impressed with the neck and body for a $300 Chinese knock off. Haven’t had a chance to plug it in obviously, but I have a pair of Suhr humbuckers that would drop in nicely.
 
Cool. Other than the fanned frets, is the neck normal? A buddy of mine (incredible shredder) said he just played a Stranberg and said the neck was shaped like a trapezoid. He said everything else about the guitar was awesome but he didn't think he would ever be able to play that neck shape.
 
Chad said:
Cool. Other than the fanned frets, is the neck normal? A buddy of mine (incredible shredder) said he just played a Stranberg and said the neck was shaped like a trapezoid. He said everything else about the guitar was awesome but he didn't think he would ever be able to play that neck shape.
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normal neck carve.
 
ooh, congrats!

Chad said:
Can you send me the info where you bought it from? I want to pass it on to my friend. He really wants something like that.
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another similar option (considerably more $$$ than this, a bit less than strandberg) would be an ormsby goliath (headless, multiscale, but normal neck profile)

bigger fan spread though, I'd guess from those pics. ormsby's standard is 25.5-27.5 for 6-strings @baimun do you know what the spread is on yours?
 
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yabba said:
ooh, congrats!


another similar option (considerably more $$$ than this, a bit less than strandberg) would be an ormsby goliath (headless, multiscale, but normal neck profile)

bigger fan spread though, I'd guess from those pics ormsby's standard is 25.5-27.5 for 6-strings @baimun do you know what the spread is on yours?
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this one is only 25 to 25 1/2... but i could do another in 7 or 8 string with a longer scale (especially with how cheap these are )

Like I said... this one is intended for travel.

Size comparison with my Taylor that was still in my car from practice yesterday.

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baimun said:
this one is only 25 to 25 1/2... but i could do another in 7 or 8 string with a longer scale (especially with how cheap these are )
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I like a larger spread, but the downside is pickups - you can't generally use normal 6-string pickups for a 25.5-27.5 spread because they won't cover all the strings unless they're mounted non-slanted, and that generally sounds weird/bad (over/under emphasizing lows on the low strings/highs on the high strings). You can generally use a 7-string pickup for a 6-string, or 8 for a 7-string, etc though.
 
yabba said:
I like a larger spread, but the downside is pickups - you can't generally use normal 6-string pickups for a 25.5-27.5 spread because they won't cover all the strings unless they're mounted non-slanted, and that generally sounds weird/bad (over/under emphasizing lows on the low strings/highs on the high strings). You can generally use a 7-string pickup for a 6-string, or 8 for a 7-string, etc though.
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it’s one reason i went with a 6 string hard tail. I knew i had pickups that could swap out and, less finicky of hardware than an import tremolo.

If someone looks at one of these, make sure you get the new 2019-2020 tuners... NOT the little square bridge with the tuners up top. The reviews of the old guitar all hated the bridge because the tuners were so difficult to turn that they shipped the guitars with a little allen crank to stick in the end of the tuners. This one is not super granular fine, but tunes up very easily. I will report back on tuning stability once I put new strings on it and play it for a while.
 
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