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Soooo, maybe I'm weird 
but I can't stand it when a month goes by and every time I pull a guitar down, it's back on the hanger within two minutes. Kinda tells you something, no? 
Odd part is that this PRS DW CE-24 was my favorite for quite some time. I do know I wasn't in love with the top and since I upgraded the pickups in my CU-24, it was utterly supplanted.
I bought an Ibanez S fixed bridge from Drop Dee Guitars a couple months ago (they are less than 2 hours drive for me), and they have TONS of mostly modern guitars, including a few Aristides - which I've never laid eyes on but have heard a lot about. So I was expecting to trade the DW CE-24 for an Aristides, but once I got there this "Aviator Ace Edition Elevon" grabbed on to me immediately. It was a close battle but each of the Aristides had one different thing that I didn't want. Eventually came down to this Aviator and a "Spiderman" finish Aristides. Didn't like how this particular Aristides looked with his website pics, but in person, WHOA it was jaw dropping!! The strike against it was it wasn't multiscale, and the two previous 7's I had weren't either, and I didn't like the squishy 7th string. If I was getting a 7 (which I said I'd never get another lmao), it was going to have to be multiscale.
Never heard of Aviator guitars, but they are a custom only builder out of the Czech Republic. I did do a little research beforehand, as I loved what I saw before my trip over yesterday, so it was already on the list of 5 "maybes". Once I held it and looked it over it went to the top of the list, I just had to fight off the pull of the Aristides! Some Ormsby's were on my list too, but I didn't like them nearly as much.
The overall build and fit and finish is beyond perfect, frets - neck joint - headstock, you name it! And little details like allen screws for the pickups, the cool recessed output jack, etc. It's not a gaudy guitar but it's just fuckin executed extremely well. I should've just left the shop with it in the first 5 minutes!! But 225 ish guitars were screaming at me.
Hopefully some of you with 7-string experience will pass me some cool riffs to learn, as I'm a total neophyte with them - played some Korn with my last one tehehe. Both of the ones I had just felt like pure ass, so if this Aviator doesn't make me into a 7-string player, nothing will!
Unknowns were the pickups, they are "Instrumental SFTY4" - and I found they're a beauteek winder out of Utah - but they sound absolutely fantastic, pinch harmonics are better than my EMG's!
I am going to get an Aristides, either a used that fits me or I'll do a custom order one of these days. They are phenomenal in every way you can imagine, just virtually impossible to lay your hands on one!
Wenge/Maple neck and open gear lockers.
Neck joint is delicious folks! They also do all their models as set neck, but it doesn't feel like a bolt on, at all.
Even the case is from the Czech Republic, and has badass imprints and a spring handle!
What builder provides a wooden box like this? Too bad the Schaller strap locks aren't like my Dunlops, but I can sell them to you!
but I can't stand it when a month goes by and every time I pull a guitar down, it's back on the hanger within two minutes. Kinda tells you something, no? Odd part is that this PRS DW CE-24 was my favorite for quite some time. I do know I wasn't in love with the top and since I upgraded the pickups in my CU-24, it was utterly supplanted.I bought an Ibanez S fixed bridge from Drop Dee Guitars a couple months ago (they are less than 2 hours drive for me), and they have TONS of mostly modern guitars, including a few Aristides - which I've never laid eyes on but have heard a lot about. So I was expecting to trade the DW CE-24 for an Aristides, but once I got there this "Aviator Ace Edition Elevon" grabbed on to me immediately. It was a close battle but each of the Aristides had one different thing that I didn't want. Eventually came down to this Aviator and a "Spiderman" finish Aristides. Didn't like how this particular Aristides looked with his website pics, but in person, WHOA it was jaw dropping!! The strike against it was it wasn't multiscale, and the two previous 7's I had weren't either, and I didn't like the squishy 7th string. If I was getting a 7 (which I said I'd never get another lmao), it was going to have to be multiscale.
Never heard of Aviator guitars, but they are a custom only builder out of the Czech Republic. I did do a little research beforehand, as I loved what I saw before my trip over yesterday, so it was already on the list of 5 "maybes". Once I held it and looked it over it went to the top of the list, I just had to fight off the pull of the Aristides! Some Ormsby's were on my list too, but I didn't like them nearly as much.
The overall build and fit and finish is beyond perfect, frets - neck joint - headstock, you name it! And little details like allen screws for the pickups, the cool recessed output jack, etc. It's not a gaudy guitar but it's just fuckin executed extremely well. I should've just left the shop with it in the first 5 minutes!! But 225 ish guitars were screaming at me.
Hopefully some of you with 7-string experience will pass me some cool riffs to learn, as I'm a total neophyte with them - played some Korn with my last one tehehe. Both of the ones I had just felt like pure ass, so if this Aviator doesn't make me into a 7-string player, nothing will!
Unknowns were the pickups, they are "Instrumental SFTY4" - and I found they're a beauteek winder out of Utah
- but they sound absolutely fantastic, pinch harmonics are better than my EMG's!I am going to get an Aristides, either a used that fits me or I'll do a custom order one of these days. They are phenomenal in every way you can imagine, just virtually impossible to lay your hands on one!
Wenge/Maple neck and open gear lockers.
Neck joint is delicious folks! They also do all their models as set neck, but it doesn't feel like a bolt on, at all.
Even the case is from the Czech Republic, and has badass imprints and a spring handle!
What builder provides a wooden box like this?
Too bad the Schaller strap locks aren't like my Dunlops, but I can sell them to you!
