Hot or Not? Limited Edition Excalibur Shawn Lane Signature

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To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the passing of Shawn Lane, Vigier, pioneers of carbon fibre technology, is proud to announce the limited edition, Excalibur Shawn Lane Signature, in Paradise White. Production will be limited to 10 guitars for the public.

Relatively unknown in France, this virtuoso guitarist inspired a cult following in the United States, so much so, that his signature model is now one of our best export models.

This special guitar incorporates all the unique features of the Excalibur Shawn Lane Signature, namely:
- A slightly shorter scale of 630mm (a typical Excalibur is 650mm)
- A flat fingerboard that allows the lowest possible action across the board.
We guarantee 0.7 mm on the 12th fret of the High E, and 1 mm on the Low E.

We’re confident this is the lowest supplied action of any production guitar!

Features unique to this collectors piece are; Paradise White colour, matching pickguard, white pickup bobbins as well as special white control knobs and switches.

In photo to the left is the first guitar numbered 0/10 and for the Lane family.

Guitars are currently in production in our Grigny workshop near Paris and will be shipped later in October. Due to this very limited run, please contact your Vigier dealer right away, to secure your collectors piece Shawn Lane Master Signature.
 
  • Alder body
  • Bolt-in maple neck with carbon reinforcement rod (90/10), D shape
  • Flat rosewood fingerboard with 24 frets, Zero fret and Dot inlays
  • Nut width: 42mm
  • Scale length: 630mm
  • String height at 12th fret: 0.7mm for high E and 1mm for low E
  • Vigier locking tuners
  • 2 DiMarzio Air Classic humbucker neck and bridge pickups, one DiMarzio FS1 single coil middle pickup
  • Master volume, master tone, 5-way pickup switch
  • Vigier 2011 bridge with non locking tremolo
  • Hardshell included
 
I'm not a huge fan of white guitars, Blackmore's Strat & Lifeson's 355 aside...but I'd rock that. It looks nice :)
 
Jbird said:
I'm not a huge fan of white guitars, Blackmore's Strat & Lifeson's 355 aside...but I'd rock that. It looks nice :)
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what attracts me is the flat radius, which means you can set the action extremely low

also, you may like the look of the 'regular' SL sig:

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Prefer the looks of the regular one but I'm not a fan of having a zero fret and would prefer a locking trem on this type of guitar. Build quality is likely to be nothing less than exceptional from the little I know about Vigier however.
 
Gorgon90 said:
Prefer the looks of the regular one but I'm not a fan of having a zero fret and would prefer a locking trem on this type of guitar. Build quality is likely to be nothing less than exceptional from the little I know about Vigier however.
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apparently the zero fret is removable, so that wouldn't be an issue. I tried another Vigier and the playability was phenomenal. Their tremolos are quite spongy feeling, very responsive, but something you need to get used to.
 
Super low action and a very flat radius aren't what I'm looking for in a guitar, but I also can't play like Shawn so the effect is lost on me anyhow. I think its a sharp looking instrument. I wouldn't enjoy playing it though.
 
I would buy one of the 10 without ever getting to try it out, but I really would enjoy the opportunity to try it.
 
I would have given my left testicle in a prior guitar-playing life. Now I'd love to play it but can't see myself investing in something like that.
 
I've wanted to try one of these since I heard about the Master model first coming out.
I bet it's spectacular.
It's so expensive though, it's ridiculous.

And, in all the years of hearing about Vigier guitars I've never seen one in person, ever.
There's never been a dealer with 500 or even 1000 miles of here.
When visiting other cities or countries I've never seen one either.

My Carvin with the 20" Holdsworth radius (basically flat as a pancake) must be similar.
And in some ways it's (IMO) nicer than the bolt-on Vigier as it has a very ergonomic neck joint.

With the stainless frets and low action of the Carvin it is a very fast action (even faster than the Jackson Soloist I used to own) but the flat radius takes some getting used to.

I've got other guitars with radiuses from 12 to 16.5" and the slight curvature helps accomplish what I call "normal guitaristic things" like blues bending at the edges of the fretboard....

On the Carvin the flat radius allows for stupid fast high speed playing but it requires a modest (slight but noticeable) adjustment to certain types of bending (and a corresponding de-adjustment when going back to other instruments) and other "standard stuff" like certain chording chores.

I still like it, it's just a bit of an adjustment coming from a guy who's played "conventionally radiused guitars" for years.
 
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