Anti-Mythical Guitars...millions around, no=one buys one....

Niallmo

Everyone knows the Mythical stuff...from top end: 1954-58 Strat, 1958-60 LP's, to modern classics: Pre-factory PRS, Protone Squiers etc. Generally a few available and plenty of evidence that people have bought them, 

But...

By my rough estimation there must be over 126 MILLION Epiphone Zakk Wylde LP Customs about across the several different colour schemes....not including fakes. It's always advertised in mags and online and seems to be a core Epiphone product yet I have never met anyone either on a forum or "real life" who has bought one/plays one.

What other stuff have you always seen advertised/in shops but never seen anyone play? 

mike_l

I played one of the ZW LP's, it was shit.

 

Incidentally, I have and won't sell an mid 90's ESP Grass Roots kirk Hammett, other than in the shop I bought it in, I've only ever seen one for sale S/H, at Coda, it didn't last long. However, other than myself, I've never spoken to anyone who has one, or seen one played anywhere.

ThePrettyDamned

I played a zakk wylde epi with replaced emgs and it was one of the best guitars I'd played.

This one was all maple neck, mahogany body, maple cap. Nice.

You won't believe it, but I've never once seen a Jackson dinky...

Catthan

I had a Hammer grassroots too, cool gtr for what it was but mine was a lemon as the board got detached from the neck early on.. I played a friend's Glen Tipton (themed??) epi LP custom with mirror parts which played ok but sounded shit; the only I ve seen ever since

Antique_Guitars

I've never seen anyone playing a wangcaster.............. much to my disappointment

Bucket

Dean Razorbacks are well-publicised and come in seemingly hundreds of different finishes, but I don't think I have ever seen a single one that wasn't painted in the war crime that is the Explosion finish:

http://www.carlinoguitars.com/images/ExplosionRazorback_full.jpg

Not to say it looks much better in any of the other finishes they don't seem to sell many of...

DulcetJones

I've never seen a ZW, nor do I know anyone who has one.  There are a lot of models I haven't seen, Canadians like the Les Pauls, Strats and Teles a lot and only stray as far as an SG or Jaguar now and then overall.  The first time I saw a Gibson Explorer was when I saw U2 in the 80's!  One of my aquaintences had a nice Gretsch solid body with a silver sparkle finish that was pretty cool.  Even the music stores here are full of Gibson and Fender and/or copies of them, along with some Canadian brands that aren't bad or radical looking, like Godin. 

ThePrettyDamned

Bucket;50450" said:

Dean Razorbacks are well-publicised and come in seemingly hundreds of different finishes, but I don't think I have ever seen a single one that wasn't painted in the war crime that is the Explosion finish:

http://www.carlinoguitars.com/images/ExplosionRazorback_full.jpg



Not to say it looks much better in any of the other finishes they don't seem to sell many of...

Lol! My friend got that exact guitar years ago. His is the only one I've ever seen. I like it, compared to the slime finish...

Still pretty awful, for such a cool, "dime" design. I'd like to see one in a smarter finish that doesn't make a half decent guitar look like a toy...

IanSavage

ThePrettyDamned said:

You won't believe it, but I've never once seen a Jackson dinky...

Got one