Headless Carvin 8 String Incoming?

[Spaceman_Spiff]

I think the bridge looks fine, the body style is just fat, short, and looks uncomfortable. What I'm really curious about is the back. Things like the neck joint, belly carve etc.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

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[Enselmis]

Somebody who owns an HH2 or HH1 has to get one and do a direct comparison between the hipshot and J-Custom hardware. I'm really curious which one will stand up better as I've read pretty good things about the J-Custom stuff, at least the fixed bridge version.

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

For those of you wondering what the new Kiesel Vader weighs... This V8 eight string comes in at only 5.875 pounds! This one has the chambered body option, ash body sides, flame maple top, zebrawood board, 5pcs walnut and maple neck.

 

[ferret]

http://instagram.com/p/x9ru8UBBKz/

Video of that orange V8. You can see how the end of the neck looks a couple of times.

 

[Hollowway]

Man, that orange one is so hot! I hate to completely Francesco, but I honestly think I'm going to get an exact duplicate of that.

 

[yingmin]

I'm not hip to that reference. Who is Francesco and what did he do?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

That.

 

[Hollowway]

Thank you! I wanted to see how they were going to do that transition on the forearm contour. It's weird how perfectly the zebra wood and the limba match - they almost look like the same wood!

 

[Electric Wizard]

Uh, I photoshopped that. It's definitely not how Carvin is doing the contour, at least according to Francesco's actual pics.

 

[Hollowway]

Uh, I photoshopped that. It's definitely not how Carvin is doing the contour, at least according to Francesco's actual pics.

Oh. Well, good job on that!
Do you have the actual pic that came from? I don't think I've seen the straight on angle.

 

[Electric Wizard]

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/4273799-post705.html

Yeah I shopped it because I was curious about what it would look like if the paint stopped at the boundaries of the top like usual.

 

[Hybrid138]

That 8 is so hot right now!

 

[steinny]

Are the pickups splittable to single coils?

 

[Galius]

Are the pickups splittable to single coils?

I would assume that it will be wired like my passive DC800 and will have a 5 way switch that has pickup split positions.

 

[Halowords]

Even though I'd prefer it in a multiscale and perhaps different scale options (and am inclined to just go with a 9-string at this point because, hey, why not?) I actually like it. Sure, like most, there may be one or two things I might have spec'd differently as a matter of personal taste.

But as Hollowway so adeptly pointed out:

If someone had told me 3 years ago if they'd be doing the Vader model, I'd have asked them where they got their weed, and could I have some, too.

Because I sure as hell did not see them coming out with an 8-string headless double-cut.

-Cheers

 

[steinny]

Prices??

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

We'll find out sometime this weekend, or Feb 1st.

 

[IChuckFinleyI]

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I've never been a fan of headless guitars and absolutely loath solid color paint jobs on guitars... but that thing has me GASing like crazy! I planned only allowing myself to buy one guitar this year too. If I can only get one, might as well make it a Carvin.

 

[Explorer]

I didn't notice this topic until today, and now I'm actually on edge waiting until there is pricing and option info on the Carvin site.

I would repost that beautiful picture of the back side, with the neck contour and how tasty the woods look, but I can't find the original link right now. However, I did save pictures and have been opening the folder to look at them every now and again....