Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
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Bezmotivnik
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Re: Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
I searched around and for this individual instrument I saw MSRPs of between $1700 and $2100, in black depending on what point FMIC's frenetic yo-yoing of prices was at the moment.
I searched around and for this individual instrument I saw MSRPs of between $1700 and $2100, in black depending on what point FMIC's frenetic yo-yoing of prices was at the moment.
Bezmotivnik
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Re: Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
People who get worked up over guitars usually do so because they don't know any better. They're pleased for nonrational reasons. Their excitment is not cortical in origin.
Axes are nothing but light industrial product sold by corporations that absolutely believe the marketing mantra, "quality in excess of buyer expectation is waste" and incorporate it into their production routines.
This is a very average Asian import with an artificially inflated MSRP (nothing on the scale of Warwick, though) and an excessive SKB case relative to the value of the instrument. No MIJ magic here, either.
It was a good deal, but otherwise there was nothing special here. There rarely is -- the bell curve really does work and Gaussian distribution really does rule.
After about fifty years with guitars (and nearly that long working on them and watching the industry) I can tell you that not one in a hundred is legitimately worth getting excited over.
People who get worked up over guitars usually do so because they don't know any better. They're pleased for nonrational reasons. Their excitment is not cortical in origin.
Axes are nothing but light industrial product sold by corporations that absolutely believe the marketing mantra, "quality in excess of buyer expectation is waste" and incorporate it into their production routines.
This is a very average Asian import with an artificially inflated MSRP (nothing on the scale of Warwick, though) and an excessive SKB case relative to the value of the instrument. No MIJ magic here, either.
It was a good deal, but otherwise there was nothing special here. There rarely is -- the bell curve really does work and Gaussian distribution really does rule.
TheLivingDead
Dawn Of The Shred
Re: Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
Well that's a shame, man. They may not be anything amazing, but I know I dig em. Had you not played one prior to purchasing yours?
Well that's a shame, man. They may not be anything amazing, but I know I dig em. Had you not played one prior to purchasing yours?
DrNewcenstein
He Did the Monster Mash
Re: Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
The biggest issue most people find with current Jackson neckthrough models is they still expect them to be as great as the 1990-94 imports, which is not going to happen.
And the controls should be V-V-T/3-way. Not really hard to figure out without a manual.
The biggest issue most people find with current Jackson neckthrough models is they still expect them to be as great as the 1990-94 imports, which is not going to happen.
And the controls should be V-V-T/3-way. Not really hard to figure out without a manual.
Binnerscot
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Re: Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
Yeah, that is definitely an inflated MSRP. At $400, I would expect a fun guitar to beat up. Between the Duncans and hardware, you only paid about $100 for the guitar itself....LOL
Yeah, that is definitely an inflated MSRP. At $400, I would expect a fun guitar to beat up. Between the Duncans and hardware, you only paid about $100 for the guitar itself....LOL
Bezmotivnik
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Re: Major Pointy-Guitar Deal!
It works a little worse than V/V/T usually does (V/V/T can never work properly with dissimilar pickups, as has been explained here numerous times by EEs), but the semi-redundant switch sort of threw me.