Prestige 227
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Prestige 227
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/172441656675?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
Don't see these for sale very often...
Don't see these for sale very often...
Re: Prestige 227
Or at all...here.
Beauty!
Beauty!
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Re: Prestige 227
Beautiful guitar, but that string retainer.... Ewww. A Friday afternoon job in the Mats design office methinks, just doesn't look right at all.
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Re: Prestige 227
A bit inappropriate on a tremolo equipped guitar for sure. Gotta be after market add on?
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https://i2.wp.com/www.westoneguitars.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/05/033.jpgBarry wrote:A bit inappropriate on a tremolo equipped guitar for sure. Gotta be after market add on?
Does look pretty naf...but thats how it comes.
Same with the Thunder III version 3.
A bad design!
Best thing to do is slacken it right off as far as you can, it works fine then.
If screwed down it doesn't work at all just drags on the strings via the nut and goes out of tune.
I know I've two of these models blue and red.
Personally I'd fill the holes and respray. It's not needed but I'll keep mine stock for now...
Re: Prestige 227
So it does. Somebody thought it looked kewl I guess.
Rare lapse in design judgement there
Rare lapse in design judgement there
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Re: Prestige 227
As I understand it, the string trees or retainer bars are there to prevent the strings jumping out of the nut, yes? So there doesn't need to be much pressure on the string pack at all, does there? Hence Damians suggestion of lifting the bar up a bit.
From a design POV, you'd think that they'd see that the bar is far too close to the nut and, as it stands because it is quite low mounted, exerts far too much pressure on the string pack.
Is the bar needed there at all? There's probably enough tiltback on the headstock to exert a little pressure on the strings anyway...
But gee; that's a nice instrument! There's an elegance of line in the shape of these has always appealed to me; I've never seen one "in the flesh". The 227 has MMK53s, does it?
From a design POV, you'd think that they'd see that the bar is far too close to the nut and, as it stands because it is quite low mounted, exerts far too much pressure on the string pack.
Is the bar needed there at all? There's probably enough tiltback on the headstock to exert a little pressure on the strings anyway...
But gee; that's a nice instrument! There's an elegance of line in the shape of these has always appealed to me; I've never seen one "in the flesh". The 227 has MMK53s, does it?
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Re: Prestige 227
I'd grab it with both arthritic hands, tree or no flippin' tree.
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Re: Prestige 227
Very nice, but a bit out of my price range at the moment, especially as I have just bought a Vox Standard 25 to keep my Vox Custom 24 company!
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Re: Prestige 227
Seen them with both 53's and 45'scorsair wrote:
But gee; that's a nice instrument! There's an elegance of line in the shape of these has always appealed to me; I've never seen one "in the flesh". The 227 has MMK53s, does it?
Re: Prestige 227
Heavy old beasts those.... 25 has Dimazio singles, sound good. Rosewood fingerboard??Adey wrote:Very nice, but a bit out of my price range at the moment, especially as I have just bought a Vox Standard 25 to keep my Vox Custom 24 company!
Re: Prestige 227
This one has had them switched out for Kent Armstrong units and the bridge with a Kent Armstrong humbucker. It's in the middle of a re-fret and tidy at the moment.
Singles say Kent Armstrong SUR-OR and humbucker HPAC-1
Judging by the frets, somebody loved to play it. They are well worn and been dressed so many times that they are almost flat!
Singles say Kent Armstrong SUR-OR and humbucker HPAC-1
Judging by the frets, somebody loved to play it. They are well worn and been dressed so many times that they are almost flat!
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Re: Prestige 227
And a well worn rosewood fingerboard. Rather than the usual black, this one is a dark trans red, which I quite like! 😊
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Re: Prestige 227
And plenty of fretboard jam to clean up. 😞
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Re: Prestige 227
Exactly no, it's not really needed.corsair wrote:
Is the bar needed there at all? There's probably enough tiltback on the headstock to exert a little pressure on the strings anyway...
When setting these up it's 'juuuust' sitting on the strings.
Re: Prestige 227
I love the color. Shame it has that terrible trem and no locking nut.
My Electra Talon was modeled after these 227's. They did it right, with an actual Floyd and a locking nut!
My Electra Talon was modeled after these 227's. They did it right, with an actual Floyd and a locking nut!
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Re: Prestige 227
Those trems on the 227's work fine when set up correctly.
Which other colours do the Talon come in?
Which other colours do the Talon come in?
Re: Prestige 227
Only black and "phantom quilt" like I have. I'd like to see other colors.
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