Powers Electric A-Type

[Deltaphoenix]

Has anyone on here had a chance to put hands on one of these? I am interested to hear what you thought about the compound neck, the improved Bigsby style trem, the pickups, the hollow body, etc.

I think there are some great options for colors. All that I have heard tends to be great exception for a few folks not connecting with the neck which is one of the more personal taste elements of a guitar.

I certainly don’t need another pretty darn expensive guitar but these are intriguing.

[Chankgeez]

Those look really nice.

[Deltaphoenix]

This is the one that I am drooling over:

[dubkitty]

the concept is interesting, the less hot-roddy colors are quite nice (sorry, my finish aesthetic remains stubbornly pre-80s), and the pickups are very interesting. i'm a big fan of small closed-body hollow guitars like the Gretsch Duo Jet and Guild Aristocrat. i'm always interested in Bigsby pickup variations, and love the machine-turned bobbins. not a huge fan of the candy-looking knobs and tremolo tip on the one here which to me go just a bit too far in drawing attention to themselves. i assume these are unbearably expensive?

curious to see just how well the alterations to the Bigsby roller work...in my experience every guitar tremolo i've ever tried drops the low strings more in pitch than the high strings, even the Stetsbar which advertises that it's equal-temperament or whatever you'd call it. i think that's part of why Hendrix used such insanely light low strings, .038 on the low E if i recall which he then often tuned to E-flat, to equalize the tension at the trem.

for me he insists a bit too much on the "connections to skate culture" etc., which seem ancillary at best. i guess everybody's got to have a hook nowadays though.

[dubkitty]

makes me think how much fun a hollow mahogany Duo Sonic would be. i'm thinking "lots."

[Gone Fission]

If I were buying in that price range I would look. Taylor guitars guy running the thing, and I love the T5z in a way I never anticipated until it was I my hands. That one is a hollow body electric with an acoustic look and one acoustic sound but a pretty electric feel. The pickups on the T5z aren’t character pieces, though they aren’t bad. So I’m interested in their take on a vibey, resonant electric.

[Deltaphoenix]

@dubkitty - I like some of the knobs/trem tips. I like some of the classic car colors and some of the ones with tops. The small, hollow body design is intriguing. The way Andy Powers describes how the body is braced and attached, it has some different properties than a typical hollow body.

@Gone Fission - cool to hear your thoughts. Taylor is a big part of this guitar despite what the headstock says. Man, the price is the tough part. I know it is expensive to hand build guitars in California. I have no doubts the quality is there.

[Chankgeez]

Your should see if they'll put you in touch with someone close by who has one and will let you play it.

Probably the best way to know if they're for you.

[Deltaphoenix]

I think I am getting past the mild obsession. We have been moving and I haven’t been able to play for about a week and a half until last night.
Don’t get me wrong, if I get a cash windfall I could see myself grabbing one but I am all good for now.

[dubkitty]

it happens. i was really hot for the Squier Esquire Deluxe until i had trouble getting the order sorted and realized “i don’t need this enough to go through all this.”

[Deltaphoenix]

Yeah, I am already selling off stuff to pay for my (recent) past transgressions. I am lucky to have what I have, it’s getting tougher to sell stuff and I think the cost of gear is just going to go up (YAY tariffs!).

[dubkitty]

i have a metric fuckton of stuff i need to sell. if the elevator was working i'd load up the car and head to Atomic up in Maryland. there's a AC15 i don't need any more. i'm reluctant to sell pedals there because they'd fuck me at 60% of sales value. i don't have it together enough to do a Reverb shop or a big sale on here at this time, though, but when i did an estimate at current values i have over $2500 in unused pedals, and the amp on top of that. and i know i'm not gonna use the vast majority of what's there. that stuff came off/didn't make my boards for good reasons. not tempted to sell any of the guitars, though...i really like all of them and would be sad to lose any.