New Chapman ghost fret explorer is available for pre order.

Sassafras

mart said:

Jez6345789 said:

Will still hate the reverse headstock a case of style over function.

Isn't there an argument that a reverse headstock makes bending easier on the treble strings and harder on the bass strings, thus suiting the way that many people play. I will agree it makes tuning a tiny bit more awkward, but sacrificing tuning convenience over playing convenience makes sense to me, as I'd hope to play a guitar much more than I tune it.

How does that work?

Why does it make bending the high strings easier to bend?

Loobs

Only Rob Chapman could come up with something as aesthetically unappealing as that. 

OilCityPickups

The proportions are subtly 'out' enough to make it ugly in my book. I love explorers ... but that one's manky. 

terada

Not my cup of tea if I'm honest, but in front of the right crowd that thing would completely rock

themeinside

It's almost the Dean 'Zero' Dave Mustaine signature Explorer style shape. Which, from the 'making of' video, appears to have been the basis for the 'Ghost Fret'...

Oh look- they made one in blue!

GuitarZero

This guitar shape never did much for me unfortunately.  Gibson or Chapman, I would pass.

HarrySeven

It's Vile.

 

The End.

Sassafras

I haven't seen all the Chapman guitars but all the one's I have seen look quite boring and unimaginative.

imalone

Sassafras said:

mart said:

Jez6345789 said:

Will still hate the reverse headstock a case of style over function.

Isn't there an argument that a reverse headstock makes bending easier on the treble strings and harder on the bass strings, thus suiting the way that many people play. I will agree it makes tuning a tiny bit more awkward, but sacrificing tuning convenience over playing convenience makes sense to me, as I'd hope to play a guitar much more than I tune it.

How does that work?

Why does it make bending the high strings easier to bend?

There is a slight extra amount of stretch needed to bend the strings due to them being longer, to get the same increase in tension the longer string needs to be stretched a bit further, the geometry of this also means you need to apply a bit more force (as you pull further sideways you're pulling more against the main string tension). I wrote the string bend calculator to check this out when someone pointed it out, it turns out you need about 6 inches of extra length past the nut to make 10% difference to both force and distance, so it's a small effect.
Never quite understood the 'qhost fret' obsession, I suppose it's the one that never was, so there's a bit of an achievement in that it now is. (Though as a result it's no longer special.)

rash

I thought the selling point for Chapman guitars was the price and ability to mod the guitars to your own spec, at £700 hes moving into a different market.

Its a bit pointy for my taste but it looks nice enough, I would have loved it when I was 18.

Also, what exactly is "Signature Chapman Tone" ?

Sassafras

Ah, OK, I understand about the length of string behind the nut although as you say it must only make a very slight difference.

mart

Sassafras said:

mart said:

....

How does that work?

Why does it make bending the high strings easier to bend?

I was thinking of precisely the phenomena that @imalone explained above.

Gru

It's quite a cool looking guitar. I have no idea if a neckthrough has been done before, but it's different.

Unfortunately I hate pointy guitars and even at £100 I wouldn't want one.

sunshinewelly

I quite like it

Elwood

sunshinewelly said:

I quite like i

I like it as well.

The predecessor to this was made by Jaden Rose. That can only be a good thing!

Loobs

Why did Jaden Rose and RC stop working together? 

Jez6345789

Well for me the reverse headstock means fumbling to get chubby fingers around them no prob on a strat but as I can't really see the tuners on Chapman I knock the one next to the one I am trying to tune. Never a problem on a Strat. All that said I would probably like the Ml1 I have if it had a normal headstock and was a bit less heavy. The fretting and the ebony neck makes are the good points.

OilCityPickups

Jez6345789 said:

The fretting and the ebony neck makes are the good points.

Argggggggggggggggggggg my pet hate .... it isn't an ebony 'neck' it's an ebony fingerboard!!!!

fretmeister

Nice looking thing.

Wrong scale.

imalone

Jez6345789 said:

Well for me the reverse headstock means fumbling to get chubby fingers around them no prob on a strat but as I can't really see the tuners on Chapman I knock the one next to the one I am trying to tune. Never a problem on a Strat. All that said I would probably like the Ml1 I have if it had a normal headstock and was a bit less heavy. The fretting and the ebony neck makes are the good points.

I've never tried a reverse headstock, doubtless there are people to who the bending difference is a big deal (though 10% is at the limit of our ability to judge force and that's more than the difference is going to be for a normal headstock), and there are guitars where it can look good, but it does seem like it would just be a faff trying to tune upside down. (Not much of a faff, and I've got 3 a side headstocks, but having all the tuners on the far side seems a bit weird.) The other thing is less force to bend may mean less precision, but again it's a small amount.