Fender PawnShop Series

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Wed Apr 13, 2011 8:13 pm

mahogany isn't even that dark, it's a reddish brown, similar to the inside of george's hat brim.

fools.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:40 am

Couple of vids

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iCEByTes · Post by **iCEByTes** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:58 am

taylornutt wrote:Couple of vids

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holy jolly of mess. bridge is very gibsonish sound and neck is so clean so crystal.
fuck the purists , that mustang is killer.

Dannymec · Post by **Dannymec** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 5:07 am

iCEByTes wrote:
taylornutt wrote:Couple of vids

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holy jolly of mess. bridge is very gibsonish sound and neck is so clean so crystal.
fuck the purists , that mustang is killer.

Yeah that demo changed my mind. I wasn't a fan of putting humbuckers in a mustang, but those sound great!

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:16 am

taylornutt wrote:[youtube][/youtube]

DO WANT

Lucamo · Post by **Lucamo** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:56 am

HAHAHA, do want too.

The Idea of a Mustang with splittable humbuckers is smart.

Post by **Mike** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:24 am

Freddy V-C wrote:
taylornutt wrote:[youtube][/youtube]
DO WANT

Yeah that guy just sold them about 1,000 of these.

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:36 am

The Mustang is very close to this one: http://proguitarshop.com/store/guitars- ... 150-p-3058

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:58 pm

Mike wrote:
Freddy V-C wrote:
taylornutt wrote:[youtube][/youtube]
DO WANT
Yeah that guy just sold them about 1,000 of these.

Definitely gave a taste of what they can do (unlike the troglodytes in the other video)! Damn there's a lot of tonal variation on tap there... might almost be worth the ridiculous prices.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:03 pm

What the fuck was that shit he was doing at the start. Fuck that.

Nice guitar though.

George · Post by **George** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:04 pm

The clean sound is very disappointing, which is down to the amp no doubt. Drive sounds ace. Definitely trying one of these out in Reading at the weekend. It's at the infamous "mahogany fingerboard" shop, Dawsons.

Post by **Mike** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 8:01 am

LAWL, Dawsons.

I could definitely hear great cleans in there behind the quiet/crap amp settings. The range of tones he was getting was impressive.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Fri Apr 15, 2011 9:04 am

The string gauge on these is intolerable from factory... they seem more floppy than usual 9s on 24".

It'd sound a lot better with 11s on there.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 6:29 pm

I played the Mustang today. Didn't have time to try it plugged in, but I'm afraid to say I kind of liked it. The body was probably still a bit too small for my tastes, but felt better proportioned than a normal Mustang, which I've always thought never felt deep enough. The neck felt fantastic, and it is very difficult indeed not to fall in love with CAR and a mint pickguard. The other one in blue was there too, but the red really is beautiful.

laterallateral · Post by **laterallateral** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 7:09 pm

I'm nearly completely 180'd on these...
I'm still not sold on the hacked up butt end and the twin hums look a bit crap on that pickguard BUT it does sound great. There's no denying it.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue Apr 26, 2011 10:21 pm

Oh no...

I want one...

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 3:14 am

I am anxious to try these out. I was wanting to build a Jaguar HH with WRHB, but if the Mustang has the right options, I might wait for a used on down the road.

It's easy to make judgements based on internet banter, but I think playing the guitars is the ultimate test. I hope they are as nice as they look.

benecol · Post by **benecol** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 8:28 am

taylornutt wrote:It's easy to make judgements based on internet banter, but I think playing the guitars is the ultimate test.

That's interesting; do you really think actually playing a guitar is the best way of seeing what they're like?

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 11:47 am

benecol wrote:
taylornutt wrote:It's easy to make judgements based on internet banter, but I think playing the guitars is the ultimate test.
That's interesting; do you really think actually playing a guitar is the best way of seeing what they're like?

I noticed with both the Blacktop and Pawnshop series that we tended to be very critical(initial reactions) and once we started to actually get our hands on the guitars we mellow out and even start to purchase a few. It's an interesting process from initial announcement of the new guitars to physical demo how we process and evaluate guitars as a forum as well as individually.

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Wed Apr 27, 2011 12:33 pm

I dunno, with both there was a certain "wait and see" in amongst the criticism (and my criticism of the Blacktop Jaguar still fuckin' stands, damnit!)... The MAJOR criticism with these is the price, which is a fair stumbling block, they're frickin' expensive.