BKP meet - Manchester 28th Feb - confirmed!

[Spitfire]

wish id come, i was tempted as im only 35 mins away on the train and it is only about a mile from manc pic station... didnt really think too much about it until it was too late and i had other plans tho. maybe next time.

[shobet]

I think the guitar that impressed me the most was that rosewood necked PRS of Twinfan's. However I liked all the ones that I tried and I now have serious GAS for a new amp.

[Twinfan]

I thought bargain of the meet was Brow's PRS Custom 22 for £650  :o  Amazing deal!

[Matt77]

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I can't believe he was the 2nd to view it - someone passed that up at that price!
Good guitar, just shows how well you can do on the 2nd hand market

[JDC]

I've got fanned fret gas, wish I tried some open chords to see what they were like

[Brow]

I thought bargain of the meet was Brow's PRS Custom 22 for £650  :o  Amazing deal!

Thanks!

It was the 1st PRS I found that I could afford, so there was little chance I wasn't gonna get it for the price!  :lol:

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I can't believe he was the 2nd to view it - someone passed that up at that price!
Good guitar, just shows how well you can do on the 2nd hand market

Yup, apparently someone opened the case, saw the small ding on it's top and turned it down straight away! S'ppose he was 1 of those 'Blues Lawyers' that so often get associated with PRS' etc.

I've got fanned fret gas, wish I tried some open chords to see what they were like

I had a play of it and didn't notice too much difference in playability to a 'normal scale' guitar tbh. I spoke to Wez and said it's more apparent if tuning down or using 8 strings etc, so s'ppose it makes more sense to some people :)

[Matt77]

I've got fanned fret gas, wish I tried some open chords to see what they were like

I had a play of it and didn't notice too much difference in playability to a 'normal scale' guitar tbh. I spoke to Wez and said it's more apparent if tuning down or using 8 strings etc, so s'ppose it makes more sense to some people :)
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I thought it was pretty decent.
The fanned frets take about 2 mins to get used to but then it feels little different

[WezV]

i think JDC was really liking sweep picking on the fanned fret - one of the things i wanted to dispel is the idea that they are difficult to play... which i think i really did.

i really let it down on the tonal advantages by going with the wrong set of strings... but i will prove that to you all another day.  Its all part of my on going experiments with scale length, string gauges and different tuning

[Twinfan]

Just don't look at it as your playing!  It's like playing one of these  :lol:

[WezV]

HOW DARE YOU ;)

[MrBump]

That sounds like a cracking day, chaps.

Really looking forward to the LDN event now!!!

Mark.

[tomjackson]

i think JDC was really liking sweep picking on the fanned fret - one of the things i wanted to dispel is the idea that they are difficult to play... which i think i really did.

i really let it down on the tonal advantages by going with the wrong set of strings... but i will prove that to you all another day.  Its all part of my on going experiments with scale length, string gauges and different tuning

I'm thinking the fanned frets could counteract the one too many beers at gig time and put the frets straight again!

[WezV]

also had an interesting incident with the Kahler on the ventura - not sure what happened but it seems like one of the rear springs may have popped out of place and all the tuning dropped down.  Gonna be interested to see what i find when i take it apart later.  The plus side is that this is a kahler hybrid so i was able to lock it in place as a hardtail and the guitar functioned fine for the rest of the day albeit without trem operation.   lets see what i find later and see how it affects my standpoint in the great Kahler Vs floyd debate

had a look, it was the spring as i thought :?


not sure how it undid itself so i am going to email kahler and see what they say. 

[Brow]

I thought it was pretty decent.
The fanned frets take about 2 mins to get used to but then it feels little different

I'm not saying it wasn't a good playing guitar, both of Wez's that I played were very good, but I didn't notice much different to a regular scale guitar.

I hope my comment about the smaller bodied white explorer looking like a Guitar Hero controller wasn't taken badly, just with it being so small it reminded me of 1 is all! Great playing and sounding guitar though, and my 1st experience with anything with a Kahler on it :)

[WezV]

nah, i thought that was funny - i think you were spot on.  although the size is about 90% of a full sized one so not quite that tiny ;)