Crowyote
Active member
So I've really been enjoying my BFR JPX6 so far guys. It's very fun to play has a great tone, and now that I've found a fave tube preamp I'm psyched about it's tone.
But, I've been hearing about the newer models like the JPXI and the JP12, so it has stirred my curiousity.
I'm a classically trained player, so I grew up with thick neck guitars w/ flat boards, but I've adapted over the years to radiused necks.
In the past year, my main go-to hybrid guitar for teaching and performing has been a Godin Multiac Grand Concert which has a 24" radius, and I've grown to love it. It's a bit of shift switching back and forth between the JPX6's 15" radius to the Godin's. However, I've noticed that unlike my old Soloist, that I love the EBMM's consistent radius, yet some techniques and extended bar chords seem like they could be easier to do.
I decided to go to my local platinum store and play their JP12. Unfortunately, they only had the JP12-7 in, so I tried it. It was impossible to gauge a comparision but the neck seemed slightly more comfortable than mine, and the stainless steel frets were very alluring. It was also a pleasurable adventure to explore the 7th strings possibility. On my way home, I actually pass another GC, so I figured "why the hell not?!"
They actually had a JP12 – it was hard to recognize because it almost looked black from a distance. So I requested to play it, plugged it in, but like some many GC guitars I've played this one was screwed up. The guitar would not produce any notes on the 6th string's first three frets, and it buzzed like a banshee when played open.
I decided to bear with it and just try my various bar chord changes. It seems almost negligibly easier to play, and yet there was something indescribably pleasing about the shape of the fretboard (ingrained from years of playing flat necks?!). It was truly hard to compare because the Roasted Maple neck seems so much more massive and substantive than that teensy Mahogany plank.
So I'm wondering if there are any plans for special BFR models in either of these lines (JPXI or JP12) w/ Roasted Maple necks, and wicked colors like Turquoise Pearl?
There wasn't a ton of difference in the playability but maybe just enough to consider a switch.
But, I've been hearing about the newer models like the JPXI and the JP12, so it has stirred my curiousity.
I'm a classically trained player, so I grew up with thick neck guitars w/ flat boards, but I've adapted over the years to radiused necks.
In the past year, my main go-to hybrid guitar for teaching and performing has been a Godin Multiac Grand Concert which has a 24" radius, and I've grown to love it. It's a bit of shift switching back and forth between the JPX6's 15" radius to the Godin's. However, I've noticed that unlike my old Soloist, that I love the EBMM's consistent radius, yet some techniques and extended bar chords seem like they could be easier to do.
I decided to go to my local platinum store and play their JP12. Unfortunately, they only had the JP12-7 in, so I tried it. It was impossible to gauge a comparision but the neck seemed slightly more comfortable than mine, and the stainless steel frets were very alluring. It was also a pleasurable adventure to explore the 7th strings possibility. On my way home, I actually pass another GC, so I figured "why the hell not?!"
They actually had a JP12 – it was hard to recognize because it almost looked black from a distance. So I requested to play it, plugged it in, but like some many GC guitars I've played this one was screwed up. The guitar would not produce any notes on the 6th string's first three frets, and it buzzed like a banshee when played open.
I decided to bear with it and just try my various bar chord changes. It seems almost negligibly easier to play, and yet there was something indescribably pleasing about the shape of the fretboard (ingrained from years of playing flat necks?!). It was truly hard to compare because the Roasted Maple neck seems so much more massive and substantive than that teensy Mahogany plank.
So I'm wondering if there are any plans for special BFR models in either of these lines (JPXI or JP12) w/ Roasted Maple necks, and wicked colors like Turquoise Pearl?
There wasn't a ton of difference in the playability but maybe just enough to consider a switch.
