New player on the high end ultra light guitar scene

[Patzag]

Someone pointed me to this site.
https://www.rufguitars.com/

There might be potential there.

[mmmguitar]

Oh, right! The Schrödinger guitar. I may or may not have one of those - Haven't looked, yet.

[Patzag]

[mmmguitar]

Whew. I’m glad I decided to condense all possible responses from you to one by observing your post directly.

Aaanyway: I’d like to try one of those Garbane guitars, but that’s a lot of coin to throw at offsetting someone else’s R&D investment in formulating a more expensive substitute for lumbers used in the first place because they’re cheap. So I’ve been waiting to see others’ feedback.

[vjmanzo]

The Schrödinger guitar. I may or may not have one of those - Haven't looked, yet.

Looks cool—sounds good too! Would love to play one!!

Curmudgeonly side bar comment: just once in my life I’d like to click on a “guitar tone demo” video where they simply play a sustained chord into a clean amp without reverb or other effects, followed by a major scale with whole notes. I don’t feel that a high-gain shredfest with copious amounts of chorus, delay, and reverb really speaks to the subtlety of available tones in an instrument, but hey—that’s just me!

“I’m gonna demo the tone of this instrument—lemme play as loud and as fast as I can!”

[mmmguitar]

Curmudgeonly side bar comment: just once in my life I’d like to click on a “guitar tone demo” video where they simply play a sustained chord into a clean amp without reverb or other effects, followed by a major scale with whole notes. I don’t feel that a high-gain shredfest with copious amounts of chorus, delay, and reverb really speaks to the subtlety of available tones in an instrument, but hey—that’s just me!

“I’m gonna demo the tone of this instrument—lemme play as loud and as fast as I can!”

This is the kind of feedback I wanted in my pickup demo thread. I've started over recording for the third time, now, because I have to remind myself that no one but me wants to hear the Holdsworth "City Nights" lick played eighteen times in a row to get a sense of how a high impedance transducer sounds.

[Patzag]

Ours is a very small community, but the percentage of goons is extraordinarily high!


VJ, I agree with you 125%. Truthfully, any guitar is capable of producing decent high gain sounds when using practically any modeler on the market today. Further, any guitar with decent pick ups is going to sound fine. Feel is another matter entirely. I have played extraordinarily sounding guitars that felt terrible. And truthfully, that's the thing that has me glued to Parker's. They feel extraordinary.

Nonetheless, bar the horrible reverse headstock, these instruments (Ruf) seem to be pretty cool and have the potential for feeling great. I'd love to try one.

[Gregsaab]

The Rubato Lassie is worth a look, as well:
https://www.rubato.guitars/guitar/gallery/

[Patzag]

The Rubato Lassie is worth a look, as well:
https://www.rubato.guitars/guitar/gallery/

$4300 plus tax and shipping.
It’s gorgeous though.
But I can’t imagine buying a guitar where the action has to be ordered as opposed to set.
Never mind that it’s above my price range.

[Gregsaab]

Not having a truss rod is pretty great - I like the idea of having it set in then never having to adjust it. I saw one for $3.3k on Reverb.