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[Speed King]

I like the looks of Flying V's, but I always hated playing them because of the awkwardness of the body style when sitting and jamming. Either had to stick the 'V' over one leg or I found that I'd end up leaning forward awkwardly.

I find a Flying V to be the most comfortable sitting down guitar of all, I stick the V over my right leg, I can even let go of it and it stays balanced. Great for recording when I need my hands free to fiddle with the faders.

 

[Schmetterling]

Body and neck are Mahogany, the fretboard is Rosewood. I wish mine was walnut.

Yeah, the walnut is nice. I used to own the Les Paul version of this which was called "The Paul" and it had exactly the same spec as "The SG" except the body was deeper and it made the guitar quite heavy to wear for prolonged periods.

 

[Schmetterling]

I find a Flying V to be the most comfortable sitting down guitar of all, I stick the V over my right leg, I can even let go of it and it stays balanced. Great for recording when I need my hands free to fiddle with the faders.

Ha. Yes I love a flying V too - always have done ever since I was a big Andy Powell fan back in the '70s. Here's a couple of snaps of mine :


"1998 40th anniversary Ltd edition Gibson Flying V"

 

[E-Z]

The flying V became popular with the young guns of the NWOBHM movement in Britain of the early 1980s.

As for electric guitars in rock I always remember a Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow quote from either the 1970s or 1980s saying something to the effect that-

Only real guitar player's play Stratocasters because they're harder to play then the flat neck Gibsons.

E-Z

 

[Lynch]

That's interesting. I have always loved Strat body styles. Almost every guitar I've owned has been a strat body.

At one point, I seriously considered what I thought was a cool looking tiger striped Gibson Explorer. It was used in a local shop. While I was contemplating it over the period of a couple of weeks, someone came and bought it. Other than that, I did have a short lived flirtation with a red SG, but ended up spending the money on a BC Rich strat-style guitar. I have looked at several Les Pauls over the years just to try and figure out why so many people like them and have never been able to play them for any length of time. I find them overly heavy, clunky and to me, they have a very slow feel to the neck. I did have one true-blue Fender Strat back in the late 80's that I really liked, but I ended up trading it in on that BC Rich.

 

[BikerDude]

I own a lot of guitars.
Mainly I play a strat and lately I've been liking a cheap Epiphone I bought with P90's.
I replaced the tailpiece and if plays great.

I'm not usually a big fan of big box retailers like Guitar Center but in light of the current crisis I see it as bad news.
For Gibson and to a slightly lesser extent Fender to be in big trouble is bad news.
I lay it at the door of millennials and there crummy music but then I'm a cranky old ***** and blame them for most stuff. Which is cool because they seem to mostly blame boomers for everything. Nothing changes. We blamed our parents. And they thought we had our heads in our asses.

 

[Schmetterling]

The flying V became popular with the young guns of the NWOBHM movement in Britain of the early 1980s.

As for electric guitars in rock I always remember a Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple and Rainbow quote from either the 1970s or 1980s saying something to the effect that-

Only real guitar player's play Stratocasters because they're harder to play then the flat neck Gibsons.

E-Z

I like a Strat too and have owned several in my time. I currently have a nice Sienna Sunburst USA Strat which I use on occasion although it has a maple fingerboard which I find a bit bright soundwise and I generally prefer rosewood. Ritchies Strats had scalloped fingerboards, like Yngwies and I find them completely impossible to play.

 

[E-Z]

Ritchies Strats had scalloped fingerboards, like Yngwies and I find them completely impossible to play.

What I read in a Ritchie Blackmore interview maybe 15 years ago was the 'scalloped necks' on Ritchie's Strats were mainly that way for 'string bending purposes' whereby Ritchie could 'pull down' or 'push up' with more ease & power but overall you would think it would make the guitar harder to play especially when playing chords??.

A Ritchie Blackmore quote from the same interview regarding the 'scalloped necks' on his Strats and Yngwie Malmsteen was when Ritchie said something to the effect that "Now he (Yngwie) has scalloped the necks on his Strats like mine now I suppose he'll go and get himself a girlfriend like I have (laughter...)".

Also I use to like Ritchie's 'slide playing' in Rainbow in the late 1970s & early 1980s where he would hold the slide in his left hand and put the bar across all 6 strings and then slide up & down the neck and would get a real good sound effect from it. In another interview Ritchie was asked about his slide playing and other guitar effects he's used and Ritchie said that he had played through wah-wah pedals and other effects pedals on stage in the past and they can let you down at the wrong moment when you really need them to work but the slide bar never does let me down.

E-Z

 

[Schmetterling]

What I read in a Ritchie Blackmore interview maybe 15 years ago was the 'scalloped necks' on Ritchie's Strats were mainly that way for 'string bending purposes' whereby Ritchie could 'pull down' or 'push up' with more ease & power but overall you would think it would make the guitar harder to play especially when playing chords??.

A Ritchie Blackmore quote from the same interview regarding the 'scalloped necks' on his Strats and Yngwie Malmsteen was when Ritchie said something to the effect that "Now he (Yngwie) has scalloped the necks on his Strats like mine now I suppose he'll go and get himself a girlfriend like I have (laughter...)".

Also I use to like Ritchie's 'slide playing' in Rainbow in the late 1970s & early 1980s where he would hold the slide in his left hand and put the bar across all 6 strings and then slide up & down the neck and would get a real good sound effect from it. In another interview Ritchie was asked about his slide playing and other guitar effects he's used and Ritchie said that he had played through wah-wah pedals and other effects pedals on stage in the past and they can let you down at the wrong moment when you really need them to work but the slide bar never does let me down.

E-Z

Aye, trust me, they're a nightmare to play these scalloped guitars. I tried out an Yngwie signature strat once and just couldn't play it at all, but there is some theory behind the concept of scalloping and how these guitars should be played. Here's an interesting little link I found...

https://www.seymourduncan.com/blog/...hing-the-mysteries-of-a-scalloped-fingerboard.