Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: wintersun on June 25, 2008, 03:22:11 PM
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So, after many months of work, my new Roter sevenstring is finaly done.
Before I start, I owe a lots of congratulations to the Roter guys, Sebastian and Adam, especially Sebastian, who was with me all this time, and gave the best support the one could possibly give.
Here's how it was.
I was on the search for the strings for my Ibanez 1527, cos I just couldn't find any that would fit me here in Croatia. So I finally ran onto Apophis (Sebastian) on sevenstring.org, who explained me all about the string tension and stuff, and told me that he uses his some custom made strings for his custom guitars. I noticed he is a guitar maker, so I got interested, dough I know I have no money to afford for a custom.
Howerver, it turned out that the price is ONLY 1000$ + pickups and tremolo. I was like wow. The reason? The only impression I got of them is that they really don't do it cos of money, and their final intention is to make guitars, and not to become rich. Other luthiers would most probably suck as much money as they could. These guys, however, even lowered their price, when they found out I'd have problems with custom fees.
Sebastian was more than helpful. He even helped me to find a buyer for my Ibanez, just so I could get that custom. Finally I got rid of this Ibanez, so the work began.
Until now HUNDREDS of PMs and emails were exchanged. On the guitar even the tiniest details were changed. They even refinished it a couple of times, just because I wasn't 100% satisfied with some tiny totally unnecessary details (like, this part is too pointy, and this cut off is not the way I want it, and so on). Ok, maybe the reason is partly because of this "famous" camera of theirs, so I couldn't see everything at first, but still, I doubt anyone would really care for such tiny details.
Sometimes I felt like I'm really asking too much, but, being a perfectionist, I NEEDED a guitar that I will LOVE, not just like, but LOVE. Sebastian would say everytime that it's ok, and do what I asked him.
Like I said, they knew how much trouble I'll have with customs, since Croatia isn't a part of EU yet. So, they were more than helpful with this as well. Not only that they did their best that I get this guitar for the lowest price possible, but also Sebastian offered to redesign the whole WEBSITE, so if somebody from customs were to check, they would see this guitar cost some USD 450 hehehehe. That way the masterplan would be complete, and they wouldn't charge me too much Otherwise, the customs would be over 50 percent!!!
So, here are the specs.
Scale - 25.5"
Neck Joint - neck-thru
Body - Wenge
Neck - 5 pieces Wenge/Maple/Mahogany/Maple/Wenge
Fingerboard - Ebony
Frets - 26 Jumbo
Bridge - Ibanez Lo-pro Edge 7
Volume, 5-way switch, coil tapping
Matte gloss finish with sunburst
Pickups:
Bridge - Bare Knuckle Custom Nailbomb Alnico 8
Neck - Bare Knuckle Custom Cold Sweat
Also, I'd like to point out that I'm NOT ADVERTISING, or doing anything of the sort. This is not my intention.
You can e-mail Sebastian at bukowski.sebastian@wp.pl
BTW they are from POLAND.
PM me if you need any extra info.
Pictures.. Right now I'm uploading them, so give me a moment :)
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Congrats on the new 7, looking forward to seeing it.
I was planning on getting a custom 8 made by the guys at Roter, I very nearly went through with it but I can't afford it now so I went with something cheaper. So I've had to put it on hold, but from speaking with Sebastian on SS.Org he was very helpful.
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more coming up in a minute
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So thats about it :)
Hope you like it!
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Congrats on what I can only describe as a gorgeous guitar!! Obviously this is YOUR baby, one that you've had a huge input in the looks and makeup thereof, and so, while it's probably not to everyone's taste, it's clearly to yours (and, by the way mine, too!).
I LOVE that Wenge body, it looks so damned good, and a really nice looking finish on it, too. The whole guitar looks well balanced.
Thanks for sharing!!
Roo
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Congrats on what I can only describe as a gorgeous guitar!! Obviously this is YOUR baby, one that you've had a huge input in the looks and makeup thereof, and so, while it's probably not to everyone's taste, it's clearly to yours (and, by the way mine, too!).
I LOVE that Wenge body, it looks so damned good, and a really nice looking finish on it, too. The whole guitar looks well balanced.
Thanks for sharing!!
Roo
Thank you so much :)
Yes, I really had a lot of input in making it, every tiny detail :) They even had to refinish it 2 times until I was fully satesfied hehehehe
Btw, it's still being shipped to me, so I can still only imagine what it sounds like hehehehe
Damn, I can't wait :)
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Not so sure it's gorgeous... I'd have said that it looks pretty damn evil...
But that's a good thing, right?
:wink:
Mark.
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Looks very evil!
But looks very well executed - Congrats on a nice guitar.
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WOW! Really really nice - shredder? I LOVE that finish and the neck woods you used! And the body shape....and the headstock..... and pickups.....
Saving up for $1000 now....
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WOW! Really really nice - shredder? I LOVE that finish and the neck woods you used! And the body shape....and the headstock..... and pickups.....
Saving up for $1000 now....
Thanks dude! Glad you like it! Yeah, it's a shredding beast ahahaa
As for this "evil" part, I say, no no, THIS is EVIL :D hehehhee
http://img166.imageshack.us/my.php?image=5254zr8.jpg
Get my point now :D
I'd rather say it has some "attitude", dough, yes it is evil compared to Les Paul, or fender strat :D
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looks very well made and very evil! :twisted:
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Hahahahaaha that link to the crazy bass is ridiculous! Gotta be some sort of extreme black metal fan to EVER play that...!
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Hahahahaaha that link to the crazy bass is ridiculous! Gotta be some sort of extreme black metal fan to EVER play that...!
Actually you need to be a fan of MISFITS :D hehehe
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I'm not into 7 strings really but that one looks frikkin amazing! Love the shape. :D
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Once again, that thing rocks! Hope it'll bring you years of shreddy happiness. Now clips!
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Hot damn! That neck looks fantastic!! I bet it plays better than perfect!
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Dude, that's hot.
Looks like I'll be dropping them a line when I need another 7 string!!
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that looks awesome!
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Thanks guys! I'm glad you like it :)
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how much was shipping on it and did you pay it?
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how much was shipping on it and did you pay it?
I didn't pay anything to them more than the 1000 usd (for the work) + the tax costs of tremolo which was shiped directly to them from USA, from "ibanez rules" (which is normally expected). And thats what I like about them, cos among other things, they could have asked me to pay them for the fact that they just had to carry it to the post office and so on, but they didn't.
The real problem here is that Croatia is not a part of EU yet, and we have crazy taxes, so I will have to pay for them, in a few days when the guitar gets here :) Thats why they lowered the price by over 50 percent on the bill (it says that guitar costs only 450 usd)
Otherwhise I'd get killed by those "#$%$ taxes.
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Wow that looks damn good.
Great design and shape. Well done mate!!
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I love the name of it 'rotter' lol brilliant!
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Wow that looks damn good.
Great design and shape. Well done mate!!
I love the name of it 'rotter' lol brilliant!
Thanks :)