Shredder 7 Strings

[ah.clem]

Wow, cool. Do you have a link to the guitar? I am interested what it looks like, what the scale length is and how big the lower bout is being a semi.

Sorry, been away for awhile.

eBay link - there is 1 left, but I think the inventory comes and goes. When I bought mine 8 months or so ago, they had 20, IIRC. This one is from a batch of 40.

Grote is also selling a blue 7 sting Les Paul copy for $199 shipped, with modern "F" holes. Just search eBay for "Grote".

There is a review on YouTube by someone in Canada who bought one; I can't get it to start at 5:20, so skip there yourself.

I believe the scale is 25". It feels like a Les Paul, just with a wider neck.

[Robertkoa]

I would think as long as you use the neck pickup, turn down the tone, use reasonably heavy strings, and set your amp for clean, it will sound fine.

I agree...another thing is Guitar Player Magazine and others used to often advocate getting Pickups close to the strings to get the most out of them...

But I think it's better to start very low and gradually work your way up when adjusting Pickups..

I sound much slicker and more Polished than I really am ( lol ) with the Pickups farther away and I can be more reckless..

So some of these Shredder Guitars have high output pickups which can sound MUCH better further from the Strings...you may like it closer anyway..but start low..

I had an ES 347 which had oddly high output pickups for that type of Guitar ( wish I still had it )
but lower sounded really good -

Moving Pickups further from strings can improve definition and is not the same as turning down Volume ..

ALSO - a trick most Jazzers don't use..even on a Phatt ES 175 where you want fat single lines to sound full...THEN you want slightly crisper Chords and don't want to be limited in voicings to top 4 strings ..

You can have a Tech install a Push Pull Pot for a Parallel Switch on neck Humbucker and will be thinner and more defined on Chords..even 6 Note Voicings..
And a shredder 6 or 7 String could benefit even more from this...

[sully75]

I just ordered that Grote. I still can't believe that's the name. Looks like it might be good. Probably will change out the pickups if it plays reasonably. Thanks!


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