American Musical Supply [americanmusical.com] has Strandberg Boden Essential 6 Electric Guitar with Gig Bag (Astro Dust) for $799. Shipping is free.
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Strandberg Boden Essential 6 Electric Guitar with Gig Bag (Astro Dust)
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I have never owned another Strandberg so the neck took some time to get used to but it's easy to transition back to a regular guitar once you get used to it. My only gripe is that the pickups may be a little too high gain/muddy if you are playing something other than hard rock or metal. I considered replacing at least the neck pickup for this issue but you can also just turn down the volume and tone slightly and it works okay.
I have never owned another Strandberg so the neck took some time to get used to but it's easy to transition back to a regular guitar once you get used to it. My only gripe is that the pickups may be a little too high gain/muddy if you are playing something other than hard rock or metal. I considered replacing at least the neck pickup for this issue but you can also just turn down the volume and tone slightly and it works okay.
I have never said this in 15 years of intermediate to pro guitar playing, but this thing actually made me a better player, fairly quickly.
I will never get rid of this OS7 I have. I wasn't even a seven string player lol.
I have never said this in 15 years of intermediate to pro guitar playing, but this thing actually made me a better player, fairly quickly.
I will never get rid of this OS7 I have. I wasn't even a seven string player lol.
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Mine has some drawbacks. It had the worst polished frets out of all new guitars I ever bought. It was so bad that I wrote to customer service about it and they've sent me a free guitar stand as an apology. I'm pretty sure that it isn't common though.
Another issue is not related to HILS per se, but rather to all headless guitars with vibrato: tuning is a nightmare. Because tuners are on the floating bridge, you will always change the pitch by touching the bridge for tuning, so you need to guess how much to tune. And, of course, as on any floating bridge, changing tension on one string will throw all other string out of tune. Add these 2 together and changing strings becomes a royal PIB. After new strings finish stretching it holds tuning well for a floating bridge: heavy bending will throw it out of tune until you touch vibrato arm, but that is not specific to HILS.
According to reviews, it is not as well balanced as Strandberg, I can confirm that to play my HN7 in "classical" position I need a strap. I never tried Stranberg, so I cannot compare.
I wish it had glow in the dark side dot markers.
HN7 has Fishman Fluence pickups, so it sounds like a guitar with Fishman Fluence.
AFAIK, HILS don't charge sales tax outside of Indiana.
I was planning to buy HN3 Gen 3 (or HZ7 to try 7 strings multi-scale) to have headless without vibrato but went with this deal to try Strandberg.
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Mine has some drawbacks. It had the worst polished frets out of all new guitars I ever bought. It was so bad that I wrote to customer service about it and they've sent me a free guitar stand as an apology. I'm pretty sure that it isn't common though.
Another issue is not related to HILS per se, but rather to all headless guitars with vibrato: tuning is a nightmare. Because tuners are on the floating bridge, you will always change the pitch by touching the bridge for tuning, so you need to guess how much to tune. And, of course, as on any floating bridge, changing tension on one string will throw all other string out of tune. Add these 2 together and changing strings becomes a royal PIB. After new strings finish stretching it holds tuning well for a floating bridge: heavy bending will throw it out of tune until you touch vibrato arm, but that is not specific to HILS.
According to reviews, it is not as well balanced as Strandberg, I can confirm that to play my HN7 in "classical" position I need a strap. I never tried Stranberg, so I cannot compare.
I wish it had glow in the dark side dot markers.
HN7 has Fishman Fluence pickups, so it sounds like a guitar with Fishman Fluence.
AFAIK, HILS don't charge sales tax outside of Indiana.
I was planning to buy HN3 Gen 3 (or HZ7 to try 7 strings multi-scale) to have headless without vibrato but went with this deal to try Strandberg.
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