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Awesome Showmaster Cyclone
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 1:36 pm
by Awstin
Whoa. Never saw one of these before. If someone could post a picture that would be really cool. Carved top and set neck. Hot.
http://bit.ly/1olAvYy
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:19 pm
by paul_
Pretty weird. I remember the Showmaster Strats, says this was a prototype? I definitely don't remember it as a production model.
This guitar seems to get around a lot, has been sold on reverb and craigslist in recent months (different pics, same grain).
http://reverb.com/item/75193-fender-cy ... ubinga-top
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:34 pm
by Concretebadger
It's a nice-looking thing, for sure. Even so, I often wonder about whether these models are so radically different that they ought to be called something else. It's a bit like the 'Modern Player' Jag that has stuff like P90 pups, a hardtail bridge and a Strat jack socket...that's a nice guitar too, but with all those mods it isn't really a Jag any more.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:53 pm
by Awstin
These guitars were made for people that get a hardon for wood. I'm more of a Pickguard person myself though.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 2:54 pm
by YuriK
I like pick guards too i feel like fenders especially need them. The absence of a guard makes me feel like it's a metal guitar.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:01 pm
by Awstin
ykk211 wrote:I like pick guards too i feel like fenders especially need them. The absence of a guard makes me feel like it's a metal guitar.
Guitars like this that are flashy professional, nice wood, with pickups mounted to the body without rings just remind me of guitar players in local cover bands that play at bars. They just look like nice furniture. Not guitars.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:05 pm
by YuriK
Punkacc9 wrote:ykk211 wrote:I like pick guards too i feel like fenders especially need them. The absence of a guard makes me feel like it's a metal guitar.
Guitars like this that are flashy professional, nice wood, with pickups mounted to the body without rings just remind me of guitar players in local cover bands that play at bars. They just look like nice furniture. Not guitars.
neck humbuckers in teles look really nice mounted into the body though
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:23 pm
by Awstin
ykk211 wrote:Punkacc9 wrote:ykk211 wrote:I like pick guards too i feel like fenders especially need them. The absence of a guard makes me feel like it's a metal guitar.
Guitars like this that are flashy professional, nice wood, with pickups mounted to the body without rings just remind me of guitar players in local cover bands that play at bars. They just look like nice furniture. Not guitars.
neck humbuckers in teles look really nice mounted into the body though
Yeah but I'm not a fan of it with Humbuckers unless the guitar only has one pickup and it's the bridge position.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:28 pm
by 71Smallbox
I don't like any of the Showmaster guitars, they really don't say Fender to me.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 3:36 pm
by BearBoy
There's one on eBay (UK) atm too. Not really my cup of tea tbh.
LANK
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:00 pm
by George
i like it. wouldn't pay that money though
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 5:36 pm
by paul_
Punkacc9 wrote:These guitars were made for people that get a hardon for wood. I'm more of a Pickguard person myself though.
Re: Awesome Showmaster Cyclone
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:04 pm
by mkt3000
Punkacc9 wrote:AWFUL Showmaster Cyclone
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 6:46 pm
by endsjustifymeans
made me puke in my mouth a bit. terrible thing to do to a fine design. and then charge more for it... sheesh.
Re: Awesome Showmaster Cyclone
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 7:47 pm
by Awstin
mkt3000 wrote:Punkacc9 wrote:AWFUL Showmaster Cyclone
Haha. Well it is pretty awful. But awesome in the sense of its rarity.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 8:56 pm
by Fran
BearBoy wrote:There's one on eBay (UK) atm too. Not really my cup of tea tbh.
LANK
Its been on for ages.
There was a Toronado version as well. Limited Korean run, not sure how many were made but I'm sure they were only around for one year.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 9:34 pm
by Bacchus
These weren't prototypes though were they? I thought they were a bit rare but were about the place. They're something that I see and decide I don't like, then think about and convince myself I like it, then eventually come back to deciding that they're ugly ducklings and that they don't work at all.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:25 pm
by Awstin
A toronado one sounds interesting though.
Posted: Tue Apr 01, 2014 10:26 pm
by Awstin
These are the updated versions of them show masters haha.
http://www.fender.com/series/fender-sel ... ght-burst/
Posted: Wed Apr 02, 2014 3:09 am
by torchindy
STOP PUTTING HUMBUCKERS AND STOPTAILS ON EVERY GODDAMN GUITAR