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I was watching these but Coyotes 'Stang means i'm not interested now..

First up
IBANEZ TALMAN

FUTURAMA II

SQUIER CYCLONE

argh always wanted a cyclone.

oh no..mustnt bid..

If it was a Cyclone-II I'd be weak at the knees, for some reason I'm not bothered by the first version.

Mike wrote:If it was a Cyclone-II I'd be weak at the knees, for some reason I'm not bothered by the first version.

Same. The bridge and pickguard on that guitar just make it look weird and fat.

Plus the baby blue and three jag pickups on the Cyclone II is balls to the wall

i love the look of the cyclone I with black and tort. the zebra hum looks kind of odd though.

this looks hot as fuck though.

Mike wrote:Plus the baby blue and three jag pickups on the Cyclone II is balls to the wall

Indeed. It's a totally underrated guitar, it has three Jaguar pickups. It's the only non-Jaguar to have any Jaguar pickups and instead it has three. It even has the Jaguar control plate. Fuck.

ElCapitan wrote:

this looks hot as fuck though.

The weird thing is they mostly sold those in Japan. The Cyclone USA, I saw tons of them on Japanese sites, with matching headstocks too and cool colors.

Malik wrote: Indeed. It's a totally underrated guitar, it has three Jaguar pickups. It's the only non-Jaguar to have any Jaguar pickups and instead it has three. It even has the Jaguar control plate. Fuck.

I owned one - didn't like it. Sounded absolutely nothing like a Jaguar - more like a strat or mustang.

the jag pickups mean nothing once you take away the crazy trem system, bridge and shorter scale.

Sooo, how much do these cylclone II's go for?

Cyclone II's are pricey and rightfully so, also rare. Our good man Sloan has a gorgeous model. The link i put up is a Squier Cyclone II model which according to HC reviews is as good as the MIM models AND its gonna go cheap as chips. Drop a good 'bucker in there and you can coolio rip it up at a princely sum!
The Futurama is a bag of shit guitar but looks the part and i'm sure Link Wray used to use one at one point.
Talmans are great and hardly ever show up on UK ebay.

Fran wrote:Cyclone II's are pricey and rightfully so, also rare. Our good man Sloan has a gorgeous model. The link i put up is a Squier Cyclone II model which according to HC reviews is as good as the MIM models AND its gonna go cheap as chips. Drop a good 'bucker in there and you can coolio rip it up at a princely sum!
The Futurama is a bag of shit guitar but looks the part and i'm sure Link Wray used to use one at one point.
Talmans are great and hardly ever show up on UK ebay.

It's the three jag pickups I'm interested in though. I like the idea of getting something stratty, without it being a strat. I reckon the Fender Cyclone II would be about perfect.

So, was the first Cyclone a Squier, then the Cyclone II was Fender and Mexican?

The first cyclone was a Fender mex and had that graffiti yellow colour option. Came out the same time as the first toronado.

jcyphe wrote:

ElCapitan wrote:

this looks hot as fuck though.

The weird thing is they mostly sold those in Japan. The Cyclone USA, I saw tons of them on Japanese sites, with matching headstocks too and cool colors.

joey is right about these guitars. they aren't custom shop like the ad says. all they are is a USA made cyclone. we got the shitty ass USA toronado over here in the states and they exported all the USA cyclones to japan for sale. That surf green one has made the boat ride from the US, to JP, to AUS. its got some miles packed on it. extra mojo.

that cyclone actually does look cool, the strat bridges put me off though, but that one has some serious potential

i'd slap some black robroes on and forget about the bridge.

ibanez talmans are fun to play

The guy from Explosions in the Sky plays a Talman.

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Explosions are pretty poor as live. I was just at their ATP and they were the second more boring act to watch and listen to.