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  1. jayarpeggios

    The .strandberg* Thread

    I really love the Strandberg design, and they are probably my favorite guitars, but yeah... QC is just absolutely awful and not exactly fast or helpful support either. I think I got lucky on my first one, didn't have to send it back. 2nd one I had to send back 2 or 3 times before getting a...
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    Aristides Guitars

    Did they not verify shipping with you...?
  3. jayarpeggios

    Aristides Guitars

    Does anyone know roughly how long after this stage until the next update? I got of this stage of my build in November but nothing since. I don't want to be the type that emails them asking for a build update haha. I'm just getting excited and I also want to but another order in for a 6 string...
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    Solar guitar - inlay browning...

    Yeah be careful with this method / giving that advice, pretty sure IPA will melt some inlays that are plastic or resin. Although if you are quick with it, might be fine, but still I would avoid.
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    (your opinion needed) Optimum Scale Length for Low B

    There's a thin string cult? lol. I thought most people were like "put thick af strings on it!" I'm happy to hear there are dozens of us :)
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    (your opinion needed) Optimum Scale Length for Low B

    Everything in music is a matter of taste, definitely. This is something that took me years and years of playing down tuned 8 strings before I learned. For too thick of strings you just can't get the string to move in the same way and it gives it this very distinct sound kind of like dead...
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    Vildhjarta thread!!

    Yeah, it's definitely good. Album of the year (decade maybe) for sure.
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    (your opinion needed) Optimum Scale Length for Low B

    Too long of a scale or too thick of strings will kill the tone. If you can handle playing with low tension, do it, it will always sound better.
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    Vildhjarta thread!!

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    How do you afford guitars from custom shops and high end instruments?

    I don't feel like I'm rich, but I am well off and pretty good at saving / investing. I work in film / games and after taxes have about 15k per month to work with (before bills). I have zero debt, I already built a sizable nest egg, live in a one bedroom (although that's still very expensive...
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    New Charvel Rick Graham Sig

    What do you have against roasted necks? :P
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    Vildhjarta thread!!

    To me the special sauce is that they find a way to break out of western tonality by using microtonality with their bends while still structured in 12 EDO. To me, that's what gives thall that... eh... thall sound. Like in nar de du at 1:00, or in that amazing section in sunset sunrise, or in...
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    What are the most overhyped guitars?

    You and I might be opposites. I avoided multiscale and headless guitars for a while, other than a rick toone I tried back in eh 2015 maybe (one of Tosin's, don't think it was Blur). But after getting two (with a third on the way) headless+multi guitars I don't think I want to go back to headed...
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    New animals as leaders

    Everything AAL has put out has been good. I was instantly hooked on the first album. The other releases took some time to grow on me before I truly "felt" the full experience. I can't believe people are complaining about thumping in here haha, most of us are metal heads in here yeah? The...
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    Strandberg Standard 8 vs Kiesel Zeus Z8

    All new ones are indo now, to my knowledge. The two I have are indo, the boden 8 I bought a year ago, and the prog 6 NT I bought I think 6 months ago. They completely ruined me on other guitars, it's the first time I've been truly and properly happy with any guitar. They are insanely comfortable...
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    Strandberg Standard 8 vs Kiesel Zeus Z8

    Strandberg is great, you just have a few haters because of the us priced indos. I bought a boden 8 original and a prog 6 NT and they are absolutely amazing guitars in every way. I don't understand the input jack issue that other guy was talking about, maybe he was using a right angle cable, they...
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    What are decent headless fanned fret guitars for 2021?

    Strandberg is amazing, bought two of them last year and they are by far the best guitars I've played or heard. QC can be a problem, but just return / replace if you get a dud.
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    NGD: Arístides H/08R Trem

    Why does the fretboard look so dirty in the 3rd picture? Is that just how the material looks or?
  19. jayarpeggios

    Aristides Guitars

    I think you can get away with ~28" for the low string, most of the time people (including myself for a long time) think you need to have a certain level of stability from the string gauge / scale length on the low strings. You really don't and in fact it sounds a hell of a lot better when you...
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    Aristides Guitars

    Found pictures on facebook of a green non trem headless 8 string. Close enough for me to visualize my build. I think I'll email them next week and get an order going. I don't feel bad about agile, it was cheap just a bit over 1k USD. I'm not sure how much I will connect with 9 strings anyways...


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