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Hagstom Sweetone
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:17 pm
by Berto
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:01 pm
by robroe
it has its place.
it makes me glad in a way that there were smaller companies like hagstrom and italia that took a guitar design and went waaaaaaay over the top with it to the point where all the extra shit on it serves no purpose at all.
im also glad fender or gibson never fell into the trap of trying to outdo them plasterning pearloid all over every part of the guitar. it will always look weird to me at a curved angle....like my brain cant process pearloid in any other form than a flat piece of plastic under the strings on a guitar.
that being said...its a nice guitar to have, i don't think i would ever make it any kind of a daily player though
Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 4:04 pm
by timhulio
They're very rare and expensive. Well, expensive by Hag standards. Maybe £800-1200, if you can find one. I've never played one, but apparently (check the Hagstrom UK site for facts) you can't refret the plastic fretboards so look out for fretwear.
Hagstrom made accordions before these guitars, hence the pearloid craziness.
Also, the central pickup unit is designed to be hot-swapable, which is quite a cool idea. Take the humbucker block out and chuck in a single coil pickup unit if you fancy a different sound.
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:19 am
by Berto
plastic fretboards?
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 3:04 am
by westtexasred
Do want.
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 9:06 am
by stewart
good luck finding one. vintage and rare in london had a red one for a while for the actually-not-outrageous price of £750 but that was a couple of years ago.
i seem to remember james's mates in san fransisco bought a batch of like, 10 of them from some old widow or summat, really cool purple ones an' all.
Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 5:58 pm
by hotrodperlmutter
the elusive formicatop
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 11:30 am
by stewart
gpselmer wrote:want one
gonnae no dae that? just... gonnae no?
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 1:25 pm
by Dave
Couple of these on ebay right now.
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 3:32 pm
by stewart
there are some cool hagstrom basses on ebay.com just now, including one with this rather amusing subtitle:
May have been crafted using magic, by gnomes. Not sure.
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 5:24 pm
by Berto
the control plate is pretty much my favorite thing about this guitar
Posted: Thu Feb 25, 2010 9:15 pm
by Pale Ale
When I see the pearloid like that it jsut makes me think of bowling balls.
