So I just meandered over to the Keisel website to see what kind of guitars they're making...

[Guitar Heel]

Gibson "Good Enough"
Carvin "Perfectly Fine"

Whatever happened to "Inspiring"?

Pretty hard to quantify "inspiring" though. I mean, if a guitar is comfortable and sounds good...

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Pretty hard to quantify "inspiring" though. I mean, if a guitar is comfortable and sounds good...

...then it probably isn't a Squier.

 

[grover]

Well, at least the clown from "IT" has something to play.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

Well, at least the clown from "IT" has something to play.

 

[GilmourD]

The EVH and Lynch guitars would be something I’d buy if I won the lottery. I’d love to have them, but they aren’t really practical for me.

I just build my own EVH guitars and don't break the bank with them. And they're very practical for me since I'm a bridge pickup player and I love non-floating, non-recessed Floyds.

 

[sleewell]

to be clear: carvins are not kiesels. jeff has separated kiesel from carvin and has taken a once great company down into the gutter.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

to be clear: carvins are not kiesels. jeff has separated kiesel from carvin and has taken a once great company down into the gutter.

Carvin sucked too

 

[Dexter Inferno]

Carvin sucked too

I've never seen a guitar from either company that I'd like to own.

 

[PunkKitty]

Their guitars are nice enough. But I love the feel of Carvin/Keisel basses. I have 3 and would love another 1 or 5.

 

[Fumbles]

Their guitars are nice enough. But I love the feel of Carvin/Keisel basses. I have 3 and would love another 1 or 5.

I have a nice, not too flashy Carvin IC6 bass. Very, very well made. A joy to play & it sounds & feels great.

If the Canadian dollar would go up a bit more , I'd get an IC4, or maybe a Brian Bromberg 4 string bass

It doesn't have to be florescent orange with clownburst yellow quilted maple top & Flame maple & Abalone neck, etc.

You can make it literally HOWEVER YOU WANT IT.

Maybe Keisel should put up pics of more understated looking instruments. You can have a nice instrument without it being all blinged up like that. Some people are into that, & that is fine. I know they do turn off a lot of potential customers who only see or play the really over the top ones, & think thatès all they can do.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

You can make it literally HOWEVER YOU WANT IT.

All I wanted was some straight side dots dammit!

 

[Fumbles]

They mess up the side dots sometimes?

Hmm, mine are nice

I'd just send it back, tell them to make another one, & do it right.

 

[Guitar Heel]

All I wanted was some straight side dots dammit!

I once purchased a small-shop, luthier guitar with the worst side dots I've ever seen. I was amazed.

 

[Chad]

I once purchased a small-shop, luthier guitar with the worst side dots I've ever seen. I was amazed.

And you sold it before I got a chance to play it

 

[Guitar Heel]

And you sold it before I got a chance to play it

 

[Pine Apple Slim]

Just buy a traditional looking model and forgo all the fancy stuff and you'll have yourself a fine guitar. My 1983 DC100 is still the best made guitar I've ever owned.

 

[GilmourD]

All I wanted was some straight side dots dammit!

I love how they had to go CNC for that.

Leo Fender never had a damn problem with that.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

I love how they had to go CNC for that.

Leo Fender never had a damn problem with that.

Epiphone had a problem with it too.

 

[Lerxst]

to be clear: carvins are not kiesels. jeff has separated kiesel from carvin and has taken a once great company down into the gutter.

From what I read in the past Jeff’s dad, mark, and his uncle were the ones who split kiesel and carvin. Mark is president and Jeff is the vp, both are co-owners. Either way it seems like Jeff is in charge on the mfg, designs and aesthetics.

 

[sleewell]

they look like guitars rich parents in the burbs buy their kids who dont know any better playing in their first grindcore band.