Rhoads balance question

[shreddermon]

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And don't forget, Matt... The volume knob is poorly placed, too. [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

[86mod5]

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I have an RR1 and a Rhoads Pro and they both balance very well. Very comfortable guitars.

[xenophobe]

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Originally posted by Matt Crooks:

I guess I'll just start posting threads about my soloist that doesn't balance right [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">[img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

Yeah, that's the ticket! [img]images/icons/wink.gif[/img]

[Sunbane]

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AFAIC, the type of strap used has nothing to do with a guitar's balance. If the balance is off, it is off. Period. To change that, you will have to move the strap pins around. All a wide leather strap does is compensate for the imbalance by providing more friction against your shirt.

And even if the strap helps with that somewhat, a neck heavy guitar is still going to have balance issues - since it will want to pivot around the front strap pin, instead of just staying put.

[jackson1]

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You're right, Sunbane.

Allow me to rephrase:
Yes, the RR1 is (to me) a tiny bit neck heavy. For me personally, using a wide leather strap will equalize this 100%, making the "package" perfecty balanced.

Unless i smeared vaseline on my naked body prior to wearing my Rhoads.. NAKED! [img]graemlins/laugh.gif[/img]

/Henrik

[Brad]

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Originally posted by nonamemx:
Just get a LEATHER strap and you'll have no problems.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">In fact, I found a snakeskin leather strap that works perfect with straplocks.... Feels good and Looks good. Perfect Balance.

[AlexL]

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Originally posted by Sunbane:
Bolt-on RR's are nosedivers. As for critical voices regarding the neck-thru ones; If I remember correctly, AlexL said that he didn't like the way the RR1 balanced, but that the RR1T and RR5 balanced fine. But that's the only one I can recall at the moment.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Yup, that's exactly right. I'm a nylon-strap kind of guy, so my strap doesn't help hold the guitar in position. I didn't like the way my RR1 balanced (nose heavy), and so I traded it for an RR1T, which balances great. My RR5 is even more perfectly balanced than my RR1T.

And that's the way it is (for me).


- E.

[Mr. Ibanez]

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So... RR1 balances better than RR3? I was in the shop, testing RR3, and it was extremely hard to balanced it - it nosedived! What about RR1? Is it true, neck-thru guitars nosedive less than bolt-on guitars [img]graemlins/scratchhead.gif[/img] ?

[Mr. Ibanez]

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I hope RR1 doesn't dosedives, otherwise I'll have to buy something else [img]graemlins/help.gif[/img]

[Zerberus]

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Every Neck-Thru Rhoads I´ve ever played was perfectly balanced, and the Bolt-ons weren´t that much worse [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

[Mr. Ibanez]

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Oh great than!