PSA: Amazing Deal on new USA Oiled Mahogany Gunslingers

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That is a good deal!

These things were ridiculously overpriced when they were first announced. $1,399 is a reasonable price
 
Very cool. Any idea who is making these? They were building all of the handmade B.C. Rich pointy stuff in the BRJ shop when I was there last fall. Doesn't seem much is flowing out of there these days though.
 
Wow that's almost too good to be true! Great pickup combo too.
 
I may be the only one, but I cannot stand the tone of a mahogany bodied super strat with a bolt on maple neck. I have one that I have been fighting with for 25 years and the MZ Natural Charvels I have played in the same wood combo have had the same characteristics. I know some like them, but not me. Maybe the rosewood fretboard will help.

Not to be a stickler, but I don't think that is a "Gunslinger". A Gunslinger is a 1 humbucker guitar with an all maple neck. I think the 2 pickup version of the Gunslinger was called the Assassin. IIRC. I was never that into the BC Rich's. At the point the ST-III, Gunslinger and Assassin came out, BC Rich had left what they were known for behind and were chasing hard to be like the other well-known LA area guitar company. Even going so far as to hire Wayne Charvel to design the ST-III. Little did they or anyone else know that Wayne had virtually nothing to do with the design of the original Charvels. :lol: :LOL:
 
Chubtone":1ykbuy1q said:
I may be the only one, but I cannot stand the tone of a mahogany bodied super strat with a bolt on maple neck. I have one that I have been fighting with for 25 years and the MZ Natural Charvels I have played in the same wood combo have had the same characteristics. I know some like them, but not me.
You're avatar looks like Jay Reynolds from Malice ...
 
JerEvil":3ujfrcer said:
You're avatar looks like Jay Reynolds from Malice ...

Yes, it does. But it is Doug Marks from Metal Method. ;)
 
Chubtone":1k0uzhf2 said:
I may be the only one, but I cannot stand the tone of a mahogany bodied super strat with a bolt on maple neck. I have one that I have been fighting with for 25 years and the MZ Natural Charvels I have played in the same wood combo have had the same characteristics. I know some like them, but not me.


My 1989 Hamer USA Californian Standard is one piece honduran mahog/3 piece stressed maple bolt-on neck and I've yet to find any other superstrat that even comes close to it for rock/metal. Different strokes n all that :D


It would be quite redundant for me to buy one of these but I've always had a soft spot for BC Rich shredders :inlove:
 
Chubtone":29cnps8n said:
JerEvil":29cnps8n said:
You're avatar looks like Jay Reynolds from Malice ...

Yes, it does. But it is Doug Marks from Metal Method. ;)
Yeah I remember Doug. Made me want a Carvin V220 back then
 
Chubtone":2nst0po9 said:
I may be the only one, but I cannot stand the tone of a mahogany bodied super strat with a bolt on maple neck. I have one that I have been fighting with for 25 years and the MZ Natural Charvels I have played in the same wood combo have had the same characteristics. I know some like them, but not me. Maybe the rosewood fretboard will help.

Not to be a stickler, but I don't think that is a "Gunslinger". A Gunslinger is a 1 humbucker guitar with an all maple neck. I think the 2 pickup version of the Gunslinger was called the Assassin. IIRC. I was never that into the BC Rich's. At the point the ST-III, Gunslinger and Assassin came out, BC Rich had left what they were known for behind and were chasing hard to be like the other well-known LA area guitar company. Even going so far as to hire Wayne Charvel to design the ST-III. Little did they or anyone else know that Wayne had virtually nothing to do with the design of the original Charvels. :lol: :LOL:
Hey Debbie Downer, go piss on somebody else's party, would ya? :poke:

And Wayne had everything to do with Charvel guitars...just ask him ;)
 
rupe":3riaxjxk said:
Hey Debbie Downer, go piss on somebody else's party, would ya? :poke:

And Wayne had everything to do with Charvel guitars...just ask him ;)

Come on now..... $1399 is a great price, just be prepared to spend that same amount switching pickups into and out of the guitar before you give up on it. :D

I KNOW some people like this wood combo and it may be perfect with their amp and their ears and the tone they are going for. It's just kind of accepted as this great sounding combo and I wondered what was wrong with me for years until I read that Suhr heavily recommends against that wood combo too because he doesn't think it sounds good.

YMMV and all that.
 
Chubtone":1xw29qjd said:
rupe":1xw29qjd said:
Hey Debbie Downer, go piss on somebody else's party, would ya? :poke:

And Wayne had everything to do with Charvel guitars...just ask him ;)

Come on now..... $1399 is a great price, just be prepared to spend that same amount switching pickups into and out of the guitar before you give up on it. :D

I KNOW some people like this wood combo and it may be perfect with their amp and their ears and the tone they are going for. It's just kind of accepted as this great sounding combo and I wondered what was wrong with me for years until I read that Suhr heavily recommends against that wood combo too because he doesn't think it sounds good.

YMMV and all that.
All kidding aside, I never really gave much thought to that particular wood combo. My only bolt-on mahogany bodied superstrat has a koa top and a pau ferro neck so it's not a good representation. I played a few MZ naturals but very briefly and not through my own rig so I didn't get a true feel for them other than they played well.

It's pretty damn impossible to beat alder with a maple neck for a bolt-on superstrat IMO...that combo just does it for me.
 
Chubtone":efohnafq said:
I may be the only one, but I cannot stand the tone of a mahogany bodied super strat with a bolt on maple neck. I have one that I have been fighting with for 25 years and the MZ Natural Charvels I have played in the same wood combo have had the same characteristics. I know some like them, but not me. Maybe the rosewood fretboard will help.

Not to be a stickler, but I don't think that is a "Gunslinger". A Gunslinger is a 1 humbucker guitar with an all maple neck. I think the 2 pickup version of the Gunslinger was called the Assassin. IIRC. I was never that into the BC Rich's. At the point the ST-III, Gunslinger and Assassin came out, BC Rich had left what they were known for behind and were chasing hard to be like the other well-known LA area guitar company. Even going so far as to hire Wayne Charvel to design the ST-III. Little did they or anyone else know that Wayne had virtually nothing to do with the design of the original Charvels. :lol: :LOL:


When I think of Gunslingers, I think of bright colored, single humbucker shred machines(like the Gunslinger Retro), not natural bodies with non-painted headstocks...
 
i agree with chubtone for the most part. I think its easier to be satisfied with these type of guitar when they are made of swam ash/alder/basswood...etc etc. When i think mahogany im thinking of a les paul. shorter scale, mahogany neck, rosewood fret board.
 
I love the Alder / Maple combo the best. I WISH Charvel would make some cool custom shop stuff and get it out there instead of the lame shit they make now.
 
legend71":2st3olie said:
I love the Alder / Maple combo the best. I WISH Charvel would make some cool custom shop stuff and get it out there instead of the lame shit they make now.
They'll make pretty much whatever you want...the Custom Shop stuff is all made to order. The "lame shit" you see is because somebody is ordering it that way.
 
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