Has Everyone Checked Out Daisy Rock's 2005 Line Of Girly Guitars?? Dibs On The Butterfly!!

They are certainly good-looking instruments but you know you're just never gonna be considered as hard as you wanna be in that half-page
feature in Guitar World. If you're holding a Daisy.

Man, Paul Leary gave them props.

xpost !!! matt you must send me pictures!

See, now there's the problem. If you had $450 to part with a year ago, would you have laid it on a Daisy a new Les Paul Jr. Melody Maker?

How does a Angus Young-type SG rate?

(argh the new pdf catalogue is a 42 minute d/l on dialup, I'll have to look at it at work tomorrow.)

(the staff in the shop where I bought the guitar from were kind of...uncomfortable btw)

They are well made, and especially for the price. I don't see why the "cute" factor on some of their guitars is such a turn-off. It's not like that's the only stuff they make. And shit, the finish colors aren't any more gaudy or cute than the Danelectro reissues that were out not too long ago.

If you had $450 to part with a year ago, would you have laid it on a Daisy a new Les Paul Jr. Melody Maker?

I dunno... The Daisy Stardust Elite retails around $350, while the new Melody Makers are $500. Gibson lists the body wood for the MM as "Santa Maria or equivalent" which is pretty suspect to me. The neck apparently is made of "Spanish Cedar or equivalent." Come on, you mean to tell me I don't know what kind of wood I'm getting when I spend $500 on a guitar? That's just stupid. The Stardust is Mahogony, and it's a set neck just like most Gibsons.

And besides... The current crop of MMs ships with a dog-ear P90 and the Daisy is two Duncan humbuckers. That's apples and oranges even to someone with a tin ear, I'd imagine.

I bought one for $425.00 and it stacks up nicely against my other guitars, most of which cost more. Can't speak about the Daisy, but the Gibson Les Paul Jr. Melody Maker is an excellent instrument. It's very basic rock and roll, has excellent resonance and sustain and cuts through mixes easily.

The current crop of MMs ships with a dog-ear P90 and the Daisy is two Duncan humbuckers. That's apples and oranges even to someone with a tin ear, I'd imagine.

A P90 is more than acceptable to people used to playing PAF-style humbuckers in Gibsons. Townshend and Young went back and forth between the two all the time.

The P90, as expected, has some hum. But the sustain and thickness in the Les Paul Jr. is only slightly less that the PAFs in my Les Paul Custom SG. It's brighter, but not shrilly so, and is great for rhythm work and steely lead.

A P90 is a good buy for someone who wants a present sounding rock and roll machine. So are two humbuckers. But I'll also bet most decent players can do just as much with one pickup and good tone and volume controls, which you get with the Melody Maker, as you get with two pickup instrument.

http://www.harmony-central.com/Guitar/Data4/Daisy-Rock-Girl-Guitars/Stardust-Series-Elite-01.html

I kept getting interrupted as I was writing it, so it's not as, uh, coherent as I'd have liked, but you get the general Idea, I'm sure.

I'd have picked the Daisy over a Gibson LP jr, and I still would. It's kind of hard to stess just how....beautiful it looks, I get a little lift everytime I look at it. When it was in the store, I used to go and look at it everytime I was in town. The cheaper Gibsons are a little dowdy looking, I think. I bought it in a sale, figuring I'd use it as a base for pickup/electronics fucking about - sticking a pair of P90s on it was one of the things I was going to do, but the tone of the thing is pretty nice from stock.

How does a Angus Young-type SG rate?

I said I thought they were CUTE, I didn't say I would ACTUALLY BUY ONE....I dunno, they're neat looking, actually played and sounded better than I thought they would...I'd spend my money elsewhere (I'm a bassist anyway), but if I had like a 16 year old sister that liked rock or something they'd be a cool present I think.

http://www.kawai.co.jp/guitar/index.html

& yes, I would fucking love one, in "cosmo" (blue sunburst)

someone once used the term "jerrygirl"

The P90, as expected, has some hum. But the sustain and thickness in the Les Paul Jr. is only slightly less that the PAFs in my Les Paul Custom SG. It's brighter, but not shrilly so, and is great for rhythm work and steely lead.

My original comment that a P90 vs two humbuckers was apples and oranges was not in any way meant to say one was not as good. I just meant they are fairly different. I have had the opportunity to play many guitars with both types of pick-ups, and I own several of both varieties as well. I personally prefer p90s to humbuckers most of the time.

All I meant was comparing those two guitars because their prices are similar is silly. It's silly because a) their prices aren't really that similar and b) they are two completely different beasts.

If I were in the market for a budget straight ahead rock machine, the new MM would be on the list of choices, no doubt. (Although I do still think it's dubious and weird that the specs indicate "or equivalent" for the type of wood used in the body and neck.) If I were in the market for something "off of the beaten path," something interesting or just something fun without compromising too much on playability while keeping the budget on the lower side, I think the Daisy would trump the Gibson.

Hell, I bought a purple sparkle Danelectro Mod for something like $200 when the local guitar shop in Nashville was blowing them out after Dano announced they weren't going to make guitars any more. It was cool looking, different than my other guitars, and when I picked it up it played hella better than I expected and was just kinda fun. A few years later it's one of my primary guitars for recording and playing out, and I've come to find out that Mods fetch around $400 on ebay on a regular basis... So you never know.

http://www.daisyrock.com/images/products/stardust/retroh12_metpink_pop.jpg

199 uk pounds, plus a tenner delivery. I guess I'll have to sell the Epiphone doubleneck now, I haven't got any room! The Epiphone is built like shit, so no big loss, even though it does sound kind of nice.

http://teemix.aufeminin.com/imworld3/album/D20050201/78601_D5GBLF7OLX3RB5R56N4QWG1BC4IMHK_duff_with_daisy_rock_H195014_L.jpg

The daisy rock 12-string hasn't arrived yet.

I want a 12-string really badly at the moment, tho. Honestly, I'm not allowed to spend any more money on gear this month, as I already blew over £200 on pedals getting a Memory Man and a Smallstone and a Danelectro tuner.

The other Daisy, the purple/pink "elite" is easily the best guitar I've ever owned, so I'm hoping this one will be as good.

We're playing in Leeds on the 20th Sept, and there's another guitarist on the bill, so I'm also hoping both of my girly guitars will have an appropriate terror weapon effect, har.

Bad news though:

THE 12TH FRET MARKER IS JUST A PAIR OF DOTS!!!

The fuckers!

http://www.daisyrock.com/images/products/butterfly/bf_artist_fantasy_pop.jpg

It looks like they read this thread, George S!

http://www.harmony-central.com/ProductImages/Large/000000195.jpg