What do you think of the Mustang Pawn Shop Special?

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue May 17, 2011 6:27 am

Anyone played one?

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Haze · Post by **Haze** » Tue May 17, 2011 6:32 am

never heard of it

Ankhanu · Post by **Ankhanu** » Tue May 17, 2011 7:10 am

Unfortunately, my local store NEVER gets in new or interesting products (well, almost never, I did get my Jag there). I'm still waiting to test a Blacktop Jazzmaster or a Squire Jag or Jazzmaster... let alone one of these. I did get to try a Squire Jazzmaster for a second while out of town in early April... but not enough to really form an opinion.

WIth that in mind, I've not seen one of these Mustangs... but I'm really curious to try one out. The price seems high, but they seem fun to play.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue May 17, 2011 7:17 am

I saw one today. It look really nice Here is what the description says:

The new Pawn Shop series instruments draw inspiration from strange and storied pawn shop finds of the 1960s and â€™70s, and emerge as all-new Fender guitars with a bold element of eccentricityâ€”guitars that never were but could have been.

The Pawn Shop Mustang Special has a modified offset MustangÂ® body,'60s "C-shaped 24" short-scale maple neck, and dual Fender Enforcerâ„¢ humbucking pickups with '70s-style covers and unique switchingâ€”a creative alchemy of diverse Fender components.

Features include a rosewood fretboard with
modern 9.5" radius and medium-jumbo frets,
pickup toggle switch, three-way coil selector
slide switch for each humbucking pickup
enabling 18 different tonal options, mint green
pickguard, '70s-style hardtail StratocasterÂ® bridge, vintage-style tuners and strap buttons, and deluxe gig bag.

drBenway · Post by **drBenway** » Tue May 17, 2011 7:17 am

Weird body. Fuck humbuckers.

Squier 2011 > Fender 2011

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Tue May 17, 2011 8:11 am

westtexas, did you seriously miss all the posts about this series?

Senor Benway, what's wrong with humbuckers?

thickarms · Post by **thickarms** » Tue May 17, 2011 8:43 am

A guy who I share a practice room with has one and he very kindly let me try it out. It was ridiculously light which felt really strange to me and because the body is smaller it made it feel a bit like a toy. Might sound strange for someone who plays a mustang to complain that a guitar could be too small but I couldn't get into it. Sound wise it was very nice and very versatile, and the pick-ups handled dirt well, when coil tapped it sounded better than a lot of other coil tapped guitars I've played.

Post by **Doog** » Tue May 17, 2011 8:46 am

thickarms wrote: the pick-ups handled dirt well, when coil tapped it sounded better than a lot of other coil tapped guitars I've played.

COIL SPLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

Sorry for being such a pedant, but the people have gotta know the difference! Thanks for the review, incidentally.

drBenway · Post by **drBenway** » Tue May 17, 2011 10:29 am

gaybear wrote:
Senor Benway, what's wrong with humbuckers?

I'm no humbucker-fan. Too muddy for my taste. I've never played a guitar with wide-range pickups, but I've heard that they're supposed to have more clarity and definition than regular humbuckers.. I know that these are just regular humbuckers with a wide-range looking cover on them, and that is just another reason to why I don't like this guitar.

thickarms · Post by **thickarms** » Tue May 17, 2011 12:21 pm

Doog wrote:
thickarms wrote: the pick-ups handled dirt well, when coil tapped it sounded better than a lot of other coil tapped guitars I've played.
COIL SPLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

Sorry for being such a pedant, but the people have gotta know the difference! Thanks for the review, incidentally.

sowee!!

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Tue May 17, 2011 12:27 pm

Doog wrote:COIL SPLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

Sorry for being such a pedant, but the people have gotta know the difference!

I don't know. What's the difference?

Dave · Post by **Dave** » Tue May 17, 2011 1:29 pm

NickS wrote:
Doog wrote:COIL SPLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

Sorry for being such a pedant, but the people have gotta know the difference!
I don't know. What's the difference?

Mojo arrows point in different directions noob!

StevePirates · Post by **StevePirates** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:20 pm

I played one this weekend. The body is really really small. The neck felt great, and I thought it sounded good, but it was uncomfortable to play with its tiny body.

Sparky · Post by **Sparky** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:31 pm

NickS wrote:
Doog wrote:COIL SPLIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIT

Sorry for being such a pedant, but the people have gotta know the difference!
I don't know. What's the difference?

Coil split: Use one pickup from a humbucker split
Coil tap: a second wire in the windings lets you switch between the full winding and an area that's less-wound.

George · Post by **George** » Tue May 17, 2011 2:36 pm

Pawn Shop Mustang Special? Never heard of it.

Thought there would be a thread about the Pawn Shop series somewhere by now...

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue May 17, 2011 3:20 pm

I think it's a really cool idea. The only problem is, I'd rather mod one myself than have it premodded for me because then they do dumb stuff like hack the body and install fake wide range pickups on it.

But the whole coil-selector switches with a 3-way is a brilliant idea. It's just a bit pointless with fake wide range pickups is all.

And if humbuckers are too muddy for you, you're playing the wrong buckers. I like humbuckers because with coil selectors, parallel/series options, etc., there are so many different ways you can get sounds, output levels, and performance characteristics out of them and usually there's some way to make a humbucker sound fantastic. And if you really don't like them, a humbucker route is still useful in the sense that you can stuff two side-by-side coils like P-Rails or Lace Dually pickups, etc., and then treat them like individual pickups. A good ceramic bridge pickup is a wonderful, wonderful thing.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Tue May 17, 2011 4:08 pm

http://www.shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=40158

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue May 17, 2011 5:48 pm

So,it has a differnt body than a standard Mustang? That's lame.

jeff · Post by **jeff** » Tue May 17, 2011 11:15 pm

I played one the other day. What struck me the most were the giant frets and the fact that I noticed the flatter fretboard radius immediately. Despite the dinky strings, it played well, comparable to my (now departed) 65 RI. The small body didn't bother me. I liked the pickups better than I expected--although they were pretty hot, I was able to get a good clean tone from the Hot Rod Deluxe I was playing through. I'd like to see how they sound through a Deluxe Reverb before making a judgement. When the coils were split, it sounded close enough to a regular Mustang, although there was a drop in volume. They've improved the slider switches, and the fit and finish were excellent.

Basically, before playing I was into the design but wished they'd used actual WRHB's, even the reissues (which I like). After playing, I think I could probably live with the Enforcers. If I can get a good deal on one, I'll probably bite.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Wed May 18, 2011 1:29 am

I saw these at Best Buy and it was on the second row of guitars, I really didn't care enough to even take it down, but they also had a '65 re-issue and the body looked like it was roughly the same size.

The thing that was noticeable right away was a forearm contour.