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OddFutureWolfGang

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Suhr or Guerilla Guitar?
« on: January 11, 2012, 10:12:48 AM »
I'm currently torn between ordering a custom Suhr Modern and a custom Guerrilla M-SR6 guitar. I was previously sold on the Suhr because I've heard great things about their playability and they're beautiful guitars but I'm attracted to the fact that the Guerrilla guitars are neck-thru while the Suhr is a bolt-on since I've never owned a neck-thru guitar. I also liked that you can order the Guerrilla stock with covered BKPs(which would save me a lot of trouble because I live in the U.S.). So anyway if anybody has experience with either or both of these guitars feel free to comment!

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Re: Suhr or Guerilla Guitar?
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2012, 05:52:59 PM »
I only know Suhrs and they're wellmade. They produce set-in-neckguitars too. The moderns have bolt-on-necks. I like that, but I can imagine lots of players want a setneck.
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Re: Suhr or Guerilla Guitar?
« Reply #2 on: January 13, 2012, 02:49:05 AM »
Noob question to anybody with any kind of guitar knowledge: If your guitar has just a normal non-recessed trem do you need to set the guitar to one tuning or can you change between say standard and drop d without any fuss and will bending one string on a non-recessed term make the other strings go out of tune like on a floyd rose making country type licks sound out of tune?

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Re: Suhr or Guerilla Guitar?
« Reply #3 on: January 13, 2012, 08:15:22 AM »
The other strings will still go out of tune when you drop to d unless the trem is set so it can only go down.
When you bend the strings the pitch of the others will change, but the amount depends on the number of springs and tension of the trem.
I have five springs on my strat and you can do double stop country bends no problem

I'd throw in resale value into the decision process on the two guitars as well, it may not seem important now, but might be in future if your tastes change

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Re: Suhr or Guerilla Guitar?
« Reply #4 on: January 14, 2012, 09:23:07 AM »
If you find the bending out of tune thing annoying you can always increase the spring tension on the term to pull it flat against the guitar body. You'd need to reintonate afterwards but it does provide more tuning stability. I used to have a Charvel EVH guitar which was set up like that a la Eddie and it worked pretty well. If you do this you can only dive down on the bar though and you need to crank up the tension quite a bit so the act of bending a string doesn't lift the bridge off the face of the guitar and cause the problem again.