Tim nails it when he says we are living in the golden age of guitar, as there are so many brilliant products out there for both the professional and aspiring musician. Long May that continue!
Andy Powers is the next Paul Reed Smith. He's a true innovator, an artists and clearly very passionate. His work with Taylor has tweaked their sometimes sterile guitars into masterpieces.
I have the 1st model of the Taylor 614ce that Andy designed in 2011. A maple guitar with violin style bracing to "charm the chime". Wonderful sound and a pleasure to play. Now I want that Powers Electric Guitar. Andy can make maple guitars that are warm and clear, not harsh or chimy. Real skill of a real artist.
The pickups really are impressive. The Neodymium magnets and the Faraday Shields provide a clarity that's like being in the sound channel itself. Incredible. The nod to automotive metal for the backside access panel is fun to match the pickup covers. My grandmother had a 1950 Ford Tudor Sedan that was painted Caribbean Turquoise No. 211 that is a match to your aqua/turquois color choice. She was a tiny woman, 4'11" and am sure her eyes would have just peeked over the steering wheel at most. Beautiful guitar design and performance. We are in awe of your beautious work.
Kind of surprised that Andy has started his own brand of guitars while still being the CEO/owner-partner of Taylor. Seems like a potential conflict of interest (at least in terms of his time/effort dedication to Taylor) but these look like really cool guitars.
I disagree brother. Much Respect! Bob and Andy have surrounded themselves with wonderful staff and a team that carries the same passion throughout the entire building process. I do not know how they did it, but my Taylor is never leaving my side. I have toured El Cajon and been to artist night promotions with a young Jim Kirlin. Taylor has its rudder deeply and firmly in the water and their acoustic guitars have very few peers. Maybe Andy's venture out might bring some better electric builds in El Cajon! Their electric line is all about quality that hasnt panned out in the market. Maybe Powers has a better grip on cost price point and these will be more affordable to collectors and players alike. I wonder if Taylor is done done done with electrics????
I didn't like the aesthetics of that guitar, except for the knobs made of the leftover fiberglass, those are rad, and so I ignored the announcements about this guitar's creation. This video has totally changed my mind. Not that I will every buy a $3800 guitar, even if they weren't sold out! I love the engineering approach that Andy Powers took. There is so much vintage worship these days; it's great to see someone still trying to break new ground. Especially since most of those attempts die a fast death. It helps that his ideas genuinely seem to have created an improved product. Maybe things like the camshaft "device" bar and the neodymium pickups with faraday cage covers will make their way into wider guitar production and thus at a much more affordable price point.
That's a really cool instrument. One of the things I liked the most, which Tim showed off in the middle of the video, is the very, VERY distinct sound and character of each of the three pickup selection positions. They were more their own thing, rather than different shadings of the same basic thing, than most guitars out there. We all pay lip service to the idea of "wow, those are all useable tones with their own purpose", when in fact, I think many guitar players gravitate to 1-2 options and mostly ignore the others. Well with this one, those 3 options really are very useable. I could see myself playing all of them quite a bit. I also like the volume and tone knobs. Those layered stripes in effect give you a volume-tone indicator without needing numbers, or "Volume" written on it, or what have you. That's the problem with blank knobs like on a Tele. You have to tell by feel where you are on the control. You can totally do that, but I like a visual indicator. This has that.
Pretty much lower inductance P90s. The Faraday cage may reduce some AC hum harmonics, but also reduces the highs from the strings, as do the Steel pole screws. They may be low enough inductance to accommodate 250k pots, and they may have thinner wire which increases efficiency and S/N ratio. I'd be curious what the Gauss is at the screw heads with immensely powerful Nd magnets. Might be a lot of string pull. P90's also sound great in parallel.
If you want the rough equivalent to this guitar for $600, buy the Danelectro 59XT which also has the hollow body with no holes in it just like this guitar and a great Wilkinson tremolo and comes in the same color. It has the same jangly sound and a 25 inch scale and plays and sounds marvelous. I should know I have had one for about three years now.
@@81realtimeThe Powers sounds great here. So does the XT. They have a lot in common though one uses much fancier woods if you feel that makes a difference.
I like the symbiosis between vintage and modern design. It does the Chris Isaak tunes well. Alway a pleasure to listen to your pristine demo's mr Pierce!
Tim Pierce has a brilliant suite of amps/cabs, years of experience of recording the BEST tones and he has exceptional tone production that simply comes from his physical interaction with the guitar - all of that said this is an outstanding guitar with HUGE potential. I didn't hear a single sound coming from this instrument that wasn't musical and inspiring - it has a wonderful musicality to the complex overtones it organically produces. Andy Powers is going to face a potentially huge demand for this instrument - if only a company like PRS could team up to mass produce high quality versions of these instruments (under Andy's brand name ?) so that they could be available for us regular grunts in the musical trenches for around £ 3K :-)
That guitar is breathtaking, the guy has a great mind! Beautiful and inspiring it's everything a guitar should be. Are they even available in Canada? I'm guessing not but would be nice to know.
Very cool. He approaches the guitar from a UX perspective, as I do with my own guitars. He's making subtle breaks with tradition that have real impact. I'm impressed.
@3:44 Back in the day we hot rodders would achieve this look by chucking up a pencil, (or some other mild abrasive) eraser side down in a milling machine like a Bridgeport and applying light pressure in the Z axis to a soft metal while moving the table in precise increments in the X and then Y axes. It was borrowed from a firearm manufacturing process called jeweling for no other reason than that it looked cool.
That is one fine guitar, Tim plays it and the sound is like seeing a master racer get into a newly developed car and shows the designer things they never thought a car could do.
If you want to demonstrate that balance you can cut a pvc pipe to fit over the strap button and show it without taking the button off. Beautiful thoughtful work.
I don’t care what anyone says…THIS is the *Golden Age Of Guitar!* The quality/price ratio for new gear is as high as it’s ever been! The innovations in guitars, amps, effects, hardware, software are unreal, and the internet is awash with tutors, tablature and chord structures for almost any song in existence! It makes the 70’s when I started playing, look like the caveman days!
Andy Powers confirmed; or at least shares; one of my theories about construction, and it’s impact on tone: The “passive” or “non-speaking” length of the string affects the tone of the vibrating length of string. I prefer reverse-headstock guitars (on my guitars that have six-in-line headstocks) for this reason. Instead of having the shortest length under tension, my lower strings have the longest length under tension. That has to help in keeping the low end from muddying out, right? The vibrating length of each string is still ~25-1/4,” but the total length of the string; from the ball end to the tuning peg; is stretched further and tighter the lower the string in a reverse-headstock.
I did my first bar gig heading a blues band, at age 16 in Madrid Spain, 1968. I had an Strat at the time. I've been gigging since, but have lessened interest in solid body elect guitars - largely because of the weight on the shoulder. Good to hear some router work can take away some of that unnecessary weight. If you mail me one of those featured guitars, I won't turn it away. Any color. Thanks in advance.
I think this is the best new guitar to come along in years. The thing I like most about it is that it's very articulate. You can hear that when it's unplugged. Andy is a genius.
There has got be a reasonable way to run the grooved roller tremolo as a multi piece over a shaft so you can selectively toggle which strings gets whammied, like the Duesenberg Multibender, but reconfigurable in a few minutes with some tools.
Oh my lord. People need to stop calling incomplete shielding “Faraday cages”. If an aluminum casing did anything to kill buzz on single coils, it obviously would have been done already. The pole pieces are still picking up hum. Also, guitar builders keep assuming that what influences the sound of an acoustic instrument will influence the sound of an electric instrument. The pickups aren’t picking up anything from the passive string length.
I love guys like Mr. Powers. While some luthiers say there's only that much you can do, development in guitars is finished etc. guys like him come out and innovate anyways.
I have a large collectiln of paint cicles from the Fremont plant in 1973. the plant is now tesla.Broke them off the paint racks. Lost them in my many moves. maroon was most common color.
Andy powers makes great instruments because he is great player as well . I have one his first BTO Grand Audition guitars acoustic, I would love to try one of his electric guitars .
That is the freshest sounding electric guitar I've heard in years. The chimey jangle that folds in upon itself into a biting lead when cranked sort of came across overall but that description is a disservice to the range of nuance I heard. But the thing I can't get over is that overhead cam on the whammy bar_ to be able to get the strings to be that well tuned and it not be a Floyd rose system?!?!? Maybe the most innovative thing to come out for electric guitar in decades!!
NICE for a change....your playing is proof that our secret to enviable guitar sound is rooted in the particular players understanding of how this thing we love so dearly called music works and the dynamic respect of the individual human hand playing the note. on the other hand ; "you"can buy a new foot pedal. . or "super slinkies"!! Thanks for the high quality content and distracting me from getting to work on time! I feel like i just skipped a high school social studies class. your the man.
I’m sold. But what’s the cost for one of these masterpieces? Reminds me of the craftsmanship that the Frank Brothers in Toronto put into their guitars. Very small shop …built with a lot of love. Thanks for sharing Tim.
Andy Powers is the top executive of Taylor Guitars. Starting a new venture like Powers Electric has to be a all consuming task, it's interesting Taylor Guitars is ok with this arrangement. He's basically trying to market position these as boutique builds under his on name in his free time and leading one the top acoustic builders by day. This is very strange to me... I know a few small shop luthiers, that's an all consuming job, unless he's leaving Taylor to go all-in on this brand, I'm not sold on this. Also it's a chambered body with 50's automobile inspired colors, bigsby trem etc, there's a lot here that reminds me of the Yamaha Revstar which you can pick up for $800 and the problem Andy Powers faces trying to sell people on his super high-end electrics is that some of the best younger players alive like Matteo Mancuso are actually choosing that $800 Yamaha Revstar as their main with zero interest in over paying just for that Made in the USA label. As with most guitar products Andy Powers has been involved with, especially "innovations" I question, why? What problem does this solve that hasn't already been solved and why do you want to charge a fortune for it.. I guess they call it Califonria dreaming for a reason. Hard on him, I know, but that's my gut reaction here.
@NolanVoid-dr1ch "quite well" is quite subjective... We all get 24 hours in a day and compromise is compromise... It's a neat guitar for sure, but there's no way I'm paying his $2500+ asking price, when this sure does seem like an high-end clone attempt of a guitar from Yamaha that's already quite good enough and used by some of the best players on this planet....I see the Powers Electric brand as just another company on the brand wagon of guitar and gear makers trying to make bank on Gen Xers with more money than they know what to do with.. It's an incredibly sad thing see play out.
Nice to see someone doing things a little differently and more creatively than most. Looks and sounds like a very well made instrument with innovative design concepts rather than just being a slightly different shape than or completely shameless clone of a Tele, Strat or Paul. Would have been awesome to get a look inside the thing from a how it’s made perspective but maybe those are currently intentionally, closely guarded secrets.
Very cool. It's interesting timing since I just bought a guitar that looks like a unique solid body but is, in fact, a semi-hollow, from Joe Till. It's a remarkable sounding and looking instrument.
Always great to listen to someone who's passionate about their design. It doesn't matter if it's a coffee cup or a Formula One Ferrari.....the passion always comes through in the build and these things look and sound AMAZING! 👍👍
That guitar/amp combination sounds amazing. I really like this guitar, and I didn't want to. You should do an interview with him about Taylor Solidbody guitars and what happened with those. I'm sure there are elements to the story that are unflattering to Taylor, but I am really curious. Maybe it was explained somewhere but I didn't hear about it.
Hi tim ! A couple of years ago i started cutiing diy bodies old style pine total hollowbody with no bracing. I need to finish the example guitar so someone can play it and see how it sounds
Every guitar sounds amazing when you play it Tim!!🔥🔥🔥🔥
True! Tim is a wizard!!!!
No joke. Such smooth, tasteful tones.
Truly Rick. Respect.
Tim could play a broomstick with a string tied to it and it would sound good.
@The_TimPierce. waiting
Tim nails it when he says we are living in the golden age of guitar, as there are so many brilliant products out there for both the professional and aspiring musician. Long May that continue!
I saw this video and bought this guitar.
It is absolutely fantastic. The playability
and diverse sound are awesome.
My new go to guitar.I love it!
5000 grand 😂😂😂are you outta your rabbit as mind😂😂😂thats definitely NOT a 5000k dollar guitar bra 🤷
Andy Powers is the next Paul Reed Smith. He's a true innovator, an artists and clearly very passionate. His work with Taylor has tweaked their sometimes sterile guitars into masterpieces.
yes, I used to DESPISE Taylor guitars but he has improved them a lot.
I have the 1st model of the Taylor 614ce that Andy designed in 2011. A maple guitar with violin style bracing to "charm the chime". Wonderful sound and a pleasure to play. Now I want that Powers Electric Guitar. Andy can make maple guitars that are warm and clear, not harsh or chimy. Real skill of a real artist.
Agreed.
Absolute beast of a guitar. SO pristine, as well as packing a punch with tone. Cheers guys for the showcase.
You bet!
@@timpierceguitar Yeah!
Just when I thought there was nothing left to innovate on the instrument, Andy seems to have found a way. Lovely tones and playing, Tim!
The pickups really are impressive. The Neodymium magnets and the Faraday Shields provide a clarity that's like being in the sound channel itself. Incredible.
The nod to automotive metal for the backside access panel is fun to match the pickup covers.
My grandmother had a 1950 Ford Tudor Sedan that was painted Caribbean Turquoise No. 211 that is a match to your aqua/turquois color choice. She was a tiny woman, 4'11" and am sure her eyes would have just peeked over the steering wheel at most.
Beautiful guitar design and performance. We are in awe of your beautious work.
Kind of surprised that Andy has started his own brand of guitars while still being the CEO/owner-partner of Taylor. Seems like a potential conflict of interest (at least in terms of his time/effort dedication to Taylor) but these look like really cool guitars.
It is under Taylor.
I disagree brother. Much Respect! Bob and Andy have surrounded themselves with wonderful staff and a team that carries the same passion throughout the entire building process. I do not know how they did it, but my Taylor is never leaving my side. I have toured El Cajon and been to artist night promotions with a young Jim Kirlin. Taylor has its rudder deeply and firmly in the water and their acoustic guitars have very few peers. Maybe Andy's venture out might bring some better electric builds in El Cajon! Their electric line is all about quality that hasnt panned out in the market. Maybe Powers has a better grip on cost price point and these will be more affordable to collectors and players alike. I wonder if Taylor is done done done with electrics????
I didn't like the aesthetics of that guitar, except for the knobs made of the leftover fiberglass, those are rad, and so I ignored the announcements about this guitar's creation. This video has totally changed my mind. Not that I will every buy a $3800 guitar, even if they weren't sold out! I love the engineering approach that Andy Powers took. There is so much vintage worship these days; it's great to see someone still trying to break new ground. Especially since most of those attempts die a fast death. It helps that his ideas genuinely seem to have created an improved product. Maybe things like the camshaft "device" bar and the neodymium pickups with faraday cage covers will make their way into wider guitar production and thus at a much more affordable price point.
That's a really cool instrument. One of the things I liked the most, which Tim showed off in the middle of the video, is the very, VERY distinct sound and character of each of the three pickup selection positions. They were more their own thing, rather than different shadings of the same basic thing, than most guitars out there. We all pay lip service to the idea of "wow, those are all useable tones with their own purpose", when in fact, I think many guitar players gravitate to 1-2 options and mostly ignore the others. Well with this one, those 3 options really are very useable. I could see myself playing all of them quite a bit.
I also like the volume and tone knobs. Those layered stripes in effect give you a volume-tone indicator without needing numbers, or "Volume" written on it, or what have you. That's the problem with blank knobs like on a Tele. You have to tell by feel where you are on the control. You can totally do that, but I like a visual indicator. This has that.
Pretty much lower inductance P90s. The Faraday cage may reduce some AC hum harmonics, but also reduces the highs from the strings, as do the Steel pole screws. They may be low enough inductance to accommodate 250k pots, and they may have thinner wire which increases efficiency and S/N ratio. I'd be curious what the Gauss is at the screw heads with immensely powerful Nd magnets. Might be a lot of string pull. P90's also sound great in parallel.
If you want the rough equivalent to this guitar for $600, buy the Danelectro 59XT which also has the hollow body with no holes in it just like this guitar and a great Wilkinson tremolo and comes in the same color. It has the same jangly sound and a 25 inch scale and plays and sounds marvelous. I should know I have had one for about three years now.
Thanx for the Danelectro idea. That is a great option! Appreciate ya!😊
Thank you .!
Played the Powers today. Pretty sure you are mistaken. Thinks very acoustic, bright yet warm and clear.
@@81realtimeThe Powers sounds great here. So does the XT. They have a lot in common though one uses much fancier woods if you feel that makes a difference.
I like the symbiosis between vintage and modern design. It does the Chris Isaak tunes well. Alway a pleasure to listen to your pristine demo's mr Pierce!
Tim Pierce has a brilliant suite of amps/cabs, years of experience of recording the BEST tones and he has exceptional tone production that simply comes from his physical interaction with the guitar - all of that said this is an outstanding guitar with HUGE potential. I didn't hear a single sound coming from this instrument that wasn't musical and inspiring - it has a wonderful musicality to the complex overtones it organically produces. Andy Powers is going to face a potentially huge demand for this instrument - if only a company like PRS could team up to mass produce high quality versions of these instruments (under Andy's brand name ?) so that they could be available for us regular grunts in the musical trenches for around £ 3K :-)
That guitar is breathtaking, the guy has a great mind! Beautiful and inspiring it's everything a guitar should be. Are they even available in Canada? I'm guessing not but would be nice to know.
Stunning gear played beautifully, as always. I'd love to know where you get your backing tracks from!
Very cool. He approaches the guitar from a UX perspective, as I do with my own guitars. He's making subtle breaks with tradition that have real impact. I'm impressed.
@3:44
Back in the day we hot rodders would achieve this look by chucking up a pencil, (or some other mild abrasive) eraser side down in a milling machine like a Bridgeport and applying light pressure in the Z axis to a soft metal while moving the table in precise increments in the X and then Y axes. It was borrowed from a firearm manufacturing process called jeweling for no other reason than that it looked cool.
Now I'm gonna listen to the Rain song like 50x
As a guitar player and car guy I feel a need to own one of these!! Thanks for sharing Tim!! Cheers!!
Those control knobs are fantastic!
That is one fine guitar, Tim plays it and the sound is like seeing a master racer get into a newly developed car and shows the designer things they never thought a car could do.
Beautiful work! Cheers Tim and Andy!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Hands down one of the best guitars I've ever heard! I love the Thinline sound, and this is an extreme version of that concept.
If you want to demonstrate that balance you can cut a pvc pipe to fit over the strap button and show it without taking the button off. Beautiful thoughtful work.
Would love to have heard Jeff Beck play one of these; that trem would have been magic in his fingers.
That compensated tailpiece is genius. Brings to mind the TransTrem but simpler and more musically useful.
Wicked Game is one of my favourite songs to play! There's so much feeling in it! 👌
Great song. The tone on that guitar...😊
@@anthonyrussell4888 I should hope so for $3500!
LOVE the whammy bar! Sounds like a Tele, but it's got more hardware. That is a compliment.
I don’t care what anyone says…THIS is the *Golden Age Of Guitar!* The quality/price ratio for new gear is as high as it’s ever been! The innovations in guitars, amps, effects, hardware, software are unreal, and the internet is awash with tutors, tablature and chord structures for almost any song in existence!
It makes the 70’s when I started playing, look like the caveman days!
Lot of passion in that guitar! Sounds super vintage
Tim always seems to have a permanent smile 😊
,
Wonder how he looks without a guitar 🎸
Ha
like a guitar playing dolphin.
😄
Andy Powers confirmed; or at least shares; one of my theories about construction, and it’s impact on tone: The “passive” or “non-speaking” length of the string affects the tone of the vibrating length of string. I prefer reverse-headstock guitars (on my guitars that have six-in-line headstocks) for this reason. Instead of having the shortest length under tension, my lower strings have the longest length under tension. That has to help in keeping the low end from muddying out, right? The vibrating length of each string is still ~25-1/4,” but the total length of the string; from the ball end to the tuning peg; is stretched further and tighter the lower the string in a reverse-headstock.
I can only imagine how it plays. It's a Masterpiece a Truly Engineered guitar. Awesome Andy
I’m curious to try one. Sounds like a studio guitarist dream!
That axe sounds great. And excellent choice of song tidbits to demonstrate it Tim!
Thanks so much I appreciate it
I love the sound. It looks cool too! I think the middle position sound is my favourite on any guitar and this guitar sounds amazing!
One of my favorite songs Tim! Art Bell used it quite often as bumper music.
What a wild guitar. The quality of its sustain makes for wonderfulness.
What a great video, thank you for introducing Andy and his guitars as they are amazing and beautiful. I love the Fordite! And you are amazing.
I did my first bar gig heading a blues band, at age 16 in Madrid Spain, 1968. I had an Strat at the time. I've been gigging since, but have lessened interest in solid body elect guitars - largely because of the weight on the shoulder. Good to hear some router work can take away some of that unnecessary weight. If you mail me one of those featured guitars, I won't turn it away. Any color. Thanks in advance.
I think this is the best new guitar to come along in years. The thing I like most about it is that it's very articulate. You can hear that when it's unplugged.
Andy is a genius.
Man that guitar sounds great! Thanks for sharing Tim ROCK ON..
There has got be a reasonable way to run the grooved roller tremolo as a multi piece over a shaft so you can selectively toggle which strings gets whammied, like the Duesenberg Multibender, but reconfigurable in a few minutes with some tools.
If Les Paul, Fender, and Danelectro had a love child guitar.
Powers is just a “cool genius”! He’s been “doing-it” for years!!!
This is why I like Thinline Teles...
They have an "airyness" to the tone that gives a really natural richness.
Thanks Tim for featuring this delightful new guitar!
My pleasure! Andy is a very nice person and glad to see that the guitar is pleasing people
Oh my lord. People need to stop calling incomplete shielding “Faraday cages”.
If an aluminum casing did anything to kill buzz on single coils, it obviously would have been done already. The pole pieces are still picking up hum.
Also, guitar builders keep assuming that what influences the sound of an acoustic instrument will influence the sound of an electric instrument. The pickups aren’t picking up anything from the passive string length.
I too would like to know what ammo, peaks etc.... The sound/tone is so rich! Love it.
I’d try one out… I like the darker blue scheme on the guitar in the background..
Sticker shock though $ 3,800-4,,300 thru the closest dealer in Atlanta, GA (Roswell, GA). Does look perfect for the appointments though.
Really nice tone.
I love guys like Mr. Powers. While some luthiers say there's only that much you can do, development in guitars is finished etc. guys like him come out and innovate anyways.
wow!! gorgeous sound, Mr. Tim :)
Played this today. Feels alive and notes are so clear
Beautiful sound.Its the driver that makes it work..Tim ....fantastic driver.
Body shape reminds me of a G&L Fallout
I have a large collectiln of paint cicles from the Fremont plant in 1973. the plant is now tesla.Broke them off the paint racks. Lost them in my many moves. maroon was most common color.
Love to see the tuner knobs made out of Fordite as well
Andy powers makes great instruments because he is great player as well . I have one his first BTO Grand Audition guitars acoustic, I would love to try one of his electric guitars .
That is the freshest sounding electric guitar I've heard in years. The chimey jangle that folds in upon itself into a biting lead when cranked sort of came across overall but that description is a disservice to the range of nuance I heard. But the thing I can't get over is that overhead cam on the whammy bar_ to be able to get the strings to be that well tuned and it not be a Floyd rose system?!?!? Maybe the most innovative thing to come out for electric guitar in decades!!
Absolutely wonderful guitar and simply flawless playing 😊
NICE for a change....your playing is proof that our secret to enviable guitar sound is rooted in the particular players understanding of how this thing we love so dearly called music works and the dynamic respect of the individual human hand playing the note. on the other hand ; "you"can buy a new foot pedal. . or "super slinkies"!!
Thanks for the high quality content and distracting me from getting to work on time! I feel like i just skipped a high school social studies class. your the man.
I’m sold. But what’s the cost for one of these masterpieces? Reminds me of the craftsmanship that the Frank Brothers in Toronto put into their guitars. Very small shop …built with a lot of love. Thanks for sharing Tim.
The camshaft bridge is pure genius
I AM IN LOVE WITH THIS GUITAR. I would love to rip some eerie Buck Dharma solos on this guitar.
Beautiful and amazing engineering, design. Tim makes anything sound good but really showed this guitar off!
Anyone have any idea on the delay settings etc for that first clip of ‘Wicked Game’
Andy Powers is the top executive of Taylor Guitars. Starting a new venture like Powers Electric has to be a all consuming task, it's interesting Taylor Guitars is ok with this arrangement. He's basically trying to market position these as boutique builds under his on name in his free time and leading one the top acoustic builders by day. This is very strange to me... I know a few small shop luthiers, that's an all consuming job, unless he's leaving Taylor to go all-in on this brand, I'm not sold on this.
Also it's a chambered body with 50's automobile inspired colors, bigsby trem etc, there's a lot here that reminds me of the Yamaha Revstar which you can pick up for $800 and the problem Andy Powers faces trying to sell people on his super high-end electrics is that some of the best younger players alive like Matteo Mancuso are actually choosing that $800 Yamaha Revstar as their main with zero interest in over paying just for that Made in the USA label.
As with most guitar products Andy Powers has been involved with, especially "innovations" I question, why? What problem does this solve that hasn't already been solved and why do you want to charge a fortune for it.. I guess they call it Califonria dreaming for a reason. Hard on him, I know, but that's my gut reaction here.
@NolanVoid-dr1ch "quite well" is quite subjective... We all get 24 hours in a day and compromise is compromise... It's a neat guitar for sure, but there's no way I'm paying his $2500+ asking price, when this sure does seem like an high-end clone attempt of a guitar from Yamaha that's already quite good enough and used by some of the best players on this planet....I see the Powers Electric brand as just another company on the brand wagon of guitar and gear makers trying to make bank on Gen Xers with more money than they know what to do with.. It's an incredibly sad thing see play out.
The Americana vibe and good ol' ingenuity of the past are alive and well. Great job Andy, here's to much success into the future 🚀.
You can tell by Tim's smile that he digs the guitar. It sounds great and unique.
Just played one at Chicago music exchange a few weeks ago. Buttery smooth 🧈
Man, that's nice! I just bought a Fender Strat. Be here Wednesday, but I would like to check one of those out.
I keep buying guitars, I'll go broke!
Everybody's drooling over this guitar like it's some new tech. Go back 60 years and resurrect the Mosrite, it was awesome
Nice to see someone doing things a little differently and more creatively than most. Looks and sounds like a very well made instrument with innovative design concepts rather than just being a slightly different shape than or completely shameless clone of a Tele, Strat or Paul. Would have been awesome to get a look inside the thing from a how it’s made perspective but maybe those are currently intentionally, closely guarded secrets.
That rolling bridge holy crap 🤯
What a work of functional and beautiful-sounding (and looking) art!
Hey thanks ...coming from you ....I really appreciate it and I'm sure Andy does also
Holy hell, that is about perfect. So much attention to detail, so many considerations.
Very cool. It's interesting timing since I just bought a guitar that looks like a unique solid body but is, in fact, a semi-hollow, from Joe Till. It's a remarkable sounding and looking instrument.
It sounds fantastic, and looks good, I especially like that blue burst one, but what's the point if nobody can get one, and they'll be expensive?
I feel blessed to have access to channels like this 🥰🥰🥰
Always great to listen to someone who's passionate about their design. It doesn't matter if it's a coffee cup or a Formula One Ferrari.....the passion always comes through in the build and these things look and sound AMAZING! 👍👍
Tim, I only recently fund your channel.Very cool stuff. This guitar sounds sweet.
Tremolo with empathy - could call it Trempathy
WOW. Andy brings it all together with beautiful looks, tone, and innovation.
That guitar/amp combination sounds amazing. I really like this guitar, and I didn't want to. You should do an interview with him about Taylor Solidbody guitars and what happened with those. I'm sure there are elements to the story that are unflattering to Taylor, but I am really curious. Maybe it was explained somewhere but I didn't hear about it.
Beautiful Tone 👍👍
The most important question which i may have missed the answer in the video, where can we find this and how much in usd? Love that tone.
Beautiful sounding guitar. Mr pierce what strap are you using in this video? Thank you and have a wonderful week .
Amazing tone from the start.
Hi tim ! A couple of years ago i started cutiing diy bodies old style pine total hollowbody with no bracing. I need to finish the example guitar so someone can play it and see how it sounds
Wow. I heard old US strat, Les Paul, and close to a hollowbody tone in that.
Damn, I really thought I was through buying guitars! Thanks for posting.
That is a real nice guitar....and im a strat nut...the color works ...llove it.
Daemn, this put a smile on my face.. just Beautiful! ❤️
Wow, thank you!
I'm wondering how it would sound with the installation of a harmonizer (Sustainer) pickup would sound, similar to that which Steve Hackett uses.
Absolutely beautiful and exceedingly functional. I may have to get a second job 🤔 ❤😊
Great guitar, thanks for the test drive ( Mr Tone).
Very interesting video. I love the design of this guitar. Very well thought out and executed. Sounds amazing too. 👏
What pedals did you use to get that sound?