red or blue?

Who doesn't want one of those.

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i have not played one yet, but from reviews out there it sounds like a good guitar for those like myself blessed with small hands.

i remember how easy my old musicmaster was to play

As the former owner of an actual real live vintage 1964 Fender Mustang, I can truly say these Pawn Shop models (and their modifications) are intriguing, but I hate short scale guitars...probably because of my proclivity for string bending my way through a solo (shorter scale makes me have to bend "differently").

They look cool, though.

One thing that bothers me, though, is the lettering for the "Mustang Special"...I know these are supposed to mimic cheap pawn shop guitars (which are ripoffs of actual Fender designs), but that lettering just doesn't look right; it's like nothing ever seen on a Fender, at least to my knowledge.

At least put the 70's lettering, y'know?

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Apparently Armadillo doesn’t...

Put a longer scale on there, and I'll reconsider...

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i want one, but i'm not gasing for one

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Thank you—I always wanted to be knowledgeable…now what am I supposed to know about?


I don’t think that 24” scale is wimpy, nor toy-sized. It is a really cool diversion from “the norm”…it just doesn’t work for me, unfortunately. My vintage ’64 Mustang OOOZED cool—aged Olympic White (the thing was dang near yellow by the time I got it) with a red tortoise pickguard, most of the finish naturally worn off of the back of the neck, and the headstock was naturally a dark colored lacquer (instead of stained and then lacquered like my ’62 Reissue Strat). I had the original silver “lizard skin” case. It was a Roadworn Relic before such a thing even existed. The thing sounded funky and cool—all the little switches and knobs were confounding and liberating all at once.
But since my other guitars at the time were a G&L F-100 (still have it), a G&L Nighthawk (every day I wish I still had it) and a G&L SC-2 (meh) and the fact that I have always played with a lot of string bends, the shorter scale threw me for a loop. Even though I was mostly playing rhythm at the time, it screwed with my head to the point where I couldn’t get over it. Also, it had the smaller (narrower) nut width (the same profile as Nevin’s recent vintage purchase), and that made it hard for me to play in the first position. I sold it to a Japanese guy with tiny hands (nut width and first position chords no problem) for more than I paid for it, and we were both happy.
If it works for you, though, why should you think negatively of your own instrument? Just because I don’t particularly like them, doesn’t mean it’s bad…it just doesn’t work for me.
*I also don’t like blackface Twin Reverbs…they look cool and have a killer vibe…but to me, they’re too loud and too clean sounding. That doesn’t make them bad, it’s just my personal preference.


5’10” isn’t a little wimp…it’s less than my 5’11”, but y’know…


My Tele is easier to play than my Strat (I like the 9.5” radius just a little better), but I wouldn’t take for either of them.


Same problem I had—both fretting out and the fact that I didn’t have to bend as hard (on the shorter scale) made my normal bends go waaaay off-pitch.


If you want to, sure. But why limit yourself?


Sure you can, I do it when I switch from my G&L F100 (a fast, almost “shredder’s” thickness from front to back) to my Tele (a fatter, with a 9.5 radius) to my Strat (vintage profile, 7.25 radius) to my Dean Chrome G resonator (only Dean and the Lord know what that neck’s profile is) to my two different Fender Acoustics (similar necks to one another, but not to anything else I own) to my old 1956 Airline Archtop acoustic (baseball bat) to my Alvarez classical/catgut acoustic (rounded off 2x4 stud).


I don’t hate him for being big, I just don’t particularly like his music. He’s super creative and a great producer and songwriter, but I just don’t like his singing or guitar playing.
Radius has nothing to do with big hands—it’s all what you get used to—think about all those little kids who play classical guitar—on those big ol’ necks…they don’t have “Jimi’s hands” and they do fine.
If your Mustang died and you played your Strat exclusively for a long period of time, you would find your Mustang more difficult to play when you went back to it.
Switch it up—you’ll find each of them have their own uses and strengths…then really screw with your mind and buy a Gibson Firebird or a Fender VI!!

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