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Thanks for the comments! These are metallic, anodised I think, in order to have this darker colour, and are a bit textured. I am not sure how I would go about painting them properly :/

Ignore Ignore the initial "attack", focus on the sound after a couple seconds on the riff have passed, not to mention the second part where I switch guitars on the fly. Personal opinion: Some people may have golden ears, but damn if I could hear any worthwhile difference (with the exception...

I recorded this. I'll leave any conclusions to you, but I'll say that I'm not cheating; these are actually different guitars with different pickups in a (very) distorted example, any imperfections notwithstanding.

Couldn't resist. I took my Fostner bits and very carefully drilled through, applied insulating paint and added a killswitch that I had lying around. I'm leaving that guitar well enough alone now.

Short story time: Quite a few years ago I bought a Korean 8-string. 27" mahogany with maple neck. It was a decent guitar with good fretwork and straight and thin neck, but god-awful pickups. So I replaced them with a (non-soapbar) 57/66-8 set and while doing so I damaged the guitar. It still...

Here's my take as to how I justify the few purchases I do: I hate redundancy. HATE it. Before realising how much I do hate it (about 5-6 years ago), I reached a point where I had 8 different guitars. They weren't really that different from one another either and I started finding it hard to...

Hey, thanks for the comments! This might be the key. It might be worth looking into some tutorials, for inspiration alone. I looked into the obligatory "Bleed" tabs and I am still in awe on both the simplicity and the difficulty of that piece (for my skill level anyway). I think I could say...

I bought this guitar almost 2.5 months ago. And here are my thoughts so far (please keep in mind, these are personal opinions and it is OK to disagree): 1. I hate the pickup. It is way too shrill and very difficult to tame if I want to play anything else than the bottom 2 strings. I am sure...

Check out my other thread about the LTD F-5 which is the neck-thru version of the F-205. I will be happy to answer any questions about that bass in case you ahve them.

Thanks for the kind words! I plan to put some Elixir SS strings when the stock ones bite the dust; I'm not 100% sure if they are long enough though. Since I live close to Germany (and I like to buy instruments for keeps rather than exchange later), it might be worth sending it to Thomann for...

Heh, to be honest I didn't like the pointy parts of the shape too much, but when you actually play with it, these don't stand out too much. Still, not exactly in love with it. I agree, I tend to like more the more traditional shapes that the B-5 and D-5 have, but what sold me on the F-5 was its...

Hi everyone, My old no-name 5 stringer has almost committed suicide-by-trussrod, plus it has other problems that are really not worth fixing. So I decided to buy a new one, but since I had put a couple of EMG 40-TWX on the old one, I was looking for something reasonably priced with compatible...

Hi everyone! I have a short update, since my Elixir 8-string set (Optiweb) arrived today. The 8th string in that set was a .074 one which you can see on the lower side of the photo below. The other string on top is what remains from the new one that I snipped in order to fit in the guitar...

The scale is not too bad really. I got used to it relatively easy, but then again I am a normal guitarist and not a technical death metal wizard. Still, it would be prudent to try out one first, or order it and then send it back if it doesn't work for you. I believe the scale is something you...

I did think about it, I thought to perhaps mod the second one or use different tunings. But I don't dabble too much in different tunings anyway, luthierwork for mods here in Switzerland is stupidly expensive and in the end I'd rather keep the money.

Well, the seller needed more than 5 days to respond to my message and I assumed that he wasn't interested. On the 4th day I placed the order for a new one, but what do you know, the seller then got back to me and told me the guitar was indeed available. So I thought that if his guitar weren't...

Hey everyone, The M80M I ordered from a retailer arrived today. While I was intending to not even open the box... I couldn't resist. So, I opened the box, took a photo (with my messy side desk on the background) and I think it's easy to tell which is the new one and which is the original...

Thank you all for the kind words! I have no idea what the previous owner had and I forgot to ask him. The original 7 & 8 strings looked different from the rest, so I'm pretty sure he put some bass ones there. I'm waiting for my Elixir 8 string set to arrive which I think it's going to be 74...

Hi everyone, I am finally the owner of an M80M. I had some previous experience with an 8-string, a no-name brand from Korea with a 27" scale length and (unbelievable) horrible stock pickups. I still have it, it's back in my home country and perhaps it's worth getting it back with me to...

I liked it. I liked it more than the first one and from most things I'm listening nowadays.