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Don't know about the Taylor Swift one, but the Sheeran one is ok. I've got a slightly bigger (OOO size) Martin of similar construction. It's actually a very good guitar. A lot of people don't like it because of the non-traditional materials and unfinished look, but it does sound good. I wasn't intending to buy that model. I was looking for a working guitar with a pickup that was less precious than my nice Martin. I'd tried several others, including some that were double the price, and that one just sounded the best. I think the lack of a glossy finish does help the tone.
I'd never buy the Sheeran one because of X on the body, but it is actually quite a decent guitar.
Having said that, I do think it's stupid how some signature guitars try to recreate preceisely the wear and tear, scratches and imperfections of a specific guitar owned by the guitarist. Style and design is one thing, but why would you want a paint chip in the same place as someone else's guitar?!
A couple from Anthrax.
The Danny Spitz PRS which I mentioned the other day. I don't think it was ever commercially available and it's not exactly stupid, just really ugly.
Scott Ian's series of NOT Jacksons. I'm sure he was happy enough with 12 or 14 frets, but it wouldn't have actually done any harm to include a few more....
Not sure if it's still in production but there was a pretty poor Mark Knopfler Strat. For some reason it had Texas Specials - which can ruin any guitar. Remember trying one in a shop years ago, and then trying out a Mexican one (something along the lines of the Classic Series) that was less than half the price at the time. The Mexican one completely blew the Knopfler away.
Surely you wouldn't deny that the target market is kids who like Ed Sheeran's music and it's not like, say, people buying a Clapton Strat because they specifically want a Strat with a mid boost circuit that Clapton is known for. I doubt many guitarists will be thinking that they really like the tones on Sheeran's new single so buy his sig Martin to get close.
I have to disagree about the Swift one not being a cash-grab, although I have to say you make a good point and I was wrong to make the assumption she rarely plays a guitar based on the times I've seen her on TV; if she genuinely plays regularly at her concerts then it's less shameless of a cash-in as I though. But still very much one for similar reasons I gave for Sheeran.
Also, she's not just no EVH/Vai/Slash, she's no "bloke down the pub that does more than strum cowboy chords"...
Having said that I actually do like Taylor Swift, believe it or not, though not Ed Sheeran. Those opinions on their music didn't come in to my thoughts on their sig guitars though.
It was out at the time I was shopping for a Strat and I'd have considered it if it wasn't, IMO, one of the ugliest guitars I've ever seen. I'm completely indifferent to the person a guitar is a signature model for if I like the guitar in its own right.
If it looked like a normal, plain Strat or looked like the Strat clones Chapman went on to release later, I may well have bought it instead of the Fender I did buy.
It was actually designed by her (at least I think that's true), it looks stunning, which is difficult to achieve when straying quite far from the classic designs, and since it came out I haven't seen her playing any other guitar.
Defo a yes from me!
Isn't it just a White P Bass with "1-2-3-4" on the neck plate?
AFAIK he played a standard P Bass?