Originally Posted By: 90 dB
Scott,

I really wish you would stop talking about that bloody Nighthawk of yours! mad


I can't afford another guitar, and it's very unfair of you to keep fanning the flames of my Nighthawk jones. I THOUGHT YOU WERE A GOOD PERSON, BUT NOW I KNOW BETTER!!!! grin




Here's the really weird thing - the first place I played one was at a Best Buy store of all places. Specifically the one near the airport in New Orleans. Some of the Best Buy stores have a little music equipment store in a corner. This was one of them and this was the only electric guitar they had in the whole joint. But they did have one of those glass-door practice room with a huge Line6 amp with separate cabinet and I had about an hour to kill. I couldn't really tell at the time whether it was the guitar's versatility or the Line 6's modeling capability that kept cranking out the variety of tone, but I will tell you one thing, I loved the neck profile. I put it on my future purchase list.

The local Guitar Sinner stores didn't have one, nor did any other store in Colorado. I saved up birthday and Christmas money and some odd-job money and before I knew it, I had enough. I ordered mine from Sweetwater because you can actually pick out THE guitar you want from their stock based on a series of great photos they take of each guitar they have in stock. I already knew I liked the feel, and it was a matter of whether I could duplicate the tone I remembered from the Best Buy store. Had it for exactly one day before I took some nice pix of my Fat Strat and put it up for sale on Craigslist.

For awhile, these guitars were $399 but right now they are $329 at Sweetwater.

So, 90dB, sorry to feed your jones - but this is one under-appreciated axe. I may eventually add the ability to tap the neck and tail HBs with those pups both active, to see if I can get a Tele middle position kind of sound out of it. I think the pup positioning is probably close enough to get that vibe out of it. I'm just not sure how I would be able to do that tapping and keep the appearance of the guitar looking kind of nice.

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