A controversial but mostly correct video.

I put a fine tuning Floyd and a D tuna on it and It’s a main live rock guitar for a pro player now,
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It’s an EVH frt1000 that I had laying around.
 
The biggest pos that feels incredibly right that I have had the privilege of playing is ;
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Non of the similar things capture it apart from mine 🤣
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And that’s only because I know what exactly it was I was aiming for. Everyone who has played this has tried to buy it off me and no it’s not for sale even for the £10k offer I have had.
 
FYI on the 5150 it’s the feel of the neck in your hand in terms of profile and position caused by the deep set neck pocket and angle to accommodate the Floyd resting on the body . The usual approach was measure the hight you need for the bridge and let that govern how deep the neck pocket is. This is how 99% of bolt ons are including most of Ed’s back up Kramers
You can see it here;
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Just dropping the neck down a couple of mm drastically changes the feel.
The Ibanez Jem is built around this measurement.
Steve Vai even stuck bits of Perspex to guitars to get it right.
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This is about the strings off the body hight and what doesn’t interfere with your picking. The Jem is a masterpiece of putting together the key features and geometry of three guitars that were nearly perfect for Steve in to one that was. The guitars in question are Soloist, Strat and green meanie .
I still find the original Jem 777 to be one of the most natural feeling guitars ever made. I prefer the square heel version. The closest I have now is;
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If there was a MIJ 777 genesis version I would buy it but not the £4/5k original or 30th anniversary edition.
 
Eagle said:
I agree but for the fact that if all guitars cost the same and I put a Tyler in your hands I think you would play that.
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Maybe, maybe not. I had some Tylers in my hands already, one of them even for 2-3 days (a mate borrowed it to me over a weekend). Excellent guitars and if they were €200, I'd obviously bought all of them. Conversely, back then I had easily paid 500 for the Pacifica Tele.
Taking money entirely out of the equation isn't exactly working, though.
Let's face it, if Tyler was leaving out some stuff (I don't want any fancy looks or active electronics for a start), they could as well be more affordable.
And as far as my Pacifica Tele goes, the neck is just the best feeling neck I ever had in my hands and I'm currently thinking about another body I could possibly slap it onto (or maybe even having a vibrato system installed on the original body). Too bad it's got a maple fretboard and I just don't like the looks of that much.
 
SillyOctpuss said:
I genuinely can't watch that video. I'm not sure there's a youtuber I dislike more than that bellend. He's always "being honest" while straight up trying to sell you stuff. Total ballbag.
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I feel that way about most of them, and from what I gather by the responses he talks about shit most guys after playing stuff for a few decades have.
 
Sascha Franck said:
Maybe, maybe not. I had some Tylers in my hands already, one of them even for 2-3 days (a mate borrowed it to me over a weekend). Excellent guitars and if they were €200, I'd obviously bought all of them. Conversely, back then I had easily paid 500 for the Pacifica Tele.
Taking money entirely out of the equation isn't exactly working, though.
Let's face it, if Tyler was leaving out some stuff (I don't want any fancy looks or active electronics for a start), they could as well be more affordable.
And as far as my Pacifica Tele goes, the neck is just the best feeling neck I ever had in my hands and I'm currently thinking about another body I could possibly slap it onto (or maybe even having a vibrato system installed on the original body). Too bad it's got a maple fretboard and I just don't like the looks of that much.
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Btw I had one of those cheapie Stern Pacifas and it was a lovely guitar.
For me the neck didn’t have enough meat on it but it was in heavy rotation.

I said this before I’d rock a Harley Benton all day long.

As for Tylers, it’s like this for me, some of the guitars I’ve played for decades just feel right when you grab them.
Tylers including the Japanese and especially the Chinese ones are like that.

The boost on Tyler’s is by passable and I really like what it does as a buffer without boosting.
The rest is no different than the seitcheroo stuff on Anderson’s
As some one who likes tele the add bridge neck to me is great.


PS: you borrow from your friend, your friend loans it to you.
 
Sascha Franck said:
Maybe, maybe not. I had some Tylers in my hands already, one of them even for 2-3 days (a mate borrowed it to me over a weekend). Excellent guitars and if they were €200, I'd obviously bought all of them. Conversely, back then I had easily paid 500 for the Pacifica Tele.
Taking money entirely out of the equation isn't exactly working, though.
Let's face it, if Tyler was leaving out some stuff (I don't want any fancy looks or active electronics for a start), they could as well be more affordable.
And as far as my Pacifica Tele goes, the neck is just the best feeling neck I ever had in my hands and I'm currently thinking about another body I could possibly slap it onto (or maybe even having a vibrato system installed on the original body). Too bad it's got a maple fretboard and I just don't like the looks of that much.
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The finishes are very labour intensive and add a lot to the cost but the fat acoustic tone they manage to get is down to a very picky wood selection.
The necks are near perfect grain patterns.
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You can find it accidentally on other brands but it’s very consistent on these.
 
Ed DeGenaro said:
Btw I had one of those cheapie Stern Pacifas and it was a lovely guitar.
For me the neck didn’t have enough meat on it but it was in heavy rotation.
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Oh, weird. Are they possibly using different neck profiles? Because out of the guitars I own, it's at least a tad more on the "meaty" side.
Fwiw, I have constantly varying love affairs with pretty different neck profiles. ATM I absolutely dig the pretty slim profile of the Anderson - but that might change again (as it has before).

Ed DeGenaro said:
The rest is no different than the seitcheroo stuff on Anderson’s
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Which I always hated. My Anderson is now down to 2 pickups (Duncan mini humbucker in neck, DiMarzio Bluesbucker in bridge position) and a 3-way blade switch. Just as I like it.
Sure, for recording and such, the Switcharoo scheme is useful, but back when I bought the guitar, their pickups were anything but great, so I didn't get too much use out of it anyway until I changed the pickups in favour of some that couldn't use all the switching options.
 
SillyOctpuss said:
I know it was the 80s but they still all looked ridiculous though.
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I do agree with most of what Clappers [sic] said in the video. I’m often wondering if Hendrix was still with us if he’d laugh at the desire for and pricing of vintage gear.

I do have a number of budget guitars that all play nicely but they do all have foibles. I’m kind of considering spending some loot to get something with no issues.
 
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