U2start.com | U2 & Guitar Gear: Q & A

Originally posted by LikeASong:It sounds EXCELLENT judging from the comments at the U2 GUitar facebook group. As if a Les Paul and a Strat had sex. Superb sustain and more balanced tone than most standard strats.

£1200 excess capital sounds like a pipe dream to me

Especially with my drinking habits...

(Say what!?)

Sounds like one hello of a combo. I mean, I'd take it such as it is regardless, but I've always preferred darkwood fretboards, the thinner headstock, and black scratch-plates.

Prefer darker finishes too but having said that, this is my current next axe of choice:

http://intl.fender.com/en-GB/guitars/stratocaster/modern-player-stratocaster-hss-rosewood-fingerboard-olympic-white/

*dribbles*

Originally posted by Welsh_Edge:Looks great! I actually like the 70s style headstock. Although not a fan of the Edge logo on the headstock on this guitar. Couldn't they have put it on back? Oh well, I'm only nitpicking really.

Agree re. the sig, but yeah, certainly not a major bugbear. Just glad to see our boy finally getting recognised with his own model!

Welsh_Edge

9 years

Signature amp model too

http://www.pmtonline.co.uk/fender-the-edge-deluxe-amp

RattleandHum1988

9 years

NO FUCKING WAY

Welsh_Edge

9 years

Kerstkaas

9 years

I wish he'd gone for a black pickguard. For me the white pickguard gives it instantly a cheap look or something. I dont know what it is. I'm also curious what the added value of this guitar is over a standard strat. I believe Edges uses loads of standard strats by himself. It's nice tho that Fender chose to make this one.

Release3

9 years

What a beautiful piece of equipment. I want! I need!

RattleandHum1988

9 years

I dreamt about that guitar for a looooong time.

Even though my Edge wannabe days are over, I feel that it's my job to acquire that guitar.

NeonTiger64

9 years

Wow, that's awesome to see Edge get a signature guitar. I've been thinking of getting the Johnny Marr signature Jaguar for a while now, I'll probably still go with that as my next (and first "good") guitar. I feel like Johnny's has more over an average Jaguar than Edge's compared to an average strat. If Edge's was like $500 cheaper things might have been different, but for the same price it's hard to get excited over a stratocaster.

LikeASong

9 years

Edge's strat is EXCELLENT according to those who have got it already. Warmer, fulller tone than a standard Strat.

Off topic, or at least "off U2 topic"... This is just plain painful:

The Martin Museum loaned The Hateful Eight a 145-year old six string guitar, which Kurt Russel accidentally smashed on screen thinking it was a prop. Jennifer Jason-Leigh knew it was the hero guitar, but Kurt did not, and he felt terrible when he found out. She said she was waiting for Quentin Tarantino to yell cut but he didn't, and he told her that he wanted the scene to play out in one take; he just couldn't bring himself to cut. She mourned the guitar since she had learned to play on it and wanted to buy it after the shoot; it was an 1850's-ish guitar worth $40,000.

"“We were informed that it was an accident on set,” Martin says. “**We assumed that a scaffolding or something fell on it.*** We understand that things happen, but at the same time we can’t take this lightly. All this about the guitar being smashed being written into the script and that somebody just didn’t tell the actor, this is all new information to us. We didn’t know anything about the script or Kurt Russell not being told that it was a priceless, irreplaceable artifact from the Martin Museum*.”"

RattleandHum1988

9 years

This is more of a little thing to Sergio, but I had no idea Epiphone makes a signature model for an artist of a not-so-great band that's based on the Gibson Artisan Les paul: