Hagstrom Ultra Swede

[t_ross33]

This is one cool guitar. My local guy has a very limited edition with a gorgeous spalted maple top. Very unique. It's also quite thin/light with a contoured belly cut - super comfy, almost Stratish - it would be great for live playing. What this picture doesn't show is a very nice pearloid binding on the neck and body that accents the spalted maple beautifully.

But how does it sound, you ask?

FREAKIN' AWESOME.

Tested it through a Marshall half stack. Very smooth and creamy distortion, lots of balls in the p'ups. Great clean tones as well. Bonus coil split, while not quite Strat and definately not Tele, close enough for Rock and Roll. Seperate volume and tone controls would send this tone monster over the top, but who's complaining?

I'm giving myself a couple of weeks to cool off If it's still there, I may just scoop it up. I even have a tentative nod-of-approval from Mrs. T. She dropped by the store on her own to have a look after I described it to her. This usually means she recognizes my GAS and is doing her own homework. You can't trust someone with GAS to give you an accurate and unbiased description of the item they are GASing for after all

Like THIS ONE

I'll keep you posted.

Trev