G4M electric 12-string

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 11:44 am

Gear4music have their own brand electric 12-string on sale at Ã‚Â£89. Looks to me as though it has a 12-saddle adjustable bridge. Will add link/pics when mot on a phone.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:05 pm

This one?

LANK

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:10 pm

Hmm, bridge doesn't look so adjustable on a bigger pic vs. the phone. Yes, that's the one.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 12:22 pm

Yeah, at first glance it looked a bit like one of those Gotoh ones with the 12 adjustable saddles but I'm not sure it is.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 3:55 pm

Looks like it is fully adjustable...how easily is another question.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:14 pm

So I think the screw on the back of the bridge adjusts one saddle and then there is another going down into the body that lets you move the other. There are a couple of bridges of a similar looking design (Gotoh and Frankentone):

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:24 pm

Like these on eBay...Ã‚Â£20?

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:56 pm

Yeah, that looks like the sort of thing.

Ã‚Â£89 is crazy cheap though. Wonder what the quality is like. They do a Tele one (including a left handed version) for Ã‚Â£119 too.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 5:58 pm

They also do a 12-string kit for about that price. I've been soooo close to doing a stained pink 12 string tele for the longest time.

http://www.gear4music.com/Guitar-and-B ... IY-Kit/WT0

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:02 pm

"instruction manual" for the DIY guitar kit, that has other shots of the bridge:

http://d1aeri3ty3izns.cloudfront.net/m ... 366963.pdf

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Fri Dec 25, 2020 8:23 am

I second PaulÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s suggestion on the kit... this is being seen more and more lately, the cheapest available incarnation of certain MIC guitars/basses are also available in kit form (and the people selling the completed instrument are probably ordering those kits).

The Jay Turser Hofnery violin bass I own is available not only as a kit, but also as an Epiphone or Rogue product. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m sure at least 100* Stagg/Benton-branded ones are knocking about across the pond as well.

*smashing dat bulk discount in the fashion only conglomerate subdivisions dare

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 3:47 am

paul_ wrote:I second PaulÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s suggestion on the kit... this is being seen more and more lately, the cheapest available incarnation of certain MIC guitars/basses are also available in kit form (and the people selling the completed instrument are probably ordering those kits).

The Jay Turser Hofnery violin bass I own is available not only as a kit, but also as an Epiphone or Rogue product. IÃ¢â‚¬â„¢m sure at least 100* Stagg/Benton-branded ones are knocking about across the pond as well.

*smashing dat bulk discount in the fashion only conglomerate subdivisions dare

The Epiphone looks like it has a wider body to me. Shape is also different. Top is Harley Benton.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 5:32 am

They used to make them all in that shape the Epi has. I started to notice more Hofner-accurate cutaways (sharper) after that Hofner Ignition series came out.

The Epi was always the most different anyway, several parts and dimensions arenÃ¢â‚¬â„¢t shared with the others (especially the way the neck joint is). They also always had a flamier top but thatÃ¢â‚¬â„¢s likely a veneer or print.

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:02 am

Interesting. Here's the fat bastard Rogue version.

and the Rogue skinny vintage clone version.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 6:36 pm

The Harley benton violin is a great sounding bass i bought a left handed on for Ã‚Â£25 when they used to sell their Deko (decoration only) stuff that was ment to be too broken to play- had to rewire a pot on it as that was the only fault I could find on it.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:06 pm

A local shop once sold a perfectly fine strat which had some messed up wiring to a person I know for like $20. He came home, spent most of the 10 minutes to heat the soldering iron and to take the pickguard off, fixed the wiring and had a fully functional brand new guitar

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Sat Dec 26, 2020 7:16 pm

Oh shit. I opened youtube and the first video that I saw was Creed Bratton's band rocking a violin bass... and a violin guitar

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Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Sun Dec 27, 2020 3:14 am

^those were all made by Eko. Other guitar is an Eko Barracuda, I think.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Sun Dec 27, 2020 4:02 am

Didn't know that, thanks. That ES style guitar is kinda cool