YES! 1 year and 4 months! That's how long it's been since i made the first deposit for this guitar , and today it finally arrived!
First things first - Specs:
scale : 30 inch
body : american walnut
neck : 5P ovangkol
frets : Stainless steel Jescar
body finish : hand rubbed oil
construction type : RAN AANJ bolt on( i believe it stands for all access neck joint) with neck through body style heel
fingerboard : macassar ebony
blue luminlay side dots
locking tuners : schaller m6 locking
bridge : hipshot 8
pickups : BKP Warpig ceramic set
1 volume 1 tone controls with 3 way toggle
if you are interested about sizes at 12th fret and so on, ask and i shall tell
Impressions:
Before i will begin , i'd like to say that before this guitar i've never had a proper set up , therefore my experience with other various guitars is almost none , so my feelings about this one might be too over-joyous. I had a cheap starter pack electric guitar with a bent neck, grounding problems and screwed up pickups...so yeah...
I am also a mediocre player at best , so don't expect me to tell you how it shreds at 9000 bpm
Guitar arrived today after 5 days of traveling around countries. It came packed up excellently, with more than enough bubble wraps to satisfy even the worst OCD and paranoid man. I ordered it with a flight case just so that i could be sure nothing happens...it came intact!
This guitar looks amazing ..i might say it even looks better than Dariusz's photos in reality . I asked them to set it up for E-A-D-G-C-F-A-D , so the action and such is great.
Then again , i have no good reference to compare this to other than my other crappy guitar where i could fit my pinky under the strings because the action was so high. Strings are EB 10-13-17-26-36-46-59-74, i would've liked to go for an 80 but the locking tuners can only be drilled to fit a 74 , so if i want to go for more i'll have to unwind the string. The tension in the strings seems fine, the 8th string seems like it could need a bit more tension to be perfect, but the way it is now is more than satisfactory. A bit of fret buzz as well, but that was to be expected .
The finish on the neck is fantastic . Holy crap, the neck is so damn smooth i could think that i'm stroking a rainbow. Nothing gets stuck over there . Very fast neck, with a great accordingly fast fretboard as well.
The 30" scale might take a bit to adjust to, but i did play a bass for a while so i expect to get used to it in a week or so ( i'm mainly coming from a 25.5" 6 string ). First impressions of the 30" scale is that it is a bit awkward and you might not at all be able to shred like andy james on it when it comes to leads unless you have huge hands, but i for one love this scale ...as everybody says , it's about preference.
The acoustics of the walnut are out of this world ! I can feel the guitar vibrate in my stomach and whole body(of the guitar).If i put it on the bed and pluck the string, LITERALLY the whole bed vibrates! Each time you play a string the guitar vibrates from bridge to headstock ..i knew this wood would be nice , but it really exceeded my expectations . Great sustain!
The warpigs are freakin nice! They are dark and compliment the bright sounding walnut and the mahogany-tone-like ovangkol. At first i wanted the aftermaths, but i don't know what i was thinking back then...if i kept them in the specs it might have sounded like a banjo...thankfully , i realized the guitar would be too bright, so i changed to warpigs .
The cleans are great for what i want, this being mostly ambient and post rock... when it comes to the metal tone, this ran crushes!
The sound is BIG! i mean holy crap BIG . If i wanted to play some deathcore i could make the most obliterating breakdowns out there ... i expect them to fit perfectly doom , stoner , and jazz. Very versatile tone, and if you have a versatile amp as well, your tone choices are infinite . + the natural harmonics are everywhere..you can have beautiful harmonics even acoustically !
The neck joint... damn! I've never seen such a good bolt on neck join in my entire life...i took some photos of it, hopefully you will see what i'm trying to say . Perks of a neckthru body with bolts right here. That heel should turn you on!
When it comes to durability, this guitar seems solid . I only took it out of the box and played it in my room, but it seems really stiff and nice.
The co-operation with RAN was good, Dariusz was a very nice and cool dude and in the nearly 100 mails we have exchanged on the course of 1 year and 4 months, he answered all my amateur questions and was very friendly. The only thing that was a bit of a bummer was the lack of photos of the building process. I did ask about getting some photos taken and he said he will take some asap, but it seems he never got around to it . I know they have been busy since , from what i've heard, they moved their "headquarters" , but still, some photos would have been nice . I did try to let this fact go because Dariusz was a helpful dude.
Overall impressions : amazing craftsmanship . Even if i am a noob when it comes to guitars, i can clearly distinguish between a mediocre guitar and a great one . This one is fantastic!
Here come the photos : First the ones Dariusz took , then mine
BUBBLE WRAAAPS :
LOOK AT DAT HEEL!
I don't have any recording interfaces and software , so i'll try to figure something out so that you can hear this beast...at least on the clean channel .
If you have any questions, go ahead and ask!
First things first - Specs:
scale : 30 inch
body : american walnut
neck : 5P ovangkol
frets : Stainless steel Jescar
body finish : hand rubbed oil
construction type : RAN AANJ bolt on( i believe it stands for all access neck joint) with neck through body style heel
fingerboard : macassar ebony
blue luminlay side dots
locking tuners : schaller m6 locking
bridge : hipshot 8
pickups : BKP Warpig ceramic set
1 volume 1 tone controls with 3 way toggle
if you are interested about sizes at 12th fret and so on, ask and i shall tell
Impressions:
Before i will begin , i'd like to say that before this guitar i've never had a proper set up , therefore my experience with other various guitars is almost none , so my feelings about this one might be too over-joyous. I had a cheap starter pack electric guitar with a bent neck, grounding problems and screwed up pickups...so yeah...
I am also a mediocre player at best , so don't expect me to tell you how it shreds at 9000 bpm
Guitar arrived today after 5 days of traveling around countries. It came packed up excellently, with more than enough bubble wraps to satisfy even the worst OCD and paranoid man. I ordered it with a flight case just so that i could be sure nothing happens...it came intact!
This guitar looks amazing ..i might say it even looks better than Dariusz's photos in reality . I asked them to set it up for E-A-D-G-C-F-A-D , so the action and such is great.
Then again , i have no good reference to compare this to other than my other crappy guitar where i could fit my pinky under the strings because the action was so high. Strings are EB 10-13-17-26-36-46-59-74, i would've liked to go for an 80 but the locking tuners can only be drilled to fit a 74 , so if i want to go for more i'll have to unwind the string. The tension in the strings seems fine, the 8th string seems like it could need a bit more tension to be perfect, but the way it is now is more than satisfactory. A bit of fret buzz as well, but that was to be expected .
The finish on the neck is fantastic . Holy crap, the neck is so damn smooth i could think that i'm stroking a rainbow. Nothing gets stuck over there . Very fast neck, with a great accordingly fast fretboard as well.
The 30" scale might take a bit to adjust to, but i did play a bass for a while so i expect to get used to it in a week or so ( i'm mainly coming from a 25.5" 6 string ). First impressions of the 30" scale is that it is a bit awkward and you might not at all be able to shred like andy james on it when it comes to leads unless you have huge hands, but i for one love this scale ...as everybody says , it's about preference.
The acoustics of the walnut are out of this world ! I can feel the guitar vibrate in my stomach and whole body(of the guitar).If i put it on the bed and pluck the string, LITERALLY the whole bed vibrates! Each time you play a string the guitar vibrates from bridge to headstock ..i knew this wood would be nice , but it really exceeded my expectations . Great sustain!
The warpigs are freakin nice! They are dark and compliment the bright sounding walnut and the mahogany-tone-like ovangkol. At first i wanted the aftermaths, but i don't know what i was thinking back then...if i kept them in the specs it might have sounded like a banjo...thankfully , i realized the guitar would be too bright, so i changed to warpigs .
The cleans are great for what i want, this being mostly ambient and post rock... when it comes to the metal tone, this ran crushes!
The sound is BIG! i mean holy crap BIG . If i wanted to play some deathcore i could make the most obliterating breakdowns out there ... i expect them to fit perfectly doom , stoner , and jazz. Very versatile tone, and if you have a versatile amp as well, your tone choices are infinite . + the natural harmonics are everywhere..you can have beautiful harmonics even acoustically !
The neck joint... damn! I've never seen such a good bolt on neck join in my entire life...i took some photos of it, hopefully you will see what i'm trying to say . Perks of a neckthru body with bolts right here. That heel should turn you on!
When it comes to durability, this guitar seems solid . I only took it out of the box and played it in my room, but it seems really stiff and nice.
The co-operation with RAN was good, Dariusz was a very nice and cool dude and in the nearly 100 mails we have exchanged on the course of 1 year and 4 months, he answered all my amateur questions and was very friendly. The only thing that was a bit of a bummer was the lack of photos of the building process. I did ask about getting some photos taken and he said he will take some asap, but it seems he never got around to it . I know they have been busy since , from what i've heard, they moved their "headquarters" , but still, some photos would have been nice . I did try to let this fact go because Dariusz was a helpful dude.
Overall impressions : amazing craftsmanship . Even if i am a noob when it comes to guitars, i can clearly distinguish between a mediocre guitar and a great one . This one is fantastic!
Here come the photos : First the ones Dariusz took , then mine
BUBBLE WRAAAPS :
LOOK AT DAT HEEL!
I don't have any recording interfaces and software , so i'll try to figure something out so that you can hear this beast...at least on the clean channel .
If you have any questions, go ahead and ask!
