Uli Sky Guitar

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Are there any other manufacturers that make 30+ fret guitars similar to Uli's Sky Guitar?

[Shawn Lutz]

Re: Uli Sky Guitar

I know there was a Washburn one from the 80's that had a bunch of frets but dont remember how many. Hamer also made 27 fretters but it was an angled fretboard..

[thetroy]

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There was the Washburn EC-29 and EC-36 with 29 and 36 frets respectively. Don't know about anything else that was made as a production model

[jgcable]

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I just checked out the Washburn EC36. I need to get one of those. I wonder if anybody on the JCF has one?

[thetroy]

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I've only ever seen 1 or 2 on ebay ever, seems they're very rare. I'd love to have one myself but it's going to be expensive if you can even find one

[Burn]

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I want one bad as well, yes somebody here does have one. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

[1trussell]

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See if you can find a Hamer Virtuoso. But be prepared to pay out the ass. They only made something like 20 of them. 36 frets, single Duncan Hot Rails, full scalloping, it's just what you're looking for.

[Hyperfuzz]

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I just checked out the Washburn EC36. I need to get one of those. I wonder if anybody on the JCF has one?

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I think Accept2 has one or two of those.

[pro-fusion]

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I just checked out the Washburn EC36. I need to get one of those. I wonder if anybody on the JCF has one?

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I had one for awhile and kinda wish I hadn't sold it. I have to say, though, that the really high frets on the EC36 aren't that usable because they are so close together and because the cut-out doesn't go that far. Also, the licensed Floyd on those is a real POS and you can't just drop in an OFR because the post spacing is different.

Uli's Sky guitar has the uppermost frets in whole tones, rather than half tones so that he can finger them effectively. He bends the string if he needs to hit the half-tone in between those frets.

[Deneb]

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I thought some company in NY did? They advertised in GW for awhile. They had some nice guitar...that had a licensed floyd on it, for like a grand. The Uli guitar was unreal in pricing IIRC>

[pro-fusion]

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I've only ever seen 1 or 2 on ebay ever, seems they're very rare. I'd love to have one myself but it's going to be expensive if you can even find one

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A few come up on eBay every year, and they rarely sell for more than $800. The EC29s tend to sell for a little more, for some reason. The only ones I've seen go for mega-dollars have been either NOS pieces that sat in the back of a store for years unplayed or one of the truly rare natural-finish EC29s with the mahogany wings.

[lerxstcat]

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Some of Uli's are 7-strings though; I don't think you'll find a 36-fret 7-string out there other than a Sky guitar.
Maybe build one yourself by modding a 24-fret guitar, building a fretboard extension onto the body and cutting away the lower bout for access? Not quite the same, but you may find you don't use those high frets that much anyway. Or that it's easier to use a slide bar up there anyway...

[pro-fusion]

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See if you can find a Hamer Virtuoso. But be prepared to pay out the ass. They only made something like 20 of them. 36 frets, single Duncan Hot Rails, full scalloping, it's just what you're looking for.

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HaHa, good luck!!! A Hamer collector dumped a couple of those on eBay a year or so ago, and I believe they sold for at least $4000. You'd be far better off searching out a Washburn EC36, in my opinion than trying to score a Virtuoso. Heck, you could probably have Jackson make you a 36-fret guitar for the same price that you'd pay for a Virtuoso.

[pro-fusion]

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Some of Uli's are 7-strings though; I don't think you'll find a 36-fret 7-string out there other than a Sky guitar.

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Check out this Conklin 36-fret 7-string:

http://conklinguitars.com/potm/december.html

[lerxstcat]

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[img]/images/graemlins/what.gif[/img] MAN!! Nice looking guitar there. Interesting that the customer's name is Gibson! [img]/images/graemlins/laugh.gif[/img] I wonder what 4 knobs and 2 switches do on a single-hum guitar though? [img]/images/graemlins/confused.gif[/img] Thanks for posting that, I had no idea
that existed!

So yeah, I guess someone would build it for you, and they'd have to be cheaper than a Sky guitar at $17K for the 6-string model! I mean, I love Uli, but unless I hit the lottery, not that much!