Anybody familiar with Rist Guitars?

[boogie1]

I have a guy interested in a swap for one of mine........my Explorer for the Rist Soloist. There's a pic of one in the gallery on the website-

http://www.ristguitars.com/


I have never heard of them, but they look pretty cool-

[cdwillis]

How could a guy this happy build and play a shitty guitar?

[skorb]

unless you have one of the crappy 83 - 90 Explorers I'd tell the guy to get lost.

[SEEGERMANY]

Hey, that's EVH's long lost brother!

[zeegler]

Link doesn't work for me.

[CharvelRocker]

Their website seems to be down...

[JakeErayvaugh]

He had a store back in the day, across from where Guitar Center is in hollywood CA, he worked with Max baranet one of the guys who made the slash 59 burst replica. He made guitars for alot of the famous guitarists of the 80's. later on i believe he moved to hollywood blvd and then out of los angeles. There is alot more info on his guitars on mylespaul forums where he post regularly if you want more info.

[Carbuff]

5 year old thread. The OPs deal probably happened (or didnt) already.

[RacerX]

Still, the newb is offering extra info about the luthier in question.

[sixx_ gunner]

ha ha!! that is funny!

[Carbuff]

Still, the newb is offering extra info about the luthier in question.

Yes, thats cool. I was just posting in case he didnt realize it and was expecting an answer from the op.

[Sephiroth]

That Roman Rist guy is pretty good at putting his name on very obvious knock-offs. Maybe he should get a job with ESP. They'd pay better.

[Rsmacker]

His advertising campaign could be based around something like :

"Money tight? Crap guitar? Want that vintage Gibson?"
(Poor musician sitting in gutter looks up in tears and nods slowly as passing dog cocks its leg and pisses on him)

"Well, don't despair! We'll knock one out for you!!!!"
(Alarm klaxon sounds, muso looks a little uneasy, looks as if he's about to run away)

"Yes, that's right, you can have 'One off the Rist' and be just like your favourite guitar hero!"
(Fwapping noises in background, screen filled with picture of Brian Fucking May)

"No, not that wanker, I mean this kind of Rist Job"
(Cut to shot of really happy bloke who looks like EVH's long lost brother. Guitarist is running away from hordes of screaming chicks who want to suck his dick)


Fucking hell, Saatchi & Saatchi will be on the phone to me any minute now, I'm an advertising exec in the making.
Um, that'll be £25k please. Cash.

[Twitch]

That Roman Rist guy is pretty good at putting his name on very obvious knock-offs. Maybe he should get a job with ESP. They'd pay better.

Hmm, Ed Roman, Roman Rist, both making copies of varying quality and putting their own name on it. Thats a hell of a coincidence.

[JakeErayvaugh]

Yeah I thought the extra info might help someone down the road, sorry if that was bad.