Padalka guitars

[straightshreddd]

Didn't even realize, but I've been following this guy's instagram for weeks. Just browsed through his site and his prices are pretty goddamn good. His Neptune model looks f*ckin' sick. Not sure about the scale lengths though. 25.5"-28"? That's mildly gnarly.

 

[thinkpad20]

Didn't even realize, but I've been following this guy's instagram for weeks. Just browsed through his site and his prices are pretty goddamn good. His Neptune model looks f*ckin' sick. Not sure about the scale lengths though. 25.5"-28"? That's mildly gnarly.

I think that's the range he allows, not that every guitar is a 25.5"-28" multiscale

 

[ztevie]

You can talk to him about what scale you'd like. I'll have a scale not available in the options, but it was no problem. And no upcharge either...
I think he'll make you pretty much anything you want regarding any detail really, as long as it's not something completely crazy... Like if you want the neck thickness to be 5mm and made of rubber he might refuse?

 

[Ram150023]

He makes 8 string versions of that model

THAT IT!! "Hun... pack your s#it... were moving in with your parents!"

What is that symbol? I know it from something....

Its a cross between the biohazard symbol and the holy trinity... at least from where im sitting...

Cleanest wiring I've seen....
Those caps look like small rocket fuel tubes?

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Dude... it DOESNT get cleaner than that! That's actually too clean

 

[JuliusJahn]

What is that symbol? I know it from something....

Ben Crowe's head?

 

[jwade]

What is that symbol? I know it from something....

Interlocking 6's. Looks like a stylized biohazard/satanist symbol combo.

 

[straightshreddd]

I think that's the range he allows, not that every guitar is a 25.5"-28" multiscale

Derp. I'm dumb. I thought that's what it meant. haha But, that's actually interesting. These are so chill looking and he seems to have quite the eye for detail. And the guitar won't be done 'til early-mid 2017 if I take a spot for Dec... Dude, if he allows progressive payments(rather than deposit and then full payment after completion), I very well may be interested in pulling the trigger on one of these.

Edit: Just checked his site. Requires $100 deposit followed by a payment to cover materials and then final payment after completion. Balls.

 

[electriceye]

Cleanest wiring I've seen....
Those caps look like small rocket fuel tubes?

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Holy sh*t! Mofo just upped the game!

 

[Humbuck]

Cleanest wiring I've seen....
Those caps look like small rocket fuel tubes?

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Beautiful.

 

[vansinn]

Love those videos in post #18; cool with a fast-paced time lapse showing the transformation and number of steps taking place.
He most certainly knows his work.. lovely

And, like I've seen it now quite a number of times, interesting noticing just how relatively few über-expensive tools he actually does use. However, the number of cute little specialties, many seemingly of his own thinking..

 

[Blytheryn]

That black and white one looks incredible. He seems to have some really good ideas and designs. 100 buck deposit? That's nothing. What do his prices for a full semi custom look like?

EDIT: NVM, just found the prices on the site. Solid stuff!

 

[J_Mac]

Love those videos in post #18; cool with a fast-paced time lapse showing the transformation and number of steps taking place.
He most certainly knows his work.. lovely

And, like I've seen it now quite a number of times, interesting noticing just how relatively few über-expensive tools he actually does use. However, the number of cute little specialties, many seemingly of his own thinking..

Absolutely! I was on edge when he was using that huge belt sander next to the set neck pro.

 

[CaptainD00M]

I don't care that that thing is a RAN rip off, which is an RGA rip off anyway.

It has a beaver inlayed into the freeboard. A fuc*ing BEAVER!

Thats like the most metal thing EVER! Beavers are brutal, the make dams, eat wood and have fuc*ing scary front teeth

 

[J_Mac]

+1

And I really hope the beaver scalloped the frets

 

[Ram150023]

I don't care that that thing is a RAN rip off, which is an RGA rip off anyway.

It has a beaver inlayed into the freeboard. A fuc*ing BEAVER!

Thats like the most metal thing EVER! Beavers are brutal, the make dams, eat wood and have fuc*ing scary front teeth

Nothin like a good looking beaver under quick and nimble fingers

 

[CaptainD00M]

Nothin like a good looking beaver under quick and nimble fingers

I see what you did there

 

[LX_T]

I don't care that that thing is a RAN rip off, which is an RGA rip off anyway.

I'm just somewhat curious... Not to defense RAN here but could you show me a picture of a RGA body that looks EXACTLY like the Crusher (what the Padalka definitely does)?

Don't get me wrong guys - Padalka's guitars seems/looks like to be high quality and they are very good looking as well. And who doesn't like beavers...
I'm just wondering about the RGA thing.

 

[CaptainD00M]

I get your point dude, they don't look exactly alike. But when RAN first started offering the Crusher the only widely available arched topped super strat was the RGA.

So they clearly took cues from it. Sure it may not a strict case of copying but I think you get what I'm saying.

 

[BlackMastodon]

I wouldn't even go that far with the connection between the RAN Crusher and the RGA. The RGA is an arched top super strat while the Crusher is a carved top super strat. Pretty sure all brands and guitar builders take cues from the super strat shape, the RG/RGA being among them. The Padalka one is an almost identical copy of a RAN Crusher, though, which was the first thing I noticed. The work does look really nice on these guitars still, and the Beaver is kvlt.

 

[CaptainD00M]

and the Beaver is kvlt.

THIS really is the most important observation about that guitar.