playstopause
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These are supposed to be like Strats
This is no place for wizard necks. 
Thanks for the update, Eric.
Seven String Strats and Teles...yep another update
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This is no place for wizard necks. Thanks for the update, Eric.
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Just some answers to the questions asked here.
These guitars will be very traditional. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel. We just want a seveneth string. They only inovations will be in making sure the necks are totally stable. There may be some non-traditional radius options and fret materials but all in all they will look a lot like the guitars we all know and love.
As for lefties I have no idea it never came up. I'll have to ask.
Pickguards I was going to ask for the dimensions from USACG then get someone to cut some. I know I'll need the specs from them to get anyone to cut some pickguards for us.
I really appreciate the enthusiasm. It not only helps keeps pushing me along it proves to USACG that there is a market out there and it is a project worth persuing.
Thanks.
These guitars will be very traditional. We're not trying to reinvent the wheel. We just want a seveneth string. They only inovations will be in making sure the necks are totally stable. There may be some non-traditional radius options and fret materials but all in all they will look a lot like the guitars we all know and love.
As for lefties I have no idea it never came up. I'll have to ask.
Pickguards I was going to ask for the dimensions from USACG then get someone to cut some. I know I'll need the specs from them to get anyone to cut some pickguards for us.
I really appreciate the enthusiasm. It not only helps keeps pushing me along it proves to USACG that there is a market out there and it is a project worth persuing.
Thanks.
Splees
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YES. Thank you, that is exactly what I wanted to hear. I can't wait for these bad boys to come out.
I would absolutely love one at a good price
ghoti
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A 7-string tele would be sweet. The nicest obviously tele-inspired guitars I've yet seen would have to be the ospreys, here
http://ricecustomguitars.20m.com/instruments/085ospreyI.html
No lower bout to skewer your hand on...
http://ricecustomguitars.20m.com/instruments/085ospreyI.html
No lower bout to skewer your hand on...
Just wanted to take a second to say thank you to Eric for all of his hard work on this.
Thanks man
Oh and HOLY CRAP! I hadn't realized USACG did finishing as well... that's awesome as these would truly be a matter of ordering, assembling wiring, and bam instant awesomeness
Ok they don't do nut cutting / installation so that's one tricky thing that would need done with these which is a bummer. fortunately I have a local shop that could do that for me, and if I provide the nut to work with it's cheaper than buying the file set. I may just end up with a seven string tele yet
One thing does confuse me though, they explicitly say on their site that they cut pickguards, so why do you need to source them?
Thanks man
Oh and HOLY CRAP! I hadn't realized USACG did finishing as well... that's awesome as these would truly be a matter of ordering, assembling wiring, and bam instant awesomeness
Ok they don't do nut cutting / installation so that's one tricky thing that would need done with these which is a bummer. fortunately I have a local shop that could do that for me, and if I provide the nut to work with it's cheaper than buying the file set. I may just end up with a seven string tele yet
One thing does confuse me though, they explicitly say on their site that they cut pickguards, so why do you need to source them?
newamerikangospel
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playstopause
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Well, you've not seen enough!
* psp thinks these are ugly as f*ck... But hey, to each his own.
One thing does confuse me though, they explicitly say on their site that they cut pickguards, so why do you need to source them?
USACG is a small company, I think it's like eight employees. They do pickguards but onoy like once a month and in fairly small batches. They apparently refer a lot of their pickguard buisness out to other companies just to speed customers' orders and lessen their work load slightly. Rob wasn't too sure they could squeeze in the extra load or that people would want to wait.
Ok I guess that makes sense... though I think I'd probably have them do it just to be 100% sure it would fit correctly
maybe they should do the initial pickguards, and then have the design duplicated from there?
Jason
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IIRC Shannon has a buddy that makes killer single coils for 7's. Shoot 
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Drew
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Honestly, if they're going to use any existing pickup for a route template, I'd vote for the Blaze single for the simple fact that given the number of UV's on the market any maker who wanted to get into the seven string singlecoil market who made a pickup that WASN'T compatable with the Universe would be crazy.
The downside wth using the Blazes as the template is this, who's actually going to use on their guitar? I have a feeling most people are going to go the RioGrande/BKP/Duncan Custom Shop route.
That's cool. Hard to say what I'd do though, because while the neck-middle tone is probably my favorite strat tone, the middle-bridge (with bridge being a single-coil) is really killer too.
Regardless, this is a cool project, and it's good to see USACG doing this, since Warmoth is absolutely stubborn about changing even the damn scale length on theirs.
Why those retards don't realize 25" is not an ideal scale for 7-string, I'll never know.
The lack of a flanged route (blaze single) as standard for the single coils would be a pain in the ass to most people I think. You can always drop a blaze single into a flanged route but not the other way around. Just my 2 cents.
