So, who's getting a Backlund 400 ?

[windmill]

I have always admired John Backlund designs, He has tried to bring a new asthetic to the guitar.

Some have been more appealing than others, this one is the business tho'

It can be yours, from the Eastwood Custom Shop, for $US1350.

[Grey]

It's uh............. different.

[shadowplay]

Needs matching bubble helmet and jetpack, or at the very least a colour coordinated jumpsuit and some silver eyeshadow.

Is the Eastwood Custom Shop really a custom shop? It's more like a limited run shop to me. It seems Custom has gone the way of 'Vintage'.

The hardware is weirdly prosaic, like it's out a build your own guitar catalogue circa 1979 (Rockinger maybe?)

I personally think our own Asymmetric owned the space agewith this remarkable and elegant design.

D

[mgeek]

It's uh............. different.

and therefore a complete boner killer for 99.999999999% of guitarists who only want a guitar they've seen their rock heroes play and don't want to stand out in any way

I quite like it! Looks like a fifties car, has a nice retro-futuristic thing going for it, but the headstock / truss cover doesn't quite work for me.

[Grey]

and therefore a complete boner killer for 99.999999999% of guitarists who only want a guitar they've seen their rock heroes play and don't want to stand out in any way

I'm sure it would be just as unappealing to me regardless of who's playing it.

[StevenO]

and therefore a complete boner killer for 99.999999999% of guitarists who only want a guitar they've seen their rock heroes play and don't want to stand out in any way

I'm sure it would be just as unappealing to me regardless of who's playing it.

This.

Looks uncomfortable.

[StevenO]

Needs matching bubble helmet and jetpack, or at the very least a colour coordinated jumpsuit and some silver eyeshadow.

Is the Eastwood Custom Shop really a custom shop? It's more like a limited run shop to me. It seems Custom has gone the way of 'Vintage'.

The hardware is weirdly prosaic, like it's out a build your own guitar catalogue circa 1979 (Rockinger maybe?)

I personally think our own Asymmetric owned the space agewith this remarkable and elegant design.

D

I can't be certain, but I think the Eastwood Custom Shop is outsourced to an American luthier (Santa Cruz guitars?) but I'm not sure where I heard that.

[MKR]

I quite like it! Looks like a fifties car, has a nice retro-futuristic thing going for it, but the headstock / truss cover doesn't quite work for me.

sorry but this funny to me. The guitar itself is a completely radical, crazy, nontraditional design. yet of all things you're not into, its is the truss rod cover? like i don't think i have ever cared about how a truss rod cover on any guitar looks.

[mgeek]

I quite like it! Looks like a fifties car, has a nice retro-futuristic thing going for it, but the headstock / truss cover doesn't quite work for me.

sorry but this funny to me. The guitar itself is a completely radical, crazy, nontraditional design. yet of all things you're not into, its is the truss rod cover? like i don't think i have ever cared about how a truss rod cover on any guitar looks.

I'm a fussy bastard. Most modern Fenders are ruined for me by having the truss adjuster at the headstock end, truss covers are even worse.

I did say headstock and truss cover though. The rest of the guitar looks, as I said like a piece of futuristic 50s design, and the headstock looks like a shit 80s sorta shredding guitar.

[PixMix]

This would be great to play on a retro Sci-Fi themed event.

[cestlamort]

I did say headstock and truss cover though. The rest of the guitar looks, as I said like a piece of futuristic 50s design, and the headstock looks like a shit 80s sorta shredding guitar.

That headstock is quite shred. The guitar would work with a futuristic jetsons-esque hesher aesthetic (space suit with the sleeves cut off, etc).

[dc]

Paul Gilbert needs one:

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[sessylU]

I think it's cool, but it's let down by being basically just another humuckered guitar with a stop tailpiece.

Also not keen on the inlays, they look like they should be on a cheap super strat or something.

[loveinathens]

I could totally imagine this being headless tho.

[windmill]

A set of "silver-foil" pickups (something like on the new Supros) would look good on it.