Seven String players..

[Frolid]

I feel inferior...

So much nice gear

 

[glpg80]

Wow. no fret markers either.

More info needed ASAP

 

[cardinal]

Bitching Horizon.

 

[Rock Bodom]

Thanks guys, yeah that Horizon is one of those semi-custom orders ESP was offering (standard series with several custom options), I got my order accepted right before they discontinued those. I had always really wanted a maple board ESP or Caparison 7, plus I really love the Mystic Black finish, so I was pretty pleased I could get that plus some other small touches like no tone knob.

 

[th3m1ke]

do you have any clips of these?

Not yet, but they are Duncan Pegasus/Sentient sets. I believe Keith Merrow has a good clip of them on his YT channel but I'll see if I can get one for you soon. Its cool becuase the SE7 comes with a coil split and I had them split the Duncans with some tweaks.

My main 7 is a one-off Maryland made 7 string and I use theSE's for gigging and they really are awesome.

The SE neck carve is one of my favorite I've ever played (especially since I wasn't always a 7 string guy). Also the maple neck on the SE's is perfect for strength and brightening the lower register, the real maple top on the SE's make it tonally the best it can be. A lot of companies just put a maple veneer atop the mahogany or body wood but the SE's utilize a full thickness mahogany and full thickness maple cap... and then have a maple veneer for asthetics.

Really like those black SE 7 strings. Would love to pick one up and have the PRS "metal" stripes painted on it.

Thanks man. Yeah, that would be AWESOME. Bud Davis would totally do it too for you, and PTC can clear coat it for you. Pretty sure it would be the first "metal" 7 string and first "metal" SE!

Also just for the record the black SE's that are in production have natural binding.

 

[_actual time_]

One for sale here....

http://www.sevenstring.org/forum/guitar ... -mint.html

yep, that's my sale. there's an add for it here on RT too.

here's my main 7, a custom-shop Ibanez i scored off evil-bay years ago:

 

[SFW]

Don't forget about the Sterling JP70. I just picked one up. It's a great guitar in line with the price range of the Ibanez RG. It's a killer guitar, and for me the neck was much more comfortable. Just a thought.

 

[shadowvault]

No 7 string yet but my father is making a vik duality 7 replica for me

 

[th3m1ke]

No 7 string yet but my father is making a vik duality 7 replica for me

Ssssh, don't say that. Vik will start yelling about your dad on FB!

 

[shadowvault]

No 7 string yet but my father is making a vik duality 7 replica for me

Ssssh, don't say that. Vik will start yelling about your dad on FB!

Haha its been a long time since i started a thread on sevenstring.He is still quiet

 

[TeabagJones]

I've been shopping for a long time for a good seven string. With most guitars I've found, if they're not 26.5" scale or longer, the low end gets pretty muddy, and hard to distinguish those low notes from each other. I also find that using brighter sounding woods is almost essential to get clarity down low. For that, I'd look for something with an ash body, maple or ebony neck, and extended scale. The Jeff Loomis Schecter was probably the best one I've found (I don't really like Schecter) matching those specs .

That being said, I just picked up an Ibanez Prestige RGD2127z for black friday for $400, and it's frickin sweet. The good quality basswood actually sounds killer. I do wish it was ebony instead of mahogany, but it sounds really, really good.

Just make be careful getting into guitars that are rosewood/mahogany, especially if they are 25.5" inch. IN my experience the lows are just too indistinct like that.

 

[glpg80]

That being said, I just picked up an Ibanez Prestige RGD2127z for black friday for $400, and it's frickin sweet. The good quality basswood actually sounds killer. I do wish it was ebony instead of mahogany, but it sounds really, really good.

The 2127z's do not have any mahogany. The necks are standard prestige maple/wenge 5 piece design and the fretboards are rosewood

 

[TeabagJones]

Totally, I don't know why I threw in the wrong word. I'd rather have ebony than rosewood, is what I meant.

 

[moronmountain]

Heck my hands are too small to get along with a 7 string, so I just put a .059 string on the low E, and tune it down to the B note if I want to go low, (technically it becomes an A as I tune to D standard normally, so the guitar ends up being low A, G, C, F, A, D). It's actually kind of cool because when you play a power chord on the E and A strings together in that tuning it makes an octave chord rather than a 5th. Truth be told, I wrote one of our originals in this tuning just so the bass player would have a reason to play that extra string he otherwise uses as a rest hehe! So my answer is this, I use a 6 string 1980 Dean ML as my 7 string. It's the guitar my wifey is holding in my avatar FWIW.

 

[dwizted]

you can't go wrong with ibbys, this is my Rg1527m loaded with Dimarzios (crunchlab + liquifire)…freaking love this thing!

This = pure Sex...

 

[hopkinWFG]

Ibanez RG7s are good to go with comfortable playing but for the price of a mahogany body maple neck bolted on you have to go with Ibanez Japanese custom that would cost like 3k? I be getting my KXK soon fixed bridge and the color I like for a full mahogany KXK 7 string which I had a deal on his 1999USD sale... cant wait Rob is the man !