The 8 String "Leviathan"

dpmasunder

Erm, it's pretty much perfect now. Maybe it'll get another EMG, maybe not.
Hopefully I'll get addicted to 8-string or quarter tone 7-string and the poor thing can retire.
My girlfriend calls it my 'slut'. Not sure what to think of that...

feylya

Why did you do that to that poor Universe

The acoustic looks out of proportion or something...

dpmasunder

dpmasunder wrote:

Second and third pics are of the guitars I make at work.

that cutout looks very very sharp! :eek:

Ancient1

feylya wrote:

Why did you do that to that poor Universe

LOL, feylya, you sound genuinely sad....

feylya

I am

Karl Hungus

Ancient1 wrote:

Yeah, and one of his Stealths only had a single coil in the neck position - strange, IMO.

I'm pretty sure his stealths were just humbucker in bridge position layout.

Personally, I wouldn't lose the trem, or the neck humbucker, but that's just me.

dpmasunder

Feylya you're not serious are you? That Universe is now part of me lol
It's taken almost 10 years to get to that stage. A process of evolution if you will

The first acoustic is a seven too, the second is a nylon with a larger lower bout and narrow waist. I'd say they were nicely proportioned, have you been conditioned by dreadnought dis-proportion Those photos are pretty ordinary. Don't have any others here at home
The cutaway goes right to the centre of the body btw

Karl Hungus

A seven string acoustic? Now there's something I've never really considered before! :eek:

What tuning is it in?

dpmasunder

Good question, I had it in standard B-e to test everything, it was bought by a Scot who tunes it ADADGAD, and a couple of other tunings

linky linky http://www.benedom.com/

has nice things to say http://www.benedom.com/seven-string.html

Karl Hungus

Jesus! ADADGAD!?!?! The mind boggles. I wonder what on earth that would sound like?

feylya

Pretty cool for slide I reckon!

jamtheguitarman

Hey. newbie here

I read that you live in Ireland. Do you know how much your import taxes will be? I live in Scotland and am interested in getting one of these guitars but i am unsure.
Thanks
Jamie

Karl Hungus

Not sure. I suppose I can tell you when and if I ever get the guitar.
Could be quite a while.

feylya

Jam, Scottish import taxes are different to Irish ones. LGM is based in Canada.

jamtheguitarman

Jam, Scottish import taxes are different to Irish ones

How so?

Karl Hungus

jamtheguitarman wrote:

How so?

As in they might charge different rates.

I think the Irish tax might be 8.5% from what I can find on google. Probably not the same as you'll get in scotland, but it can be used as a rough guideline.

feylya

Scottish VAT is less than Irish VAT afaik. 19% compared to 21% I think. Not 100% though.

Karl Hungus

Well, I found that the bloke over on the extended range guitar forum got his 8 string at last. So I'll probably get loads of feedback from him now! So far he's got nothing but good things to say, which is very encouraging.

Check the attachments.

jamtheguitarman

Yeah, i was looking at his guitar on that forum to. it's a beast!!!. it looks very comfy as well, not to difficult to play. I am swaying towards an 8-string now aswell.God help us all!! were all going to be playing them soon.

feylya

The controls are too close together...

Karl Hungus

I'd probably ask for the controls to be in the same position as on my Virgin (And provide pics, of course) as they're what I'm used to. Volume - Switch - Tone, all in line, no mucking about.

feylya

Vol - Vol - Tone, 3 way slotted parellal to them.

The only way.

Karl Hungus

feylya wrote:

The only way.

Well that sounds like a wager if I've ever heard one.
Ok, you're on!

feylya

That doesn't make any sense...

Karl Hungus

No, YOU don't make any sense!!

feylya

I know.

Hmmm, this 8 string malarkey is getting me interested but tbh, I don't really use the 7th string on my 7.

Karl Hungus

Well then snip it.

feylya

Well, I use it occasionally. Must learn some 7 string runs and chords.

Karl Hungus

The thoughts of 8 string runs and chords get me really quite excited.

femmedujour

wow, i just came across this thread now. That is such a cool idea. Hope it works out for you. A 7 string is hard enough for me to play, god only knows how i would cope with 8!

feylya

Used right, they could sound brilliant.

Used incorrectly though and it'll just sound pants.

Karl Hungus

In my hands, it'll probably sound like wet pants being twanged, fey.

feylya

Oh my...

*faints*

Karl Hungus

I've been thinking about the locking trem a bit tonight. Might be worth looking into, methinks.

Jeremy, if you catch this, any info on the trem would be cool.

dpmasunder

Can I have a link to that extended range forum? Nice looking guitar that eight!

Karl Hungus

www.extendedrangeguitar.com

There you go.

dpmasunder

Many thanks!

Karl Hungus

Might be interesting to note that Rusty Cooley just got himself a 9 string with a low #F from Conklin.

www.rustycooley.com/equipment.html

Should be definetly interesting to hear what he'll be able to do with that much low end! Looks like it's absolutely sweet, doesn't it though? It looks much better than his 8 string altogether. Jesus though, could you imagine how much Conklin would charge for it!? :eek:

I might send him an email, see what his thinks on the practicality of the low #F

jamtheguitarman

I was just thinking that it would probley be a huge job to learn all your scales and chords including those extra two strings. You would have to learn all the different positionings and stuff. It would probley be worth it but, alot of work though.

Giblet

jamtheguitarman wrote:

I was just thinking that it would probley be a huge job to learn all your scales and chords including those extra two strings. You would have to learn all the different positionings and stuff. It would probley be worth it but, alot of work though.

It would be tuned in fifths so It would just be a matter of finding the root note and continuing as usual.

Karl Hungus

Karl Hungus wrote:

.... a 9 string .....

ha
check this out





12 strings but not a "12 stringed guitar" if you know what i mean!

Karl Hungus

Now that's insanity! You'd need to be some stretch-armstrong kinda freak!! :eek:

What tuning are the strings in??

dunno, after i saw 9-string i went mad and put 10-string guitar into google images and that was on the page with a 10 string one.

Karl Hungus

Well I got a reply from Rusty Cooley!

He says he doesn't need anything special to cope with the extra low end, and that I wouldn't need anything more than an EQ adjustment to handle the low F#. He uses Marshall 4x12s. Definetly something to keep in mind for future refference.

It wasn't me!

The eight-string looking increasingly more plausible then?

Karl Hungus

Indeed it is! Although I think for the time being, I've my heart set on the Stealth. Perhaps after I've got that, and nice shiny new amp, and I'm famous, I'll shell out for the Leviathan. In the meantime, the extra string should be plenty to play with.

It wasn't me!

Did make for some kerrazy discussion anyway though.

Karl Hungus

And I'm sure it still will, just because I've decided to get a diffrent guitar doesn't mean I'll abandon the notion of getting an 8 String, and damned if the Leviathans don't look like the absolute shiznit! A man can never have too many guitars, and when I do eventually order one, I'm sure there'll be plenty more discussion going on, and questions about various detail that I might want come the time.

It wasn't me!

Too right about the guitar. I don't spend money on much else! Bah Humbug! I need a job though. The discussion was great. It was really enlightening. Nice to broaden horizons about what's possible with a guitar. So the Stealth's the target of the day then? Very nice. Anything really interesting going to go into it? I assume all the metal standards: Floyd Rose, inverted headstock, 24 XJ frets?

Karl Hungus

Aye, pretty much said standards. 'Tis going to be plain black, with a plain ebony fretboard, 2 dimarzio pickups, neck through maple with maple body, so it's going to sound fairly bright! I'll have to see about coil tapping too, but I think the details are fairly set in stone at this point.