7 string guitars

[rottingcorpse]

no 7's, just a bunch of floyded 6's in various tunings from standard 440 to C standard. String gauges changed for the appropriate tuning. Tried a few 7's, but never really gelled with the extra string or fretboard width. For me, it wasn't worth the effort to change my approach to gain an extra string when 6 tuned down got me where I needed to go. And I like all my guitars consistent. But I am a creature of habit.

I would like a good baritone, tho.....

 

[Pushead]

I bought a Warmoth baritone extension neck for a guitar I had, and the 28.625" scale (Fender?) was a pretty big jump for me. But what was worse was, for whatever reason, they also made the neck a bit wider. That added width (perhaps combined with a skinny neck) just made in painful to play. That's why I've shied away from the 7 strings. Although I play a 5 string bass, tuned standard with a high B instead of a low, go figure.

I found a sub $300 LTD EC-401b 27" scale baritone and it's really nice. I don't notice going back and forth between my "normal" Gibson and Fender scale guitars, and it only takes a few minutes to get comfortable to the 27" when I pick it up. The band plays in C standard, but I keep other guitars in Standard and Eb for most of my non-band screwing around. The jump from a Gibson scale LP in C standard to the 27" in C standard doesn't affect me much. I like the added length for recording the open-string chuggy stuff, it comes out sounding cleaner.

 

[Valtyr]

Don't have one, no plans on getting one.

I have nothing against them, I toy with the idea of getting one at times but have never pulled the trigger because I don't want to get a guitar and then not use it very much.

 

[fuzzyguitars]

this will be my first 7 stringer with extended scale.

I wonder how much different it will feel with stander 10-60 set.

 

[Qweklain]

I play exclusively in D-standard and only play 7s these days and they are 25.5, 27 (have also played everything between those two), and multi-scale. I can play all of them comfortably and really they do not feel any different to me. Sometimes if I have been playing a multi-scale for a while, going back to a straight scale makes the frets look like they are fanned backwards, lol!