Kiesel Aries (New model)

[asher]

Don't like big Butts ?

But seriously it wouldn't be bigger than a strat or LP when scaled down to guitar.

I do like the idea of a vanquish guitar. Even the big horns on both side would match the usual Aries pictograms quite well.

Plus naming Aries / Vanquish sounds good, no?

Yeah. Going to go with vanquish - guitar, 24 fret bolt on, 6 and 7 strings, possibly an extended scale version.

au contraire!

I should have clarified I meant the horns looking too stubby.

 

[mbardu]

au contraire!

I should have clarified I meant the horns looking too stubby.

Gotcha.

I actually really like those horns and the vanquish shape in general.

Plus the bevel is much more harmonious than the straight drop on Vaders. I'm hoping for that!

 

[cardinal]

Vanquish seems like a good guess. There's another pic on their Instragram that might be the other rear-corner of the body and it's heavily beveled too.

 

[insaneshawnlane]

The possibility of this being a bolt-on with body shape similar to the vanquish has me unbelievably excited. Love that shape.

Plus I think the new inline headstock would look more appropriate on this than on the DC series

 

[Randy]

I still don't understand why Carvin doesn't do a drop top on these new models. That transition kills it for me every time!

Time consuming, and time = money

 

[celticelk]

I'd be interested in a Vanquish-style 7-string guitar. Some of the wood combos on the basses are really striking in that form.

 

[ASoC]

Have you considered Chapman's weirdly named Ghost Fret? It's a neck-through Ex-shaped dealio with a slightly (7.8%) smaller body, flatmonted hardtail bridge and a proper maple top.

I've looked at it before, but that headstock is ugly as sin. As I seem to recall, the original Ghost Frets made by Jaden Rose had a much better headstock

 

[MBMoreno]

Definitely double cut, or at least almost

 

[ASoC]

So definitely bolt on like we thought, I'm definitely not getting one of these though. I guess my next guitar is still going to be a Vader.

However, I am curious as to how this is going to look. Steve, any artist's renditions?

 

[stevexc]

Wow. This is gonna be an UGLY Explorer.

Kiesel I am disappoint.

 

[asher]

Hey now, it's gonna have the best fret access of any explorer.

 

[ASoC]

copyright 2015 stevexc don't steal and make this real for the love of god nobody wants that to happen note I do not own any of the components used to make this monstrosity

 

[77zark77]

Hope for a swirl finish on a flame mapple top ! can't wait !

 

[Guamskyy]

I'm thinking RGDish body shape

 

[ASoC]

I'm thinking RGDish body shape

Actually, I may be interested if that's the case. But it would still be lower priority than a Vader, and possibly lower priority than getting an RGD body from Perle and slapping a 7620 neck on it

 

[CaptainD00M]

I'm out. My wallet is safe

 

[stevexc]

I think Steve has it down with the explorer.

NO.

NO.

DON'T SAY THAT.

Jeff and co. have made some very questionable aesthetic decisions over the past... 70 years give or take (but mostly the past 4 or 5), but if whatever winds up being revealed is even somewhat similar to my nightmare above, they should lock him up. Forever.

 

[celticelk]

If this is in fact another superstrat, I'm definitely out. I bet a lot of Carvin fans will be very happy, though.

 

[ilyti]

24-fret bolt on. Kinda hoped they'd just gone with a standard options version of the Greg Howe model. But this might still be cool... provided you can ditch the top.