Polish-made Ran Guitars

[metafaza]

I believe that some of you heard of a group called Vader from Olsztyn, Poland. These guys play Ran guitars. For those of you, who are interested in them, here's a link

http://www.ranguitars.com/_en/index.htm

I have a copy of Ibanez Jem. It looks like this
http://www.allegro.pl/show_item.php?item=21528166
except mine is all black and has EMG 81/SA/81 pickups in it. I don't think Ran makes them any more, but probably if you asked them, they would.

[Killgasm]

Re: Polish-made Ran Guitars

Do they ship to the states?

[ApeDosMil]

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I'm polish!

holy crap those guitars are awesome

[Jerry From Ghana]

Re: Polish-made Ran Guitars

yes, the bi-annual Ran thread!


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[Argos]

Re: Polish-made Ran Guitars

I would like to try one very much.

I spoke with Mauser a few times about his and he seems to like it quite a bit. Although Peter is using BC Rich now.

[RacerX]

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LOL @ Jerry. Well, I encouraged Meta to post a thread, but I thought it was gonna be mainly about his own Ran! [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]

[Anders]

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Ok metafaza, please tell us what it's like, some detailed info! [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]

As Jerry said, there's been lots of threads on Ran in the past, and I'm pretty sure people would like to hear about the quality etc.

Give us a review please! [img]images/icons/cool.gif[/img]

Anders

[slicer]

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Dzien dobry! Jak sie masz?

It would be cool if you could post a review of any Ran's you have played. [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[skarhead]

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metafaza plz post a review , i'm from Poland by myself and expect playing one that was about 10 years old and rather low end ( assuming from the price even back then ) it wasn't so cool , but i assume it was because it was a low end model .

also there's something strange - in PL some people bash them and in europe all the people love them ... i'm confused

seems that you're the only one person that i know that has em ( ok i also met a kid in a rehearsal that said they we're very good - he had the hammet copy)

[metafaza]

Re: Polish-made Ran Guitars

I'm on my way to work now, but I promise you a review later. Tonight, if I can do it.

[stsk]

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HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!

[metafaza]

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First things first. Hail to all Polish guys on the forum! Hail to all Vader fans!

A friend of mine promissed to help me with the pictures, so I hope some time in the future you'll be able to see my Ran Jem.

Mine is about 7 years old. The body is alder. Neck is maple with maple fretboard, so it's basicaly all maple. I chose to get it painted, so mine Ran is a completely black guitar. One of my friends claims, that lacquered fretboards play faster. Well, comparing it to my SL2H, I don't think so. It has a Schaller Floyd and tuners. At that time it came either with EMGs (couldn't afford it back then) or Merlin pickups. I didn't like Merlin pickups, so I changed them for EMGs later. Now it's equiped with 81/SA/81. I'll put 85 in the bridge pretty soon. The all access neck joint is very comfortable, I can't say a bad word about it.
The only thing I don't like about it, and it's very subjective and personal, is the feeling of fragility I have when I play it. I'm thinking about the neck. Someone once said that it's copied from Ibanez's Jem, but made even thiner. As I said, it's just my opinion. It may be coming from the fact, that I started learning to play the guitar on an old Russian accustic with the neck size of a log I use 9-46s and never had any problems with tuning it or staying in tune. I can set the action pretty low, but I prefer it a bit higher. I don't know if all the necks come in the same shape/size, but since now they put 10-48s on them I guess ther are confident they're going to withstand that sort of pull.

I was thinking about selling it since I got my forever dreamt of Jackson, but having played both side by side I decided to keep it.

I hope I answered at least some of your questions here. If you have more.... keep'em coming!

If it's good enough for Vader, it's good enough for me [img]graemlins/headbang.gif[/img]

[metafaza]

Re: Polish-made Ran Guitars

I guess the bi-annual Ran thread will return is six months...

[Jerry From Ghana]

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yes, this Ran thread is officially expired.

It is now time for the bi-annual Lag thread.

[metafaza]

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Yes, Vader are good. I wonder how many of you heard Jesus Chrysler Suicide or No Means No. Both groups are from Poland, they play different music than Vader, but I think they're pretty original. I'll try to post some links to their music, so anyone interested can check them out.