Let me preface this post with a simple truth:
I don't like seven string guitars.
I never have. I've played several over the years, but I've never found one that felt good to me. Ibanez? Nope. ESP? Uh-uh. Schecter? No.
On top of that, I've never seen a good reason for me to play one. I'm not generally a super drop-tuned metal machine, and I've never been a good Steve Vai type player either. On top of all THAT, I've spent the past 25 years trying to figure out what to do with six strings, so adding a seventh seemed almost silly.
Then work happened. This happens to me a lot.
I work for a guitar parts manufacturer, which is a lot like an alcoholic working at a liquor store. It's being constantly surrounded by temptation, tempered only by knowing that if I spend all my money on guitar stuff, I'm gonna be REALLY hungry in no time flat.
But I digress.
About a week ago, the powers that be did a very quick assembly of some seven string parts to test out the routing we did for the Original Floyd Rose seven string bridge. Being a wee bit on the obsessive side, when I see a guitar sitting around with strings on it, I have to pick it up and start playing with it.
Do you see where this is going?
I picked up the seven string and started playing with it. And damn it, I LIKED it. A lot. Our sevens are a 25" scale. Maybe that has something to do with it. I've always loved the back contours on our necks (in fact, that's why I work where I do). Perhaps that's it. I really couldn't tell you. All I know is that for the first time in my life, I picked up a guitar with that pesky extra string, and I found myself thinking "hmmm, this is cool, I wonder how much it would cost for me to put one together".
I'll be posting some sound clips of the guitar through various permutations of my rig shortly.
Right after I finish choking down this crow.
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