New Petrucci EBMM, anyone got pics?

[TheOrangeChannel]

Originally Posted by jim777

Love the idea of a mahogany neck; I think they're great. Every neck out there is maple so this is a nice touch to further set it apart. I have a tung oiled mahogany neck on my 727 and it just fantastic.

The finish on EBMM necks isn't bad though, my Bongo bass is also a great player and it's easy to go to it from anything else and not get the stickiness sometimes associated with finished necks. It's more of a satin finish.

jim

EBMM guitars have unfinished necks...not satin finished. They're raw with a rub of Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil and Gunstock Wax...the new JP proto has a mahogany neck w/ an acutual finish...it's gloss. Mahogany itself tends to like to be finished in that if it is raw and unsealed, it will deteriorate pretty quick...

[jb4674]

Looks like he's still got RG fever IMO

[jim777]

Originally Posted by TheOrangeChannel

EBMM guitars have unfinished necks...not satin finished. They're raw with a rub of Birchwood Casey Tru-Oil and Gunstock Wax...the new JP proto has a mahogany neck w/ an acutual finish...it's gloss. Mahogany itself tends to like to be finished in that if it is raw and unsealed, it will deteriorate pretty quick...

My EBMMs all have satin finished necks. I don't have a Petrucci, so they may be different, but it's not a company wide rule. And I also have Carvins with tung oiled mahogany necks as well.

[Ayrton]

I have never understood why people get so worked up over a signature model. Regardless of manufacture, it is an artist model designed the way the artist wants it. Guitars are a highly individualized item; so it is ok to have an opinion about a certain model, but if you don’t like it, don’t buy it. I read a few pages of that EBMM thread and the behavior of some of the members was just embarrassing. Can you imagine Steve Vai posting over here again and someone telling him that the JEM sucked or say telling someone like Leo Fender that the Stratocaster is a stupid design? I just don’t understand what it is about Internet forums that make people think they can have absolutely no class and think that is acceptable.

[Code001]

Originally Posted by Andy43

I love the new horn, it makes it look a lot less chunky. But why would you change the best body contour ever? If they bring that back, I'll definitley buy it.

I think you mean the forearm cutaway on the body. The guys over at EB said they couldn't do it because of the thickness of the maple.

[TheOrangeChannel]

Originally Posted by jim777

My EBMMs all have satin finished necks. I don't have a Petrucci, so they may be different, but it's not a company wide rule. And I also have Carvins with tung oiled mahogany necks as well.

If you own an EBMM guitar....you do not have a satin finished neck. It's BC TruOil and wax. The SUBS and Bongo basses being the exception...so yeah, it's a rule. EBMM, as a rule, does not offer a satin finish on any neck. I've owned 6 of them in the last 3 years...and I've inquired as to why that's not an option. They've just told me they don't make them that way.

[Jimi D]

Originally Posted by TheOrangeChannel

If you own an EBMM guitar....you do not have a satin finished neck. It's BC TruOil and wax. The SUBS and Bongo basses being the exception...so yeah, it's a rule. EBMM, as a rule, does not offer a satin finish on any neck. I've owned 6 of them in the last 3 years...and I've inquired as to why that's not an option. They've just told me they don't make them that way.

Pre-1991 or so EBMMs have satin finished necks. The Oil & Wax finish was adopted for the EVH sig. model and migrated to every other model in the range from there...

[TheOrangeChannel]

My assumption was that he was talking only new ones...Jimi you know I've owned a gaggle of EBMMs...just got my most recent one...DG Piezo Silo w/ a maple board and matching stock, tortoise. itsa nice.

[Sabre]

Originally Posted by NaHuELoidE

well, i was a bit far away. but the guitar looked quite similar. c'mon, how different can it be? it's just a piece of wood with some wires attached to it...

Very Very different actually, maybe you should look into guitars in more detail.

[timi_h]

Originally Posted by NaHuELoidE

well, i was a bit far away. but the guitar looked quite similar. c'mon, how different can it be? it's just a piece of wood with some wires attached to it...

yeah i mean acoustic guitar, electric guitar same thing
generalisations never work!!

[NRS]

THE ARM CONTOUR: Definately interesting about it being gone in this new model. I wonder if it was just for cosmetic reasons so they could squeeze that quilt top on some other factor? (Kind of a substancial and unique feature to have to sacrifice just for cosmetic reasons)

Although I too was hooked on that arm countour the first time I tried it (sitting down in the store), I later found standing up with it was a far different story and my arm never centered where the contour wanted it to be. If I had wider shoulders, longer arms, or liked my guitar hiked way up into my rib cage, maybe, but to me it still seemed the whole coutour could have been rotated up 1-2 inches higher. Maybe Ernie Ball was finding out the countour just wasnt accomodating enough different preferences of strap length positions. Yeah, it may be made just for Petrucci, but in the end they do have sell these things to the rest of us afterall.

Did any one else find this a problem?

[Kontalonis]

Closeup i took from the SCORE dvd:



He also has custom painted cabs and heads from mesa in that dvd. I'll see what i can do as far as pictures of those. Personally i like this one i snagged from the DVD also:



Enjoy!

[marianozz]

Thats the Score one, not the new one...


thx for the closeups tho...

[AirGuitar]

I was really looking forward to grabbing one of these new Petrucci guitars, i have his standard sig (which does have a matt finished neck, best feel ever!), but this has come a bit soon for my liking! I was hoping they'd wait until next summer before turning it into a consumer model.