The worst or the best of all possible electrics?

[tfarny]

This thing sucks! Only 21 frets, weird body shape, fragile paint, noisy pickups, antiquated bridge and switching system, no trem. On the other hand - only 21 frets, weird body shape, fragile paint, noisy pickups, antiquated bridge and switching system, no trem.

 

[HowToKillAKing]

Its gorgeous....

My first Warmoth build is gonna be a Telemaster / Jazzcaster!

 

[hannaugh]

Mmmm p90s...  I'll play it!

 

[line6man]

I've become used to 21 frets on guitars, but I cannot do with 20 on Fender-ish basses.

Ugly shape, but that's personal taste.

Single coils can sound so good, it's worth dealing with 60Hz hum, but on the other hand, a lot of great humbuckers are available today that also sound great, albeit not the same.

The bridge is worthless to me. Aside from being a hardtail, it's ugly and primitive looking. People always rave about the tone of compensated saddles, but personally, I'd rather have an independent saddle for each string. Regardless of the saddles, that thing looks like part of a sardine can. :dontknow:

I can't comment on the switching, as there is no information about it in the OP.

No Floyd; worthless! :icon_jokercolor:

 

[erogenousjones17]

Who cares if it only has 21 frets? No one ever goes up beyond 12 anyway.  :icon_jokercolor:

Seriously, I like it. I could do without the Tele bridge, but you can't always get what you want, can you?

 

[Cagey]

Who cares if it only has 21 frets? No one ever goes up beyond 12 anyway.  :icon_jokercolor:

Seriously, I like it. I could do without the Tele bridge, but you can't always get what you want, can you?

I always thought the 21/22/24 fret argument was a little specious, especially considering those frets are generally inaccessible on most instruments anyway. But, it was pointed out to me that I forgot to consider the hammer/tap possibilities that exist there, where you'd be using your picking hand to get at those frets rather than your fretting hand. If someone does a lot of that sort of thing, then the extra frets might be useful.

 

[m4rk0]

I love it,
I would like to have one in Creamy white please!

 

[erogenousjones17]

Who cares if it only has 21 frets? No one ever goes up beyond 12 anyway.  :icon_jokercolor:

Seriously, I like it. I could do without the Tele bridge, but you can't always get what you want, can you?

I always thought the 21/22/24 fret argument was a little specious, especially considering those frets are generally inaccessible on most instruments anyway. But, it was pointed out to me that I forgot to consider the hammer/tap possibilities that exist there, where you'd be using your picking hand to get at those frets rather than your fretting hand. If someone does a lot of that sort of thing, then the extra frets might be useful.

You mean like that Dragonforce guy that was posted recently?  :laughing7:

 

[Cagey]

I don't remember.

 

[fdesalvo]

I love the look - love to hear it through a cranked up single channel EF86/6BQ5 or 6l6 amp.  Tasty treats.  And - I use all 22 frets on my guitars.  Why have unused real estate?

 

[AutoBat]

I like 22 frets, as in drop D the 22nd fret on the high E is now 2 octaves.  I guess 24 frets would do that all the time instead of just in a modified tuning.
So I'll probably have a 24 fretter someday. It's at least worth the experience.

 

[greywolf]

there are humbucking P90's around , I have 2 from dimarzio , Fralin makes them as well.

 

[stubhead]

I was a demon slide guitarist for a long time, then not, then again thnx to Sonny Landreth. Butch Trucks is about the only guy crazy enough to learn to play jazz tunes in the right keys on slide; for everybody else, you accept the boundaries of each given tuning and poke around in the corners - write material that uses the streghts not the weaknesses. And for all that, I have found 24 frets to be useful.

The correct "harmonic placement" of pickups under the 24th fret node is a zeirdo, because strings vibrate the least at the nodes. And, then, you fret them? But from the anguished faces made by the MTV-trained generation, you'd think that having "only" 21 or 22 frets was an advantage because you then get to make a face like you're passing a Mark II torpedo (made of pepperoni)* every time you bend a .009" string three frets. OOOOOH.... OOOOOOH...

Plop!

And on the other hand, apparently the only way to get a guitar with enough of a cutaway that you can use fingerings with your middle or index finger on the 19th fret is to put 24 on there and guilt out the designer. It does get kind of gimmicky, though - short lengths of string don't really sound very good to most people.

*(torpedoroni, don't ask)