PRS chose death instead of being desecrated by speedmetal

[coltonius]

I think it's just vikings fighting other vikings in a neverending epic battle.

Epic?? I was thinking coke is involved. And not the “We have Pepsi. Is that okay?” kind.

 

[andrekp]

Yeah, but can he “hang” with Landreth?

 

[twoheadedboy]

Epic?? I was thinking coke is involved. And not the “We have Pepsi. Is that okay?” kind.

Ok, the vikings are on coke.

 

[Jon Silberman]

It was a joke

Either the jokes are getting subtler or I'm becomine senile.

 

[tracyk]

Given how abusive Herman is with his guitars, I expect that he's used to this sort of thing.

DragonForce is just plain fun for those of us from the (mostly 90s) video game generations. Here's what we were growing up with, for example:

 

[Zado]

No way that's Speed Metal in my book. Or any other books.

Also, to me it doesn't really like the wood split or anything, more like the thing unglued.

 

[Johnny21]

Not a PRS fan or Herman Li fan, but man, that was a nice guitar that just got broken

 

[DrewH]

PRS QC again.

At least the lacquer didn’t turn milky white?

or flake off the guitar completely...

 

[PartoftheDark]

Herman's great because he has extremely technical metal skills, but performs with a youthful hardcore move set live. He just seems like he's having a lot of fun and that's great to me.

 

[HERSCHEL]

Stupid hide glue. The horse corpses just aren’t the same quality they used to be.

 

[Jon Silberman]

Lady: What's this shoe made of?

Salesman: Cowhide.

Lady: What?!

Salesman: Cowhide.

Lady: What?!

Salesman: Hide, hide - the cow's outside.

Lady: Why would I? I have nothing to hide from the cow.

 

[Shine]

What a ******* idiot.

 

[hunter]

 

[aynirar27]

I love his reaction lol.
Back to the drawing board I guess

 

[59stratocaster]

Rare photograph of someone clicking Post Thread to post a video where someone looks happy playing guitar while TGPers prepare to respond.

 

[AltecGreen]

Here's that guitar in action with PRS, the man himself, playing with Dragonforce.

 

[GT1-Reach]

I honestly think it wouldn't have snapped if it was a bolt on.

Yeah, bolt on vs glued, everything got its pros and cons to it.

 

[bonga]

In all seriousness, is this usual? I understand of course that 99.99% humans would never do that to a guitar, but I'm legit curious about construction technique and if there's a way that guitar was built which caused the neck and body to separate like that.

Let me elaborate - for the longest time, I've heard every single luthier say that glue joints are stronger that wood. (I might be paraphrasing). Hence, the likelihood of you breaking a headstock is higher than just separating the neck from the body. Case in point, Gibson headstocks. Of course, if the guitar has a scarf joint at the headstock, it's a different story.

The reason for me asking this isn't to question the construction techniques or build quality of PRS guitars, i own one and it's amazing. However, i really would like to know what caused this.

 

[wraub]

Wood glue used to be better.

 

[GT1-Reach]

In all seriousness, is this usual? I understand of course that 99.99% humans would never do that to a guitar, but I'm legit curious about construction technique and if there's a way that guitar was built which caused the neck and body to separate like that.

Let me elaborate - for the longest time, I've heard every single luthier say that glue joints are stronger that wood. (I might be paraphrasing). Hence, the likelihood of you breaking a headstock is higher than just separating the neck from the body. Case in point, Gibson headstocks. Of course, if the guitar has a scarf joint at the headstock, it's a different story.

The reason for me asking this isn't to question the construction techniques or build quality of PRS guitars, i own one and it's amazing. However, i really would like to know what caused this.

I hear that too all the time, everytime i think "don't underestimate the power of bolts".

I mean, if you heat glue up, it gets "looser". Not so much with bolts.