Got my guitar back but.. I got a Vigier in the end too!

[_tom_]

Yeah I read about that, would obviously have to play one first before that kind of money was spent on one!

Just saw this one, looks beast!



Needs to be hardtail though..

Looks good, it'd be better with a maple board though. There's a Vig in seconds out at the mo.

Emerald green though apparently, not my thing!


Just realised I've hijacked this thread again, sorry Jonny :P

[dheim]

after all it was a cort... sure, but cort are really well made guitars. cheap but really well made. you should have kept it. it looked really cool, anyway...

[dave_mc]

haha, i like the fancier ones with the maple tops, tom. It could have been my imagination, but i thought they sounded better, too- of course, they had different pickups, so that could have been it. :D

I prefer the purpley one on the machinehead website, lew- i tried an ultra blues in a similar colour, at the start i thought it sucked, by the time i'd finished playing with it i loved the colour... :lol:

[Lew]

The tone on the Vigiers in the shop can be fairly mediocre because A- they have a stupidly, no... retardly low action and light strings with the factory set-up and B- some of the pickup choices are pretty nasty. The first thing I did when I got home was raise the action and soon after changed the bridge pup.

[Jonny]

Don't worry Tom, I like all the Vigier talk. Hopefully I'll be picking it up this week.

Ultimately, this won't be my only Vigier :D

[_tom_]

Retardedly low action doesnt sound good, I hate really low action and light strings :lol: As for pickups I have a set of Mules in my Epi LP Custom but I suspect I'm not getting the most out of them in that guitar so I could quite easily swap them over!

Really need to find an Excalibur indus to have a play on.

haha, i like the fancier ones with the maple tops, tom. It could have been my imagination, but i thought they sounded better, too- of course, they had different pickups, so that could have been it. :D

I hate the flashy, gaudy figured maple top look so much!

[Lew]

If I was buying a new Vig I'd def consider the new GV metal, it looks amazing  :o

 

[dave_mc]

haha, i like the maple top look. though i also like guitars without one, too.

the only retardedly low action on any of the vigiers i tried was the shawn lane model, i think. the others were pretty low, but not retardedly so (though admittedly probably slightly lower than i'd use). And I use light strings anyway, so that's nothing to do with it.

:)

[Stevepage]

haha, i like the maple top look. though i also like guitars without one, too.

the only retardedly low action on any of the vigiers i tried was the shawn lane model, i think. the others were pretty low, but not retardedly so (though admittedly probably slightly lower than i'd use). And I use light strings anyway, so that's nothing to do with it.

:)

I had the same thing when trying out the Shawn Lane model. Light strings, low action and flat fretboard = not particularly comfortable for some one who grew up playing a strat for most of his guitar playing life.

[dave_mc]

yeah. i mean, i started on an ibanez rg, and the shawn lane had a way too low action. though i reckon i could've played it fine with even a slight raising of the action.