For you guitar nuts...

[Der Alta]

Aluminum Hollow body electric guitar

AO

 

[911_Carrera]

That's made my day AO, thanks . Now, you do have one that you're going to send off to me now aren't you? lol

 

[Ethix101]

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That's pretty badass. I wonder why nobody else has done a metal hollow body electric guitar before. (at least to my knowledge) I could see Jackson releasing something like that or possibly Ibanez. I wonder if it sounds any different than a regular wood body electric with the same pickups.
Either way, I'll take two.


-Mark

 

[xAkirax2004]

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Wow. Simply cool.

 

[Gil]

Originally posted by Ethix101
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That's pretty badass. I wonder why nobody else has done a metal hollow body electric guitar before. (at least to my knowledge)

Back in the '70's there was a little company called Travis Bean Guitars They did an aluminum bodied guitar. I believe that Jerry Garcia played one.👍

 

[under18carbon]

Wow... thats beautiful! 👍

 

[Cobraboy]

What happened to the music forum?

I'm such a hypocrite.

 

[Solid Lifters]

I'll stick with alder, basswood and mahogany thank you very much.

I've tried plexi, graphite, aluminum tubed and fiberglass guitars, and all of them, and I mean all of them sounded like crap!

This guitar has a few items I dislike just by looking at it. Cheap bridge, big frets, the neck appears to be improperly set, pointy metal upper and lower horns and the high E string is set up for too much bass.

Well, at least it has Seymours and it's shinny, but that's about it.

 

[boostcreep]

It looks kind of cool. Can't sound great though, the resonance has to be all messed up. And the rest of my complaints have been covered by Solid Lifters. Kind of cool I guess.

 

[wee_man]

Originally posted by Solid Lifters
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This guitar has a few items I dislike just by looking at it. Cheap bridge, big frets, the neck appears to be improperly set, pointy metal upper and lower horns and the high E string is set up for too much bass.

What I was thinking (to some extent).

 

[Joey D]

Thats sweet, to bad they didn't make a bass

 

[Gil]

Originally posted by Solid Lifters
I'll stick with alder, basswood and mahogany thank you very much.

I've tried plexi, graphite, aluminum tubed and fiberglass guitars, and all of them, and I mean all of them sounded like crap!

This guitar has a few items I dislike just by looking at it. Cheap bridge, big frets, the neck appears to be improperly set, pointy metal upper and lower horns and the high E string is set up for too much bass.

Well, at least it has Seymours and it's shinny, but that's about it.

If you like acoustic, you have to wrap your mitts around a Rain Song.
The guitars are made of a graphite/carbon fiber type stuff. They are super strong, unwarpable, and sound very, very close to wood.
I'm pretty picky about guitars. I like that warm sound that you get from cedar topped guitars. Although a Spruce topped guitar with a rosewood back is close to cedar.
Alternative materials for guitars are going to be all the rage soon.
Even Martin has started making guitars with HPL tops. (I never thought that Martin, would use anything but solid wood.)

 

[Burnout]

That would make one cool bass.

I wouldn't mind having one even though I don't play guitar...

 

[Solid Lifters]

Originally posted by Gil
If you like acoustic, you have to wrap your mitts around a Rain Song.
The guitars are made of a graphite/carbon fiber type stuff. They are super strong, unwarpable, and sound very, very close to wood.
I'm pretty picky about guitars. I like that warm sound that you get from cedar topped guitars. Although a Spruce topped guitar with a rosewood back is close to cedar.
Alternative materials for guitars are going to be all the rage soon.
Even Martin has started making guitars with HPL tops. (I never thought that Martin, would use anything but solid wood.)

Ovation makes a nice acoustic; I played one a few years ago. I was tempted to buy it, but decided not to. Wood acoustics sound sweeter with age as the wood dries out, and I wonder how graphite acoustics sound after they've aged a bit.

Plus, I don't play acoustic that much; it's not loud enough and I already have one if I need to play one.

I think Martin have to get into other material choices for their guitars because of consumer demand, plus the reduced availability of premium woods to build their guitars. Prices are going through the roof for premium musical instrument wood these days.

 

[Vasco]

Looks like it'd match the public toilets... Aluminium and hollow.

Quite nice though.

 

[Party for GT4]

Words don't describe how much I love that thing... and I don't even play the guitar.

That is so beautiful

 

[Gil]

Originally posted by Solid Lifters
Ovation makes a nice acoustic; I played one a few years ago. I was tempted to buy it, but decided not to. Wood acoustics sound sweeter with age as the wood dries out, and I wonder how graphite acoustics sound after they've aged a bit.

Plus, I don't play acoustic that much; it's not loud enough and I already have one if I need to play one.

I think Martin have to get into other material choices for their guitars because of consumer demand, plus the reduced availability of premium woods to build their guitars. Prices are going through the roof for premium musical instrument wood these days.

I like the Ovation as well.
However, I have only seen a very few of the older ones that don't have a crack in the wooden top running from the low E string to the rim.
I have been told that that's a result of marrying a composite back with a wood top. As, wood shrinks and expands, the composite doesn't.
As for the graphite, it sounds the same forever. But, I imagine that what you put on it as far as strings will affect the sound. I think they sound very nice by the way.
I'm rather taken by Fender Strings as they sound pretty much the same over their whole life. And they feel good under my fingers. Martin Strings sound REALLY bright at first, then really dull. If I keep a set on for six weeks, I like the way they sound for the two weeks in the middle. But they never get to feeling quite right under my fingers.
However if Fender Strings continue to be so elusive around here, I may have to stick with Dean Markley's. Though I have yet to give D'Addarios a real try out.

 

[Solid Lifters]

D'Addarios sound bright with tons of harmonics at first, then mellow into a warm sweet tone. But that's with my electrics, though.

I really don't touch my acoustic at all, but I usually load it up with Ernie Ball Super Slinkys. They are a cross between the D'Addarios, and the Fenders that you described.

 

[Gil]

Next time I'm flush, and in the guitar store I'll have to pick some up to try.