just wondering, aside from ESP, Ran, Ibanez, BC RICH and Jackson(well...ran guitars arnt popular) are there any other companies that make metal guitars? rather, good, and affordable guitars?

i only know of Peavey and Halo guitars.

peavey is doing something with their V-types(sexy strat-like guitars), Rotor EX(explorer) and Vortex EX(rhoads) for pretty cheap.

and then halo guitars are prolly the new 'BC RICH' for their weird guitars. they arnt too expensive considering how weird some are. take a look at em:
http://haloguitars.com/instruments.html

so do you know of any?

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Check out KxK Guitars. Karl Sanders plays one, the chick from Warface plays one, and some dude from this forum ordered one a little while ago.

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the peavey v type fucking owns

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moser guitars


i will so be buying some halo and kxk guitars i so want the octavian

dean, washburn, the sepultura guys even play fender

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umm...these guys:
caparison guitars

used by Romeo from Symphony X, and 'AI'(dont exactly know what that means, nor can i spell his real name) from Freak Kitchen and bunch of others....no idea how much they go for though:

http://www.kyowashokai.co.jp/capari...07products.html

really digging their 27 fret necks


hahah, halo guitars have metal sanaz as their halo gal. shes hot!



umm...dean has been doing stuff with some of their guitars. their lower end guitars that come in at 200 or so are surprisingly good.

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+1 one on the mosers, the import series(700$ ish) are awesome bang for buck, as good as any other neckthru in the closest immediate price range(Jackson slsmg for example), most of them require extremely cheesy taste to like though.

The rest are up and coming for sure, but I wouldn't consider KxK or caparison "affordable".

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Those import models do look nice, however the templar bolt-on usa series look fucking hot! im gonna have to get one, probably the virgin shape, i just wonder what woul dbe better quality, a japanese jackson neckthtu (rr24 rhoads) or one of those templars.

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the jackson pro series RR24 looks cool...but first looks like an active version of alexi's ESP guitar, and just 1 pikcup...go with something else

but i'm thinking of making a replica of RR24 but with 2 pickups....cant figure out if i want dimarzio evolution with covers, or two emg hz h4

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wouldnt work with 2 pickups (correct me if im wrong) but in order for it to have the same scale length and have 24 frets the neck pickup has to not be there.

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http://jacksonguitars.com/products/...13024577_xl.gif

there is enough room for the pickup to be there. i dont think that this guitar and the RR3 or any other RRs with 2 hums have different scales. pretty sure they all have 25 scale, 24frets and everything. and the body is the same size as well. just the RR24 has 1 pickup

same thing with the ESP guitar:

http://espguitars.com/images/guitars/alexi_WHT.jpg

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+1 to Mosers.
Im gonna get a custom bolt-on guitar from them once i get the money. I find most of their shapes appealing, but too bad their so expensive.

Kramers and Steinbergers. Ok they are old guitars but they still kick ass for that price.

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I always thought Steinbergers were badass. The Trans-Trem is such a great idea.
Yeah why KxK costs so much I have no idea. I'm liking the Mosers though.

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If you think KxK costs alot, wait till you see the prices on the Mosers...
But the Mosers have extremely good craftsmanship and it probably takes alot more effort to make those killer shapes so the prices are worth it IMO.

Psh...I looked that up....the company has "Nile" engraved in between the pickup and fingerboard....

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washburn is a good metal guitar company, the are decent guitars and cheap/normal price range.

I forgot Dean guitars: mustaine from megadeth made a model for them recently. But not too familiar with them really.

http://www.tkinstruments.com/index.htm anyone????

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dude, dean was famous WAY before mustaine got into em. dimebag made em popular even before they went bankrupt, and then made em more famous when dean came back.


but idk Steinbergers i always thought lookd ugly. first, they dont have a headstock, which makes it look like some disabled guitar. then the body being a rectangular shape makes it look like a lap guitar or soemthing....ugly. though, it may be one of the lightest electric guitars around

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those frets look kinda weird...but interesting


here is a nother one...not really metal, but interesting:


35OOO Year old Kauri is hard to find and a treasure to own"
the wood they use is so weird looking!

http://www.guitar.net.nz/guitars-bassguitars.html

not really all too expensive considering the wood is 35000 years old. the guitars comes in at about 1000-3000

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Surprised no one mentioned AXL, i dont know how big they are, or aren't but I saw them featured in Guitar World, on their CD-ROM and the sounded pretty good, and from my understanding their all under $400.

http://www.axlguitars.com/

They introduced a Mayhem series of guitars which are geared towards metal playing.

Again im not sure on how big a company they are, or if AXL is made by a bigger company or something, but if not, their definatly worth checking out.

Oh what about Aria. That company has been around a while. Make some great stuff. They were used a lot in the 80s. The guitarist of Master uses the explorer type model with a Kahler.

http://www.ariaguitars.com/

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Not the company... Just Karl's personal custom.

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Just found this company

http://www.octoberguitars.com

Looks pretty neat

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