Gear WANT thread

[Fantuzzi]

Mastodon2 said:

If I could get one of these in a 7 string, same specs, just one more string, I'd be in heaven. This early 90s art style top is incredible, everything about it just wonderful, it just needs one more string to be perfect for me.

That's pretty cool, I'm guessing you could go through custom shop and get it done though?

Actually don't start getting Custom shop quotes from the US, they are temptingly low due to the exchange rate now...

[Fantuzzi]

Mastodon2 said:

Fantuzzi said:

That's pretty cool, I'm guessing you could go through custom shop and get it done though?

Actually don't start getting Custom shop quotes from the US, they are temptingly low due to the exchange rate now...

Nope, you couldn't get one because Ibanez don't offer custom shop guitars to the general public - not that they haven't got enough money to invest in opening shops, not to mention the high profit margins, which even though they pale in comparison to the brands annual takings from their regular gear, are high enough to make custom work self-sustaining.

If you want an Ibanez custom, you need to be signed on as an endorsing artist, and you will be offered benefits of being on their roster through a hierarchy scheme. Where you land in the hierarchy and what sort of deal you get depends on how famous you are, or famous you are likely to become. At the lowest level you get discounts on Ibanez gear, then you get free guitars, then you get limited custom shop access (standard spec guitars with minor changes like small custom inlays, different coloured finishes, fancy tops etc) and as a top level endorser you get pretty much anything you want, as long as it's recognisably Ibanez, the ultra-top tier names get their CS guitars free, generally produced in the LA Custom Shop, hence the name LACS attached to custom Ibanez guitars of the highest calibre. Whoever had the above guitar made was likely a bit of a name, given the work that has gone into that top, my guess would be that it belonged to John Petrucci at one point but we'll never know.

That's pretty crappy, you better get practising/writing then! Or you could email Paul Gilbert a really nice email and see if he'll get one on your behalf...

I started looking at the Jackson CS stuff, thinking it would be really mental prices, but a fully Fantuzzi'd Soloist - Mahogany body, oiled rather than painted neck, reversed headstock - was only 2500k at current exchange rate. Which is only about the price of a Suhr Modern, (bolt on).

Jackson just let any one in...

[Fantuzzi]

B17NNS said:

scrubchub said:

Apologies if a re-post, but this caught my attention when it cropped up on my Facebook feed -

http://www2.gibson.com/Memory-Cable.aspx

A (supposedly) quality guitar cable with a Micro SD card fitted than records what you're playing. Great idea.

Kids have got it way too easy these days. I used to take an old tape recorder to practice sessions/jams.

If anything half decent came out of it we'd get the four track out

Now you can record studio quality in your bedroom and publish it to the entire world in an evening. Amazing how things have moved on.

A former band member bought a 100quid BOSS recorder, sounded better than the local recording studio, and that was recorded in a barn we used to jam in.

But that's our stty local recording studios, but still...