IA Eklundh leaves Caparison guitars.

[neurosis]

My TAT II is one of the best playing guitars I own. It feels, sounds, and plays incredible. It is right behind my ESP MII-UC. I only have 7 string J Customs and don't have any experience with 6 string J Customs but I'd say that they're pretty on par as far as I can tell from playability and sound, at least for me but I have never really had much trouble or problems with any guitar; I'm not too picky as long as it is an Ibanez RG570 with 18 V EMGs.

I would say build quality is close but playability is different. A lot of the design attributes and the ergonomics from Jackson are present with Caparison @ThePIGI King.
I was also going to post but then forgot in response to another comment made earlier in this thread that I doubt the company cares much about increasing production. They seem to be content and proud of what they do at the scale that they do: https://www.caparisonguitars.com/about/

For context, some history of why that is although much more info can be dug up on forums over the years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caparison_Guitars

 

[narad]

My TAT II is one of the best playing guitars I own. It feels, sounds, and plays incredible. It is right behind my ESP MII-UC. I only have 7 string J Customs and don't have any experience with 6 string J Customs but I'd say that they're pretty on par as far as I can tell from playability and sound, at least for me but I have never really had much trouble or problems with any guitar; I'm not too picky as long as it is an Ibanez RG570 with 18 V EMGs.

What year is your TAT?

 

[jaxadam]

What year is your TAT?

I wanna say 2005?

 

[couverdure]

He can move to Dragonfly.



Dragonfly showed off a few of their guitars with TT frets. They gave one to Jeff Young at NAMM.

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I never heard of anyone using Dragonfly/Harry's Engineering guitars outside of Japan. I know about them because Toru from ONE OK ROCK and Yoma from The Winking Owl have used their guitars.

 

[Emperor Guillotine]

Mattias has announced the launching of his own guitar brand: Freak Guitar Lab.

 

[jco5055]

I gotta say, it's kinda wild that he loves TT so much to start a guitar company with them, especially when (as mentioned in this thread and other places) TT is like a very minor improvement at best, and some intervals/notes are actually "worse"

 

[ThePIGI King]

Mattias has announced the launching of his own guitar brand: Freak Guitar Lab.

I do not see this being a very profitable venture.

 

[eaeolian]

Mattias has announced the launching of his own guitar brand: Freak Guitar Lab.

6s and 8s. Only even numbers for IA!

 

[Hollowway]

I don’t want to spend $4200 on one, but I DO want one, natch. Maybe I’ll wait until no one buys them, and the price drops. I mean, it’s an 8 with Floyd, so you KNOW it’s gonna happen.

 

[jco5055]

yeah I don't love the look, but the 6 string with 27 frets, short scale, lundgrens, and the eclipse aka asymmetrical neck profile...I do like the sound of that. And assuming it is that boutique quality I feel under $4k is practically a steal nowadays.

 

[ThePIGI King]

I don’t want to spend $4200 on one, but I DO want one, natch. Maybe I’ll wait until no one buys them, and the price drops. I mean, it’s an 8 with Floyd, so you KNOW it’s gonna happen.

It's probably a typo, but on the site it says the 8 weighs 86lbs.

 

[jco5055]

probably 8.6 which is slightly hefty

 

[somethingsomething]

Damn, that body shape is rough. Looks like the inbred version of a SG.

 

[rokket2005]

Yeah, body shape is giving me BRJ Hesperian flashbacks and I wasn't even invested in that nightmare.

 

[StevenC]

It's probably a typo, but on the site it says the 8 weighs 86lbs.

In his Instagram post he says 3.9kg and 3.2kg for the 8 and 6 respectively

 

[ArtDecade]

They are talking about the signature axe all over TGP and Beato has even has IA Eklundh set up for a three part interview about his gear and playing style.

Just kidding. No one cares.

 

[ThePIGI King]

In his Instagram post he says 3.9kg and 3.2kg for the 8 and 6 respectively

I saw the 3.9kg on the site -I was just kidding. I appreciate the concern, as an 86lb guitar would be terrible for my back.

 

[jco5055]

kinda resembles the Wylde guitars

 

[Velokki]

You gotta be a reeeeal big fan of his to buy that. The looks are mediocre, price is quite steep and... who wants the combo of an Floyd + True Temperament? I like Floyds, but on an 8-string? And aren't TT frets like... kind of a compromise with very few upsides?

I can appreciate it being a specialty instrument, but is he planning on selling more than 10 of those?

 

[HeHasTheJazzHands]

He made a guitar that's somehow uglier than the Applehorn yet doesnt have any horned apples plastered or carved into the body. Bravo