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Ankhanu wrote:I'm not sure how I feel about the wrap-around; I always have mixed feelings about them, and I haven't tried this style before.

It looks like the one they use on Ibanez GAX 75 models, decent design but if you loose the grub screws (most do) the saddles are only held on with string tension.

I'd play it, not for 960

Nah, but when MF is blowing them out for 300 because no one bought them... I'll grab one.

endsjustifymeans wrote:Nah, but when MF is blowing them out for 300 because no one bought them... I'll grab one.

I don't think they'll end-up in MF, it's probably just a short run for m@j@ hounds like Elderly.

Looks functional

but looks horrendous

Hmmmm. Nope.

Thom wrote:...I would totally rock that green one, there are lots of things right with that guitar.

endsjustifymeans wrote:I'd hit the green.

Whenever I see people lusting after a green guitar, I always think to myself "Really? A green guitar?". Then I remember that I have a green guitar, and that one of my favourite guitars before that was a greenburst.

Shit guitar for a Shit price.

Useless chrome plug and strange screw in the dead center of the pickguard?

It looks awful. I'll take 2.

I feel like they've just made a Bolt-on Les Paul Junior (24.75", wraparound bridge, even bell knobs). Can't we already buy one of those for like, $300 at worst?

Doesn't look too bad though.

endsjustifymeans wrote:I'd hit the green.

Yeah, I seriously want a green guitar. I like that it's a "woody" green too, all spirits of the forest kind of shit. It'd be great for playing Dead Can Dance and folk songs.

mickie08 wrote:$960? WTF.

They should have done an Bronco Jr...

I gno rite?

What I really want is a 24" hardtail cyclone

Justyn wrote:

mickie08 wrote:$960? WTF.

They should have done an Bronco Jr...

I gno rite?

What I really want is a 24" hardtail cyclone

Seconded.

a duo-sonic then?

Mages wrote:a duo-sonic then?

I'd assume they want a humbucker too, being a cyclone and all.

The question is, why not just block off a cyclone? The strat trem lends itself really well to being used as a hardtail.

Boab wrote:At least it's different.

Spot on..

endsjustifymeans wrote:The question is, why not just block off a cyclone? The strat trem lends itself really well to being used as a hardtail.

Some people hate Strat style bridges/strongly prefer TOMs.

since these are stratosonics, shouldn't they be chambered?

I like this guitar a lot actually! It looks awesome, and I also agree that it has some of my favorite things, a p90, wraparound bridge, 70's headstock. I like it a lot. I'd rock the shit out of the green one or the white one! The price is retarded though! I never have understood why the korean fenders are so fucking expensive. Also, why is there a korean factory? All the korean fenders I've played have felt inferior to both the Mexican and the Japanese factory made guitars, and the Squier Classic Vibes which are made in China? I don't see the point of the korean factory, they put out a bunch of cool variations on the regular models, for ridiculous prices, and of inferior quality.

Boab wrote:At least it's different.

No, it's not.

Leo Fender designed a new tremolo bridge from scratch for practically every non-hardtail guitar he designed back in the day. New (then) ideas for body shapes and electronic tone circuits, too. Those were new designs. Even CBS era Fender, for all the criticism it gets from the corksniffers, put out a lot of truly original designs.

Now, from Fender we get P90's, tuneomatcs with a slightly different name, dual coil humbuckers, wrap around tailpiece bridges... basically they just slap Gibson parts on a strat body and present us with absolutely nothing we've never seen before. Fender made it's name as a company by taking risks and defying convention. But now they are resorting to making Gibson knock-offs. Sad.

Actually, this guitar reminds me of this: