SnowfaLL
Well-Known Member
If they did straight black Rs, I probably would have ordered one this weekend. I'm a long-time detractor of the brand purely because I think the scoops look stupid as hell, but after having climate-related issues with two guitars on Saturday (including a fancy-pants Suhr), I was just about ready to live with the scoops, haha.
The one way I can live with them, I've found, is a matte/satin black 080S, because the angle, proportions, and scoops combined with the flat black give it a reasonably acceptable Lockheed-Martin Skunkworks vibe that I can dig on. However, I can't really dig on it for $3.6k and a potential 7 month wait, so that's a no.
I heard about the R series being cheaper and faster, but the anthracite isn't dark enough to really pull off the same aesthetic. So yeah, if black R was an option, I'd probably be on the build waiting list as I type this, haha.
I totally agree with you on climate-related crap - I wasnt a fan of the scoops either but it grows on you. I love it now. Had a few climate issues so I went all out, got an Emerald acoustic, Modulus bass and 3 Arium guitars haha... I leave them all out of the cases now and they never change more than slight tuning (strings probably only).