my mate wants a £200 metal guitar, any recommendations?

[FELINEGUITARS]

I don't imagine it's a note that needs to be used very often (ever), and even if it is why not just bend up to it?

Ah, but what if you need to bend up from the E at the 24th fret to a high F# ?  Could be crucial. 

then i'll reach for my 36 fret sky guitar ;) where will you go now philly?

I'd be very impressed and give up arguing - if you had one!   :P

Ooh - just had a memo from Gwem
Seems his Uli Roth fetish has gotten the better of him
Has ordered a 6 and a 7 string version of the Sky Guitar, and will I pop into the wholefood store at the end of my road to get the vegan cookbook for him :?

[gwEm]

I don't imagine it's a note that needs to be used very often (ever), and even if it is why not just bend up to it?

Ah, but what if you need to bend up from the E at the 24th fret to a high F# ?  Could be crucial. 

then i'll reach for my 36 fret sky guitar ;) where will you go now philly?

I'd be very impressed and give up arguing - if you had one!   :P

Ooh - just had a memo from Gwem
Seems his Uli Roth fetish has gotten the better of him
Has ordered a 6 and a 7 string version of the Sky Guitar, and will I pop into the wholefood store at the end of my road to get the vegan cookbook for him :?

jonothans going to meditate on a mantra invoking the power of the pheonix for a hour before he works on my sky guitars so that he is more at one with the cosmos and the elemental energies of the earth.

furthermore i have sold my collection of flying Vs which i now find too limiting for my art, i'm using the funds to finance my move from shoreditch to a commune in the welsh highlands.

[Nadz1lla]

Yeah I don't get on with Epiphones at all. Tried a couple and a lot of harmonics are basically "missing" lol. Not a great choice if you want to learn pinchies.

Sorry to burst your bubble, but that cant be true for a particular brand - no matter what brand of guitar you speak of.
A string will have all the harmonics it should as long as the string isnt knackered or that there is nothing stopping the string from ringing out.
I have worked on a lot of the Gothic vs and they are some of the better guitars that Epiphone ever made

The Epiphone goth V will be pretty damn good
It doesnt try to be all things - so there is no cheap floyd copy that just wont perform
Buy it , put fresh strings on it and get playing
If anything allow some extra cash to have her set up or at most fret dressed at some point

Alternatively Jibidy's Peavey will work well if its not too glam for him.

Aye I apologise, my statement was fairly sweeping.  :P 

I should point out that I have tried 3 different Epiphone SG's and a Les Paul copy and for some reason, maybe a pickup issue, some of the pinchies I can get on most other guitars don't come through. I can hear the string making the sound, but for whatever reason it doesn't seem to translate across to the signal. Even on an Epiphone Gothic SG with a Nailbomb at the bridge, for instance, one pinchie that just refused to come through the amp was on the 3rd fret on the bottom E (or bottom C# as it was tuned).

But again, this is just my personal experience. I'm certain other people have better luck.  :D

[Philly Q]

jonothans going to meditate on a mantra invoking the power of the pheonix for a hour before he works on my sky guitars so that he is more at one with the cosmos and the elemental energies of the earth.

furthermore i have sold my collection of flying Vs which i now find too limiting for my art, i'm using the funds to finance my move from shoreditch to a commune in the welsh highlands.

To get the look right, you may also be needing some silk kimonos, knee boots and one of those extra-wide headbands to "cleverly" hide a receding hairline (...in due course).  Or get one of the Bret Michaels ones with the hair permanently attached.

Fair play though, the man is a god (that's Uli, not Bret....).

[gwEm]

Fair play though, the man is a god (that's Uli, not Bret....).

you're right there... and such feeling too - not just malmsteen style speed.

i've got a couple of epiphones, reckon their pretty good myself. ok, you might want to upgrade the pickups at some stage, and maybe even a fret dress as feline says.

[opprobrium_9]

opprobrium_9 wrote

I own a 175 quid Ibby and it smashes Schecters listed for hundreds more.  Each to his own buddy.

I'm a fan of cheapo Ibanez RGs also, especially with a set of BKPs in em. They can be a bit rough and ready straight out of the box and the stock pups are rubbish but they're very easy to set up to suit your own preferences. I think the tone woods and sheer playability they offer at those price levels are pretty impressive - especially with a set of BKPs factored into the overall price  :lol:

You hit the nail pretty much on the head with that one.  My feelings exactly.

[jibidy]

I have an Epiphone, Its the custom shop one with the Meastro Vibrola. with a pair of covered Lt. Emeralds in it, its the only guitar i have to play at the moment and i dont have any problem with wailing out pinchies, certanly not Zakk Wylde or Dimebag but still they get the point of a good pinch across.

I think it would definatly benefit with a little neck work as Jonothan suggested.

[gwEm]

I have an Epiphone, Its the custom shop one with the Meastro Vibrola. with a pair of covered Lt. Emeralds in it, its the only guitar i have to play at the moment and i dont have any problem with wailing out pinchies, certanly not Zakk Wylde or Dimebag but still they get the point of a good pinch across.

I think it would definatly benefit with a little neck work as Jonothan suggested.

I think epiphones are like a kind of project and can grow with you. Out the box they are cool beginners guitars... and then with pickups they are cool intermediate guitars (my playing level I guess), and then with a fret dress you can start to take on the big boys (not there yet! :) ). I'm pro-epiphone, but i guess everyone has different views.

[mikeluke]

Bit late but....



What about this for an 80's hair metal guitar?

24 fret
Rosewood board
Trem
Lairy paint job (you have to see it in the flesh... it is a pale gold pearl finish)

[MDV]

BIT late!?!??

BIT, he says!

[Dr. Stein]

Sixteen months is quite a bit...

[mikeluke]

Hey... it took 8 weeks to get here from Japan...
 :?
 :P

[JDC]

it's so late that my mate got lucky and got a nice washburn, got rid of it, didn't listen to me or anyone else from local jam night and bought a cr@ppy aria with a licensed floyd on it, then 2 weeks later cut all the strings off and couldn't get it back in tune even though another friend had told him how to change strings properly

oh how we laughed

lucky git did get a 2nd hand vox valvetronix 2x12 for £100!!! then moaned he couldn't get a good sound out of it, ignored us all again and bought a metal zone, and now he's on about selling the vox

which he happened to have at jam night last week and all the eq knobs were turned to zero!!!

[craig_mccann]

I really love my Schecter, was only 169 GBP, although the stock pickups aren't the best they aint the worst either, nothing that a good set of BKP wouldn't sort out tho ;)

But then it depends why he was looking at an RG, is it cos of the neck? or does he just like the look and price?

[Philly Q]

Bit late but....

What about this for an 80's hair metal guitar?

24 fret
Rosewood board
Trem
Lairy paint job (you have to see it in the flesh... it is a pale gold pearl finish)

What is it, Mike?  Don't think I've seen one of those before.