Tiger1016":1blhostg said:
Makes sense. I had missed the implication of mainly looking for new. Also, my mind went toward the thought of the 25.75 scale instead of 27. If you are set on walnut, tele shaped, extended scale, with evertune for as good of a value as possible from a good and unique company, you already found your unicorn!
Check out the Solar Evertune options though. They have a range of evertune models on both double cut and LP style shapes for around $1k. Can't recall if they had extended scale 6 strings with evertunes though, but you can at least get 25.5 in the double cut. I am considering a LP one myself after I am done selling off a bunch of stuff but will probably go Kiesel again.
Have you looked at the Reverend Descent yet? 26.75 scale but an offset shape. I had thought about these as well once upon a time as I was happy with the Jetstream 390 that I have. It is $1100, and you would have to add on another $300 for the evertune install. If you need a tele shape, they have those too, but same issue on the additional evertune cost. I know the guitarist from the Plot in You uses a Reverend Double Agent, so that adds a little street cred in the metalcore world.
What about a Prs SE 277? I currently own one, switched over to it from a Mushok, and have been really happy with it. Great guitar for the money especially used, but the cost of an evertune install would wash away the arbitrage compared to the Jericho. I am actually about to list mine simply because I don't need extended scale anymore (thanks to the improved drop tuning feature in the Axe Fx III).
I know evertune had the SE Holcomb through their website, but I suspect you would rather the Jim Root if you were looking there.
One thing I would mention though is I never found the need or want for an evertune on my baritones. I would range the tuning between drop B and A# using 12-62 strings and could not touch them for a few months and they would legitimately still be in perfect tune when I came back to them (and I have lived in some challenging climates). They also never went out of tune when playing. I wish I could say the same thing about all of the standard scale USA PRS and Gibsons that I have owned, but the Reverend Jetstream 390 has been noticeably better than all of the other standard scales with normal gauges.
I'm actually not at all interested in buying new, but I haven't been able to find one of these Jerichos used and the Charvel model is new this year so I haven't seen any used ones hit the market for much less than what they cost new. I'm certainly willing to wait a few months for either to pop up used, I'd rather not dump that money into a guitar just for it to be instantly devalued.
To be completely honest, I'm not really sold on the Evertune, its intriguing what it can do, but like you, I don't know that it's really a necessity. Seems great for recording, but limiting for regular usage if you set it up to its full capabilities. I live in Arizona, so guitars going out of tune because of weather changes really isn't a thing here. My Bernie Rico Jr has been in its case for the past 5 years and I took it out yesterday and only one string was slightly off
I'll definitely check some of those guitars out, though I'm pretty specifically looking for a Tele shape, mostly just because it's one of the few common shapes I've never owned.
Tiger1016":1blhostg said:
Forgot to mention I had looked into the same Charvel because of the Fluence pickups. I thought it was a solid offering too.
Also, I have seen a few of the Jericho's that you are eyeing pop up on Reverb, so you might be able to save a few hundred if you can be patient and are not 100% set on new only.
Yeah, I think I'm leaning most towards the Charvel at this point - I'm definitely not a collector of guitars, each one of my guitars has to serve a purpose, otherwise it gets replaced by something else. My main guitars right now are:
High Gain Rhythm: ESP Eclipse II
High Gain Lead: Bernie Rico Jr. Hesperian Slant 6
7 String: Carvin GP7X
The only "low gain" guitar I have is my wife's Squier Affinity Strat, which is a decent player, but even once I change the pickups, I don't think it'll ever be a "great" guitar. That said, I don't play lower gain stuff enough to justify spending a lot of money on a guitar that would be great in that realm, and I think the Charvel could cover that with the Fluence pickups, while also being more on the "shred" side, which I no longer have since I sold my Jackson USA Soloist years ago, when the pickups are on the humbucker setting. I feel like the Jericho would end up really just being another High Gain Rhythm guitar. I feel like I'd eventually sell it off in favor of the ESP, even though it'll likely have a different sound. I just see no point of having multiple guitars around that do similar sounds and I'd just pick the one I liked the best and sell the other, which would likely be the ESP... the only guitar I think I'd replace that with at this point is a "better" Les Paul, or a Hardtail PRS CU24
