i have one of their old Bolt model guitars that the Delos replaced. It has a swimming pool route underneath the pickguard and is almost as light as a Strandberg. Love the sustain and tone of that guitar. I bought it in 2003.
Couldn't agree more. I have a chambered walnut body zeus with a flame top and a chambered black limba body A2 with a buckeye top and both are incredibly light and balanced and the resonance is amazing!
Really glad I went for Chambered on my swamp ash Osiris, perfect weight and great percussive tone!!! Would love to see a guitar body get chambered on a video one day
Dropped a sub! I've been debating for my next guitar between a carved top, arch or chambered build. Or boring 1/2 piece haha. I get they arn't all exclusive but this was definitely helpful! I've been looking also at Kiesel's headstockless guitars. The last new guitar I bought was in the 2010s and right when I think like Steinbeingers or something were coming out? Anyways, gnar stuff. Super excited.
I'm saving up for one : D The problem with Kiesel guitars is that: once you get one, you inevitably want another one. I've got two already. They are the best two guitars i own in a collection of six.
My Strandberg has a chambered Swamp ash body and the reduced weight and more open tone are amazing. Would love to get a Kiesel with a similar config eventually
Nice content. I would like to know if a walnut chambered body is a good choice. What is the result of a walnut chambered body in term of sound in comparaison with a mahogany body ?
What would the difference be between say a chambered body with a top and a body with no top? For weight saving, would going "topless" be the best move?
Nah, just picked up a Yamaha Revstar Element and then recently a Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy. Both have modern weight relief, or in Yamaha's case, acoustic clambering. The Revstar now has Seymour Duncan '59/Custom hybrid in the neck and Distortion in the bridge. Trust me, they both crush without any problems. They're the two loudest guitars I have acousticly by far. This gives them character the other guitars in my collection can't equal. No regrets. Only added sonic territories.
Anybody who claims they can hear a sonic difference between chambered and non-chambered wood when amplified is probably a cork-sniffer lol. You have nothing to worry about, especially if you’re playing metal where any minute differences stemming from chambering will be rendered completely inaudible by distortion.
i never owned a chambered Kiesel but i have had fully chambered Gibsons and it changes the tone a little, its like adding a pinch of that throaty semi hollow dryness imo, Kiesels may have tighter less semi hollow sound because of the way they chamber.
I have a lawsuit 1975 Ibanez Les Paul with a chambered body and it ABSOLUTELY SUCKS!! Sounds like DOGS#|T, has NO sustain.. POS. Looks fantastic, but absolute JUNK. Give me a 12 lb Les Paul ANY DAY if you want tone.
I can't say i notice much of a difference sonically between my chambered and non-chambered Kiesels, but the lower weight is nice.
great video--I really like this type of video that digs into explanations of the build process. You guys are awesome.
i have one of their old Bolt model guitars that the Delos replaced. It has a swimming pool route underneath the pickguard and is almost as light as a Strandberg. Love the sustain and tone of that guitar. I bought it in 2003.
Thanks for talking it through
Chambered body ftw 🤘
Couldn't agree more. I have a chambered walnut body zeus with a flame top and a chambered black limba body A2 with a buckeye top and both are incredibly light and balanced and the resonance is amazing!
I knew you would be here!
Really glad I went for Chambered on my swamp ash Osiris, perfect weight and great percussive tone!!! Would love to see a guitar body get chambered on a video one day
Dropped a sub! I've been debating for my next guitar between a carved top, arch or chambered build.
Or boring 1/2 piece haha. I get they arn't all exclusive but this was definitely helpful! I've been looking also at Kiesel's headstockless guitars. The last new guitar I bought was in the 2010s and right when I think like Steinbeingers or something were coming out?
Anyways, gnar stuff. Super excited.
Good vid. Interesting take.
I'm saving up for one : D The problem with Kiesel guitars is that: once you get one, you inevitably want another one. I've got two already. They are the best two guitars i own in a collection of six.
My Vader Bass is chambered, it sounds so good 💯
My Strandberg has a chambered Swamp ash body and the reduced weight and more open tone are amazing. Would love to get a Kiesel with a similar config eventually
Are there any clips out there of Jeff playing guitar? He makes killer instruments but I've never heard the dude play, just curious I guess.
When chambered between the guitar pickups causes what types of problems?
Nice content. I would like to know if a walnut chambered body is a good choice. What is the result of a walnut chambered body in term of sound in comparaison with a mahogany body ?
Thanks to AH.
What would the difference be between say a chambered body with a top and a body with no top? For weight saving, would going "topless" be the best move?
Can I get a chambered alder body with an alder top? When I asked he said, no.
Right on Jeffy
Would have been cool to see the chambering before you glued the top back on.
Always scared to get one, as everyone says it mellows it out and kills a lot of attack…as a metal player, that sounds like a bad thing.
Can’t say it’s noticeable. Although my vanquish is bolt on and I’m a down picker.
Nah, just picked up a Yamaha Revstar Element and then recently a Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy. Both have modern weight relief, or in Yamaha's case, acoustic clambering. The Revstar now has Seymour Duncan '59/Custom hybrid in the neck and Distortion in the bridge. Trust me, they both crush without any problems. They're the two loudest guitars I have acousticly by far. This gives them character the other guitars in my collection can't equal. No regrets. Only added sonic territories.
Anybody who claims they can hear a sonic difference between chambered and non-chambered wood when amplified is probably a cork-sniffer lol. You have nothing to worry about, especially if you’re playing metal where any minute differences stemming from chambering will be rendered completely inaudible by distortion.
i never owned a chambered Kiesel but i have had fully chambered Gibsons and it changes the tone a little, its like adding a pinch of that throaty semi hollow dryness imo, Kiesels may have tighter less semi hollow sound because of the way they chamber.
I have a lawsuit 1975 Ibanez Les Paul with a chambered body and it ABSOLUTELY SUCKS!! Sounds like DOGS#|T, has NO sustain.. POS. Looks fantastic, but absolute JUNK. Give me a 12 lb Les Paul ANY DAY if you want tone.