Craigslist and Ebay watch(doom specific)

[Ancient Astronaught]

Worst thing about Floyds is forgetting you have a locking nut, or letting someone play it who doesn't know, and then you or they try to tune via headstock tuners, going "huh why is this not doing anything..." SNAP

If you think that is the worst thing about a floyd you have never attempted to set one up with thicker gauge strings and a lower tuning. Getting the balance of spring pressure is near impossible, and adjusting the intonation takes 20 times longer at a minimum than any other bridge type.

[AxAxSxS]

My first love was a strat. I played that exclusively for years. Later I got into floyd equipped guitars. To me, they are easy to set up and worth the little bit of extra effort it takes. Tuning stability is perfect and I enjoy being able to go "BREEEOOoowww" Also trem equipped guitars have a different feel when bending notes and to me are easier to play. A trem equipped guitar just has more options on things you can do with it. I get that a lot of people don't want to put in the effort of getting used to them especially when they can allready play just fine with a hardtail. Using the trem and finding your guitar way out of tune afterwards sucks. there are ways of making sure that does not happen but there is a learning curve involved there.
With the 12's, there is a VERY limited supply of guitars that have usable trems. Obviosly Floyds are out, and good luck finding anything that has a decent setup. Jazzmaster trems and Bigsby style work ok, but lack the range of the better tremolo's. I modded the shit out of the Bigsby I have on the CHIckenbacker I have, added a sleeve so it would have more range, and individual posts for each string to have it's own anchor. It's still not ideal. Dillion hit a home run with the Strat style trem and locking tuners. I just don't like the shape of the guitar they put it on. Aesthetically, it's a good looking Rick'ish shape, but the horns are a pain in the ass and it's not well balanced. I'd love to have fine tuners like a Floyd has, but I'm not sure that's possible with the string spacing required on a 12.
So the SG inspired guitar I am building will have a strat style carve on the back, balance well, feel comfortable to hold with no stomach stabbing, and will have a strat style trem with locking tuners like the Dillion I fell in love with. It's a partial hollowbody with only the horn side hollowed out on the upper horn. I'm trying to maximize ass end weight and will use brass covers cut from a cymbal to add weight. Should be a rad guitar very soon!

[John]

My first love was a strat. I played that exclusively for years. Later I got into floyd equipped guitars. To me, they are easy to set up and worth the little bit of extra effort it takes. Tuning stability is perfect and I enjoy being able to go "BREEEOOoowww" Also trem equipped guitars have a different feel when bending notes and to me are easier to play. A trem equipped guitar just has more options on things you can do with it. I get that a lot of people don't want to put in the effort of getting used to them especially when they can allready play just fine with a hardtail. Using the trem and finding your guitar way out of tune afterwards sucks. there are ways of making sure that does not happen but there is a learning curve involved there.
With the 12's, there is a VERY limited supply of guitars that have usable trems. Obviosly Floyds are out, and good luck finding anything that has a decent setup. Jazzmaster trems and Bigsby style work ok, but lack the range of the better tremolo's. I modded the shit out of the Bigsby I have on the CHIckenbacker I have, added a sleeve so it would have more range, and individual posts for each string to have it's own anchor. It's still not ideal. Dillion hit a home run with the Strat style trem and locking tuners. I just don't like the shape of the guitar they put it on. Aesthetically, it's a good looking Rick'ish shape, but the horns are a pain in the ass and it's not well balanced. I'd love to have fine tuners like a Floyd has, but I'm not sure that's possible with the string spacing required on a 12.
So the SG inspired guitar I am building will have a strat style carve on the back, balance well, feel comfortable to hold with no stomach stabbing, and will have a strat style trem with locking tuners like the Dillion I fell in love with. It's a partial hollowbody with only the horn side hollowed out on the upper horn. I'm trying to maximize ass end weight and will use brass covers cut from a cymbal to add weight. Should be a rad guitar very soon!

I don't have tuning problems with my strat-style Babicz dong-bar. All you need is a non-stick nut, good tuners (locking preferred) and a properly set-up bridge. I think a Floyd Rose is an overcomplicated solution to a simple problem, which comes with a lot of baggage and potential for more problems.

I use 4 springs on my wang. Less I find is not effective. 4 or 5 will lock that shit down hard to the body and absolutely prevents tuning issues. Divebombs are just as doable on it, way down to the flubba whubba.

[AxAxSxS]

ON DEMAND Z TUNING!

Where Floyds are great in my book is the fine tuners at the bridge. I've gone years on some of my guitars without ever unlocking the nut. Just a minimal tweak here and there on the fine tuners.
I rarely ever change out strings though, only when they break and I don't break em that often anymore.

And yes, non sticky nut is crucial! I find I need that on hardtails as well as I like teh bendys. I will quickly throw a shoddy nut equipped guitar out of tune. One of the reasons I learned to make brass ones and own a needle file set. I have also found that graphite lube helps a lot.

[John]

I rarely ever change out strings though, only when they break and I don't break em that often anymore.

Now THAT'S what I call doomy.

[wafl]

Floyds aren't that hard to tune, you just need to unscrew the spring screws a bit, put a block behind the blade so it cant move, tune, intonate and whatever, then take out the block and screw the screws in until it goes back to tune.
Its easier than its sounds.
seriously.

[Iommic Pope]

I'm gonna miss my floydie Iceman when I have to sell it.

[Hyphen Nation]

I keep looking at this ad:
http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/msg/4307169657.html
those cabinets

[sonidero]

PRS Baritone Guitar w/ Seymour Duncans - Doom/Sludge/Stoner/Death - $650 (North Austin / Round Rock)



http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/4312199105.html

Kinda cool...

[ooop]

Price is way high. I see two of those for sale at GC for $448 (Nashville), $499 (Chicago).

[whiskey_face]

Trem?!?!?! Doom?!?!?! Does not compute....

bast gif ive seen INNALONGTIME

[Ancient Astronaught]

PRS Baritone Guitar w/ Seymour Duncans - Doom/Sludge/Stoner/Death - $650 (North Austin / Round Rock)



http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/4312199105.html

Kinda cool...

I've always wanted one of those to put in Drop F tuning, but yeah that one is def over priced. They go on eBay for around $450 usually.

Trem?!?!?! Doom?!?!?! Does not compute....

bast gif ive seen INNALONGTIME

It's hard to beat a ST:NG GIF... I know, I've tried.

[t-rey]

PRS Baritone Guitar w/ Seymour Duncans - Doom/Sludge/Stoner/Death - $650 (North Austin / Round Rock)



http://austin.craigslist.org/msg/4312199105.html

Kinda cool...

That is one of the few PRS and/or sig guitars that has my interest. I used to love Staind back in the day, but as we all know, numetal aged worse than any other genre of music to date

Can't say I like the flat top, but other than that is a pretty rad guitar. But yeah, overpriced for sure.

[ryan summit]

no pictures on this one
but may be a deal nonetheless
sunn concert bass for $150 in NH

http://nh.craigslist.org/msg/4318656812.html

new hampshire has the best shit in the northeast
best prices too

[Justinm1789]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Epiphone-Les-Pa ... m417c5d0f0

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A local guitar shop is selling my hot-rodded Epi LP Studio. I configured it with Josh Homme's Ovation Ultra GP in mind.

The shame of it is that I couldn't get used to the feel of a Les Paul, as much as I wanted to like it and be like my stoner/doom heroes. I just feel more comfortable playing Fenders.

Also I apologize if it's not quite proper etiquette to post a personal ebay auction, though really this is being sold for me via a guitar shop. I just figured it was relevant to this thread's interests.