Any sleeper/cheap/good shredder guitars?

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#1

I’ve never owned any sort of shredder guitar or superstrat…it’s not really my music. I had a friend who brought me his high school Ibanez and wanted me to put a “jazz” pickup in the neck so I used a Seymour Duncan strat sized humbucker and it ended up being pretty cool and fun to play.

I looked that guitar up and it was in the $600s which is more than I’d spend on something I maybe wouldn’t play that much.

I was just wondering if there’s any older shredder guitars, preferably Japanese, decent quality, that go pretty cheaply these days? I’d end up pulling the pickups out. Preference would be HH or HSH but I could do with other combinations.

Thanks!

#2

So, 10 years ago or so, you could get a '90s Fujigen Ibanez kind of absurdly cheaply. I have an RG7620 I got for $500.

Unfortunately, the market caught on and the resale values skyrocketed. I’d also like to know if there’s any equivalent right now.

#3

What makes a guitar a shredder’s guitar? :slight_smile:

The main thing I can think of is that a flatter neck with low action might make legato (for me = hammer-ons and pull-offs… sorry purists) a little easier.

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#4

I know it when I see it.

Headstock is either pointy or looks like a hockey stick. Flattish fingerboard, neck is thin. Styling is “modern”.

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