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Finally announced - the Warren Ellis sig tenor:



23" scale. Initial release is only offered in this nasty curdled milk color.

Was excite, but then I saw only four strings.

they had one at the namm show, i snapped a photo of it.
didn't get to play it or anything.

Pic not working (might be work blocking it however) but looked up and V interested. Surprised its such a blatant duo/stang form but LIKE.

If these are really cheap I'd get one to experiement with, but if not I can't see much point spending loads .... maybe do an tenor project from cheap parts instead!

http://www.harmonycentral.com/blogs/New ... nor-guitar

It's actually kinda amazing how bad it looks, yet at the same time I can totally see what they were shooting for. I imagine them putting down all the specs for the factory in China, then opening up the first shipment and being like "oh.... shit."

The color is trying soooo hard to convince you it's old and the product of a million smoky bars. Then that dumb blade PUP you see on all those butchered old Fenders. It's just a train wreck. And the knobs. My God, the knobs...

Will wrote:http://www.harmonycentral.com/blogs/New ... nor-guitar

It's actually kinda amazing how bad it looks, yet at the same time I can totally see what they were shooting for. I imagine them putting down all the specs for the factory in China, then opening up the first shipment and being like "oh.... shit."

The color is trying soooo hard to convince you it's old and the product of a million smoky bars. Then that dumb blade PUP you see on all those butchered old Fenders. It's just a train wreck. And the knobs. My God, the knobs...

I dunno I kinda like it....got a similar 70s plastic vibe as the DuoCV and that princess guitar that Hotrod was rightly sperminating for in that Vintage thread.

not nice enough for me to spend any more than 200 max for though

Pretty cool . Never played a tenor before...

Does it have a little spiky bit on the headstock?

yeah, it does.

Personally, I'm a bit meh about this. I can't really see myself using it but I do like the way it looks.

i just looked up what a tenor guitar is...fairly interesting.
sound like something to play with, but i personally could never see a practical application of this.

colour, pickguard looks odd around the bridge, knobs are aweful, blade pickup is a blade pickup, not 4-a-side tuners???

I assume they used a blade pickup because it would be cheaper to use a generic cheap one than have a four-pole pickup with tenor guitar spacing made specially for this guitar.

It's made of fail, and as we all know, anything made of an abstract concept like fail, win or even aubergines is just massive rusty gash.

ekwatts wrote: It's made of fail, and as we all know, anything made of an abstract concept like fail, win or even aubergines is just massive rusty gash.

that just sounds nasty.

I wonder what the bridge spacing is like. I wonder what sort of neck swaps you could do with this thing.

Stupid, if eastwood just invested a little more into their products they would be far more successful

millagurnzie wrote:Stupid, if eastwood just invested a little more into their products they would be far more successful

It would actually cost LESS to make the finish thinner. That's the main problem I have - the finish is so thick and plasticy it makes the guitars feel cheap and crummy. The only one that doesn't have that problem (as bad) is the Stratotone reissue.

ANY other PUP, ANY other color, and ANY other knobs and this guitar would kick ass.

Here is a better picture:

im pretty sure the one at the namm show was a striaght fender headstock ripoff.
let me see if i can pull the pic out.

Tenor guitar was the shit like 70 years ago.