:50 in Steve Vai's 30-fret Guild

[chazmo]

:50 seconds into this video on Reverb, Steve Vai shows a custom 30-fret Guild. Only a couple of seconds. Don't know if this was posted before...

[video]https://reverb.com/news/video-inside-steve-vais-wild-guitar-collection[/video]

 

[Rambozo96]

I noticed that when watching the video. I wonder if he used it much.

 

[FNG]

Ha! A guitar Grot doesn't have!

 

[GAD]

Ha! A guitar Grot doesn't have!

Waits for Grot to show a picture of one...

 

[AcornHouse]

Waits for Grot to show a picture of one...

And GAD to hint that’s he’s bought it.

 

[SFIV1967]

Oh! This is a man cave !!! And a special Guild. The serial number is LL100235, so it is a 1986 made one. It was previously discussed here.



Ralf

 

[The Guilds of Grot]

Nope, ain't got one of them!

 

[chazmo]

That's the one, Ralf!!! Jesus Christ, 30 frets!!!! Hey, uh, anyone notice the TRC is off? Maybe such a long neck ain't a great idea???

 

[AcornHouse]

Danelectro beat that years earlier with their 31 fret longhorn guitarlin!

 

[chazmo]

Reminds me of the horsepower wars in cars a few years back. On the other hand, if anyone could take advantage of 30 frets, it'd be Vai. The one after the Guild was a weird scale (i.e., not 12-notes). I found that wild.

 

[walrus]

His collection was discussed here, and that photo posted, but the photos are missing from the thread (of course!). Good discussion, though:

https://www.letstalkguild.com/ltg/s...ollection-4-Guilds&highlight=steve+collection

walrus

 

[DThomasC]

Oh! This is a man cave !!! And a special Guild. The serial number is LL100235, so it is a 1986 made one. It was previously discussed here.



Ralf

There was easily room for six more which would have made a full three octaves.

How many frets would it take to go all the way to the bridge? Zeno, where are you?

 

[hansmoust]

There was easily room for six more which would have made a full three octaves.

That's what the Washburn folks may have thought, when they decided to come out with the EC-36 a couple of years later; not exactly a copy, but they were clearly inspired by the guitar that Steve Vai commissioned Guild to build for him.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

 

[AcornHouse]

When I made a mandolin, I extended the fingerboard to a typical length, which allowed me to get 29 frets in there. PITA! Made quality fretwork extremely difficult, and because of the almost non-existent fingerboard between frets up there, rather pointless. Even the smallest fingers aren’t going to be able to do much.

I’ll stick with my 24 fret Guilds when I want to go really high.

 

[chazmo]

That's what the Washburn folks may have thought, when they decided to come out with the EC-36 a couple of years later; not exactly a copy, but they were clearly inspired by the guitar that Steve Vai commissioned.

Sincerely,

Hans Moust
www.guitarsgalore.nl

Wow. Just when you thought you'd seen it all.. I don't know, that may be unplayable, but it is insanely cool.

 

[midnightright]

When I was at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in AZ last Christmas, they had a Steve Vai guitar which I believe had three necks on it... looked like on e of his white ones—but I didn’t get a good look at it as I was growing rather fatigued at that point in the day (& it was extremely busy in that particular section when I was in the area).

Quite an impressive place if you ever get the chance: massive! [ it’s in Phoenix]I made it though two rooms: I can’t remember if it was USA/Canada (or Borth America) & England (or Europe). But was quite exhausted as a result.

They had a niece display with a luthier speaking about resurrecting or restoring one of Elvis’s last guitars - acoustic & I heard one guy say as I walked up / down the giant spiral staircase that connected the first and second floors—I’ve come here every day this week (spending one full day in each room). Also had Santana’s first guitar built for him on loan from Paul Reed Smith (looked pretty hand built to me; but I am no expert).

Cant wait to go back there again... I noticed some people really snapping away with their cameras/phones & while getting one or two shots might have been nice - I think that that’s what I would’ve remembered—or been my experience; walking around the place staring through my phone. In stead of the memory of the actual self-guided your (they give you headphones, too). The very first small room right around the corner from the entrance has a bunch of guitars to truly geek out on!

 

[chazmo]

Ditto on the MIM!!!! Definitely a must-see in the Phoenix area.

I was thereyears ago with my (then) younger family and we LOVED it! Me especially.

I do have some pictures from there, midnightright, and I'll have to sift through them. I seem to remember one ginormous (like two stories tall) string bass. Wowzer. I'll try to dig those up.

 

[SFIV1967]

When I was at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM) in AZ last Christmas, they had a Steve Vai guitar which I believe had three necks on it... looked like one of his white ones.

Here you go:

© Dave Kaufman.

Ralf

 

[midnightright]

Awesome! And yes, I was mostly mentioning me, myself & I in reference to the clinging of the phones for photos during self-guided tour. I know that once I started, I’d be hard pressed to stop (though if & when I go again there will be one or two exhibits I’d like to have as a keepsake).