The Steel Guitar Forum

Mods and now bent cross shafts. What's next? Just look around at who's playing G2's. This bent cross shaft is not a design flaw. Matter of fact, it takes a great designer/builder to even think of such an idea and then put it to use. 5 years of testing and studying this concept of the G2 guitar couldn't have been accomplished by just anybody. It took a lot of thought/time to make this happen. I'm yet to play a MULLEN I hadn't liked. I believe when other builders have stopped building guitars that the MULLEN guitars will still be going strong. Who knows, may even have a G3 or G4 down the road.

Billy says:

Mods and now bent cross shafts. What's next? Just look around at who's playing G2's. This bent cross shaft is not a design flaw. Matter of fact, it takes a great designer/builder to even think of such an idea and then put it to use. 5 years of testing and studying this concept of the G2 guitar couldn't have been accomplished by just anybody. It took a lot of thought/time to make this happen. I'm yet to play a MULLEN I hadn't liked. I believe when other builders have stopped building guitars that the MULLEN guitars will still be going strong. Who knows, may even have a G3 or G4 down the road.

Sorry Billy, if you read the thread you will see where the G2 "bent" crossrods has been shown to be a design flaw.

Not the most effecient design at all.

But that doesn't mean that the folks at Mullen are not nice people, just that they used a much less precise design in their "bent" approach.

It's really that simple.......

Man, I just don't see how Mullen is going to stay in business. They use bent cross shafts, rollers in the nut, microphone stands for legs, full depth necks, triple raise/triple lower changers, don't offer keyless tuners, use chromed and polised hardware, and only build guitars that look, play and sound terrific. I guess I'd better get another one before they go under.

What we need is an archive of pointless threads... I nominate this one.

I think you guys are getting drawn into the clutches of an internet troll.

An Internet troll is someone who posts offensive, controversial, or divisive material on an Internet community. The more you feed them, the bigger they get. The best thing to do is to walk away, since trolls feed on attention, and they will usually disappear if they are ignored.

Dave Mudgett, You expressed what I have been trying to say all along, only you did it far more eloquently and convincingly.
It really still boils down to: It works for the intended task. Therefor it is not flawed.

Lee proclaims:

An Internet troll is someone who posts offensive, controversial, or divisive material on an Internet community.

It is not meant to be offensive or controversial, or divisive. It is what it is, the truth. A simple, elementary, physical law!


Laws are laws for a reason..............



Richard says:

I restate: In a technical sense ONLY, the bent rod contains a design flaw. Your bent rod does nothing to dispel that fact. You still have two different axes which are not concentric and, thus, necessary for true rotation

This is my point!

Simple fact.....................

Sorry, no offence to anyone. If you like your G2 I am happy for you.

blah blah blah...........ad nauseam

People are repeating themselves a lot and quoting each other way too much. It's become a waste of bandwidth.

There appears to be nothing new to say about this. Everyone who is interested has had their say. I'm closing the topic now.