u/Andoni95 — reddlx

Recently I came across a youtuber, Andrew Baena on my feed and was inspired to buy a 7 string and to cross genre. I have been playing guitar for 2 years, but i mostly stay in the rock genre. My current level is I can play 90% of any classic rock song from 70s to 2000s quite comfortably. I mostly cover rock guitar solos. The usual stuff, Stairway to Comfortably Numb to Fade to Black. Which is why i was looking to branch out to look for other genres to challenge myself.

Looking at Andrew Baena, my technical abilities are not good enough to chug at that level and i want to challenge myself to improve. Also think its fun moving from classic rock and metal to prog, djent, and modern metal.

I have quite a few eletric guitars, but i'm thinking of selling my Ibanez J Custom RG 8570 (see third picture) because I don't really bond with the color, and also because i want to fund the purchase of my 7 string. Its a great guitar otherwise, really love the neck and this guitar allows me to play fast and sweep effortlessly. But i dont like the middle pickup and the knob placement as it gets in my way of my palm mutes.

What do you guys think of the HZK1?

I really like it because of the color primarily. I think it looks sick and im someone who needs to like looking at his guitar to bond with it. The guitar has no tone knob and no middle pickup which makes it great for modern guitar playing. Only catch is its not a fixed bridge so i would not be able to change tunings. This might be a b standard only guitar. I also dont know how fishman pickups soundlike or if i would hate the wider neck of a 7 string that i would totally be okay not playing 7 strings. This guitar is Japan only so i would need to buy blind, which complicates matter.

Separately, which grain do you prefer (picture 3 vs 4). Picture 3 has fewer black streaks on the guitar body, a cleaner look, while picture 4 has more black streaks.