Guitar design
- Started 17 years ago
- Last post 17 years ago
- 42 Responses
- locustsloth
Was it lack of innovation or laziness on Gibson's part to come up with the reverse flying V? Not only is it not visually appealing (hence the posting here), but i can't imagine it's very playable. And they're asking $3000 for it to boot!
- freeskihp0
needs something like this to work though
- MrOneHundred0
Where’s ismith?
- ********0
If you think about how much money U2 has made, you'll see that beyond the third stretch it's just design.
- jfletcher0
ugly!
Any new guitar designs I see are almost always ugly.
- airey0
god awful.
- locustsloth0
this is one of my favorites
- ok_not_ok0
ptui!
- it looks like it was modeled after those crappy Japanese guitars you find on eBay for $20locustsloth
- imnotadesigner0
Baaaaaaaammmm!!!
- mg330
I'm having a custom guitar built this year, hopefully. I know a person who does repair work and custom work that is stunning, one of the very few people in Chicago who actually do complete custom work.
It's going to be based on the Telecaster Thinline (below) with a black satin finish, a slight gloss over the top of it to add a bit of shine. Probably a maple neck.
The finish would be a black satin version of a strong wood grain like this:
The fun starts with the pickups - going to have a humbucker in the neck position that will have a switch to go between humbucker or single coil. Will have the typical Tele bridge pickup and usual 3 way switch.
The back of the body will also be slightly tapered like the back of a Strat - I rarely play my Strat live but I prefer the way it feels against my body over the straight back of my Tele.
I don't know when I'll be starting this, cost is around $1600 but after months of chatting about it we've pretty much locked down exactly what we might do. I'll keep you posted if it happens!
- i've got an orig '73 tele deluxe - tapered back, maple neck natural finish - of course 2 humbuckersbulletfactory
- JackRyan0
That sounds sweet! I've been playing my tele a lot more lately, I don't know what it is.
- mg330
The other guitarist in my band just got his Mexican tele back from some custom work, with some awesome additions.
1) Humbucker in the neck spot.
2) Danelectro lipstick pickup in the middle position
3) normal tele bridge pickup
4) 5 way switch instead of usual 3 way
5) Bigsby tremeloTalk about a tone monster. He played it at a show we had a few weeks ago, it was just great.
- tele with a bigsby... pretty cool. not to mention the pickups and 5-wayOnesandZeros
- ismith0
I had this really long post typed up but then decided that nobody here wants to read that much, so I'll keep it short n sweet: Stratocaster shape (superstrats OK), 25.5" scale, no middle pickup. Anything else is either unique to your body or wildly un-ergonomic.
- But I do like a middle pickup, if it's wired correctly and you have a five way switch...TheBlueOne
- locustsloth0
ismith speaks the truth. i have an Explorer copy which, while it looks cool, is nearly impossible to play sitting down. Same thing goes for flying V's, reverse or not
- fooler0
I have these 2 beautiful guitars...
they look better that that backwards flying v, now only if I knew how to play them.
- I have 2 Les Pauls, love them both!jfletcher
- i have 1- standard, goldtop - absolutely love it.bulletfactory
- are you in the Bay City Rollers?kelpie
- tasty0
the reverse flying V was created for obvious reasons. It's shaped like an arrow so one can play it and point it at groupies in the crowd while firing off a bad ass riff.
- ismith0
- The only way to look at the fretboard is to suck the dickismith
- Who in the world would be willing to play that?!?!locustsloth
- <-- some one in Gwarmoldero
- i bet ismith can make that puppy sing!
haha!
ovsm
- TheBlueOne0
Other than the classics - strat, tele, les paul, SG, and a few others I think the nicest modern guitar design was the Wolfgang;
I was never a fan of anything pointy, and always hated BC Rich's...and while great instruments PRS's always leave me cold, visually...
- And I'm a sucker for a maple fret board, they play and sound better to me, and they age really nice, visually.TheBlueOne
- niiiiiceOneNine
- Mojo0
I hate strats.
I have this:
- I like sg's visually, hate playing them.TheBlueOne
- I have an SG, and the thing is alright but never stays in tune!stoplying
- Looking is nice, playing is rough.ismith
- sold mine... didn't like the soundjoqui
