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Forum Ringside => Guitars, Amps and Effects => Topic started by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 10:42:30 AM

Title: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 10:42:30 AM
New weird guitar day
(http://www.guitar-museum.com/uploads/guitar/62/5964-1.jpg)
(http://www.guitar-museum.com/vignette/guitar/62/5964-2.jpg)
(http://img3.musiciansfriend.com/dbase/pics/products/4/5/3/272453.jpg)

weird but playes and sounds great...will post own pics later
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Jazz Rock on May 28, 2011, 10:46:42 AM
Weird is good! Looks like a nice piece of wood to me. What kind of pups does it come with? For some reason it looks to me like a hi gain guitar... maybe because of the sharpen Les Paul style contour.

Congratulations  :D
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 10:49:53 AM
info hard to find on these, but think are washburn ones(headhunter lol) and even weirder sound good
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Matt77 on May 28, 2011, 10:53:10 AM
I thought you were selling guitars to buy pedals!
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 10:54:27 AM
why i need too, as got this new one.so may have to sell one of others
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Philly Q on May 28, 2011, 11:11:09 AM
Never seen one of those before!  I guess it's pretty new (from the CE sticker on the neck), so Korean?  Or Chinese?

Washburn totally change their product lines so often, it's hard to keep up.  They never seem to keep one "main" design for very long (although I guess the "Idol" shape has lasted a while).
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 11:13:37 AM
is 2002 as far as can tell(nicked them pics take mine later, but looks like that) is korean and not used much on slight ding on back
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: dave_mc on May 28, 2011, 11:17:10 AM
never tried them (or even heard of that model :lol: as philly says washburn chops and changes a lot), but I like it. Very nice shape and colour.
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 11:21:10 AM
mahogany qmaple top, grover tuners...buzzfelten system(not quite sure on working that out yet)
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: doomcaster on May 28, 2011, 03:54:14 PM
the body looks pretty similar to my '81 washburn falcon,  but the headstock on mine is more standard gibson shape, and mine has a string through style bridge
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Philly Q on May 28, 2011, 04:08:24 PM
Quote from: doomcaster on May 28, 2011, 03:54:14 PM
the body looks pretty similar to my '81 washburn falcon,  but the headstock on mine is more standard gibson shape, and mine has a string through style bridge

You have a Falcon?  Pictures please, it's a guitar I've always admired!  :D
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Elliot on May 28, 2011, 04:41:47 PM
Congrats - I remember when they came out, thought they were cool then.
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 05:53:49 PM
Cool are pretty similar is string thru as well
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Twinfan on May 28, 2011, 07:27:49 PM
Interesting find!
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 07:33:02 PM
It sure is very resonant, can't find much on must have been brief run
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: doomcaster on May 28, 2011, 10:34:13 PM
Im on holiday so I can't get pics of the falcon for at least a week, but its solid red and has off white binding,  the pickups are washburns own "power sustain" humbuckers. Its very dark sounding guitar as is a mahogany neck through and string through with brass saddles. 81 is the newest guitar I've played so I couldnt comment on how it stacks up against newer models but a Falcon will do anything from jazz to metal. and I'd imagine that 30 years of "improvement?" will have changed things quite a bit.
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: Philly Q on May 28, 2011, 10:47:46 PM
Has it got the brass ring fretboard inlays?  I love that look.

I've been on the lookout for one with the rosewood top and maple through-neck.  They do appear on eBay occasionally.  Only thing that puts me off is they're meant to be really heavy (like many Japanese guitars from the early '80s, e.g Yamaha SGs and Ibanez Artists)
Title: Re: NWG day
Post by: sgmypod on May 28, 2011, 10:54:18 PM
This one has great sustain, heavy but not lp heavy. Not dark.