The Guitar I Couldn’t Give Back! ( Sorry Fender)
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How many of you guys and gals are rocking scalloped fretboards?
Check out the original video HERE - th-cam.com/video/Bh3P4yPxA2g/w-d-xo.html
I wish! 🖖🏻 I’d like a Kirk esp with scalloped frets
i got the Malmsteen's Made In Japan. love it. when i first try it, its like playing for the first time. i dont how know how to explain it, i got hooked.
So for me it was like, I just played this one Strat for a year or two and then I had to switch to a Les Paul. That felt like a slap in the face, a real downgrade.The scalloped strat played almost by itself and the les paul was much worse to play 🤷♂️
Honestly dude, it’s not just you. I can totally hear a difference in your playing. It really does have more attitude.
Man you are right those pickups are sweet! I dont know I have tried the scalloped neck before but, i see the one you have has been setup to perfection. Low action and intonnated etc. Great to find a guitar that fits your one or your playing styles. I would like it too cause I like to dig in and just strangle the neck really coloring outside the lines
Warning: I’ve played scallop fretboard for 30 years…they are extremely addicting,nothing feels or plays like it.If you develop the light touch it does make playing other guitars more difficult..IMO beginners should start with a scalloped fretboard to develop the light touch from the start!!!!… then scalloped will be the norm….as it should be.Less is Less.
So true
I had my Pro II Strat's neck scalloped earlier this year by Joe Stump's luthier at DC Custom Guitars, and it's honestly, without question, the coolest thing I've ever experienced on guitar. You really don't realize how much you touch the fretboard until it's not there, even with extra jumbo frets, and when it's not there, it's magical.
Also, I'm not affiliated with Dean at DC, but I would highly recommend his work. My neck came back very cleanly scalloped.
Ive used them before and the neck came back great!
@@RobinDeLeon_ whatckind of guitar did you send him? I think my E-II Arrow is going soon 😊
Just out of curiosity what did it run you. Got to cheaper than $5,500.
@@clos5700 depends. Bolt on necks like my Strat was $230 total, including the return shipping (well, plus $30 to ship it to him), i forget what set necks cost but i think it was around $300, plus whatever it costs to ship the whole guitar to him, which is probably around 60 or 70 bucks.
Agree with the observations. The scalloped board feels a little odd at first, but once you get into it it’s all you want to use for solos… The pickups are unlike anything else. In a clean channel they sound very soft and vintage. But at high gain they turn into beasts.
"Don't hit it so hard"! Were the words of wisdom I still remember from the "Grown up" Guitar players from my youth but I just keep banging it anyway.
I've often wondered if something like that would take your touch to a different level over the years playing refretted or partially refretted worn down finger boards there waa definitely a difference more attack more tone more feel I'll have to maybe scout the local shops for a scalloped neck for a test drive now 😆 thanks bro👍🎸✌
Not a Strat guy myself
Same, I have an irrational hatred of them
What kind of guitar do you like if you don’t mind me asking?
@@Winstonrodney6989 SGs, Teles, etc.
@@Braineaters8 SG is one guitar I’ve never played. I’m definitely going to have to try one soon. I’ve always been more of a strat guy but after getting a les Paul recently and loving the sustain I get out of it I am starting to get interested in trying different things. Cheers!
@@Winstonrodney6989 It’s definitely worth it! I adore SGs with a passion. Certainly my favorite Gibson guitar. Cheers!
Dammit now I want a scalloped neck
The Yngwie style jam you played... literally better than Yngwie
Robert is such a cool cat it's easy to forget what a beast of a player he is!
Yeah, normally only jerks are good at guitar (😂 jk 😉)
I've never seen you that excited to play a guitar. It makes me really want to pick up a scalloped neck and check it out.
I've been playing scalloped Strats for literally decades. I don't think I could ever go back to a regular Strat! I've even been scalloping quite a few of them myself. It takes a bit of time but it is totally worth the effort. I prefer the DIMarzio HS3, HS2 and YJM (now called the HS4) to the Seymour Duncan pickups.
I've had the pleasure of playing one before, it's neat, I wouldn't want it always, and cording is gone, forget it, unless you depress the strings with the lightest touches, I find it wonks the strings intonation out.
That fretboard will make bends and vibrato much easier.
The Seymour Duncan YJM Fury is a beast. If I'm not wrong, Yngwie use 8 gauge strings 🤘
Would you really expect that the guitar that was designed for the Maestro was not perfect? YJM may boast about his guitar and pick ups all the time, but they are as great as he says. I think his Strat has the best tone I ever heard from a Fender.
Congratulations! So glad that you kept this BEAST, Robert!
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I had a couple YJM Fender Strats that were my main guitars for many years. A 2004 red candy apple/rosewood board one and a 2005 sonic blue/maple board one. Great guitars and so nice to have total control of a string when bending, and friction-less vibrato also. I am not sure why more Blues players don't play them. Most people want to feel wood and press too hard when they first pick one up. Just play it like you normally would play any guitar and you will be fine. Most people who tried my guitars loved them. I used to say "just play it like a normal guitar." A few years back I ended up selling them and started going a different direction with guitars and caught the Fender Custom Shop Relic bug.
Woah them licks be malmsteamy!!!! 🤯
I like scalloped potatoes, have yet to try that recipe on a guitar
I am a 61 year old player still trying to emulate jazz players from the 50's, but I find this fascinating.
Long live Lord Yngwie and his battle axe!
Don't understand why scalloped hasn't become the norm. It's so much better
Is a scalloped guitar only for shreddy type stuff? What about other styles of music? That would be an interesting video topic and experiment.
Enjoy your new guitar!
Isn't Steve Vai playing scalloped pia's now?Not the bottom 4 frets but actual scalloped neck.
This is one of the coolest videos I have seen in quite some time! It’s awesome to see a great player and video producer actually light up and get that ‘kid on Christmas morning’ excitement about a guitar!! Great job! Congratulations! Enjoy!
I always wanted to try one of those. It really sounds amazing!!! 🤘🤘
3:18 less is more..... but don't tell Yngwie 😅
I had an opportunity to buy one of these about a decade ago for a great price but, when I played it, I realized I am very left hand heavy. I couldn't play a chord in tune to save my life. Even single notes would go sharp. I thought about trying to lighten my touch but I'd already been playing 30 years so I turned it down. Great pickups (I think the one I played still had his DiMarzio set).
I want to know if it's a thinner style neck or is it a baseball bat style neck ?
"The heart wants what the heart wants..."
I own an older version with the DiMarzio PUs.
I am nowhere near Robert‘s chops but I completely agree on the lighter touch!
I love it.
Blackmore's Strat have "progressive scalloping" lower frets are less "cut" and really interesting pickups
*It would be cool to do a comparison video with the Malmsteen Strat, and the guitar that inspired Yngwie to go scalloped, the Ritchie Blackmore Strat...* 🤔
My parents bought me a Yngwie Strat for my 18th birthday in 2005. Nearly 20 years later I still play it almost every day!
Yngwie has got the legendary tone! This concept inspired me to make my own signature guitar. I got a mid 90s Ibanez EX series just like when I was a kid 😂 I hydro dipped it this crazy blue and swapped out the pups for two humbuckers for overwound with bright and punchy in the bridge and smooth and mellow on the neck. I also switched to a two knob setup because the damn volume knob is always too close to the strings 🤣 Ive made that mod on a lot of my guitars. But this one I also scalloped the fretboard. I set it up with heavies and tuned it to D. It's a much wilder variation of this idea yngwie has because you've got the Floyd rose and you've got true humbuckers in the bridge.
Dude you are a savage
Congratulations, a guitar with a scalloped fretboard is a must have, especially if it sounds as good as this one. 🔥👍
killer intro demo jam!
You just need a red Ferrari to finish the Yngwie look
So you're a thief
Surprised that a shredder like you hadn't played a scalloped fret before.
Communist Democrats play guitar ?
Man that sounds so good!
Thank you by dude. See you in a few weeks.
The response on those pickups is impressive. Another youtuber, elmo j. karjalainan, uses this same strat model on his channel. Ive never played one, but its bizarre how every time i see someone play one of these that they always become addicted to them.
John Nathan Cordy is one of those guys who leaves the foil on, even the hang tags are still on there. My eye starts to twitch if I see that. Good Job man! haha.
My ocd struggles with that string tree. Nice video tho :D
How does it feel playing chord voicings on this guitar ???
is it also good for chordings and different styles that you showed in this video? Why don't jazzers use scalloped fret guitars?
What’s the song you’re playing in this ? BADASSSS!!!!!!
To teach their own, but if this thing were that cool, all guitars would be scalloped, not only two or three models. Great playing btw
I don’t play in a style where a scalloped fretboard would be useful, but holy crap that sounds incredible
Please do a Yngwie course!!
For sure :)
I posted that the light touch would transfer to the other guitars instead of the other way around. I'll add, it might end up being healthier for your hands as you get older. You're still fairly young but time marches on and a lighter grip will be a good thing in your later years.
Thats a great point. I've certainly been learning as the years go on the lighter and more relaxed you can be the better it is.
When you See the color, and you instantly know the model.....
I probably made some snarky comment on the first video but that guitar really is cool. And the stuff you're doing with it is totally rad. I love all that harmonized lead stuff. So good.
Robert- do you have any issues with the high E string slipping off fretboard?
Your biggest fan from Nepal sir...pls do guitar giveaway 🙏💟
Yngwie talks about missing one, how.....
Imagine that with the modern 22 fretboard scalloped neck, with the contoured heel 🤔
I got same guitar but maple neck 2012. Bucket list guitar
That Strat doesn't like donuts .............. !!!!!!!!!!
Sounded worse after you took the plastic off. Tone plastic is real.
Sound is amazing...what gear are you using?
great sound,,,,,,sweet metal sound ,melodic
Always knew I wanted one. Always wanted to own a set of those YJM Duncans too. Now I really want a YJM. Gee. Thanks. Just wish they would be less yellow or come out with a black one. I’d pull the trigger on a black one right now.
Those pickups do sound gnarly.
Came for the guitar review, stayed for the plastic-removing ASMR. What content! :)
After watching this video I went and got a Malmsteen Strat. Dang it! You can cash your Fender cheque now. Your work is done 😜
scalloped fretboard not for me thanks 🤢
How is the string spacing on yours? Do the E strings slip off the fretboard like many people say?
I have a 2018 Gibson Heavy Metal flying V, I still haven't peeled the plastic lol
Now you need a mint green pickguard ;)
I kinda wanna see this guitar headless and want a tone comparison :)
I fight between my les paul and my strat. Les paul plays smoother but strat more comfortable but need to. Play with finesse.
Everytime I see the ADA MP-1 in your rack I seriously regret selling mine….
Nice new Gaff!!! Cool guitar too
Hey dude, are you alright? You look different… love the YJM!
I’ve never had the inclination to want to play one of these. Enjoy!
It's deff a rad git for sure.
I was like oh it's a Yngwie signature straight away, never played one but about a week ago I watched him explain what it is about scallops, he said perfectly to me, and made me want to try it, said it's much less work to play...he said it to, can't play anything but scallops...
Warmoth sells scalloped necks. If you just want to try it without going all in that’s the way to go IMHO.
I'm sorry Robert I have to say it esp and schecter guitar's are better than fender or Gibson. Played a strat before and I think that schecter guitar's are way better than Gibson and fender.
Robert, how hot are those pickups?
What string gauge do you use on the YJM?
Yeah the scalloped neck forces you to play properly from your left hand.
You can’t not be accurate plus light touched.
Damn Mann !! your good !!
Many guitar players trying many brands from Anderson,Suhr,Pensa and more brands and that's mean that this guys don't know what want , Yngwie know he said on the new video of Fender :" I know what i want to play ".
Guys like Neal Schon trying many brands and sound almost the same ,Yngwie don't need jump over many brands.
All of my guitars, strats, charvels, gibson V's, have all been scalloped since the late 80's. I really don't like guitars with a regular fretboard. It feels like the wood on a regular board requires more effort to do anything...
... plus when you sweat, scalloped fingerboards are a godsend. Grip and control for days.
Back in the day people said that Yngwie did it for speed - but slightly higher strings and a scalloped board is harder to play fast.
I wish they had those with a upside down headstock on them. I like the ones he had with the upside down headstock.
Remember when this Strat come out, and didn't like the look. Not at all. Have yet to play one, tho.
"I haven't even taken the plastic off it yet."
I never do. Literally. I have a couple Fenders I have had for years now, and they still have the plastic. The joke is my guitars will never relic, because I will never allow them to. i am that OCD meticulous about taking care of my stuff.
You're so spot in about vibe. It's why I can't go for any EVH -type guitar. It would just mske me wanna crank the gain and delay and such and just wank out. Nothing wrong with that, but I'm really just trying to stay true to my voice:expression, lesser than EVH it obviously is.
Talking about, talking... Ok
I had one. I loved it. Amazing for bends, which are effortless. Once you try this, you will find that the fretboard holds you back on standard guitars. The con here is making chords...forget it. You need to press with even pressure with all fingers, exactly, or the chord is out of tune. Not a big deal for metal, but clean chords, nope....especially if you need to stretch fingers to make the chord.
Not for Jazz for sure.... regular chords np.
Talk. Talk. Talk.
Play more.
what are we playing through here?
Those pups are super hot too, aren't they?
Cool video of a sweet guitar!
I'd like to own a Strat like that, and I've owned a few in my time. Great video.
I can't afford one of those, so I've started building one on my own. Poplar body I'm going to do a black/red burst on, baked maple scalloped fret neck, Fishman Fluence active single coils, standard Strat tremelo, locking tuners, 8 gauge D'Addario strings. Almost $2000 less than the cost of the Fender Yngwie Strat on retail.
I played an Yngwie Strat in a music store some years ago, but it seems like every single music store puts 10's or 11's on their floor models. It was dreadful to play.
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You so remind me of David Spade. I love it lol