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Something for you Suhr fans

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#1 ·
I just received my new Suhr Modern 24 fret. it's amazing - has a D-Tuna installed as well from the factory. Outstanding craftsmanship and undoubtedly some of the best customer service out there! Specs are:

Jumbo Stainless Steel frets, Maple fingerboard, Emerald Green quilted maple top, Doug Aldrich humbuckers (bridge and neck), Gotoh Floyd Rose with EVH D-Tuna, chrome hardware, single volume knob....

 
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#6 · (Edited)
Their customer service is excellent, indeed. They're great. I think it's great that you can make special requests, like what you did with the D-tuna and the single volume knob. One can also get non-standard nuts etc. It's great. That guitar of yours, certainly rocks. I see it also has a binding which looks cool. :)

How long did you have to wait before you received your guitar after having ordered it?
 
#22 · (Edited)
Some more great close ups. In some of which you can see the profile of the bridge very well. :)

http://gallery.me.com/suhrguitars/100660/8365-042208_06/web.jpg

http://gallery.me.com/suhrguitars/100660/8365-042208_23/web.jpg

http://gallery.me.com/suhrguitars/100660/8365-042208_12/web.jpg

http://gallery.me.com/suhrguitars/100660/8365-042208_05/web.jpg

Suhr guitars feels that the Gotoh Floyd Rose is superior to the original, which they had before on their guitars. But they had to adjust it (the original) in order to get it set up right.
 
#24 ·
First of all, let me elaborate. Over the past 18 months I have bought a Carvin DC-127 with an OFR, my Bernie Rico Jr. 627 with an OFR and I had a Herc Fede Jem with an OFR.

NEVER again.... all three of my Floyds had this horrible "wiggle" to them and all of them were either factory installed or set up by a luthier. I think that they are just junk anymore. No more, ever! LOL

My Suhr has the Gotoh, my BRJ 627 just got the Gotoh installed and any future guitar I get that would have a Floyd on it would have to have the Gotoh Floyd. There's just no comparison. I don't know what happened to the OFR - seems like they just went downhill.
 
#28 · (Edited)
Regarding the bridge... Suhr has these little descriptions of the bridges they offer on their website. And prior to the Gotoh they said on their website that they 'still felt the OFR was a good sounding bridge, even though the quality of the parts had declined over the years'. And then they subsequently stopped offering it. I heard someone say on the Suhr forum, it was partly because adjusting every single OFR before they could mount them on the guitars, took time and became very tiresome. But also because they feel the Gotoh is just better, of course.

Here's what they say about the Gotoh:

In our estimation, this is simply the best double-locking tremolo system on the market today. The construction quality is second-to-none while producing a big tone with plenty of bottom end that is not normally found in bridges of this type.

The arm mechanism is solid with no clunking whatsoever. It feels extremely smooth and stable, allowing you to dive bomb deep into the sonic subterranean regions as well as pulling up those squealing high harmonics into the stratosphere. The beveled saddles also provide more comfort when resting your palm on them. This is the ultimate Floyd and we are very pleased to offer this bridge on our instruments.
 
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