Signature models?

Viljami · Post by **Viljami** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:17 pm

F U EKWATTS FOR THINKING ALIKE. The venus is a tasty thing, even if Kurtney isn't.

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:25 pm

At least she finished her guitar.

pumpkin · Post by **pumpkin** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:35 pm

ekwatts wrote:At least she finished her guitar.

Not really... it wasn't her guitar to begin with actually.

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check out Le Headstock

sonicboom · Post by **sonicboom** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 5:43 pm

honeyiscool wrote:

If an Avril Lavigne guitar costs 3x as much as it should, I want my $93 single humbucker Telecaster, thanks. And my $126 non-Mascis Squier Jazzmaster to go with that, thanks.

Seriously, Mascis has done us all a huge fucking favor by pressuring Fender to release an affordable Jazzmaster that's somewhat vintage accurate and you're calling him a major dick for it? Some people just can't win.

Freddy V-C wrote:I generally don't mind either way, as long as the artist's name isn't visible in ENOURMOUS letters. A nice guitar is a nice guitar, and frankly I think that Mikey Way bass is gorgeous-looking, regardless of how terrible MCR are.

Les Paul's signature is rather large on that guitar and none of us seem to mind.

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That's a pretty deluded way of thinking, if you don't mind me saying. FMIC exploited the higher price point market with the Fender Mascis Jazzy then figured they could still make a bundle (possibly even a bigger bundle) by bumping out a Squier version for the folks that couldn't afford the Fender. You may have benefitted from this, - if the Squier JM is a good guitar - but for goodness' sake don't try to paint J Mascis as some kind of Robin Hood figure, tussling with The Man to bring affordable guitars to The Kids. FMIC make guitars to make money, and all these rock stars help them do that, and get an ego massage and some free stuff at the same time.
Cue: howls of outrage...

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 6:53 pm

Hmm, sonicboom, did you know that corporations exist to create revenue for their owners?

sonicboom · Post by **sonicboom** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:21 pm

honeyiscool wrote:Hmm, sonicboom, did you know that corporations exist to create revenue for their owners?

Gosh, really?
Do you mean that FMIC exist to make money for their owners/shareholders, and the Lavignes and Costellos and Mascises of this world present a fairly important bit of leverage in helping them achieve that in a certain market i.e. J Mascis on the headstock makes Fender more money.?
I just don't believe it.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:26 pm

Is your point that it's bad for fender to make money? for Mascis to make money? For them to combine efforts to make money?
Even if the result is a new nifty product?

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 7:57 pm

Given that I've read so many accounts of people who have gotten their first "real" Jazzmaster this holiday season thanks to the Squier J. Mascis Jazzmaster, I'm really having trouble seeing the downside here.

sonicboom · Post by **sonicboom** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:00 pm

Boy, I give up. Read my previous posts if you don't get it.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 8:47 pm

Haha,I am waiting for a Fender Elliot Randall sig strat

Eliot is famous for his studio work with Steely Dan and many others

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Elliot's strat is a '63 Sunburst strat he bought used in 1965 for $175. The neck got broken because he had it in a gigbag and somebody dropped a trunk on it so he ordered a replacement neck from Fender and they sent him a '65 neck. He painted the guitar silver sparkle(even over the decal on the headstock,oops!) and then stripped it to natural before he joined his first touring band "The Druids Of Stonehenge".

here are some videos of Elliot in 1968 playing the same strat

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In 1969 he took it to Barney Kessel's guitar store in L.A. and had a Gibson Humbucker intalled in the neck. He latter had a DiMarzio stacked humbucker put in the middle position. The bridge is still the original sc.

I think it would be pretty cool to make a partscaster like that.

Elliott Randall & Cornell Dupree

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If nobody buys my pink strat I am going to make it into an Elliot Randall Tribute Strat

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:39 pm

FUCK AN VENUS

I've got a RR5. FUCKING RANDY RHOADS. Neck thru, Angry Duncans.. fuck y'all! The dude is DEAD and was one of the most influential guitarists evar. This is a justified sig model.
Not a great pic....

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:43 pm

Plus the "Crazy Train" solo rules.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:52 pm

I got the Tina Weymouth Swinger

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Fran · Post by **Fran** » Tue Dec 27, 2011 10:59 pm

honeyiscool wrote:Plus the "Crazy Train" solo rules.

The intro riff alone rules. Mr Crowley rules as far as solos go. But....

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sholkham · Post by **sholkham** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 12:15 am

The best sig guitars are the ones that look cool

Yeah!

That Mikey way bass looks sweet too, I'd play it.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:41 am

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 2:11 am

sonicboom wrote:Boy, I give up. Read my previous posts if you don't get it.

I do get it, I really do. That's why I'm selling all my guitars and never buying another one, signature or not, because obviously I need to stick it to tha man.

zedoktor · Post by **zedoktor** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 3:38 am

Fran wrote:FUCK AN VENUS

I've got a RR5. FUCKING RANDY RHOADS. Neck thru, Angry Duncans.. fuck y'all! The dude is DEAD and was one of the most influential guitarists evar. This is a justified sig model.
Not a great pic....

These RR sound legit. I had a friend who had that exact same one.

I kinda want a PRS Mikael Akerfeldt. He used it on stage when I saw them for the Heritage tour. It seems like a legit instrument and pretty affordable for a PRS but it seems pretty standard except for the coloring/art and maybe the SE HFS and SE Vintage Bass pups. Sounds good when he plays it.

damienblair17 · Post by **damienblair17** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 4:21 am

I really like this. Jeff Waters from Annihilator Sig Flying V. I suppose it wouldn't be too hard to mod an existing V to get this setup though.
A little too red though.

Maybe the black?

yeah, black looks a bit better.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Wed Dec 28, 2011 5:02 am

westtexasred wrote:I got the Tina Weymouth Swinger
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hells yes, this song is fucking awesome.

i'll weigh in on the costello JM... great guitar. the one i tried was really a player, even if the price was ridiculous.