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A couple of months ago i aquired a new 7 string - made in south of Poland by Malwood - previously Malinek guitars - who were providing some mighty fine axes to some of Polish and Czech rep. deathmetal legends - think Krabathor , Devilyn, That f... up black monsterbass of Novy from Vader (ex-Devylin, Dies Irae) was made by them.
After a long waiting time (had to order the bridge and the pickup separately from two different sources) and some delays on their side it arrived a couple of months ago - since then i touched a 6 string only 4 times - one of them was to restring it :-)
This was my tribute to Dino of Fear Factory ( and it happened to became a wonderful shred-axe)
Specs
Your basic superstrat shape
Alder body with bookmatched flame maple cap.
Bolt on
Neck is 5 pc 2x maple, 2x wenge 1xflamed maple.
Ebony Fretboard
HUGE Jumbo frets
insanely sculpted neck joint
Binding on neck and headstock
Natural maple binding on body
Reversed headstock with a matching maple cap (well , Dino you know
)
Emg 81-7 in the bridge
OFR 7
Schaller straplocks
Schaller tuning keys (both were added to the order for free by the luthier - how cool is that ? )
now as this thread would be worthless without pics (:-) ) here they are :
The guitar sounds insanely good for really fast playing - very clear and tight which for deathmetal is a good thing, very precise so it works good for stop-start machinegun style riffing.
Still i'm thinking about a 707 in the neck position and sculpting the lower cutaway a wee bit as it hits my wrist when i'm doing some 7 string legato string skipping.
Peace out lads, Hope you'll like it.
ps. I just wanted to add that those are my first pics of any guitar that I've made so they maybe shite in your opinion.
After a long waiting time (had to order the bridge and the pickup separately from two different sources) and some delays on their side it arrived a couple of months ago - since then i touched a 6 string only 4 times - one of them was to restring it :-)
This was my tribute to Dino of Fear Factory ( and it happened to became a wonderful shred-axe)
Specs
Your basic superstrat shape
Alder body with bookmatched flame maple cap.
Bolt on
Neck is 5 pc 2x maple, 2x wenge 1xflamed maple.
Ebony Fretboard
HUGE Jumbo frets
insanely sculpted neck joint
Binding on neck and headstock
Natural maple binding on body
Reversed headstock with a matching maple cap (well , Dino you know
)Emg 81-7 in the bridge
OFR 7
Schaller straplocks
Schaller tuning keys (both were added to the order for free by the luthier - how cool is that ? )
now as this thread would be worthless without pics (:-) ) here they are :
The guitar sounds insanely good for really fast playing - very clear and tight which for deathmetal is a good thing, very precise so it works good for stop-start machinegun style riffing.
Still i'm thinking about a 707 in the neck position and sculpting the lower cutaway a wee bit as it hits my wrist when i'm doing some 7 string legato string skipping.
Peace out lads, Hope you'll like it.
ps. I just wanted to add that those are my first pics of any guitar that I've made so they maybe shite in your opinion.
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