James Tyler Guitar... Any madbeaners use it?

[fair.child]

As the title says, does Anyone have it? I want to get some inspiration; especially their vomit or shmear finish.

I also want to know your opinion about the guitar. The good, the bad, the schmo, and bring back the 80's tone

[jimilee]

James who?


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[gordo]

Always wanted one of the Variax versions.  Seems to me the necks are a love it or hate it shape.

[jwin615]

Always wanted one of the Variax versions.  Seems to me the necks are a love it or hate it shape.

Like a Wizard II?

[fair.child]

Always wanted one of the Variax versions.  Seems to me the necks are a love it or hate it shape.

Yeah, the Variax is a one-in-a-kind guitar. It can do almost every sound you can imagine (Baritone, drop tuning, etc)

I think I meant to ask about the production guitar like Studio Elite, Classic, Ultimate Weapon, Tylerbaster, or Mongoose. It's an expensive guitar for sure

[fair.child]

James who?


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Oh, Jimi, James Tyler, Jimi... James Tyler lol

Nah, it's more classic standard 59-shape Fender

Always wanted one of the Variax versions.  Seems to me the necks are a love it or hate it shape.

Like a Wizard II?

[Aentons]

I had the acoustic variax 700 for a while. The build quality was really great, the sounds coming out of it were underwhelming.

[WonkoTheSane]

Nope, I can't get over the headstock design and don't really want a pre-amp in my guitar. For the money I'd buy a Suhr or Anderson.

[gordo]

They're in that stratosphere price range.  I'm a fathead strat fan so I kinda like the monster peghead and "screams for attention" logo.  I've never played one so can't
comment on shape but heard they could be polarizing.  My Yamaha Tabor has kind of an Ibanez-ish feel to it thats taken me a while to grok but it's become my go to.

[gordo]

Tyler build quality is superb.

[fair.child]

Nope, I can't get over the headstock design and don't really want a pre-amp in my guitar. For the money I'd buy a Suhr or Anderson.

It tends to hold value thou for James Tyler, don't you think? I get it Suhr and Anderson also are nice guitars. Actually, I like the Demeter, I tend to use it to mid-boost my tone for a clean break up a bit. I just don't have a drive pedal on my chain. Idk, I think it's preference for sure

Tyler build quality is superb.

Yeah, I agree with this. It is the nicest guitar I've ever had. I only have one Black Huff and I can tell it is well crafted guitar.

Nope, I can't get over the headstock design and don't really want a pre-amp in my guitar. For the money I'd buy a Suhr or Anderson.

It does have its own sexiness I guess   

I had the acoustic variax 700 for a while. The build quality was really great, the sounds coming out of it were underwhelming.

I didn't know that they made the acoustic version. Interesting

[lars]

The JT headstock looks like it should have, "Do Not Duplicate" engraved on it. I swear you could put that key into a giant lock somewhere and open some kind of guitar secrets!

[GermanCdn]

IIRC, Dan Huff was a big Tyler user.

[gordo]

I had a chance to buy a Variax acoustic and although it played really well, I agree with an above post: the sound was totally underwhelming.  I was really bummed as I've had good experiences with Variax gear.  I own the lowly 300 and have played it enough that the saddles needed replacing.  Saddles are LR Baggs so parts are still available.