Another example of a company reading this forum and coming up with a guitar

[Rick]

Another example of a company reading this forum and coming up with a guitar.  I'm thinking about the pick up choices and the switching and this forum's love of teles.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/whoa-nele-extremes-nuno-bettencourt-collaborates-with-washburn-on-signature-t-style-with-six-way-pickup-switching

 

[Rick]

Doesn't this look suspiciously like someone's gold jazzmaster?  Frown?

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/fenders-hot-rodded-modern-jazzmaster-is-its-most-contemporary-offset-yet

 

[BigSteve22]

Wow, and all for only $3600 for the standard model, and $4370 for the "Deluxe" which: "sports a birdseye maple neck, 22-fret ebony fretboard and pearloid inlay, and adds a figured maple cap on the swamp ash body."

Apparently they weren't paying attention to our comments about cost....  :icon_scratch:

 

[DangerousR6]

Wow, and all for only $3600 for the standard model, and $4370 for the "Deluxe" which: "sports a birdseye maple neck, 22-fret ebony fretboard and pearloid inlay, and adds a figured maple cap on the swamp ash body."

Apparently they weren't paying attention to our comments about cost....  :icon_scratch:

And I thought than when I bought my EVH MM sig and paid $1500 that was high... :doh:

 

[aarontunes]

I met Nuno at NAMM just a few weeks ago, and played that guitar. I LOVE Nuno. I LOVE the N4. The Nele is not something I would play. Too small and oddly porpotioned. But who knows....perhaps it will grow on me. I loved the N4 from the first moment I saw it.

The Nele somehow strikes me as a guitar that came about not because Nuno wanted it, but because Washburn needed a new product from their most high-profile endorser.

And as long as I'm being cynical, that "quote" from Nuno in the linked article above seems suspect too. "The six-position switch opens up new creative possibilities and gives me more granular tone control" sounds to me like it was written by someone in a pair of tan Dockers.

 

[BigSteve22]

100% agree, sounds like a Washburn thing, and nothing at all against NB.

"The six-position switch opens up new creative possibilities and gives me more granular tone control" sounds to me like it was written by someone in a pair of tan Dockers.

:laughing11: :laughing3: :laughing7:

 

[DangerousR6]

100% agree, sounds like a Washburn thing, and nothing at all against NB.

"The six-position switch opens up new creative possibilities and gives me more granular tone control" sounds to me like it was written by someone in a pair of tan Dockers.

:laughing11: :laughing3: :laughing7:

:toothy12:

"At 3 in the morning, who is this?"

 

[BigSteve22]

"At 3 in the morning, who is this?"

:headbang:

 

[BroccoliRob]

yo those guits (guitars) look cool, I guess, but that neck joint is straight whack

 

[JPOL007]

Another example of a company reading this forum and coming up with a guitar.  I'm thinking about the pick up choices and the switching and this forum's love of teles.

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/whoa-nele-extremes-nuno-bettencourt-collaborates-with-washburn-on-signature-t-style-with-six-way-pickup-switching

I feel a little violated...that scalloped neck Tele thingy isn't as pretty as mine.