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You do a review of this weird ass guitar, but can't take the time properly review a Rickenbacker. Any Rickenbakcer. Yay! Another fu@#in Gibson. Another damn Fender! 😒 mix it up bro.
That is a very unusual headstock. There is a John 5 signature model that uses the same headstock, but the tuners aren't placed the same. And of course the original 12 strings. I don't think I've ever seen it outside of those three though.
I've been meaning to get that harley benton telecaster with filtertron pickups on it so that it'd be much like this Maverick is. All of that glorious gretsch style tone with none of the feedback. One of my dream guitars is the big orange Gretsch that Pete Townshend played on Who's Next. That big amazing powerchord tone on Baba O'Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again. But I've got a big hollowbody guitar already that has p90s in and you can't add much gain at all before the feedback starts going wild. So I'll get the tele with filtertron instead of this expensive Fender maverick thing. It's cool but just too pricey. Even if I replace the pickups in the tele with Seymour Duncan filtertrons it'll still be less than a 5th of the price of the maverick dorado
Christopher Gwinn So are they actually Filter’Tron type pickups, or just standard PAF style made to look different. Because the pickups were the main thing that made me click on the video, and I was disappointed when he suggested they’re just regular humbuckers.
I couldn't care less about that model but that case is making me drool... It's perfect for a seafoam green strat or tele! I hope those cases sell individually!
I was spent when I saw the green case. I've heard that the "P" stand for "Phender." (LOL). The combination of those pickups and the tailpiece makes it look (to me) like an old Teisco guitar. I would have put a Jazzmaster or Mustang vibro unit on it. I'm picking up a very "Gretsch" vibe on those pickups. I love that!! Very rockable.
Like it! Sounds great. I'm a big Fender fan, NOT a bigsby fan. A hard tail option would be nice. On a $2500.00 budget, I could come up with six other guitars to buy for the price. Thanks for the review 👍
I just bought the green version , was looking for a Gibson feel that played like a fender. This is it. If you like both a Gibson and a Fender and want the best of both worlds. This is it. The holy grail. The ebony fretboard feels like Brazilian rosewood. I love how this guitar plays and feels. Possibly the best guitar I’ve ever played
Love it. I was a little kid in the 1960s and that has the vibe of the budget guitars from Harmony, Teisco, etc., that I obsessed over in catalogues and department stores. It's a guitar and it's ELECTRIC!!! Off the chart coolness for a little kid at the time.
Johnny Winter played a Fender Xll at Woodstock,strung up with six strings.Then the Custom,and the Maverick come out.Why Fender didn't include him in the initial promotion is beyond me.Seemed like a missed opportunity. This guitar has a great sound due to the extended string length,and "chimey" pups..Very reminiscent of Johnny Winter's tone at Woodstock.(Check out him and his brother's version of "Tell The Truth"). This guitar is a real Blues Rock "sleeper"!
I think that second cut is for having the guitar sit on your lap with the neck more straight up and down. I like to play my classical guitar more in an up and down attitude because it is easier to fret more difficult chords if you do not need to come under the neck. I have always wondered why guitars generally do not have that second cut to allow both a more flat, horizontal profile and a more "cello" like relationship.
Those pickups are very likely unpotted, which Tim Shaw likes for the vintage-voiced low output humbuckers. The Fender American Professional Tele Deluxe with Shawbuckers have the same sensitivity to higher gain (at which point they'll squeal), and are a bit microphonic.
Thanks for reviewing this Trogly; I’ve actually ordered one of these in but in Mystic Pine Green. I’m from Australia so they’re quite a lot dearer here, over $4000 and there is an expected wait time of June or July and that was before the Corvid19 crisis! But none the less, excellent review! You’ve renewed my enthusiasm for when mine arrives, especially with that green case.
it sounds pretty amazing! im always impressed how versatile these new fenders are! Gibson should be taking note! would i ever buy one new? no,ide wait a few yrs and pick up a used one, or better yet just by a set of the pickups it has in it and build something? cause 2500$ is insane! 700-900$ range is what ide expect..
700-900? With a bound ebony fretboard with inlays? No. IMO $1499.= would have been a more appropriate price. Why? Gut feeling... experience... $1499.- is what I would maximally pay for a sunburst Jazzmaster with more or less the same fretboard.
Quick tech tip for bigsbys, dont waste the money on the fancy clips to hold the strings on just stick a pink school eraser in the back and it'll hold the strings on just as good if not better
Hey Austin, first of all, 123,000+ subscribers!!! Man you were at what was it 87,000 on December 31? That's almost 40,000 new subs in exactly 4 months. The word is definitely getting out, congrats man you deserve it!! Now, for a little bit of time for Austin to pat himself on the back, or I guess maybe I am patting him on the back? lol. In the last 3 days I have had the opportunity to talk to people and explain to them things about Gibson's that they did not know, ALL of what I was teaching them I learned from watching this channel! 7 years ago all I knew about the Gibson Les Paul was 1) I have wanted a Gibson Les Paul Standard since I was 12 (in 1977) and 2) It was the guitar that Les Paul the man himself had designed from the ground up and that is what made it such a special guitar. Of course now I know that Les did not design the guitar at all, he did suggest a few things though, and the Les Paul I have wanted since I was 12 was not the Standard model but was in fact a Custom!! All I knew is Ace Frehley played one and it was SO cool!! But NO I did not think the Les Paul was so cool because Ace played it, it was the guitar itself and you gotta remember, Paul Stanley was the one always playing the weird cool ones like the V's and the Iceman's!! LOL I have an Iceman because of wanting one of those since I was about 13, but not as much as the LP. Anyway, I just wanted you to know Austin that the stuff you are teaching us here is being used and has come in quite helpful. Now, if you're still reading this lol, the 2016 Les Paul Studio - how many pieces was the back and the top? I stripped that 2016 I got from you back down to the bare wood and am going to maybe paint it white and I noticed the back is a 4 maybe a 5 piece and the front (top) is a two piece. I thought I had heard they were supposed to be solid mahogany back, or was that the customs only?
They weren't going for an alien colour, that's actually a desired Fender case/amp cover colour. You need to setup a Bigsby for specific tunings. If you don't, they will fall out of tune. They're not designed to work with multiple tunings - that's pretty standard Bigsby knowledge. I'd suggest learning about setting up Bigsby trems. They work really well (especially with a properly setup non-roller bridge) when they're setup properly. You just have to leave them in one tuning.
I don't understand how it's much more expensive than the Jaguar-Stratocaster you reviewed a while ago. That guitar was much nicer IMO. Still, I guess it's a limited edition collectible, but can't get past the hockey stick - even on the 12s..
What amazes me is.. Fender by comparison, to other companies go cheap with all of their appointments on their guitars but they do not use scarf joints on the neck... but I just went to Jackson's website and the Marty Friedman almost $5,000 Les Paul style guitar has a scarf joint on the neck I wonder why that is
Fender actually owns Bigsby as of last year so they're probably not putting a lower grade vibrato on them. As for restringing a Bigsby, the best investment is to replace the spindle with the pins with a string through. Saves hours of frustration!.
just pull pins out with pliers .drill through to other side and then countersink so ball ends sit nicely . Bigsby have a special adapter , which costs more than electric drill and set of metal drill bits
pickups sound quite in the filtertron territory, figured they could just be filters with a blade on one side, but they did look a little too short to really be using that type of construction.
I own a PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow Bigsby, Doing a String Change on it requires 3 hands, my guitar tech that I usually send mine to, to get it restrung, has a special tool he got designed when he worked as a Builder for LADO Guitars in the 80s that allows him to restring Bigsby's without issue.
They should market the Maverick headstock as a custom option for those of us that would like straight-thru stringing, in place of the traditional Fender headstock with string trees. Last year, I had a "Frankenstrat" assembled for me with locking tuners in place of the string tree. Its body happens to be ash, which is significant when you mention the detail about Fender discontinuing the harvesting of ash wood. The guy who assembled it for me happened to have an ash body on hand, and I had previously wanted one. I also purchased a TravelCaster, which has a headstock kind of like this one, though half the size. It's like a PRS headstock, or that of the Brian May Red Special, both of which are better suited for straight-thru stringing. It could just be that the bridge pickup needs an extra coating of wax.
PLEASE review a harley benton guitar they're super cheap and am thinking of getting one I just want your seal of approval or seal of disapproval depending on how you feel about it
You can use one of those school pink rubber erasers to hold the strings on a Bigsby until they have tension to keep them in place. High gain squeal is due to pickup microphonics from unpotted pickups (players in that market have a fear of wax so the factories keep it out).
Gretsch is owned by Fender, quality guitars, even their affordable ones are really good, so good that they rival USA made Gibsons for a third of the price, will you ever do one ?
Trogly, completely agree with the Bigsby!! Silly not putting on the Real Thing now they Fender OWNS Bigsby. Would make for better looks, sustain and most important now they are string-through for easy string changes. Sigh.... Not sure the Tim Shaw PUP's on there are true Filtertrons, should check out a Tele with the TV-Jones, they're Awsome!! If ya have an issue with stringing the Bigsby, try the "Eraser" technique. Lots of Vids on TH-cam showing how. Cool Guitar, Thanks for doing this one! Cheers!!
As he said the filtertron-like pickups sound great when clean, i recommend not using distortion on filtertron style pickups and instead going for gain or overdrive.
Most of the way there,but they really should have gone with a Jazzmaster/Jag trem; maybe a B16 if they could source something that rare. Tension-bar Bigsbys are stiff and unresponsive,and Elliott Easton is the only "name" player I've ever heard say nice things about them. Otherwise,I'm intrigued.Might be a bit more intrigued with the pickups in Jazzmaster or maybe even crème dog-ear housings!
This just made me smile. I kinda' dig the old surfer guitars, played a Norma for many years. Now days I am happy with a more traditional style guitar. Also, I am really loving videos showing the pricier Fenders taken apart. My SQUIRE Tele-Deluxe seems to be better made than most of the new Fenders I see and cost a whole lot less.
The more I look at it.. besides the headstock,,that neck is pretty awesome for Fender,, they should make that standard on all of their top-end guitars instead of the simple dot inlay... if I am paying 1800 to $2,500 for a guitar I don't want dot inlays,, I would like some craftsmanship
One of the coolest reissues/tributes in a very long time imo. A shame at that price they gave it the cheap ass Bigsby . I was disappointed they didn't put a USA Bigsby on the Vintera 60's Telecaster ,but on an American guitar ,it's ridiculous.
A bigsby is the worst my Gretsch has one and I've been thinking about making it a hard tail for years. As many years as the strings have been on it since the last time I changed them.
I don’t know that I’d call the Maverick "goofy”. I’d say it’s "bad ass”! I might feel different if it was painted a solid color, but that burst is sick! Ok, just saw the 2 metallic paint jobs and they’re sweet too. 1 please!
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🐕 Episode Guide:
0:12 - Unboxing Dorado
1:29 - Maverick History
2:30 - First Impressions
3:07 - Inside Look / Specs
11:14 - Tone Demo
13:47 - Final Thoughts
18:25 - Blacklight
18:41 - Case + Candy
You do a review of this weird ass guitar, but can't take the time properly review a Rickenbacker. Any Rickenbakcer. Yay! Another fu@#in Gibson. Another damn Fender! 😒 mix it up bro.
Time to change your pad?
Are certain colors shipping at certain times? Mine isn’t excepted to arrive until August.
That is a very unusual headstock. There is a John 5 signature model that uses the same headstock, but the tuners aren't placed the same. And of course the original 12 strings. I don't think I've ever seen it outside of those three though.
Sweet demo playin brother 😎
That headstock looks like a Smurf's hat
I hate you for this ,😂😂
I would say it looks like something else...
@@jackds7107 ;))
That's what I always call those too. Probably in my top 5 ugliest headstocks imo
@@_dmfd Agreed.
If it’s a $2500 guitar it should NOT have a licensed bigsby
I agree ,if it's an American guitar it should have been proudly graced with an American Bigsby, and I'm British btw.
@Nobby Heads Wtf?
Right
What? You think a guitar that expensive should have a cheap knockoff fake bigsby?
@@joebryant8500 Laziness ?
Those pickups actually sound pretty good.
100% agree
Lovely clean tones.
I've been meaning to get that harley benton telecaster with filtertron pickups on it so that it'd be much like this Maverick is. All of that glorious gretsch style tone with none of the feedback. One of my dream guitars is the big orange Gretsch that Pete Townshend played on Who's Next. That big amazing powerchord tone on Baba O'Riley and Won't Get Fooled Again. But I've got a big hollowbody guitar already that has p90s in and you can't add much gain at all before the feedback starts going wild. So I'll get the tele with filtertron instead of this expensive Fender maverick thing. It's cool but just too pricey. Even if I replace the pickups in the tele with Seymour Duncan filtertrons it'll still be less than a 5th of the price of the maverick dorado
Hell yeah they do
Christopher Gwinn So are they actually Filter’Tron type pickups, or just standard PAF style made to look different. Because the pickups were the main thing that made me click on the video, and I was disappointed when he suggested they’re just regular humbuckers.
You've become my go-to guy on the newer guitar release reviews, i'm sure many here can share that sentiment!
That case is killer, but that headstock... it’s a bit hard to look at. Everything else is cool 😎
Right...needs viagra.
Flaccid.
Definitely a dope case
Yeah not a fan of the head stock. Really lets it down.
Aw man I dig that headstock
Like the entire parallel universe line:
I would love this if it cost half as much
@Conor Winston maybe, but I buy stocks and bonds to invest, I buy guitars to play
You would spend $1,250 on it?
I’m a stock trader too. I saw the green version of this guitar and saw a 100% return in 10 years
Like playing a huge Cadillac lol. I would have that headstock dented up crashing it into stuff
I hate it.
Take a saw to it.
I love the way you give your honest opinion and aren't swayed by the name on the guitar.
I couldn't care less about that model but that case is making me drool... It's perfect for a seafoam green strat or tele! I hope those cases sell individually!
Exactly, I have a Sea Foam green Tele that would look great in that case, as for the guitar, well, I think it's ugly as hell. Pass...
My Seafoam ja
My mystic Seafoam jazz😊
They do. I have a Sage Green Strat in mine.
THIS IS THE PARALLEL UNIVERSE I WANTED HELL YEAH
I wanted the green one but that is discontinued sadly
But it’s sold on websites still
I was spent when I saw the green case. I've heard that the "P" stand for "Phender." (LOL). The combination of those pickups and the tailpiece makes it look (to me) like an old Teisco guitar. I would have put a Jazzmaster or Mustang vibro unit on it. I'm picking up a very "Gretsch" vibe on those pickups. I love that!! Very rockable.
It sounds great with very light distorsion (much lighter than the one Austin used in this video) or, better, no overdrive at all.
your genuinely getting much better at playing man. fair play. great review
The best thing to help with stringing up a bigsby is locking tuners. Those should be standard on any guitar with a bigsby.
I could see how that would be VERY helpful haha
@@Trog actually locking tuners are just super nice even if you have a hardtail. I makes changing string so much easier.
Locking tuners should just be the new normal on anything over $400...
Like it! Sounds great. I'm a big Fender fan, NOT a bigsby fan. A hard tail option would be nice. On a $2500.00 budget, I could come up with six other guitars to buy for the price.
Thanks for the review 👍
Charles Harper you might be able to get the entire squier vintage vibe lineup
Joshua Chen ahahahahahaha
Like a nice new Gibson LP Standard lol
2:54
Many people dont know this but traditionalist actually means "a very sad person"
Ichika Nito Did a video on it, but it was just him playing it. He named the video "Funny Guitar"
I thought of him while playing this guitar. That was a NAMM Show video
th-cam.com/video/xjdNvXeuwcw/w-d-xo.html
Holy shoot he's right hey what do yall think is fender's next case ooh maybe the next case might be a neopolitan themed case
@Kal blackmon
I think you need to learn punctuation.
Great videos man, I don't see many people get nearly as in depth as you do 🤙
I just bought the green version , was looking for a Gibson feel that played like a fender. This is it. If you like both a Gibson and a Fender and want the best of both worlds. This is it. The holy grail. The ebony fretboard feels like Brazilian rosewood. I love how this guitar plays and feels. Possibly the best guitar I’ve ever played
It looks like a guitar that I had ordered from the JC Penney catalog back in 1975. For $75.
Nostalgic vibe.
Love it. I was a little kid in the 1960s and that has the vibe of the budget guitars from Harmony, Teisco, etc., that I obsessed over in catalogues and department stores. It's a guitar and it's ELECTRIC!!! Off the chart coolness for a little kid at the time.
Love it! It has such an outlandish yet cool in-your-face style setter vibe. Love it! Great video
Johnny Winter played a Fender Xll at Woodstock,strung up with six strings.Then the Custom,and the Maverick come out.Why Fender didn't include him in the initial promotion is beyond me.Seemed like a missed opportunity. This guitar has a great sound due to the extended string length,and "chimey" pups..Very reminiscent of Johnny Winter's tone at Woodstock.(Check out him and his brother's version of "Tell The Truth"). This guitar is a real Blues Rock "sleeper"!
I like the sound. Headstock is like an old Christmas stocking, but I appreciate it.
I love that you find all the oddball models like this and do reviews of them.
I knew it was the Maverick. Even wrote it in yesterday's video :D
I think that second cut is for having the guitar sit on your lap with the neck more straight up and down. I like to play my classical guitar more in an up and down attitude because it is easier to fret more difficult chords if you do not need to come under the neck. I have always wondered why guitars generally do not have that second cut to allow both a more flat, horizontal profile and a more "cello" like relationship.
It looks like a complete "parts bin" build...so WHY do I absolutely love it!? The Shaw pickups sound incredible!
That clean tone sounds so good!
Those pickups are very likely unpotted, which Tim Shaw likes for the vintage-voiced low output humbuckers. The Fender American Professional Tele Deluxe with Shawbuckers have the same sensitivity to higher gain (at which point they'll squeal), and are a bit microphonic.
i love ur vids always teaches me more bout guitars
I love the channel keep it up. Your vids are the best.
Thanks for reviewing this Trogly; I’ve actually ordered one of these in but in Mystic Pine Green. I’m from Australia so they’re quite a lot dearer here, over $4000 and there is an expected wait time of June or July and that was before the Corvid19 crisis! But none the less, excellent review! You’ve renewed my enthusiasm for when mine arrives, especially with that green case.
And?
it sounds pretty amazing! im always impressed how versatile these new fenders are! Gibson should be taking note! would i ever buy one new? no,ide wait a few yrs and pick up a used one, or better yet just by a set of the pickups it has in it and build something? cause 2500$ is insane! 700-900$ range is what ide expect..
700-900? With a bound ebony fretboard with inlays? No. IMO $1499.= would have been a more appropriate price. Why? Gut feeling... experience... $1499.- is what I would maximally pay for a sunburst Jazzmaster with more or less the same fretboard.
I personally dont feel that Gibson and Fender are even in the same world of guitars as there just such different animals.
Quick tech tip for bigsbys, dont waste the money on the fancy clips to hold the strings on just stick a pink school eraser in the back and it'll hold the strings on just as good if not better
I don't know why but it's got that nice characteristics to it. Amazing work, Fender as always!
Hey Austin, first of all, 123,000+ subscribers!!! Man you were at what was it 87,000 on December 31? That's almost 40,000 new subs in exactly 4 months. The word is definitely getting out, congrats man you deserve it!!
Now, for a little bit of time for Austin to pat himself on the back, or I guess maybe I am patting him on the back? lol. In the last 3 days I have had the opportunity to talk to people and explain to them things about Gibson's that they did not know, ALL of what I was teaching them I learned from watching this channel! 7 years ago all I knew about the Gibson Les Paul was 1) I have wanted a Gibson Les Paul Standard since I was 12 (in 1977) and 2) It was the guitar that Les Paul the man himself had designed from the ground up and that is what made it such a special guitar.
Of course now I know that Les did not design the guitar at all, he did suggest a few things though, and the Les Paul I have wanted since I was 12 was not the Standard model but was in fact a Custom!! All I knew is Ace Frehley played one and it was SO cool!! But NO I did not think the Les Paul was so cool because Ace played it, it was the guitar itself and you gotta remember, Paul Stanley was the one always playing the weird cool ones like the V's and the Iceman's!! LOL I have an Iceman because of wanting one of those since I was about 13, but not as much as the LP.
Anyway, I just wanted you to know Austin that the stuff you are teaching us here is being used and has come in quite helpful. Now, if you're still reading this lol, the 2016 Les Paul Studio - how many pieces was the back and the top? I stripped that 2016 I got from you back down to the bare wood and am going to maybe paint it white and I noticed the back is a 4 maybe a 5 piece and the front (top) is a two piece. I thought I had heard they were supposed to be solid mahogany back, or was that the customs only?
They weren't going for an alien colour, that's actually a desired Fender case/amp cover colour.
You need to setup a Bigsby for specific tunings. If you don't, they will fall out of tune. They're not designed to work with multiple tunings - that's pretty standard Bigsby knowledge. I'd suggest learning about setting up Bigsby trems. They work really well (especially with a properly setup non-roller bridge) when they're setup properly. You just have to leave them in one tuning.
Would love to see you go over a Gretsch single cut.
Im not a Fender fan and i reaaaally like the Maverick, such an under rated model. Its in my bucketlist.
the sound demos are so much better, great job!
JESUS those pickups are so bright, I had to turn down my volume lol
Valkynaz The Immortal me too!
Valkynaz The Immortal blew mine out
Lots of dead ash trees in my area thanks to the emerald ash borer. I often wonder about buying a portable saw mill and chopping them up for guitars.
One of the weirdest fenders...
First time watching your channel and I’m super impressed! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!! Very detailed. 🙌
I like that bridge pickup.
I've never seen this in my life I thought I seen it all cool and crazy
That's the best clean sound Troggly has ever achieved.
Love the sound, like the body, not digging the headstock.
I dig the overall vibe, but agree it is about $800-1000 overpriced
I am really digging the sound of those pickups! The neck pickup sounds fantastic!
the curved hockey stick headstock!
Troggly, the case is surf green. A classic fender color.
I don't understand how it's much more expensive than the Jaguar-Stratocaster you reviewed a while ago. That guitar was much nicer IMO. Still, I guess it's a limited edition collectible, but can't get past the hockey stick - even on the 12s..
What amazes me is.. Fender by comparison, to other companies go cheap with all of their appointments on their guitars but they do not use scarf joints on the neck... but I just went to Jackson's website and the Marty Friedman almost $5,000 Les Paul style guitar has a scarf joint on the neck I wonder why that is
Pickups sound good and the headstock looks like Fenders first pointy headstock !
That's an awesome guitar I love The binding/block inlays on the neck.but just like a lot of these other comments that headstock is an eyesore
Fender actually owns Bigsby as of last year so they're probably not putting a lower grade vibrato on them.
As for restringing a Bigsby, the best investment is to replace the spindle with the pins with a string through. Saves hours of frustration!.
just pull pins out with pliers .drill through to other side and then countersink so ball ends sit nicely . Bigsby have a special adapter , which costs more than electric drill and set of metal drill bits
Ilike the shots in the background during the demo, nice edition!
pickups sound quite in the filtertron territory, figured they could just be filters with a blade on one side, but they did look a little too short to really be using that type of construction.
I own a PRS SE Custom Semi-Hollow Bigsby, Doing a String Change on it requires 3 hands, my guitar tech that I usually send mine to, to get it restrung, has a special tool he got designed when he worked as a Builder for LADO Guitars in the 80s that allows him to restring Bigsby's without issue.
They should market the Maverick headstock as a custom option for those of us that would like straight-thru stringing, in place of the traditional Fender headstock with string trees. Last year, I had a "Frankenstrat" assembled for me with locking tuners in place of the string tree.
Its body happens to be ash, which is significant when you mention the detail about Fender discontinuing the harvesting of ash wood. The guy who assembled it for me happened to have an ash body on hand, and I had previously wanted one.
I also purchased a TravelCaster, which has a headstock kind of like this one, though half the size. It's like a PRS headstock, or that of the Brian May Red Special, both of which are better suited for straight-thru stringing.
It could just be that the bridge pickup needs an extra coating of wax.
PLEASE review a harley benton guitar they're super cheap and am thinking of getting one I just want your seal of approval or seal of disapproval depending on how you feel about it
Check 60 cycle hum, he covered some harley Bentons as well as others cheapo brands
Hi Trogly! The "strange" string retainer is the Fender XII string retainer, that's why you have 8 staggered holes instead of 4.
I think what's weird is the pickup covers. What's cool is that it looks like a cheap guitar and plays and sounds like an American Fender
Really has a Burns/WEM vibe to it. Love the different stuff sometimes.
You can use one of those school pink rubber erasers to hold the strings on a Bigsby until they have tension to keep them in place. High gain squeal is due to pickup microphonics from unpotted pickups (players in that market have a fear of wax so the factories keep it out).
The headstock hurts to look at
Good review - the case is a standard Fender color, "Surf Green".
Gretsch is owned by Fender, quality guitars, even their affordable ones are really good, so good that they rival USA made Gibsons for a third of the price, will you ever do one ?
I agree!
But they're hard to look at man
@@DatBoi-mo9vc ?
Gretsch is NOT owned by Fender. Fender has a marketing agreement with them. Fred Gretsch still owns everything.
From Leo: A big pink pencil eraser is the perfect tool to use for restringing a Bigsby. Used it for years, cheap and effective .
Trogly, completely agree with the Bigsby!! Silly not putting on the Real Thing now they Fender OWNS Bigsby. Would make for better looks, sustain and most important now they are string-through for easy string changes. Sigh....
Not sure the Tim Shaw PUP's on there are true Filtertrons, should check out a Tele with the TV-Jones, they're Awsome!!
If ya have an issue with stringing the Bigsby, try the "Eraser" technique. Lots of Vids on TH-cam showing how. Cool Guitar, Thanks for doing this one! Cheers!!
This guitar is pretty cool.
Dude loved the tone in the playing demo
As he said the filtertron-like pickups sound great when clean, i recommend not using distortion on filtertron style pickups and instead going for gain or overdrive.
Hey Trog, that green screen B-Roll during your playing demo is cool. 👍
Most of the way there,but they really should have gone with a Jazzmaster/Jag trem; maybe a B16 if they could source something that rare. Tension-bar Bigsbys are stiff and unresponsive,and Elliott Easton is the only "name" player I've ever heard say nice things about them. Otherwise,I'm intrigued.Might be a bit more intrigued with the pickups in Jazzmaster or maybe even crème dog-ear housings!
That headstock is really goofy! They sound pretty good!
This just made me smile. I kinda' dig the old surfer guitars, played a Norma for many years. Now days I am happy with a more traditional style guitar.
Also, I am really loving videos showing the pricier Fenders taken apart. My SQUIRE Tele-Deluxe seems to be better made than most of the new Fenders I see and cost a whole lot less.
Can you make a video on how to get into buying/selling guitars? Im seriously considering it and would need some advice how to get started
Johnny Winter played a 12 string Fender set up with 6 strings at Woodstock
High gain on the bridge has a ton of string ring behind the bridge/nut. This guitar really requires jimmy-clips.
it sounds much better than I expected
Your playing fit the guitar. Good video Trogly.
Retro futuristic madness. Just my cup of tea...but it's got to be that sparkly green one.
This honestly is the 1st guitar i would not rock. At all.... But would collect it.
The more I look at it.. besides the headstock,,that neck is pretty awesome for Fender,, they should make that standard on all of their top-end guitars instead of the simple dot inlay... if I am paying 1800 to $2,500 for a guitar I don't want dot inlays,, I would like some craftsmanship
Thank you for another great vid! I'm not in the market for that guitar, but I have more info if a go that way!
I'm looking forward to the review of the new trouble maker Tele, and that strat cross LP junior!
Oh wow daniel johns had an original one on early silverchair days.
Canadians love these for their dual purpose
One of the coolest reissues/tributes in a very long time imo. A shame at that price they gave it the cheap ass Bigsby . I was disappointed they didn't put a USA Bigsby on the Vintera 60's Telecaster ,but on an American guitar ,it's ridiculous.
I like the way that it sounds.
Weird cool. You really need to buy that three pick up Tele with a Bigsby in gold. It’s about 25-2600 bucks but pretty awesome.
I'd love to see a reissued Fender marauder
Yeaaa. Don't care much for the look but the pups sound awesome!
that bridge pickup couldn't stop ringing, maybe without the metal cover would stop the ringing noise
A bigsby is the worst my Gretsch has one and I've been thinking about making it a hard tail for years. As many years as the strings have been on it since the last time I changed them.
I don’t know that I’d call the Maverick "goofy”. I’d say it’s "bad ass”! I might feel different if it was painted a solid color, but that burst is sick! Ok, just saw the 2 metallic paint jobs and they’re sweet too. 1 please!
Look at the headstock and the body. Now, think of Whoville and the "who" people and grinch ect.
It's out of a weird, hideous cartoon.