Hagstom Sweetone

Berto · Post by **Berto** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:17 pm

has anyone played one of these before? i first saw one in a franz ferdinand video i watched and fell in love with the look. thoughts?

robroe · Post by **robroe** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:01 pm

it has its place.

it makes me glad in a way that there were smaller companies like hagstrom and italia that took a guitar design and went waaaaaaay over the top with it to the point where all the extra shit on it serves no purpose at all.

im also glad fender or gibson never fell into the trap of trying to outdo them plasterning pearloid all over every part of the guitar. it will always look weird to me at a curved angle....like my brain cant process pearloid in any other form than a flat piece of plastic under the strings on a guitar.

that being said...its a nice guitar to have, i don't think i would ever make it any kind of a daily player though

timhulio · Post by **timhulio** » Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:04 pm

They're very rare and expensive. Well, expensive by Hag standards. Maybe Â£800-1200, if you can find one. I've never played one, but apparently (check the Hagstrom UK site for facts) you can't refret the plastic fretboards so look out for fretwear.

Hagstrom made accordions before these guitars, hence the pearloid craziness.

Also, the central pickup unit is designed to be hot-swapable, which is quite a cool idea. Take the humbucker block out and chuck in a single coil pickup unit if you fancy a different sound.

Berto · Post by **Berto** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:19 am

plastic fretboards?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:04 am

Do want.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:06 am

good luck finding one. vintage and rare in london had a red one for a while for the actually-not-outrageous price of Â£750 but that was a couple of years ago.

i seem to remember james's mates in san fransisco bought a batch of like, 10 of them from some old widow or summat, really cool purple ones an' all.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:58 pm

the elusive formicatop

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:30 am

gpselmer wrote:want one

gonnae no dae that? just... gonnae no?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:25 pm

Couple of these on ebay right now.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:32 pm

there are some cool hagstrom basses on ebay.com just now, including one with this rather amusing subtitle:

May have been crafted using magic, by gnomes. Not sure.

Berto · Post by **Berto** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:24 pm

the control plate is pretty much my favorite thing about this guitar

Pale Ale · Post by **Pale Ale** » Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:15 pm

When I see the pearloid like that it jsut makes me think of bowling balls.