GAS for OldSkool Heavy metal single pickup superstrats??! Anyone help me ??!!

riffpowers

Went to see Haunt the other day, great band, and they were playing superstrat stype guitars.

Singer was playing a single pickup kramer, the other guitarist was playing a single pickup fender superstrat type that had 1 pickup, a side mounted jack, and a black headstock.

It had me reminiscing about my kramer aerostar that I had in the late 80's.

So it got me thinking - what;s a good bang for buck single pickup NWOBHM style superstrat for me to keep my eye out for?

Bennyboy-UK

Dare say, its a little bit pricey, but this would make you an instant hero

https://reverb.com/item/27236692-1987-hamer-chaparral-custom-in-snakeskin-graphic 

riffpowers

Bennyboy-UK said:

Dare say, its a little bit pricey, but this would make you an instant hero

https://reverb.com/item/27236692-1987-hamer-chaparral-custom-in-snakeskin-graphic 

Why didn't I think of something like that!!

I'll keep my eye open.

Stevepage

BC rich gunslinger. There's one on eBay at the moment

Alnico

Stevepage said:

BC rich gunslinger. There's one on eBay at the moment

That's what I came here to say.

Awesome guitar, I had mine in '89 I think.

breakstuff

Put one together yourself. Probably the wrong colour for a NWOBHM style guitar, but all in mine probably owes me around £300/350. Painted it myself though, so getting someone else to do it would obviously increase the price.

 

Bennyboy-UK

Stevepage said:

BC rich gunslinger. There's one on eBay at the moment

Thats a GREAT shout - in GREEN!

Flanging_Fred

None. More. Metal.

TTBZ

I’ve wanted a single pickup Charvel Model 1 for ages but the prices seem to have gone up a bit. I had a Model 1C years ago and loved the neck on it despite normally being a Gibson player. Sold it for stupidly cheap, as is the way with most of my guitar related sales

riffpowers

TTBZ said:

I’ve wanted a single pickup Charvel Model 1 for ages but the prices seem to have gone up a bit. I had a Model 1C years ago and loved the neck on it despite normally being a Gibson player. Sold it for stupidly cheap, as is the way with most of my guitar related sales

I'm a long time gibson player so I'm lost when it comes to other stuff!

TTBZ

Possibly not 80s enough but ESP/LTD have the black metal range which are single pickup blacked out versions of the M/EC/Viper models. Hardtail too so you don’t have a useless trem to mess about with.

Or their new ‘87 series.

clarkefan

riffpowers said:

TTBZ said:

I’ve wanted a single pickup Charvel Model 1 for ages but the prices seem to have gone up a bit. I had a Model 1C years ago and loved the neck on it despite normally being a Gibson player. Sold it for stupidly cheap, as is the way with most of my guitar related sales

I'm a long time gibson player so I'm lost when it comes to other stuff!

I'm with you on that, I find Fender and Gibson scales are very different.  

There are some superstrats with Gibson scale, like the Nightswan, but it's a slog trying to go through every effing listing trying to find them.

You'd think Andertons, etc, would make that a selectable search option...

Modellista

Could you wear this well?  None more pink.

Alnico

If you want to be 80's metal but you also want to be a bit of a lad about it, take an HSS 80's metal guitar and remove the two single coils and any tone controls or switch and leave the gaping holes in a devil-may-care kind of nod to Van-Halen.

Depends how pretty you want to look while doing it?

Funkfingers

Charvel Model series is a good call.

Ibanez RG410 Roadstar II.

Ibanez RS315 is a nice guitar but the Hard Rocker vibrato is probably best blocked off flush against the body.

Squier Hello Kitty Strat + white high output humbucker = serious Rawk geetar.

hollywoodrox

Ltd GL 200 mt. tiger stripe

hollywoodrox

There’s a yellow Korean gunslinger on eBay with a genuine Floyd but he won’t post

Philly_Q

You mentioned the NWOBHM, those guys slightly pre-dated the single pickup Superstrat era and many started out using customised regular Strats.

With that in mind, I always thought Joe Holmes was cool with his highly-modified '70s Strats (not sure if he got new necks made or somehow had a 22nd fret added)

Gizmo

hollywoodrox said:

There’s a yellow Korean gunslinger on eBay with a genuine Floyd but he won’t post

Wont post for random ebay'ers but maybe for trusted FB members

Kittyfrisk

Must admit, I always considered 'superstrats' as being punchy with humbuckers, maybe extra pickups, upgraded trems etc.  although I do love the minimalist look.

Basically, guitars, I like them fat, I like them tall, some skinny, some small, I got to get to know them all  :-D

Kittyfrisk

Modellista said:

Could you wear this well?  None more pink.

Welcome to the 2020's.
Where you can admire another chap's splendid pink thing without fear of misunderstanding...