Bare Knuckle Pickups Forum
Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: badgermark on March 02, 2009, 08:01:09 AM
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I picked this beauty up yesterday on a whim, ended up leaving the shop with her. Almost straight after I said to myself I don't need or want a new guitar. Oh well. It's a beast though.
It's a wonky Hagstrom F200p. Mahogany body, Nato neck, composite fretboard, a very light and floaty tremolo and 2 P90 pickups. Why is it wonky? Check the pictures an try and spot it yourself. I never noticed in the shop, but got some money knocked off the asking price.
Anyone else played a Hagstrom? I'm very impressed by these new models, the old ones never really done anything for me. Now I get to prance around my front room pretending I'm Pat Smear, who apparently has the largest Hagstrom collection in America.
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Played a few..really like a 70's one I tried
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I get to prance around my front room pretending I'm Pat Smear, who apparently has the largest Hagstrom collection in America.
didnt he actually buy the rights to the name in the mid 90's when they were not being produced - i was wondering if he had anything to do with the new ones
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It's not what I was expecting - when I hear the name Hagstrom I think Super Swede or something like that. But it's interesting! :)
I couldn't spot the wonkiness, the pictures are too enormous.
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Yeah, I really fancy a Hagstrom. It's the Swede or Super Swede for me.
+1 on not being able to spot any wonkyness...
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an SG shaped strat-like guitar with p90s... so perverse! :P
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Check the fretboard markers. or the lack of fretboard markers. It's bloody annoying when standing up, but i didn't notice when sitting down in the shop.
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so er, do you want some white dot stick and a little drill bit - that is an easy fix
Disclaimer... there is always risk taking a drill to a guitar!! but when done with care its an easy fix ;)
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A very interesting guitar there, but I was expecting a semi-acoustic ( Viking Deluxe ? ) - of of course in my case one of their Archtop Jazz guitars. The Hagstrom idea of a double trussrod beneath a "synthetic/ composite ebony like fretboard" has me intrigued.
I was surprised to see that they had put the 'Art Deco' Grover 109 tuners and full size headstock on yours. I had assumed they only put those on the 'Jazzers' . :)
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double truss rods are actually a lot easier to use. they only need a straight channel unlike the traditional single curved rod. some people argue there are tonal benefits to the single rod but i dont think most people would hear it
i am wondering what they use for the fretboard, i have just put a birdseye maple fretboard on a strat neck that is very much like ebony thanks to the process of acrylization (i.e being set in an acrylic polymer that pentrates all the way through and gets cured very hard).. but there are quite a few completely man made materials you can use as fretboards and many come in solid black
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so er, do you want some white dot stick and a little drill bit - that is an easy fix
Disclaimer... there is always risk taking a drill to a guitar!! but when done with care its an easy fix ;)
Or mark the white finish with RED permanent marker pencil :lol:
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double truss rods are actually a lot easier to use. they only need a straight channel unlike the traditional single curved rod. some people argue there are tonal benefits to the single rod but i dont think most people would hear it
i am wondering what they use for the fretboard, i have just put a birdseye maple fretboard on a strat neck that is very much like ebony thanks to the process of acrylization (i.e being set in an acrylic polymer that pentrates all the way through and gets cured very hard).. but there are quite a few completely man made materials you can use as fretboards and many come in solid black
Thanks for the info Wez, I was genuinely interested to hear 'input' from a proper luthier . :)
The process of acrylization certainly seems to fit in with the tactile fingerboard feel that folk seem to report on the Gear Page / Harmony Central. I also wondered whether they were mixing hardwood powders with a synthetic compound, like we shave pencil lead into the super glue if 'back - filling ' a graphite nut.
The double trussrod allegedly helping to get that desirable ultra flat neck / super low action at both ends of the fretboard - ( especially usefull when using 13-56 or 14 - 56 gauge strings in standard tuning ) .
In any case, it's nice to see an established 'classic' name re- appear in the market place, and still seem be innovating / trying to give a good value product at the much lower costs of Chinese / Korean manufacture.
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I think it looks damn groovy.
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To be honest fellas i think i've found my idea guitar. The neck is an odd one, it feels great, but seems very fat. The thing is it's a wide fretboard, but quite shallow at the same time. I was at a rehearsal tonight and when it came to solo it was effortless.
I'm having a Twinfan moment, there is another one in the shop with a black finish and a stoptail bridge. Anyone want to buy some of my gear?
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very nice :)
that's strange about the fret markers... :lol:
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It's like an updated version of a '70s Hagstrom. I must say their site has given me major GAS right now. Oh Dear.