My "new" and very confusing LTD

[toejam]

So, If I call PRS or Gibson and order a "HardTail" they will put on a strat HT bridge???

Hard Tail simply simply means its strings are anchored to the body behind the bridge.

1.) Since that's what an actual hardtail bridge is, yes.

2.) No.

[TurboTony21]

Hard tail bridge is just that....not the whole guitar.
Fixed, wrap around, floyd...etc are all just bridges.......not the guitar its sits on.

Hard tail "strat" has a fixed bridge....whether it strings thru or not......same with any other guitar.......like a strung thru the body dean HardTail....or an LTD strung thru the body HardTail with a tunomatic.......etc.

I am not trying to pick an argument.....if you order a strat with a HT you get just that......or a RR LTD HT with a tunomatic

[xenophobe]

Hard Tail simply simply means its strings are anchored to the body behind the bridge.

Nope. Those others would be a stoptail/stopbar or string through design.

Hardtail implies a fixed bridge without the other devices I just mention. Just like the picture toejam posted, with either strings running through the body with ferrules only on the back or through a metal block. If you don't believe it, do a google image search for "hardtail bridge" and all you'll see are proper hardtail bridges.

[TurboTony21]

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...%5e30428425227

http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Hardtail-Guitar-Select-Trans/dp/B0002E1V5M

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-STT-HTX-LIST?src=Y0802G00SRCHCAPN&gclid=CIGi9Kmm-7gCFUei4Aod7WMAng

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guitars/evh-wolfgang-usa-hardtail-electric-guitar

[markD]

TurboTony - just drop it. you lose....

[TurboTony21]

Ok, case in point

[xenophobe]

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...%5e30428425227

http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Hardtail-Guitar-Select-Trans/dp/B0002E1V5M

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-STT-HTX-LIST?src=Y0802G00SRCHCAPN&gclid=CIGi9Kmm-7gCFUei4Aod7WMAng

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...lectric-guitar

Check out the google image search. On a full page of images, scrolling all the way to the bottom there were only 7 or 8 pictures that weren't hardtail bridges. Out of hundreds of displayed images. Google image search is almost never ubiquitous like that. That's even with safe-search turned off. lol

https://www.google.com/search?q=hardtail+bridge&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=prIKUsCrE8qQyAHl4YHoDA&biw=1083&bih=1269&sei=rLIKUtb0IoSiyAGwzIGwCQ

[toejam]

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...id^30428425227

http://www.amazon.com/Dean-Hardtail-Guitar-Select-Trans/dp/B0002E1V5M

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-STT-HTX-LIST?src=Y0802G00SRCHCAPN&gclid=CIGi9Kmm-7gCFUei4Aod7WMAng

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/guita...lectric-guitar

I see why you'd be confused when Dean even has their terminology wrong. Just because it's a fixed bridge, doesn't mean it's an actual hardtail as coined by Fender.

[pickford1625]

fuck all you people, im with turbo tony. respect our authority !!

[pickford1625]

that being said : lets dance !

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdwuxoSHsSo

[coloradoman25]

I like cheese and fuck toejam

[Partial @ Marshall]

*face palm* y'all done jackin' my thread? I play stiffbutt guitars from this day forth, no controversy. Make this sh*t up as I go.

[charvel750]

While that Rhoads is cool and all, the "newer" ones are still selling brand new for around a grand less than the original 92 LTD's with Schaller/Floyds.

[Partial @ Marshall]

Not sure what newer ones you are referring to, the historic reissue (duct tape and all, and still hatin' tremelos @ about 3K), or the 2005 LTD run of 75 (5-7K)? All of these were all maple and probably WAY bright sounding. This is none of those.

Keep seeing 6-7 guitars made and I have been told it is the sister to Zakks ltd and a missing Black Ltd with pinstripes, but not all the dates line up if mine was truly built in 2000. Lots of good data mining here and different opinions, kinda interesting I can find little on it but this:

http://img62.photobucket.com/albums/v190/ejpii/05010003.jpg

[j2379]

making minor changes to the original concorde RR shape is the only way they will make anymore hence the limited runs w slightly different specs, like the stringthru TOM bridge. & yes a hardtail is a face/flat mounted bridge like fenders and old charvels (JAKE E LEE's), a tuneomatic is a gibson bridge and needs to have an anchor for the strings either thru body or a stop tail, bigsby etc etc.... Zakk is not a jackson guy, given the usual gibson endorsee BS i can only assume he bought/ordered his just like any other person???

& what is your '89 BCRich Proto, post some pics please.