The 8 string electric guitar, commonly used by Stations, Meshugah, Scale the Summit, Rusty Cooley, Fear Factor (formerly), Deftones, Dino Cazares of Assesino, High on Fire, After the Burial among other metal artists is frequently tuned to regular 4ths (fourths). Sometimes, it is accompanied with 2 additional basses (i.e. Low to High) F#,B,E,A,D,G,B,E. Marten Hagstrom and Fredrik Thordendal of the group Messuggah, normally tune their eight string guitars to F, Bb, EB, Aa, Dd, GB, Bb, Eb in addition to one or two semitones under this tuning. Metal artist, Rusty Cooley has been spotted using both one additional treble and bass string. Various small luthier companies now offer the 8 string electric guitar model such as Mike Shermann, Hufschmid BlackDroid and BlackMachine.
Makers of the eight string pick up include EMG, Barenuckle, Haussel, Nordstrand, Lunegren, 
Swineshead and Seymour Duncan custom shop. The RG2228, which is a single 8 string electric guitar production from Ibanez, was first introduced in March 2007, during the year’s winter NAMM show. The electric guitar feature includes the bolt-on, 27″ scale (baritone) bolt on neck. The introduction marked the first ever, solid body eight electric guitar mass production and a similar model is played by guitarist Dino Cazares of Divine Heresy as well as Dave Kavanagh, the frontman of the Stations.
In 2007, the A440Hz string which is effective for 30 ” guitar scales without the use of fanned fretboard was introduced by Octave4plus, providing a practical tuning option for the seven, eight and nine string electrical guitars. The A440Hz strings can be able to tune as far as B4, 493.88Hz on the 28″ scale. Blackmachine, an European manufacturer is a popular provider of the 8 string electric guitar. These guitars are the fanned fret or F8 and the 8 model. Although these models were originally experiments by their creator, they are now part and parcel of Balckmachine’s product line. One prominent user of the 8 string electrical guitars is Clive Jevons a member of Bludgeoned, a German band.
Schecter Guitar Reaserch, a guitar manufacturing company created a short-run of a hundred custom shop guitars (C-8 Hellraiser). These guitars feature a 26.5″ scale. The C-8 Hellraiser guitars were part of the company’s 2009 official line, though they were set for a special release in the year. At the moment, there is no information whether the 8 string electric guitar will be added or excluded as part of the Hellraiser guitar series to become a regular part of the company’s line up.
Ever since 2008 spring, Rondo Music an American importer-distributor has been availing preorders for the small-scale production budget eight-string electrical guitar model, named Agile Intrepid, produced in Korea. The 8-string guitar features 28.625-inch scale neck, including graphite nut and twenty-four Jumbo frets. All of the models utilize Grover die cast tuners and string-thru body fixed bridge. Pro models comprise walnut neck/ neck-through five piece maple with the wings constructed using mahogany. Standard guitar models consist of bolt-on three-piece maple neck alongside a three-piece ash body construction. Majority of the 8 string electric guitar features single EMG’s 808 or passive humbucker and maple fretborad. However, there is an option of using ebony and rosewood fretboard on the 8 string electric guitar, in addition to dual humbuckers.
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