Dillon Guitars

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it's most probably just scarf jointed with the neck/fretboard.

BC Rich did that with their acrylic guitars a few years ago.

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I've never played an acrylic guitar. If you closed your eyes and played, would you even know they're not wood?
 
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I've never played an acrylic guitar. If you closed your eyes and played, would you even know they're not wood?

I've read that acrylic guitars are usually very heavy.

Yes, they weigh a lot. I played the original Dan Armstrong guitars. They had a funky sounding pickup on them, but played decent. Joe Perry owns a Dan Armstrong acrylic.
 
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I've read that acrylic guitars are usually very heavy.

Very heavy. Interesting idea though. One would be enough for a collection, and then it probably wouldn't get a lot of use. I could see taking one for a certain gig where you wanted something different to make a statement.
 
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Very heavy. Interesting idea though. One would be enough for a collection, and then it probably wouldn't get a lot of use. I could see taking one for a certain gig where you wanted something different to make a statement.

That statement being, "Hey, look… I own an acrylic guitar!"
 
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Yes, they weigh a lot. I played the original Dan Armstrong guitars. They had a funky sounding pickup on them, but played decent. Joe Perry owns a Dan Armstrong acrylic.

Aerosmith was surreal. They were so high energy that you coulda told me it was 1978 and I woulda believed you --- those guys are in their sixties but they were rocking way harder, with stage presence that just leapt out at you, the whole time, no rest, all energy. I was surprised, impressed, astounded, and rocking.

Joe Perry, played his ass off, man. Just balls out the whole time. I've never seen anything like, it, or anyone rock that hard, that heavy, for that long. That guy is an animal.

He played a lot of different guitars, and a lot more Strat than I expected.

He played a yellow-green neon clear acrylic BC Rich lookin' thing for one song, that sounded just like a vintage Les Paul to me. I have never heard an acrylic sound like that, but it was a lesson to me. It sounded sweetest of any of the guitars he played last night, call me crazy.

He played slide on a Dan Armstrong clear acrylic axe --- it sounded great too.
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These guys seem to dig'em. And they sound pretty damn good through that mountain of Marshalls...

EDIT: Woops, there's Peaveys in there too. Forgot about that.



I think they're badass. Absolutely back-breaking though.

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Notice the Hot Rails...
 
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