Abomination of the day

Offset

Comes with the obligatory Persian-rug-background for the full effect.



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LionAquaLooper

You're right.  That gold hardware is disgusting. 

guitars4you

Good idea to have a jack plug and lead in the same vicinity as your picking area

viz

From a distance that rug looks like it has two double humbuckers. 

Offset

guitars4you said:

Good idea to have a jack plug and lead in the same vicinity as your picking area

Yeah - if he absolutely HAD to do it, you'd have thought it would have been with a left-handed body.

CarbonCopy

guitars4you said:

Good idea to have a jack plug and lead in the same vicinity as your picking area

Not to worry, the jack input on the front is for aesthetics only. I bet you want one now!

Offset

CarbonCopy said:

guitars4you said:

Good idea to have a jack plug and lead in the same vicinity as your picking area

Not to worry, the jack input on the front is for aesthetics only. I bet you want one now!

Doesn't get away from the knob problem though :-)

SteveRobinson

"Love it or hate it, they probably won't be made again"

For very good reasons

ICBM

It’s a sort of guitar-builder in-joke that just isn’t funny to anyone else. Or sensible guitar builders. 

guitars4you

Offset said:

CarbonCopy said:

guitars4you said:

Good idea to have a jack plug and lead in the same vicinity as your picking area

Not to worry, the jack input on the front is for aesthetics only. I bet you want one now!

Doesn't get away from the knob problem though :-)

Don't think the 3 vol + tone knobs are the issue - It is the knob who built it and a potential knob who will buy it

BillDL

https://www.deweydecibel.com/guitarpage.html

"The guitar design configuration of Dewey Decibel's FlipOut™ is a trademark owned by Joe Gerardi of Dewey Decibel Inc. Any unauthorized duplication of this trademark is prohibited.
The guitar body is the trademark of FMIC and is licensed to Dewey Decibel Inc.

Flipouts Discontinued:
If you got yours, you were one of the lucky 500 sold in the US and Europe. No more production ahead, so check ebay, as they are now listed by Skinner Auction House as an important collectable".

Offset

"An important collectable (sic)..." - probably sums it up :-)

BillDL

This is collectible too, so who knows what makes something a desirable curiosity:

gumbothewiddler

A classic case of ‘just because you can, doesn’t mean you should’.

BobHillman

What is the significance of "Barry Leventhal" (whoever the hell he is)?

scrumhalf

Did no one at Fender think "we could licence this and make a few bucks or we could not, and maintain some outward semblance of dignity and custodianship of a classic original design"?

It seems not.

rossi

Fender standard friday afternoon quality .

ICBM

I can’t decide if it’s worse than the Les Paul with the headstock-shaped body and vice versa. They’re both horrendous.

Wazmeister

Good spot - that is truly horrible 

beed84

Abomination is the right word. It's horrid. 

Deadman