NAMM '15 Guthrie Govan and Chip Ellis Discuss Guthrie's Signature Charvel 

yes!

I like shovels the ones made in the 80s late 80s 87-88 but the stuff now no second of all if you want to pay for something $3,000 just get you Jackson pc-1 it'll do five times or more what that thing does

Looking at this now, my S21 Ultra does EVERYTHING better, God damn

They've just released one!

I think that's just kind of how Guthrie is. Comes across quite intense and serious, probably half the reason he's got to be as good as he is haha

mollers92 He's usually more laid back and much more composed on his speech. Here it felt like he was scrambling for things to say, whereas usually the guy speaks like he's writing a book on the go. He just seems very tired to me, which during NAMM is understandable.

pot is legal in california ;)

Why should Guthrie be eloquent, he's a guitarist. It needs an interviewer to bring him out of himself, and so did the other dude. Clunky and not useful.

that's just how tired old farts talk

Half a major scale but still so cool!

6/8 of a major scale. (:

***** it's the bridge it was based on, it's functionally the same. It's the closest thing you can get, I was just trying to help the guy out.

It's cool. I've always wanted to try the Schaller Hannes bridge myself but I'm dying for something with an evertune. I noticed your profile picture, looks like a dual terror, how do you like it? I've been thinking about saving for one.

good to know, i'll check it out and see. It's cheaper too.

***** I have a vintage NFT Floyd on my main guitar and I promise you it's functionally identical to Charvel's bridge. They tweaked a few aesthetic things (the Charvel has slightly rounded saddles), and matched the saddle radius to the fretboard (I have shims under my saddles), but otherwise it's the same. The Charvel bridge also has a pop-in arm, but Floyd has had that part available for about a year now, so anyone can swap it out on their trem if they want. I think one of the real reasons Charvel went with their "own" trem is because of supply problems. Floyd Rose has been having issues getting parts from Schaller in Germany, and Schaller has been having some quality control issues the past few years (ever since the father died and the son took over.) They just now restocked the NFT Floyds, which have been out of stock everywhere for well over a year. These are at least some of the reasons builders like Suhr and Tom Anderson have switched from OFR Floyds to the Gotoh licensed models: much more consistent quality, easy to get a hold of, and they're just as nice as the Schaller-made OFR's (actually I think they're a bit nicer these days, TBH.) My early-80's NFT Floyd is a solid piece of hardware: there's virtually no wear on the knife edges, the fit and finish is fantastic and even the screws are still in great shape. The only thing I've replaced is the trem arm bushing (the nylon washers wore out on the old one) and saddle blocks. I'm tempted to buy one of the modern NFT Floyds to see what the quality is like, but I'm not holding my breath that it'll be as well-made. Case in point regarding Schaller's whacked QC: when my set of new replacement locking blocks arrived, two of them didn't even have a hole drilled for the lock screw to set into! That's kind of an important feature to completely miss doing, since without that little divot they're useless. It doesn't bode well for Schaller's rep, IMHO.

***** I've been wanting to try one of the Floyd push-in arms, I just haven't gotten around to it yet. I prefer the old style "screw in" arms, but the push-in ones look promising (and not a big loss if I don't like it.) Here's the link if anyone else is interested: www.floydrose.com/catalog/upgrades/tremolo-arms/push-in-style-arm

they had some disagreement over something which Guthrie doesn't like talking about.

Guthrie hasn't been with Suhr for over two years now, although he won't discuss why (that makes him pretty classy in my book, though!)

I have a feeling Suhr wasn't ready to build something that needed all these special parts. I mean, design and produce a completely new bridge? Pick ups? Might be they don't even have the resources to do something like this even if they wanted to. Suhr will give you modifications to their existing designs, but probably not something new from the ground up like this guitar.

Well, John Suhr has said in his interview on Tone Talk that one of his now fired operations people was a dick to Govan and that he didn't know about it until it was too late. Govan has said that he liked the Suhr guitars but clearly the guitar from ground up opportunity was icing on the cake of a new group of people to deal with.

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There's literally videos of him using rolling papers to heighten the strings and play with a slide. So it's no biggie he said that. And c'mon we all know Guthrie smokes some weed

+beannie60 You pay all the hand labor that's behind a custom instrument, top notch guitars are on the details (fortunatly or unfortunatly)

its from the regular production, nothing fancy or special. but with a big price tag.

beannie60 Nice shit costs money.. If someone wants it bad enough they'll save up until they can afford it. $3500 for a guitar? pro quality violins cost more, and pianos cost ALOT more.

Billy Cosmosis Well that’s just like, your opinion man

EADGGuy Compared to other instruments like the violin, double bass, saxophone, piano, etc, a $3500 guitar isn't much.

Impossible, son. This is pre-recorded and time travel is the stuff of science fiction.