telecaster911
Kick Henry Jackassowski
I never hear anyone talk about them, or at least very rarely. Have they run their course? It seems like it would make a great guitar.
is there no love for neck-thru guitars??
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i don't think they've run their course. i think it's that the vast majority of guitarists are luddites, and if it doesn't remind them of 1959, they don't want it.
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fanuvbrak
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Well, the BC Rich Neck throughs are terrible looking, so I've never played one. The only one I've ever really played is a Firebird V and it was magical. It just felt like a $2000 instrument.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
Personally, I don't like the way they sound or look.
I've played a few that I liked, but most had harsher overtones... sounded more stiff than when the neck and body are two separate pieces.
Looks wise, I hate that striped plank running down the middle... a one or two piece body just looks so much nicer.
I agree that a large percentage of guitarists are stuck by tradition, but many of the good luthiers design by sound first, and looks secondly.
The compromise in neck strength without the garrish block-down-the-middle is a set neck guitar with a long neck tenon. This is when the block of wood from the neck is set into the body either to the bottom of the neck pickup cavity, or sometimes as far as the bridge pickup. Usually it's set in from the top, so you can't see it on the back, and then a top is glued on over the tenon, so it's hidden from the front as well.
I've played a few that I liked, but most had harsher overtones... sounded more stiff than when the neck and body are two separate pieces.
Looks wise, I hate that striped plank running down the middle... a one or two piece body just looks so much nicer.
I agree that a large percentage of guitarists are stuck by tradition, but many of the good luthiers design by sound first, and looks secondly.
The compromise in neck strength without the garrish block-down-the-middle is a set neck guitar with a long neck tenon. This is when the block of wood from the neck is set into the body either to the bottom of the neck pickup cavity, or sometimes as far as the bridge pickup. Usually it's set in from the top, so you can't see it on the back, and then a top is glued on over the tenon, so it's hidden from the front as well.
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Sorry Howie... while that is a fine looking Ric... I've yet to play a Rick that I really loved.
see, i have this dilemma.
on one hand i want to bring my PRS to Pragestock. i want to see if you can make it play better than it does now. (or at least what your idea of better would be)
OTOH, i want to bring my Ric so that you can all tell me how much you hate it.
baimun
Funkasaurus Rex
If you want to ensure there is variety... bring the Ric. Maybe you can convince me that it's a wonderful guitar.
I don't know if I'll end up bringing 2 or 3 guitars. Depends on how many are "gig ready" on that date.
Yngtchie Blacksteen
Helper
I'm a fan, but due to the usual money problems, I've yet to own a neck-through guitar.
I'm still GASing for this baby:
I'm still GASing for this baby:
aliensporebomb
Fretted instrument fan
My neckthru.
Neck joint:
Here's what it sounds like:
http://pod.ath.cx/guitars/soloist/asb-SL2.mp3
The big super creamy lead guitar tone in this excerpt of a longer track.
The thing has a super even long sustain.
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aliensporebomb
Fretted instrument fan
Thought:
Have you ever had your PRS given a pro setup?
My soloist was set-up late last summer by David Rusan - the guy who designed and built the white cloud guitars for Prince. The recording I posted was done after he fret levelled the guitar and set the action so the thing played absurdly well and he did some other fun stuff to it.
Played so well that I couldn't believe it - it never played that well out of the box. Like a different guitar.
I never would have thought it possible for an 11 year old guitar that I
thought I knew really well to play like this.
Have you ever had your PRS given a pro setup?
My soloist was set-up late last summer by David Rusan - the guy who designed and built the white cloud guitars for Prince. The recording I posted was done after he fret levelled the guitar and set the action so the thing played absurdly well and he did some other fun stuff to it.
Played so well that I couldn't believe it - it never played that well out of the box. Like a different guitar.
I never would have thought it possible for an 11 year old guitar that I
thought I knew really well to play like this.
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i've been bringing my guitars to the same guy for 18 years, and now i teach guitar at his music school. it plays beautifully, but i think i might be at the point where i want somebody with that pixie dust magic. i just don't want to pay for it. those guys are insanely expensive around here.
Kerouac
weird musical dildo
Plek?
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GergS
Butt
I wish I had bought a Rick 650A back when it was still in production and Rics were half the price they're selling for now.
Man, I wanted one of those as well. The local place had the Dakota model and it played great.