Originally Posted by: Poontang_clani Guess my real question is what would be better for metal and shredding a neck thru or bolt on and why they are good for metal or shredding?

Just to give you an idea of what i will be playing it will be a mix of children of bodom, metallica, racer X and iron maiden

The real question is "what is better for you?"

Alexi from CoB is playing either a set neck or a neck-through (not sure about the other guitarist), Metallica use about every neck joint imaginable, and the guitarists in Iron Maiden seem to gravitate towards Fender Stratocasters and Strat copies.

There is no magical formula of "X type of [neck joint/pickup/body style/bridge/whatever] is best for Y type of music."

The last time I went to a large hardcore show, the most populous type of guitar wasn't made by Gibson, Ibanez, ESP or any of the usual suspects you would expect for that type of music... it was the Fender Telecaster -- a "Country" guitar.

Another good example would be my basses; my best "Metal" bass isn't my five string Deluxe Active Jazz Bass V, it isn't my neck-through Peavy Grind with two humbucking pickups, it's a semi-hollowbody Dean fretless with flatwound strings -- it looks like it belongs in a Jazz quartet, but I'll tell you what, that bass SNARLS when you lay into it with your picking hand.


What you need to do (as much of a pain in the heiney as it may be) is try out [u]every[/u] guitar you can get your hands on. You'll know it right in your gut when you feel and hear that you're playing the right guitar for you.

Maybe this time you go out and get a neck-through or a bolt on... you're not commiting to this one guitar for all of eternity. In fact, chances are that in a few years, you'll own both types of guitar.