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Rolfs. Not really.

Picked this beauty up for a pityfull 80 quid (399.00 new).
Its a brand new Peavey Rotor EXP with Floyd Rose, edge binding, mahoganyz, rawk buckers, grovers, custom soft case...
Sounds awesome, plays great, looks terrible.... we'll go along way! Srsly, amazing quality for the price of a night down the boozer! I only bidded on it for the lulz and won it.

Eye candy lol...

Lol nice! Can't complain for £80! Does look bloody terrible

dude you need to get those chips in the body fixed.

how's it play?

Plays awesome. I fell about laughing for what i paid. Lamp will be buying one soon... i can sense it in his post

Fran wrote:Lamp will be buying one soon... i can sense it in his post

You know it!

My boss has one (waaaaaaaaaaaaay cooler than yours) and out of the 10 (?) geetars he owns, he told me it was the dopest. His was mad expensive, though, I think, I have no clue, though...

Do you actually like floyds fran? or is it a means to an end for divebombing. I haven't liked them at all when i've tried them, but it's not really something I'm in to and I don't even like a strat trem.

The locking nut always puts me off too, though I think that's mostly association.

Hahahah, <3 you, Fran.

FARN BRINGZ TEH MEEDLIEZ!

I always thought Fran would be an EXP man.

Thanks guys <3

James wrote:Do you actually like floyds fran? or is it a means to an end for divebombing. I haven't liked them at all when i've tried them, but it's not really something I'm in to and I don't even like a strat trem.

The locking nut always puts me off too, though I think that's mostly association.

To be honest James, i played a lot of Floyd equiped guitars over the years because they never ever go out of tune. But that aside the fun to be had is great, its rock n roll expressionism in its highest form. It is also the best trem system in the world. Dive bombing, scooping, gargling, shimmers... there are many techniques.

Its also personal and down to the user, you cannot really write down in musical notation how a player uses the trem... its 'feel'. There are so many ways to use it, 'dive bombing' is popular, but consider Hank Marvin, Ritchie Blackmore, My Bloody Valentine, Hendrix, EVH... they are all very different approaches. The Floyd may be ugly in comparison to past designs but lets be honest... Hendrix would have endorsed this system. My god. One of my dreams is to hear Hendrix play a Floyd equiped guitar, the thought of it is mind blowing.

The locking nut is essential for it to work efficiently, sperzel locking machine heads may do the job depending on your technique.

Association is the biggest problem here. We are all slaves to the image, we caterorgize and isolate instruments to specific genres, we take presentation over feel, coolness over capability. And shy away from the unknown.
People will hate me for saying that and argue the toss that whatever model is their guitar, cool, but are we not guitar players? If a guitar is good - it is good, right? It would be good to see people let go of their inhibitions and save themselves some money and time.

That's the greatest speech since Luther King. As long as you like it then that's all that matters, I think it looks pretty damn cool myself.

I've never used a Floyd Rose before, can they bend up and down?

Tom Morello does some great things with A floyd rose.
I like the guitar fran it looks nice. I'd play it.

looks pretty funky imo

Yeah dude, FLoyd rose WORKS. I've never had a problem with my Jazzmaster trem, but its a different animal. No subsonic dive bombs there...

so fucking ace.

Whatchu think of equipping it with a roller nut? I never cared for the locking nut, I always left the locks off.

Man, I wouldn't even know where to begin stringing that thing up!

Cool inlays on the neck, BTW.

Where the fuck is icey? HE is missing a golden thread.

Only Fran can pull off playing that thing and still look cool.

More Cowbell wrote:Where the fuck is icey? HE is missing a golden thread.

trill


that guitar's a little too pointy for me, but i love the overall shape of explorers.