Toneking and McKnight have a guitar company now.

[VegasGuitar]

Unimpressed and far less than interested. Who's next, Pedal Show with relic T and S types???

 

[Bruce]

Repeating what I've said elsewhere, but the logo is awful, in my opinion.

No need for "Guitar Company." It's obviously a guitar and the person buying it knows it's a guitar. In addition to that, the graphic of a guitar neck and headstock on top of an actual headstock seems silly. And the block-y font looks awkward and cheap.

(By "awkward," I mean it doesn't go with the sleeker lines of the headstock itself. Chunky and at odds with it.)

Agreed. the font misses the mark by a great deal.

 

[Sascha Franck]

And the block-y font looks awkward and cheap.

Amen. Like some Donner guitar or so.
IMO the same applies to the white logos on the pickups.
Both of these aren't exactly 80-ish, either.

 

[metropolis_4]

Repeating what I've said elsewhere, but the logo is awful, in my opinion.

No need for "Guitar Company." It's obviously a guitar and the person buying it knows it's a guitar. In addition to that, the graphic of a guitar neck and headstock on top of an actual headstock seems silly. And the block-y font looks awkward and cheap.

(By "awkward," I mean it doesn't go with the sleeker lines of the headstock itself. Chunky and at odds with it.)

Yeah, everything about the logo and that headstock looks like some cheap import knock off you’d find in a pawn shop downtown

 

[metropolis_4]

They lost me at “With your purchase of a BGC guitar … you're participating in an experience”

Hard pass

 

[Stone]

Maybe this gets added to @Digital Igloo 's "everything is a derivative of something Yamaha Guitars already did" poster?

The Yamaha headstock is so much better looking though

 

[DrewJD82]

I mentioned this on a buddy’s FB post about it; I don’t really have an issue with YouTuber brands, I’m a huge fan of Solar guitars, but those actually fill someone of a void due to the features of the guitars; there’s not a ton of places you can get Evertunes/specs at that price point and they‘ve at least got a cool take on the popular shapes that lets you know it’s a Solar just by looking at it. And now they’ve got Sustainers.

The Chapman guitars and now this are just the run of the mill popular shapes without any particularly unique feature or anything indicating they‘re doing anything more than just putting another guitar out there. Just another run of the mill super Strat and while it might have good specs, I’d think you‘d have to be a big fan of their channels to want to drop that kind of dough while the same thing exists from long time builders known for making super Strats.

That said, I don’t blame them a single bit for starting it up, why not? I’d just personally want to add something more to the world of guitars, but I don’t gotta buy ‘em.

 

[texhex]

I'm an old MFer.

When I think of the 80's and hear the word Redline... I only think of one thing:

Maybe their next guitar model could be Hutch:

And then Haro after that:

 

[JiveTurkey]

I'm an old MFer.

When I think of the 80's and hear the word Redline... I only think of one thing:

Maybe their next guitar model could be Hutch:

And then Haro after that:

I only had Huffy's

 

[texhex]

I only had Huffy's

Well, I had to suffer through these Murray bikes:

First bike was wrecked and broke the frame:

Then my parents bought me one of these turds. "Track Certified"

 

[JiveTurkey]

Well, I had to suffer through these Murray bikes:

First bike was wrecked and broke the frame:

Then my parents bought me one of these turds. "Track Certified"

The struggle was real!

 

[Gearzilla]

That said, I don’t blame them a single bit for starting it up, why not? I’d just personally want to add something more to the world of guitars

So you're telling me there's a chance for a TGF guitar brand. YEAH!

 

[DrewJD82]

So you're telling me there's a chance for a TGF guitar brand. YEAH!

It would be kind of cool if we got big enough that we could get some companies to do a couple group runs. Ibanez does these for Axe Palace and Rich Harris at Ibanez Rules got one done as well. Really f*cking nice models, I think @Desertdweller’s purple 7-string was one of those(?). Pretty much as close as one can get to a custom shop with Ibanez. We’d just need about 12 of us to all agree on the exact same specs.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

It would be kind of cool if we got big enough that we could get some companies to do a couple group runs. Ibanez does these for Axe Palace and Rich Harris at Ibanez Rules got one done as well. Really f*cking nice models, I think @Desertdweller’s purple 7-string was one of those(?). Pretty much as close as one can get to a custom shop with Ibanez. We’d just need about 12 of us to all agree on the exact same specs.

Fat neck, 7 string, single coils. Something we all can agree on

 

[DrewJD82]

Fat neck, 7 string, single coils. Something we all can agree on

You had me on the first two!

 

[JiveTurkey]

Fat neck, 7 string, single coils. Something we all can agree on

Headless, GK3 with a floyd rose. V shaped.

 

[Gearzilla]

Headless, GK3 with a floyd rose. V shaped.

 

[andergtr]

no offense, but phil mcknight is all about cheap guitars that you can get a lotta bang for buck out of.

i wouldn't buy a guitar in that price range that he is behind.

 

[KHAAAAAAANNNNNNN!!!!!!!!]

So you're telling me there's a chance for a TGF guitar brand. YEAH!

 

[Sleezy E]

I wonder how many tens of pre-orders they have now...