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Pricey for me. Interesting pickups.
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I’ve read Andy Powers started as a jazz player making custom Archtops for the San Diego area.
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06-15-2023 10:08 AM
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Another valiant attempt at persuading guitarists to try something new! In
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I think there’s a bit of vanity involved. Wants a company with his name on top.
Why not?
They didn’t rename Gibson to Loar.
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Looks and sounds cool. Rather expensive Tele though.
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All that apparent time and effort, and yet, I can barely look at it.
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Yeah, sort of a fancy thinline tele.
i think the faraday on the pickups is a unique idea that sounds like a cool way to keep noise down while keeping the pickups SC.
I thought the bigsby description was super goofy- this one’s unique, all the strings go down together. That’s exactly what a bigsby does. They just put a new handle on it.
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I like the looks, but holy smokes the price! I can grab a custom shop Fender for that.
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Not a fan of hillbilly crow bars. I lined the top and cavities of my Strat with copper foil to build a Faraday cage. Works. Very quiet not reversed wound or reversed polarity Fender 58-62 single coils.
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At that money for an overpriced Cali guitar I'd rather have a Kauer Super Chief or just a Masterbuilt strat. No question.
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What’s the price? I don’t see that anywhere.
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$3799 to $4299 US
Originally Posted by 6v6ster
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I had a really cool opportunity to spend a day with Bob Taylor and his crew years ago (funny enough, Doug Kauer was also in this group). Andy seemed like a great player, and wonderful designer. I like how he and Bob Taylor are willing to go outside the traditional guitar making box. Originally Posted by DawgBone
I love the concepts in this guitar, I just don't like the look. The musicman style headstock is always odd to me. But the fully hollow with some unique pickups is interesting. I'm with you, that Super Chief would be my choice too!
Where we part ways is "cali". I'm basically a Californian from birth and that word drives me nuts
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Bob may step outside the traditional guitar making box but IME he hasn't exceeded Martin or Gibson or a slew of other companies making acoustics. At least he comes off as a genuine guy unlike Paul Reed Smith who has to be the most arrogant stew mac account holder of all time. Originally Posted by AaronMColeman
I had a really cool opportunity to spend a day with Bob Taylor and his crew years ago (funny enough, Doug Kauer was also in this group). Andy seemed like a great player, and wonderful designer. I like how he and Bob Taylor are willing to go outside the traditional guitar making box.
I love the concepts in this guitar, I just don't like the look. The musicman style headstock is always odd to me. But the fully hollow with some unique pickups is interesting. I'm with you, that Super Chief would be my choice too!
Where we part ways is "cali". I'm basically a Californian from birth and that word drives me nuts
The Super Chief is similarly overpriced but at least is feature laden with a lot of cool tones available from a single guitar. Still, 4-5k. It wouldn't even make my top 20 list if I was going to blow that kind of money. Heck it ain't even got the gold on it.
My old man is from Oakland. I only said Cali cause I didn't feel like typing the entire name of the state out. Kinda like when people say "Centex". No one living in Texas uses that description. Makes it easy to pick out the outsider I guess. How to identify the English guy from a photo line up of white guys: It's the dude with the American flag jersey......
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Dawgbone are you trying to tell me that Pete Townshend was never in the Royal Air Force. Originally Posted by DawgBone
If I am not making sense, it is not because I am crazy… or at least not that type of crazy… it is just my sense of humor.
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I bought a 7 string Jimmy Foster archtop locally for less than that! Hmmmmm. Originally Posted by jim777
Tony
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Nice-looking guitar; would be interesting to hear how it sounds and plays. Also interesting that its not being released by Taylor - I imagine they might feel burned after their years-long, extensive effort to release an electric line with good designs and many innovations (I stiil have my Standard - great guitar!)
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I dig the vibrato bar tip tho. Originally Posted by northernbreed
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Yeah, 100% agree Originally Posted by ruger9
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Trying to run a business in California is expensive. Taxes, housing costs, commercial rents etc. all add up. If you are a small shop making guitars, I think 3-4K per guitar is a minimum price to make it work.
It is a free market (at least to some extent). If you don't like this cat's guitars (or for the same money, you prefer something else), vote with your wallet. The marketplace will decide if these guitars are worth it or not.
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It has some interesting design features. It's hollowbody, without soundholes but with the bridge screwed into soundposts that join the front and back. The trem that looks like a Bigsby but behaves like a Steinberger TransTrem in that the strings all move in unison pitch, so you can bend chords and they'll stay in tune. I'd love to try it.
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California is expensive. I leave and always come back. For me, it has always been better to be a little economically poorer, but have the benefits of California, then the opposite. Maybe one day that will change.
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I have left California twice and come back. The weather, the ocean, the redwood trees, the Sierra Nevada's, the urban pursuits (live music, dining out), the fresh produce. Pretty hard to beat. It is getting a bit overcrowded for my taste (we could sure use some new roads and more public transit) and our governance has been a disaster as of late (one Party rule hasn't worked well, if you ask me). but I am still here and am likely to stay unless Prop 13 gets removed. Originally Posted by st.bede
I would not want to start a business in the California of today. The regulation and the costs make it a huge gamble.
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We are going to disagree about a lot of things… but California is still a great state.
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The CME review is a bit better; those guys can actually play and they've put the Powers axes through a decent amp.
I'd like to hear one of the Tele players on this forum do a nice jazz demo through a nice warm amp. The Single-A might be great for that.
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Construction sounds a bit like my Gibson Johnny A and it's a very nice guitar.
Thanks john
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