The maranello it's called, and this is their special anniversary with a glitter neck unlike the usual. Looks cool. Just rout for a jazzy trem, stick in some single coils, probably lipsticks, and we might have a winner
Apologies if I'm behind on the news but I think it looks pretty dapper
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I thought Italia always did this sort of stuff? I quite like the moulded strat jack bit, even though it's a really naff bit of terrible design that's bound to break and not be fixable.
It's a generic bolt on LP copy with generic humbuckers. I get that they look cool and all, but I don't get why anyone would pay more than say £80 for one.
Bacchus wrote:I get that they look cool and all, but I don't get why anyone would pay more than say £80 for one.
I don't get why your mind went there. Have you actually played one? If not, that seems overly cynical and silly.
The prices for these are weirdly inconsistent. I'd pay the £300 HotRox has them for quite happily but no way would pay the £500+ some places are trying to sell them at. They are decent enough guitars. Better than any Epiphones or Eastwoods in that price range.
theshadowofseattle wrote:less being WOKE
more being STOKED
I absolutely LOVED the one I played, was brilliant. That pickguard is floating on springs (or spring mounted, whatever you want to call it) and the construction is kind of semi-hollow, so it's got its own sound, kind of like a Dano. I'd have one in a heartbeat, although it's feast and famine - there were loads secondhand on eBay, then fuck all lately (it's one of my saved searches).
Paul, I take your point, but that logic could be applied to just about any guitar apart from the really obscure stuff (ie. you could find a three single trem guitar/two pickup country-looking/double HB pointy thing for under £80).
COMEDY FACT: don't ask me how I know this, but at the end of the recent Manic Street Preachers Cardiff gig, it too James Dean Tony Blackburn about twenty minutes of embarrassing guitar smashing to even make a dent on Nicky Wire's bass. In his defence, his closing words as he left the stage more than a little breathless were: "Buy a fucking Maranello - they're really well made".
£650 is way too expensive so will look for one used. they need to bring that sparkle board on other colours too - the champagne body is maybe a little too grandiose.
its my dream to be that guy with the blingy/silly gear that people say "wow, hope he can pull that off with his playing" and then i do
benecol wrote:I absolutely LOVED the one I played, was brilliant. That pickguard is floating on springs (or spring mounted, whatever you want to call it) and the construction is kind of semi-hollow, so it's got its own sound, kind of like a Dano. I'd have one in a heartbeat, although it's feast and famine - there were loads secondhand on eBay, then fuck all lately (it's one of my saved searches).
Paul, I take your point, but that logic could be applied to just about any guitar apart from the really obscure stuff (ie. you could find a three single trem guitar/two pickup country-looking/double HB pointy thing for under £80).
COMEDY FACT: don't ask me how I know this, but at the end of the recent Manic Street Preachers Cardiff gig, it too James Dean Tony Blackburn about twenty minutes of embarrassing guitar smashing to even make a dent on Nicky Wire's bass. In his defence, his closing words as he left the stage more than a little breathless were: "Buy a fucking Maranello - they're really well made".
I also think they look Roxy as fuck.
Watched that Performance and laughed like fuck at his determination to smash the bass... 10\10 for effort looked like a pure dick though....
