Ed Roman Scorpion

24 frets, Seymour Duncans JB and 59 on the bridge, Original Floyd Rose, ebony fretboard, basswood body, schallers or gotoh tuners, H/H configuration. Basically is a copy of a RG with "better" hardware. Painted with black skulls on a silver metallic paint and silver flames which if painted good will look awesome.

It is headed at the classic rock style which in my case you could say it fits. I use several pedalboards and rack mounted effects, Replifex and fulltone being my most used weapons.
The sound of the scorpion as I said before is a copy of a RG ibanez, it doesn't sound better cause sadly, is poorly assembled, a very LOW quality job compared with a 200dls schecter or something like that, deffintely not worth 2400 dls. A lot of work is done by the Seymours so any guitar with the same pickups will sound very similar, regardless of the no sense comments the self called TONE KING makes in you tube. Just watch his review is a really p.o.s. he just doesn't know how to make a real review.

If you don't agree go out and see it for yourself, I have been in the shop the last weekend and I saw that by no means this is a 2400 dls guitar. The frets are poorly finished, no binding and you can even see some frets ripping the lacquer which for a 2400 dls guitar is NOT acceptable. The paint has blemishes near pots, like the builder made mistakes and shoot a load of paint and then tried to fix it. The skull pots which look cool are gigling in a very loose way like a very abused guitar, not the silky and firm feeling of a new RG prestige Ibanez (1200 dls and not 2400).
With all this little care I was not interested in seeing if the tremolo will stand, I have my doubts.
The set up was high not a shredder set up which is the suppoused target market for this guitar. Curiously I saw most of the guitars Ed has in his shop are poorly set up, I don't know if he does this on pourpuse so you need to pay an extra for a proper set up.
But again for a 2400 dls guitar this should not be happening.

I don't know for sure if this will last, you can't say you will build a better guitar just by poorly assembling good parts, you need expertise and fine tuning, high quality machinery and most of all a real commitment with quality which in the case of Ed Roman it seems like past history.
I would not depend on something built like this... the finish well it has blemishes already so....
An RG Ibanez has a ZPS tremolo, which is much more reliable and a joy to dive bomb knowing that if you miss a string it will NOT go out of tune. And after 20 extreme dive bombs a ZPS will NOT go out of tune I have seen it. Not the case with a floyd.
I think a Scorpion by no means can be compared to a Team J-craft guitar, it is just a lot more techologically advanced, and it doesnt cost 2400 but 1000 at the most. I am comparing it because Ed's tries to sell this Scorpion as a BETTER Ibanez and is NOT truth, it is just NOT truth, do yourself a favor and go and check it out before he runs and corrects it... don't be fooled pls.

I don't know anything but bad histories about the Grumpy Ed once you try to return something, he will give you 40-50% of its original cost arguing he can find similar guitars on ebay for that price.
The day I was in the shop some young guy entered and begun questioning about some guitars, the seller answered, are you going to buy or do you want just to fool around??... WHAAAT???... it was a long haired painted eyes rocker wannabe. The guy that help me was a very nice guy trying to sell giving a lot of fool arguments but a nice seller it was trying to do his job I guess he was a tall, thin monster family look alike hahah... but real a nice guy... but as I said, it depends who attends you. As I can see Roman quality is very heterogenous from his guitars to the people he has to sell his stuff and the self called luthiers.

Been playing for 15 years since I was a kid, mostly as a audiophile and a hobbyst sooo
I just invite you to go and check the truth about his stuff, I don't own a shop nor I am an artist. I just love guitars and I love to spend on them, but I really pay dollar by dollar when quality comes by the door. And in this case the Roman Scorpion will never enter that door for me.
Don't trust a seller who talks bad about all other companies like gibson, prs, etc.etc... to sell his stuff. If your stuff is good quality it will be appreciated by all the people regardless if anyone says whatever .... I don't see Cartier watches saying Omega is a p.o.s and ours are better because of this and this...
With High quality stuff this will never happen.
You can be recognized by your complains, just remember that.
Ed complains about every company... And I got to say that if I have read his arguments about Gibson I wont have buyed my les paul standard which by the way sounds muuuuuch better and with no flaws or anything low quality like Ed's guitars.