Finally managed to get my hands on my dream guitar. Upgrading from a 7 to an 8 string is a bit weird but easier than a 6 to a 7. Some specs for those interested:
- Skeversen Shoggie 8
- 26-28" 5-piece pau ferro & wenge neck, flame maple fretboard
- European ash body, flame maple top wood
- Bare Knuckle Juggernaut in the Bridge, BKP Cold Sweat in the Neck
- Skervesen’s “World Domination Mod” AKA coil split and “acoustic” switch
This is the opposite side of the spectrum of what I like, but I still think it’s cool AF.
Also Bare Knuckle is * chef’s kiss*I don’t know anything about guitars, but that looks very cool!
I have a seven string, but I was sitting there chugging the other day and thinking “I could go lower…”, and now I have a 5 string bass LMAO
I can barely deal with 6 man , that’s crazy. Pretty though.
1,2,3,4…wait a sec 5, 6 ,7? 8?! I’ve never played an 8 string. Whats the tuning?
So standard tuning is F#BEADGBe, but I’m running it as EBEADGBe. So the lowest E is an octave lower than a standard guitar. AKA the same pitch as the lowest note on a standard tuning 4 string bass
Beautiful. Congrats.
That’s a thing of beauty! I wish you both many years of happiness!
Bruv I’ve wanted headless 8 since I bought my 8-inline Agile 15 years ago. Jealous AF.
That’s a lovely-looking instrument. How is it to play?
It plays great. One neat little thing it that the string spacing isn’t fixed, it actually gets spread out more with the bass strings, to account for the string width
Oh interesting. I’d have thought that would mess with your muscle memory a bit, but given that you’re describing it positively I assume it doesn’t
i love the location of the tuning pegs. i’d look into something similar but i think i need the extra room for leverage with the bass.
This is my first headless guitar and the more cramped tuners are definitely something I’ll have to get used to
do you need a tuning key or do you cover your fingers with superglue first? that looks impossible
Looks like there’s this kind of thing for some guitars, but other ones don’t have the grooves on the pegs for that.
yeah, that’s what i was thinking of. I can’t think you could get the leverage to tune a bass without one of those keys. I’ve seen keyless pegs on headed basses, but i’ve never seen pegs on the other end like this so i just assumed they came with a key
yeah, my bass was stolen that long ago.
I mean, when I first got my bass, I took it to a repair shop and asked them to make the nut lower because the strings were way too high for my feeble forearm muscles. So I guess most bassists have good finger grip.
i just got elixirs and strung 'em loose. love the sound. damn strings were worth more than the bass.
You can’t really get your fingers “around” the peg so you kind of just “roll” them along it. I’m not sure if they even make tuning keys for this style of bridge
Apparently basses specifically benefit from the headless setup for better weight balance, and iirc got that treatment first.
Edit: here it is:
Furniture maker Ned Steinberger is often credited with pioneering headless designs in the early 1980s. Having already collaborated with Stuart Spector on the NS-2 bass guitar, Steinberger felt further improvements could be made. To address the common issue of “neck dive”—the tendency of bass guitars to tip forward due to their long, heavy necks—Steinberger decided on a novel solution: to move the tuners to the bridge and omit the headstock entirely.
dude. dude dude dude. my bass got stolen out of my storage locker years ago when i was only not homeless because of the couch surfing (they missed my saxophone somehow thank the gods the bass was a shitty 200 buck chinese johnson, they don’t make saxes that cheap) i might go to the guitar store and check those out this weekend this is exciting
That’s awesome and a great looking guitar, congrats! I recently moved to a 26.5 7 strings three months ago and it’s been great just exploring what’s available, I did standard b for the first couple months but last restring I switched up to standard a and it’s fun as hell.
Wooo fancy shmanchy! Congrats, that looks nice.
that’s not a knife
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no offense dude but maybe dial back on the unsolicited advice. I’m guessing the person who just bought a €3k 8-string guitar knows how to tune it.
I like tuning musical instruments though, is that inherently a bad thing? Kinda wish I had my hands on it myself, let OP tell me what notes to tune each string to for their playing pleasure, and I’d go at it and tune it up for them.
Sorry but not sorry, I really appreciate musical instruments.
everyone in here appreciates musical instruments. you can do that without trying to make the thread about you.
Dude, please don’t use shortened links. Not cool
That’s how I roll homie, I got terabytes of archives on the Internet Archive, many shortlinked like that.
You don’t trust it, that’s understandable, but there’s always the preview link to investigate first…
https://preview.tinyurl.com/440cdtuner
Which leads to this legit archived file I created long ago, full of 96 accurate WAV files to help tune musical instruments…
Yeah it might look sketchy, but coming from me, I guarantee it isn’t sketchy. It’s just how I archived stuff when I didn’t have enough hard drive space.
Much more on the archive, but I ain’t going there here. If you don’t trust it, that’s understandable, but I’d never put my username on the line like that.
Okie dokie weirdo 👌
i get it, but like, usernames are disposable dude. if you decided to burn us with one link after building a reputation, this could be how you do it. shortened links are bad etiquette. especially when bookmarks exist.
Fair enough, I get you, but this username is older than GMail, it’s been my username since like 2002 back in the Yahoo days, so I definitely ain’t trying to burn anyone.
Bookmarks? You mean like Internet Archive bookmarks? I don’t have an Internet Archive account, I use their snapshot feature.
You press control d on the keyboard in Firefox
That’s why I use tinyurl, easier to just remember stuff wherever I’m at rather than bust out my laptop, which honestly I haven’t used bookmarks in many years since I started doing things this way now.
I mostly use tinyurl for my own convenience, but it does make it easier to share links as well. I also don’t have a tinyurl account, so once I’ve made a snapshot and a shortlink, it cannot be changed.
Why do it that way with no account? To make sure there’s no account for them to be able to ban if they ever find my games collection or anything else they wanna claim DMCA on.
so, just so you know, it’s very easy to highlight a link, copy it, paste it, and share it.
it’s why people despise tinyurl and other link shorteners. they are great ways to hide viruses. as it is your username is already burned just for using them.
if you want to use them for your convenience, great, but for sharing, click through and give us the long link. and if you have a non-archived one that’s better
it’s good etiquette. show’s us you’re not trying to hide things.
