Hardtail Syn Signature?

[Nick Kay]

So I just joined this forum, I’ve been getting into a lot of A7X lately, I never really appreciated how good their songs were until recently, I always liked them though!
Anyway — I saw some vids on YouTube of Syn playing a hardtail version of his Schecter signature model — can lowly mortals like me purchase this guitar somehow (hopefully without a custom order from the US Schecter custom shop :|) ?
I suppose another thing I could do is order a regular one and get an EverTune installed, I already have an EverTune guitar though. It’s great and I love it, but you kind of have to lock it into a single tuning and keep it there. Takes a bit of time to adjust it to other tunings.





This topic was modified 6 months ago by  Nick Kay.

 

[Rad Synner]

I think I know which model youre talking about but no, you cant purchase one. All syn electric model are mounted with floyd rose. What you are asking about is a prototype that was never release to the public. like, ever. I saw one on reverb last year maybe so some prototype might surface from time to time but its not common

 

[Nick Kay]

Damn. Yeah he’s playing it in the stage recording sessions. Has a hipshot bridge, looks like. I have too many tremolo guitars as is, they’re a PITA to record with.

 

[Rad Synner]

Yeah I agree! But yeah I saw the guitar you were talking about. Schecter probably made it specially for him. One day maybe we’ll see some of them released to the public. Id love a non floyd rose guitar with a sustainiac

 

[Jak Angelescu]

Radu is right. BUUUT with the right luthier or a hell of a lot of guts, I’ve heard of people “blocking off the tremolo” which basically makes it a hard tail. There are some people that do conversions Here is a good article that Sweetwater has about how to do this technique properly. Although it’s not the actual guitar, if it’s the effect of a hardtail you want this could be helpful…
https://www.sweetwater.com/insync/blocking-tremolo/

 

[Rad Synner]

Ouuh nice article Jak! I would also add the tremol-no as another alternative which might be easier too!

 

[Ed Seith]

There are a LOT of safe, non-permanent ways to block a trem. Tremol-no is the right way, but there are pro guitarists touring the world with taped together stacks of coins wedged in between the trem blocks and the routed wood of the body of the guitar.