NGD: Zimbloth's Two New Bernie Rico Jr 7-strings (Metallic Purple & Quilt Red)

[zimbloth]

So so happy right now...

Metallic Purple

Mahogany wings
Maple neck-thru
Ebony fingerboard
Sperzel Locking Tuners
Bare Knuckle 'Rebel Yell' 7 (direct mount)
Dunlop 6105 frets
Metallic purple finish (pics not very accurate but best I could do)
Tone Pros bridge
Black Hardware
Elixir NanoWeb 9s (tuning: B)

Quilted Blood Red

Mahogany wings
Mahogany neck-thru
Ebony fingerboard
Sperzel Locking Tuners
Bare Knuckle 'Painkiller' 7 (direct mount)
Dunlop 6105 frets
Quilted Maple top --> Blood Red Finish (darker than pics let on)
Tone Pros bridge
Black Hardware
Elixir NanoWeb 10s (tuning: A)

On to the pics!! Lots of 'em so go get a snack or something...

 

[Apex1rg7x]

Those are sick dude, congrats.

 

[poopyalligator]

2 of them? Must be nice lol. Those are freaking amazing. Congratulations.

 

[willybman]

two of the most awsome guitars ever.

 

[MaKo´s Tethan]

I love the red one, and, I use a bass string too

 

[zimbloth]

Hail Rico.

Indeed my man, indeed. Each Rico keeps getting more and more incredible

2 of them? Must be nice lol. Those are freaking amazing. Congratulations.

Yeah I ordered these at the same time. The purple was ready first and then the red one came right after. I wanted to replace my old blood red one that I sold a while back with something I'd like more.

These two guitars sound COMPLETELY different. The purple one is snappy and tight, and the red one sounds monstrous and huge. Both sound brutal and awesome for what I do, but just have their own sound.

two of the most awsome guitars ever.

Pretty much, yeah

I love the red one, and, I use a bass string too

Yep its an Elixir .060 I use for my low A.

 

[Empryrean]

congrats! quilt is nice

 

[zimbloth]

congrats! quilt is nice

Thanks man. It's supremely hard to capture quilt red authentically, but I did my best. It looks nice, but in real life it has this incredible 3D effect when you look at the quilt under light. Bernie really did a great job.

 

[yellowv]

Sweet guitars beeeeoch

 

[Pingu]

Awesome stuff.

Care to run us a pic of the back of these babies?

 

[Kagami]

I really like that purple colour, nice choice

 

[zimbloth]

Awesome stuff.

Care to run us a pic of the back of these babies?

The back of the purple looks like the front, colorwise. The red one, you can see in one of the pics theres a natural mahogany red stain thing going on. Here's a couple more though that I didn't post originally...

I can get more pics later but I'm done snapping them for tonight

 

[COBHC]

Great fret access on those compared to alot of V's. Love that the neck meets the body only at the last couple frets. Nice heel as well (of lack there of).

 

[zimbloth]

Great fret access on those compared to alot of V's. Love that the neck meets the body only at the last couple frets. Nice heel as well (of lack there of).

I played both of these live at one of our shows Friday night and it was a blast. They play flawlessly. I absolutely love the neck, fret access, weight, everything. Even the balance of these are really good for a V.

The mahogany neck one in particular is so light-weight and awesome, love it! Mega resonant and lively.

I really like that purple colour, nice choice

Thanks Jeff

 

[kmanick]

Smoking!!
that purple one plays like the cats ass , just awesome.
I need to come and check out that Red one (that may be what I go with on mine )
it looks great!
congrats

 

[Dusty201087]

Nice man! Never really been one for the Vixen shape but I really want to try it before I totally write it off. That quilt on the red one is perfect

The BRJ threads here are killing me man, and it hasn't even been a month since I ordered the guitar if you get any project pictures of my axe you must send them to me in the name of all that is evil

 

[zimbloth]

Smoking!!
that purple one plays like the cats ass , just awesome.
I need to come and check out that Red one (that may be what I go with on mine )
it looks great!
congrats

Thanks Nick! You're welcome to come try it out anytime dude

Nice man! Never really been one for the Vixen shape but I really want to try it before I totally write it off. That quilt on the red one is perfect

The BRJ threads here are killing me man, and it hasn't even been a month since I ordered the guitar if you get any project pictures of my axe you must send them to me in the name of all that is evil

I hear yea man, will do

 

[loktide]

amazing guitars! especially that quilt red

 

[CrushingAnvil]

So when do you reckon you'll have these sent out by? Do you still have my address, Nick?

 

[Harry]

Love that red quilt immensely, congrats!