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 It had to
happen, As most of my readers are aware I am not a
fan of set neck designs. There are a couple of
exceptions, but for the most part set necks kill a
lot of tone and tend to be less stable than bolt on's or
neck through
body guitars. The Quicksilver guitar has been the leader
in natural sustain for all the guitars that I build
here. The Quicksilver has also been the tone king,
Due to the highly stable super tight neck joint and
Black/Back pickups.
The neck
through body model was first discussed & conceived back in 2002, We
decided that the bolt in neck model was extremely
versatile and why fix something if it isn't broke. We
were able to get plenty of stability with our
trademarked torqued in neck. In fact over the years we
succeeded in designing a neck joint that was super
stable due to the way it was bolted together, coupled
with our trademark pickup bolted right into the neck
design.
The only
fly in the ointment was when a customer required a
Floyd
Rose or any type of tremolo, the existing direct
coupling system would be incomplete. The younger
guitarists have traditionally been put off by bolt on
model guitars because they have played many a cheaper
imported model which sadly are not done right. Many
people are not aware that a bolt on neck is actually
harder and more expensive to do than a set neck.
Bolt On &
Bolt In Necks have gotten an unfair bad rap !!
Simply because, many large companies cannot seem to do
it right. If a neck joint is even slightly loose all the
tone is lost in that gap. Slide a thin pick or a thin
piece of paper between the neck & the body. You should
not be able to do that. If you can please do not buy
that guitar.
Throughout
my website I will always denigrate set necks, with only
a couple of notable exceptions. I am a firm believer that set
necks are tone suckers. The glue in the neck joint
prevents the tone from transferring even worse than a
loose bolted on neck.
We decided
that most of the tremolo problem could be rectified by making a
neck through body model. This would bring back that
maximum stability which is crucial to good tone &
sustain.
The
pictures included here are to illustrate the grace of
design on the neck through models. We are
quite proud of this design, we incorporated it on
several other brands of guitars over the years. If you
have seen it on other guitars be assured we are not
copying it. It was ours in the first place
See
Abstract, For Other Neck Thru Models
| Ed
Roman Recommends this model for the player who
wants a
Brown Sound
with not as much brilliance on the high end. The
original Quicksilver is still tonally more
versatile as far as different tone capabilities.
This neck through body model is designed to slay
a Les Paul, SG, Hamer, Dean Hardtail, PRS
Custom or any set neck traditional old
school guitar. |
Also see
Abstract Guitars
The neck thru models work
well with a
Floyd Rose
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