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Funkle
Username: Funkle
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 12:15 pm: | |
Has anyone tried a Tyler guitar? If you are unfamiliar with Tyler, he does a modified strat thing, similar to Anderson and Suhr. The Tyler "burning water" is one of Mike Landau's main axes.
I spend several hours at a wonderful music store called Wildwood in Colorado comparing Suhr, Anderson and Tyler guitars. They are all wonderful guitars, but I really liked the Tylers. They're somewhat bizarre looking, you can see the builders sense of humor in the finishes and headstock design. The SEs and standards have an amazing resonant tone, and a neck profile that really fills my hand well - big and fat but very comfortable, like my Carvin Holdsworth. Looks a little like "Pimp my Ride" got ahold of some of the guitars, but they play great.
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Guitartim
Username: Guitartim
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 4:16 pm: | |
Never tried one of those Tylers, but they sound perfect for us fat neck'd Strat fans.
Steve Mesple over at Wildwood is one class act too. I've done business with him a few times over the years, always with great results.
Did you bring anything home with you?
Tim |
Funkle
Username: Funkle
Registered: 12-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 5:38 pm: | |
Tim,
At 2700-3200, a Tyler didn't fit in with the fiscal plan just yet. But I have my eye on a certain Suhr Classic 
The Tylers didn't feel very strat like, even though they are close to the Fender D shape on paper. I don't really understand why, but the Tylers with 1 5/8" nut and 10" radius felt very similar to my Hodsworth, which has a 1 11/16 nut and 20" radius! But aside from that, they really have their own special thing going on, definitely not a recreation of a vintage strat, but more of a hotrod.
Lance at Wildwood summed it up in car terms: if the Groshes are the vintage restored classics, the Suhrs and Andersons are modern sports cars, and the Tyler is like a souped up hotrod. |
Guitartim
Username: Guitartim
Registered: 04-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 6:56 pm: | |
And Lance knows his stuff too!!
Suhrs and Andersons had my attention a couple of years back...but then I discovered G&L. To me they're like the 'Ibanez of US made guitars' in terms of high quality build and reasonable pricing. G&L's are unbeatable Strat and Tele killers for the money, new or used. |
Sixvsix
Username: Sixvsix
Registered: 03-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, July 19, 2006 - 9:08 pm: | |
A mate of mine in the UK has two. A early Landau model and a classic in black with a tort pickguard. They were both fantastic guitars and played lovely.
He also has a couple of Suhrs. One from the 90's when Suhr was at Rudy's I think (like Knopfler's with the cream EMG's) and a newer one that is a couple of years old. I liked the newer model.
Having owned a Anderson I liked the JT's and the Suhr's better.
Haven't bought either make myself but then again I am a original series Valley Arts nut that for me, epitomise the whole Superstrat thing.
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