A Silo and a Cutlass walk into the the octagon....

[silverman]

If only one must remain, who will remain standing?

I bought a cutlass HSS last month, and it has become my holy grail guitar. I've owned a fairly large variety of electrics and nearly all of them have had one nitpick or another. Whether it was weight, fret buzz, fret ends, etc. I always felt like there was something holding me back from loving them. I find no such complaints with my cutlass.

Being new to the world of ebmm, I had no idea that the cutlass wasn't their only s-type of recent times. I've been admiring pics of the silo and really want to try one out! Being that none seem to be in my area, I must instead rely on second hand accounts from fellow EBMM lovers to buttress my imagination. Using my familiar frame of reference - the cutlass, I would love to hear from those blessed enough to own or have tried both how
they stack against each other.

 

[kestrou]

Oh come on...

How about Chocolate and Peanut Butter walk into the octagon?

They're different - "better" is a matter of preference - but they're GREAT together!

Kevin

 

[xjbebop]

EBMM gittars... you can't have just one.....

 

[edhalen]

EBMM gittars... you can't have just one.....

I'm this >< close to making that a true statement (against my better judgement)....

 

[TripHazard]

I thought you had a BFR stingray, or am I getting you confused with someone else?

 

[edhalen]

I thought you had a BFR stingray, or am I getting you confused with someone else?

Not to hijack this thread but I had to return it unfortunately.



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[TripHazard]

Bummer. That was a pretty one.

 

[Magic Jason]

... and both have their butt kicked by the AL within 3 seconds.

 

[Fender74]

I have ordered and returned 3 silo specials I just couldn’t get into the guitar and I really wanted to like the silo the look great but I found my self struggling to play it making a lot of mistakes I wasn’t making with my other guitars. I bought a valentine took to it right away loved the sound and the way it played and I feel the same way about the cutlass I just bought I don’t know what made the silo so different but it was for me it almost felt like the strings were spaced together a lot closer than the cutlass and my valentine

 

[kestrou]

I have ordered and returned 3 silo specials I just couldn’t get into the guitar and I really wanted to like the silo the look great but I found my self struggling to play it making a lot of mistakes I wasn’t making with my other guitars. I bought a valentine took to it right away loved the sound and the way it played and I feel the same way about the cutlass I just bought I don’t know what made the silo so different but it was for me it almost felt like the strings were spaced together a lot closer than the cutlass and my valentine

That’s why Mars makes many flavors of candy bars, and why EBMM makes many favors of guitars - find the one(s) you like!

Kevin

 

[DrKev]

I don’t know what made the silo so different but it was for me it almost felt like the strings were spaced together a lot closer than the cutlass and my valentine

Weird. The string spacing is identical. Oh well!

 

[edhalen]

I wonder if the reason for that feeling of the strings being too close together is because of the Silo having a smaller neck profile vs the cutlass. The soft V of the Cutlass fills up the hand more than the Silo's neck - if that makes sense.

 

[Fender74]

Weird. The string spacing is identical. Oh well!

I know I checked all the specs on paper not a whole to of difference


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[Fender74]

I wonder if the reason for that feeling of the strings being too close together is because of the Silo having a smaller neck profile vs the cutlass. The soft V of the Cutlass fills up the hand more than the Silo's neck - if that makes sense.

That could be I never thought about that