New Ernie Ball Music Man's.

[Artie]

I'm not usually a big fan of the "oddball" shaped guitars, but this one really caught my eye. Love both these colors. It's odd too, that there's 2 volumes, rather than Vol/Tone. I especially love the Pueblo Pink.



Honorable mention also to the Valentine. Single coil bridge with active electronics. Nice.

 

[The_Junior]

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'Gumbycaster'

 

[MikeS]

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Looks like something out of one of the cartoons my daughter watches. The website has a blurb about a "tethered tone circuit" which suggests they are wiring the pickup leads to the wiper and using the increase in treble bleed as you roll down the knob to their advantage. It's a clever spin on one of the deficiencies of an old Les Paul trick.

 

[Artie]

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Yeah, I was trying to figure out what they meant there. That sounds like a reasonable explanation.

 

[Mincer]

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Their new Sabre guitar is really cool, but not at over $3k.

 

[Artie]

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They are. And also outside of my range. Although, I could sell some stuff for one sweet axe.

 

[Dave Locher]

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Anyone know where I can get a full-scale tracing of this body? I am considering making a new body for my partscaster and this would work quite nicely.

 

[beaubrummels]

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The angular ones look like anti-St Vincent models; like a reaction/answer to the previous bad reactions. But I would play either one.

 

[idsnowdog]

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I'm not usually a big fan of the "oddball" shaped guitars, but this one really caught my eye. Love both these colors. It's odd too, that there's 2 volumes, rather than Vol/Tone. I especially love the Pueblo Pink.

They basically gave the Albert Lee model an Explorer pickguard makeover.

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[YeRedHouseOverYonder]

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Their new Sabre guitar is really cool, but not at over $3k.

+1

Its not even a BFR (Ball Family Reserve) Music Man. Looks like they're charging more for the Okoume body, carved maple top, and maple binding. I refuse to pay over $2K for bolt-on guitars that are largely CNC'd. Even if Music Man is known to have killer craftsmanship, quality, and playability.

I own a BFR Cutlass (sabre body) and it has one of the best modern guitar neck I've played. The fretwork, oil/wax finish, quality of tone woods, playability, and attention to detail is all there. But I only paid $1750 for a used one.

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[nexion218]

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Man, these are fugly... That being said, my pointy shredsticks don't appeal to everybody either, so I'll rephrase it: not my cup o' tea. At least they could've done something about the headstock shapes on those two upper cartoon-explorers. I'd imagine though that they would look cool in a band like The B52's or something.

 

[Artie]

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Anyone know where I can get a full-scale tracing of this body? I am considering making a new body for my partscaster and this would work quite nicely.

There is a way around this. I just tried it, as an experiment. Save the pic. Open it in your favorite "paint" program. We know the size of a covered humbucker, so keep enlarging it 'til it's full size. Then save that image. A commercial printer could print the image on large stock. I have the full size image now, but it's almost 180 Mb's. Tedious, but do-able.

They basically gave the Albert Lee model an Explorer pickguard makeover.

I see that now.

At least they could've done something about the headstock shapes on those two upper cartoon-explorers.

Interesting. I thought the headstock was the only "normal" part of the guitar.

 

[Pierre]

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Hi Art

I had a Valentine and it's a genuinely cool axe. The lack of forearm contour was an issue for me. But tone and feel-wise, it's impeccable.

 

[Artie]

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Hey Pierre. More fuel for my GAS.

 

[nexion218]

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Interesting. I thought the headstock was the only "normal" part of the guitar.

Well, either the headstock or the body has to go. But joking and personal taste aside, my OCD would tolerate this model better if the headstock was somewhat tailored to the body's shape. Like re-tracing the original EBMM headstock shape in Flinstones style or something to that effect.

 

[St_Genesius]

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I really enjoy how half of EBMM's guitars tend to really annoy fans of the other half.

 

[nexion218]

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I really enjoy how half of EBMM's guitars tend to really annoy fans of the other half.

Yeah, but it's not like half of their models, but literally one half of one guitar.

 

[Mincer]

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I really enjoy how half of EBMM's guitars tend to really annoy fans of the other half.

This is true. I love the curvy models, but some of the ones above, and the St Vincent, don't do anything for me.

 

[Artie]

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This is true. I love the curvy models, but some of the ones above, and the St Vincent, don't do anything for me.

Oddly, I do like the St. Vincent, and the Schecter Ultra III, because they're both "quirky." (Mind you, I've only seen both, in pictures.)

 

[St_Genesius]

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The St V is so much quirkier than you know. Everyone zeroes in on the body shape (when they're not distracted by a couple of kinda dumb statements made by Annie Clark, around its release) but the real weirdness is buried in the pickups and electronics: She's paired DiMarzio Mini-hums with 250k pots. She must tend to play through some incredibly bright rigs, because, stock, it's a very darkly voiced guitar.

Of course, it also has really remarkably good string-to-string definition and it holds together under extreme gain in a way none of my other guitars do, so I haven't dared change anything out for fear of losing what I love about it.

It's also, easily, the best built instrument I've ever owned, but that's to be expected.

Oddly, I do like the St. Vincent, and the Schecter Ultra III, because they're both "quirky." (Mind you, I've only seen both, in pictures.)

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