Awstin Rocks (He Found Me a Cyclone!)

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 3:59 pm

I am a big fan of The Pillows. I have seen them live two times. I love their CD's. (All that stuff.) Ever since I saw Sawao's custom Cyclone I have wanted one but I didn't learn about them until long after they were made. (Only 300 were made... yadda yadda yadda...) I set up a search notifier on eBay and Reverb for "Fender Cyclone" "Squire Cyclone" "Sawao Cyclone" and "Sawao The Pillows" and I check those searches every day. I have been doing this for likely over a year. Maybe even two years. Never seen one.... then I see a post on my Facebook wall from Awstin linking to an eBay auction with one and I quickly checked the pics and picked it up. I am super pumped! I can't believe I finally found one of these! There will be better pics when it arrives, but this is what it looks like.

s-l500 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

s-l500 (2) by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

http://youtu.be/1IGs34JwmBk

Man the first time I flew to Japan it was pretty scary. I didn't know any Japanese and was alone. I found the FLCL soundtrack (That is pretty much all Pillow's songs) and it got me through that trip and all the way home. Still one of my favorite CD's I have.

Pumped!

travisbrowning · Post by **travisbrowning** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 7:35 pm

Wow! That thing is cool! I love Cyclones, I miss my Squier Cyclone a lot. I modded mine with lipstick tube pups and occasionally I check eBay to see if it ever pops up.

Embenny · Post by **Embenny** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:25 pm

Whoah! That is cool as hell. Never saw those before.

countertext · Post by **countertext** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 9:56 pm

Pretty dope.

Rock This · Post by **Rock This** » Mon Mar 20, 2017 10:08 pm

Looks sweet ! Congrats on the score.

Hugh

MechaBulletBill · Post by **MechaBulletBill** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 1:41 am

I love flcl!

Pepe Silvia · Post by **Pepe Silvia** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 3:25 am

very cool

reminds me of this guitar

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:29 am

That guitar is pretty hot also! I can't wait to get it and give it a try.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Wed Mar 29, 2017 12:59 pm

Guitar came in today and is pretty awesome! It is in excellent shape except one neck pocket crack on the white side.... Given how rare these are, I am going to live with it. LOL Here are pictures.

20170329_132856 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20170329_132921 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20170329_132945 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20170329_133012 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr

20170329_133019 by Christopher Louck, on Flickr