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ash wrote:Jeez, another Blackmachine clone! Can't these luthiers think of anything original?

They all look like Ibanez's to me, and all those Ibanez's all look exactly the same to me. I'm sure they're very nice guitars, they just all look absolutely identical, as if someone photocopied the same guitar a billion times back when Ibanez designed the shape and just changed the model number on the headstock.

Hope you're having lots of fun with it!

Wow she's a beauty Denden!!! Me like!!!

This guitar plays pretty nice, sounds chunky as hell too.

Thats cool!
What sort of wood is the body?

Sapele, just like those other Blackmachine clones

...and your mate's bass.

Very nice! But only 22frets?

DaNextSlash wrote:Very nice! But only 22frets?

His mad skillz are so l33t that he bends his chords to make it sound like 24 frets

Nice colour/wood contrast,
I like,
any pics of back and sides?

slick as!
what's the downlow on that bridge? the levery/black things.. what do they do bro?

ash wrote:Sapele, just like those other Blackmachine clones

...and your mate's bass.

Whoops read that thread after this one Didn't know about blackmachine until just now either

ash wrote:Jeez, another Blackmachine clone! Can't these luthiers think of anything original?

sorry for the bump but this needs some explications....

We work on orders (us, the guitar makers), 99% of our customers either want a superstrat shape or a tele shape...............

Being creative is very cool but this requires money and time in order to create a model just for fun...

In most cases if we build something original it will simply not sell because its too specific and usually customers come to you because they want something specific which you are known for... (ss or tele shapes)

Blackmachine are gorgeous guitars which are also handmade by an individual man just like my creations.

I have a few customers who also have a blackmachine and I also got to personaly test an 8 string blackmachine which belongs to Clive Jevons and which sounds and plays fantastic just like any top notch handmade guitars...

BTW that guitar on the first post is very cool and looks gorgeous, congratulations !
But to be honest, I dont see how it compares esthetically to a blackmachine apart from the shape...

FYI... ash is a luthier...

slash-ed wrote:FYI... ash is a luthier...

hey hang on there.. building, designing and repairing/modifying stringed instruments for a living does not make one a luth.. oh.. wait.. as you were...

slash-ed wrote:FYI... ash is a lutherian...

Oi! No religion stuff!!

blackdroid wrote:
BTW that guitar on the first post is very cool and looks gorgeous, congratulations !
But to be honest, I dont see how it compares esthetically to a blackmachine apart from the shape...

Shape being a primary aesthetic in my laymans book anyway. It wasn't an attempt to clone a black machine if thats the impression you got, dope gat tho.