JefferySmith Posted April 8, 2009 Share Posted April 8, 2009 Look Ricochet' date=' if you want to give advice thats wonderful. If you don't, thats fine too. We are all here to help each other out. I just thought that I would ask everyone here because most of the members are very knowledgeable and give good advice. If you want to be a smarta$$ and be spiteful, join another group because we are here to help each other not knit pick one another because someone is "looking for help". I always thought that the best way to get information was to ask people that know what they are talking about. And thats what I did. For everyone else, THANK YOU!!! You guys have given me alot of direction and helpful information. I really appreciate you guys helping me out. I really thought that this would be an interesting topic.[/quote'] I didn't mind the question, for what it's worth. Sometimes it's nice to have a diversion from "Is this a fake?" And, come on guys, had any of you heard of Fouke Industrial Guitars before I brought it up? If the Who had one of those, they could have beat a stage to pieces and still used the guitar for the next gig. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lpfan Posted April 8, 2009 Author Share Posted April 8, 2009 Afrri-can WTF? LOL! That is awesome!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Look Ricochet' date=' if you want to give advice thats wonderful. If you don't, thats fine too. We are all here to help each other out. I just thought that I would ask everyone here because most of the members are very knowledgeable and give good advice. If you want to be a smarta$$ and be spiteful, join another group because we are here to help each other not knit pick one another because someone is "looking for help". I always thought that the best way to get information was to ask people that know what they are talking about. And thats what I did. [/quote'] I'm spitefull towards someone who can't be arsed to use a simple search first. You're not looking for help. You're looking for conversation and you pose it of as "interesting guitar-related discussion" as demonstrated by your other "awesome" thread. Search "guitar" and "dxf" mr. "industrial technology major". Edit: I'm sorry, I really don't want to come off as a meanie. I assure you it's not so much personal as it is a general annoyance with an observation I made. You just happened to be in the line of fire. And I'm having an extremely bad hairday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricochet Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Friendly cvnt' date=' aren't ya Ric? Here's a poem for ya.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vS5QMT-JUt4[/quote'] Kia Ora again... I looked up some of your modest post history... Nuff said. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevin134 Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Reverend's USA series had some metal topped guitars along with some other material that escapes me at the moment.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tulsaslim Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 A couple of years ago a company called Switch was selling some composite one-piece guitars. The material was called Vibracell and I bought a couple of them (they were cheap). I was VERY pleasantely surprised at how good they felt and played. I wasn't impressed with the stock (ceramic) humbuckers but replaced them with some of those new GFS VEH pickups and am very happy with the results. I woulda killed to have had one of these back in the day for outdoor gigs. The company went out of business (too bad) and some guy bought up a big chunk of the inventory & has been selling them on Ebay. I've bought 4 or 5 more of them from him (never paying more than $180 for any of them). He has several body styles- tele, strat(like)- Parker Fly- etc. All in all I'm very impressed with the guitars and am sorry they didn't catch on & the company went belly-up. If you get a chance surf Ebay for 'Switch' guitars. I'm pretty sure you'll be very satisfied if you buy one (don't pay more than $200. I've seen a couple other sites trying to sell them for upwards of $500). The only style I didn't like was the 'Innovo'. I may still buy one or two more if I can swing it. This Vibracell stuff is pretty cool. Totally immune to temperature or humidity. Cool looking, too. One of these days I'll post a pic of all my Switch guitars either here or the 'other' forum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snookelputz Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 This is a Switch Oscar with GFS Liverpool pickups. 10 lbs. Reasonable tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fenrirlupus Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 I was just wondering if anyone or any companies have ever tried to make guitars out of materials other than wood? If so' date=' what did they or you use? How was the sound? Please post pics and links if you have any info. I'm an industrial technology major at EKU and I thought that this info might be useful for a presentation in one of my "materials" classes. Thanks!!![/quote']http://www.alumisonic.com/ don't have/use one but i want one really bad. they said they could do a custom es-335 style one with a flat back... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
captmidnight Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 A couple of years ago a company called Switch was selling some composite one-piece guitars. The material was called Vibracell and I bought a couple of them (they were cheap). I was VERY pleasantely surprised at how good they felt and played. I wasn't impressed with the stock (ceramic) humbuckers but replaced them with some of those new GFS VEH pickups and am very happy with the results. I woulda killed to have had one of these back in the day for outdoor gigs. The company went out of business (too bad) and some guy bought up a big chunk of the inventory & has been selling them on Ebay. I've bought 4 or 5 more of them from him (never paying more than $180 for any of them). He has several body styles- tele' date=' strat(like)- Parker Fly- etc. All in all I'm very impressed with the guitars and am sorry they didn't catch on & the company went belly-up. If you get a chance surf Ebay for 'Switch' guitars. I'm pretty sure you'll be very satisfied if you buy one (don't pay more than $200. I've seen a couple other sites trying to sell them for upwards of $500). The only style I didn't like was the 'Innovo'. I may still buy one or two more if I can swing it. This Vibracell stuff is pretty cool. Totally immune to temperature or humidity. Cool looking, too. One of these days I'll post a pic of all my Switch guitars either here or the 'other' forum.[/quote'] Thats the ones I was talking about!!! Thanks Slim! They were cool guitars...just way ahead of thier time. Back a couple years ago a guy near Orlando had a dealership with them, when they went out of business he donated what he had left ...5 or 6, to churches and youth groups. So I missed out on getting one by about a month. He said the same thing...good little guitars that you could use as a boat paddle, then just hook it up and play it afterwards. Routing them out for modding (he said) was a mess cause the lil' beads would go everywhere after the bond was broke. Capt Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snookelputz Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Never tried re-routing mine, but now that you mention it, a hot knife might be much better. And maybe not. This one is currently set up for slide and is quite satisfactory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brianh Posted April 9, 2009 Share Posted April 9, 2009 Afri-can Oh man - I have a whole new career figured out now... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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