8-string exploiter on revoib

[BeenDown139]

Since it’s from Australia, you’ll be Been Down Under!

Zing! 🤯🗿

[garyhead]

Maybe its just the setup.  The 8-string Rick is a chore to play....the 8 Zon is smooth / mellow.....almost like a fretless vibe.  And the Alembic is just "there".  An effortless joy to play.
The condition is amazing for a 37yo instrument. A real time capsule.

[BeenDown139]

well other than getting to bloviate on a world stage for lack of something better to do (it's the day after my first late night rehearsal in a long time.  adjusting to new schedule.  i'm not good for a whole lotta anything  today.) the only thing that keeps me in this thread is that it's an 8-string exploiter fer cryin out loud.  no body shape hangs in a strap this one does.  perfect balance, no neck dive, my right arm rests in the perfect spot that puts my fingers just over the end of the fingerboard. (imho.  ymmv. and all that rot.)

but i see a replay of about 3 years ago when i took a shot at a medium scale exploiter and after going thru a whole lotta brain damage with the medium scale, i finally sold it to a clubber who is playing the dickens out of it the last time i checked.

it wasn't all bad - i wound up buying a hot tub with the proceeds and it cleared a spot for the ebony amazon series II that followed it.

so i dunno.  got the $, that ain't the issue.  swore i wouldn't do it again.  or again.  gettin to be 'bout time to walk the dog, get baked and sit in the medium-scale koa exploiter memorial hot tub and meditate on this awhile.

[garyhead]

Just doin’ my part for “GAS exploration!” 


 

[gearhed289]

"Please note the setup.....the octave string is above the fundamental."

This to me is the "proper" way to set up a multi-course instrument. My first 8 string had them the other way around, and I found it slightly harder to hold both strings down with my fretting fingers. When I bought my '93 Ric 8 back in 2008, I was very happy that a previous owner had already switched the strings around to octave above fundamentals with a new nut. I only play 8s with a pick FWIW.

[garyhead]

…..aaaaand it’s gone!  Is it heading to the Mile High?

[BeenDown139]

aaaaand it’s gone!

thank heavens!  been distracted, haven't been watching.  outta sight, outta mind dontcha know.

Is it heading to the Mile High?

not to the House 'oBeenDown, that's fer sure.   just when my resistance would ebb and i'd have my finger on the trigger, i'd hear one of the guys that lives in my head yelling "it's a medium-scale, you moron!". so while it was a pleasant fantasy, i'll try to be a better steward of my hoard and only spend it on stuff that's not gonna make me crazy.