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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by windmill » Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:52 pm

Spent an enjoyable hour or so on the Balaguer Guitars website with their online guitar builder, price a bit steep tho'
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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by Pepe Silvia » Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:04 pm

windmill wrote:
Tue Nov 10, 2020 7:52 pm
Spent an enjoyable hour or so on the Balaguer Guitars website with their online guitar builder, price a bit steep tho'
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Balaguer is not far from me and I always thought they were reasonable for a semi-custom guitar, but when I just checked their website again I discovered they are assembled from Asian parts? I always thought they were made in America.

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by HarlowTheFish » Wed Nov 11, 2020 4:58 am

Pepe Silvia wrote:
Tue Nov 10, 2020 8:04 pm
Balaguer is not far from me and I always thought they were reasonable for a semi-custom guitar, but when I just checked their website again I discovered they are assembled from Asian parts? I always thought they were made in America.
IIRC they have a Standard line (set options, a few finish choices) for reasonable money, MIC; the Select (semi-custom but a ton of options) for still reasonable but not "great deal" territory, MIK; and the USA line (just about whatever you want, but limited availability) for $$$$$, made in their US shop.

Honestly considering the amount of shenanigans you can get up to with their Select series, I think the price is reasonable - sure, the simpler stuff is a bit pricey, but say you want a Tele Bass VI with an offset trem and mini-humbuckers, you can get that for not exorbitant amounts of cash. I've gotten my hand on a couple of the Standards and even with those the quality is more than fair for the money - they go for Fender Player prices, and I think Balaguer edges them out on consistency of QC. I remember hearing somewhere that they do final QC and setup at their US shop for all the Balaguer lines, and that would line up with my experience: the Standards punch way above their weight.

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by Pepe Silvia » Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:12 am

How long have they been doing this? It has probably been a year since I last checked their website and I only remember one model line.

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by HarlowTheFish » Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:17 am

Pepe Silvia wrote:
Wed Nov 11, 2020 5:12 am
How long have they been doing this? It has probably been a year since I last checked their website and I only remember one model line.
Oof like as long as I've been aware of them, so like 2016-17 or so?

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by windmill » Wed Nov 11, 2020 9:02 pm

Enjoying using this Balaguer Online Guitar builder :)

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by windmill » Thu Jan 28, 2021 10:30 pm

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From the Ishabashi site

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by windmill » Sat Aug 28, 2021 11:35 pm

Iconic Guitars

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from Anderton's website

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

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Alan Entwistle EJT - T/L in amber. UK only .


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Post by Lost In Autumn » Sat Oct 16, 2021 3:42 am

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Sparkle Motion “Swoon” Starmaster

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by windmill » Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:37 pm

Retroroc "Redwood"
Custom fullscale offset

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

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windmill wrote:
Mon Aug 08, 2022 11:37 pm
Retroroc "Redwood"
Custom fullscale offset

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Normally I don't like red guitars that much - but this one is special indeed!
Is it yours?

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by windmill » Tue Aug 09, 2022 6:51 pm

There were several pictures of it on instagram the other day.

Nah,not mine.

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by MayTheFuzzBeWithYou » Mon Aug 22, 2022 2:54 pm

New arrival!
Top Bound Jaguar with Firebirds and a player pickguard that will be replaced for something cooler: either a Swirly-Hologram Pickguard (Dead on 67/Hornet style) or something parchment - regular Jag.

Need to cut the pickup screws shorter on the Thinline - but I had this P33 laying around that I always wanted to try…might swap the brushed steel plates and Mastery to the Burgundy Mist one.

And recently added a shielding guard underneath the pickguard. The rest is the same as two years ago.

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Re: Bound Offset Feed

Post by smjenkins » Mon Aug 22, 2022 3:38 pm

That BMM Jag with Firebirds is 💯

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