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Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« on: June 16, 2010, 05:07:50 PM »
http://bristol.gumtree.com/bristol/85/60360585.html

Somebody say if this is nice or not, I can't make up my mind. 
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2010, 06:34:26 PM »
Somehow, I was expecting it to be a different shape... :lol:

Not sure whether I think it looks nice or no... probably not for me this model. But I was looking at some Fret Kings the other week, and they did look quite tasty and appealing. I think I was looking at something shaped like this in cherry with 3 P90s.

No idea what they feel/play like though. I didn't dare touch them - I'd just bought a strat a few days before :lol:
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2010, 08:59:52 PM »
I like it a lot!  It's the most "interesting" of the Fret-King designs, and I think that weird headstock of theirs actually suits this model.
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #3 on: June 16, 2010, 09:05:27 PM »
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #4 on: June 16, 2010, 10:10:11 PM »
Somehow, I was expecting it to be a different shape... :lol:

Yeah, I bet gwEm checks in here before long.... bet he's dissapointed too.
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #5 on: June 17, 2010, 12:48:40 AM »
I've played one in the dim and distant past. To the best of my recollection, it hung a little oddly at first (inveterate Fender-itis on my part, possibly), but after a little footering, it was supremely comfortable and played really, really nicely. Pickups weren't stunning, but everything worked rather well. The one I played had Sperzel locking heads, so I can't comment on stock tuning stability. Fretting was pretty decent, neither breathtakingly good nor offensively bad, and it rang true right down the neck. The Headstock doesn't seem to have that "Three miles long obstruction that will hit everything within your line of sight" thing we all know and love from the Firebird, and the wee raised rail bit down the middle is more subtle, too.

All in all, it was a sight nicer than any Firebird I'd played, and if the volume controls weren't situated in the next townland to my picking hand, I'd have dropped coin on it.

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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #6 on: June 17, 2010, 01:02:39 AM »
I don't like any Patrick Eggle designs so I'm a bit biased to say: I don't like it...

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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #7 on: June 17, 2010, 01:25:59 AM »
I don't think it has anything to do with Patrick Eggle as such.  The early ones were built at the Eggle factory (which presumably doesn't exist any more?) but the Fret-King models are all designed by Trev Wilkinson.
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #8 on: June 17, 2010, 08:22:37 AM »
There's been a couple of Eggle factories (and owners).  I think they started in Coventry and then moved over to Birmingham (or vice versa).  They're made in a little village just down the road from me now......... which I've just avoided digging up the road through.

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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #9 on: June 17, 2010, 08:27:53 AM »
Somehow, I was expecting it to be a different shape... :lol:

Yeah, I bet gwEm checks in here before long.... bet he's dissapointed too.

word ;)

expected a King V sort of thing..
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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #10 on: June 17, 2010, 11:18:39 AM »
do you mean the guitar or the colour? the colour is kind of killing the guitar :lol:

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Re: Patrick Eggle/Fret King Esprit V
« Reply #11 on: June 18, 2010, 01:13:21 PM »
thought these was a wilkinson thing...but they do play well, well made alright wilkinson pickups if you can get on with look are good guitar
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