Bad Cyclone GAS.... Help! Edit: NM, NGD!

[Sid Nitzerglobin]

Seems like the forces of non-essential guitar acquisition have been working overtime on me so far in 2018.

Same guy I grabbed my Burny from brought in this daphne '02 Cyclone HH last week and is offering it up to me at a price that I dunno if I can resist for too long:


Sometime in its life it was retrofit w/ an SD JB/Jazz set (and I believe they replaced the pickguard w/ the pearloid as well) that sound pretty darn cool in there. I'm loving the ergonomics and it's setup really well for me. Aside from the guy force rethreading the trem about half way w/ an arm w/ way too big of threads it in pretty cherry condition and it keeps haunting me... I'm really hoping it just disappears quickly.

Can some one help save me from myself?

[TeenageShutdown!]

Wants are endless, needs are necessary.

Beautiful guitar.

[HNB]

Beautiful.

[Sid Nitzerglobin]

Well, I managed not to pick it up this evening and there's been some interest in it so maybe I'll manage to escape its insidious wiles?

Then again, it's pay day tomorrow and that neck really is pretty nice....

[tammyw]

That really looks great, you should just take it already. I mean, if you really don't want it, I know someone who could help you out...

[jagstang]

Holy shit, this thing is hot! Really love Cyclones!

[Embenny]

It means a lot more to me that a guitar connects with me personally than it does to have "the right specs" on paper.

If this was an online listing calling to you, I'd be lukewarm. If you've seen it, felt it, heard it, and it speaks to you, I say go for it if the money isn't an issue. I buy/sell/trade a fair number of guitars because not many offsets are available to me locally, so I never quite know whether a guitar will have the "it" factor until I get to know it.

If you've had enough time with it to be confident that the fit/feel/tone is to your liking, it sounds like you'll be unlikely to regret buying it. Besides, if it's a good price on a used Fender, you generally have a low risk of losing money if you decide to sell it later. At least, that's what I tell myself when I talk myself into buying another guitar

[Sid Nitzerglobin]

It's definitely grabbed me pretty hard each time I've picked it up and aside from needing a new bridge block/arm (which I'd probably want to replace w/ a steel one anyway) I don't think I'll run into one of these in as good of condition or at as good of a price. I could probably see myself regretting not grabbing it more than regretting taking it home w/ me as well.

I've got the cash so I'll probably go ahead and do it, what's one more to trip over at this point anyways?

[travisbrowning]

My Cyclone is really the only guitar I regret selling.

[Sid Nitzerglobin]

Well I went ahead and bought it yesterday and it appears the universe approved of the decision since my JM Blacktop HS sold for the same price I paid for the Cyclone today. No Ragrerts...

[jagstang]

Great News!

[Embenny]

Well I went ahead and bought it yesterday and it appears the universe approved of the decision since my JM Blacktop HS sold for the same price I paid for the Cyclone today. No Ragrerts...

[smjenkins]

Well I went ahead and bought it yesterday and it appears the universe approved of the decision since my JM Blacktop HS sold for the same price I paid for the Cyclone today. No Ragrerts...

I almost spit out my breakfast over that picture. Beautiful new Cyclone! Congrats.

[Sid Nitzerglobin]

Thanks guys!

I had it pretty well apart yesterday trying to put some open covers I had sitting around on the pickups and discovered the routs in the pickguard are too small for covers. I think I'll make a new guard for it rather than mod the current one. I screwed around w/ the tracing and gut shot I took yesterday a bit and came up w/ this first draft for a new shape, I like the Mustang style type of the guard better than the Duo Sonic style in general:

I'm kind of bouncing between bakelite and vintage pearloid for the material, but it might be cool to do back painted comp stripes and/or a Cyclone logo on arcylic.

Putting it through its paces w/ a sampling of amps and pedals today I think I like the JB in there well enough for rawk but it doesn't seem particularly versatile and is a bit too mid-y for me so I think I'll put a Novak WR style HB in at the bridge. I like the Jazz a good bit better but I think I might try out one of Curt's 3x3 Mini Hums at the neck mostly out of curiosity and I think it could look cool w/ the WR style HB at the bridge

[Sid Nitzerglobin]

The Novak WR style HB came in today:

Still waiting to hear back from Curt on the 3x3 Minihum, but I've got a spare Fralin Firebird neck pup to stand in for it in the interim.

I think I'll probably go ahead and make a guard from bakelite to start w/ and work on a design for a fancy back painted acrylic one for future swappage (thinking some logo-age, daphne blue comp stripes w/ maybe some metallic silver highlights, and a base mint green color at the moment). Hopefully I'll have it all rekajiggered on the bakelite guard over the weekend.