mrfog said:

Connected said:

I love your suggestions - although it sounds costly...and for that money, I could possibly wait the long-term and pick up a Schecter/NPG which will retain it's value better than a off-piste replica -possibly?

Otherwise, maybe there are better Luthiers than rareelectric if I start going into $$$$ - Is that a fair statement TXfan?

So - as it is wall art - I am more interested in it looking authentic in detail, with good wood material and very importantly with a proper paint job, rather than the "equipment" so to speak

So, if a set-neck is cheaper (but looks the same as a thru-neck - sold...the size would be better being correct, the angle of the plate - correct...if I can get a durable quality looking plate that won't tarnish, playability not important - then great! etc...)

All about the aesthetics with quality material - because once it's up...it is the only display of Prince in my living room...

I have a Paisley tambourine (stage used from 86) in my bedroom and 3121 & symbol 93 in the halls...together with the "Sign O Times" framed lyrics poster in the bathroom - the guitar is my ONLY display....without looking like a complete Prince nut!!!!!

Over the years, some of the stories on the NPG store clouds - the paint job was pretty poor - naughty Prince!!!

Spades - 100% correct...definitely there are pictures that clearly show spade fret markings...In fact, I think it is the same guitar that was then used for the batman markings - if memory serves correct, could be wrong tho.

Again - I do have some pretty decent pictures showing these - although to be honest, finding those will be far harder than the dvd ...so lets not hold our breath

I guess you could always enquire about what the price increase would be for neck-through and maple; might not be that big a jump. As for getting the other details included, it occurs to me that either they'd want to charge you more or will be glad for your advice in improving their product. Way I see it, the more accurate they can make these things, the more they'll sell. Looking at how well TXfan's commission has turned out, these seem like a real bargain to me. Imagine how incredibly cool they'd be with a few little tweaks in production though, most of which - pickup placement, top carve - wouldn't present any extra effort or cost at all once they updated whatever pattern they're using. Only the correct neck pickup routing would increase labour time to any extent if the change was instituted, but personally I'd be happy to pay a little more over all for that detail to be right...

Cool - so out of interest...

I was looking at central before Prince passed and was seeing a couple of Luthiers doing some great work - all a bit quite at the moment tho!

But they were looking at $1500min-$2000+ for clouds

Albeit they were more for musicians - but as a base price...what would be the difference between electricguitars and what they are offering?

Thanks

Cool - so out of interest...

I was looking at central before Prince passed and was seeing a couple of Luthiers doing some great work - all a bit quite at the moment tho!

But they were looking at $1500min-$2000+ for clouds

Albeit they were more for musicians - but as a base price...what would be the difference between electricguitars and what they are offering?

Thanks

TXfan said:

get model c guitar

Has anyone had a symbol guitar made?

kidmelody2012 said:

get model c guitar

Don't know if they sell those...but if they do...go for it - and let us know!

mrfog said:

That Cloud is beautiful. Too nice to be put in a glass case..It definetly needs to be plugged in played onstage. The Squier Strat is nice too.

Marco81 said:

2020 said:

mrfog said:

Perhaps if we were to approach the company as a group they may take us more seriously about any ideas we have to improve their product...

Great idea! The orgs very own mass drop
I'd totally like to get in on this group buy since you both are so knowledgable and really could help this company create the ultimate replica

SPYZFAN1 said:

There is a purple Cloud guitar on eBay which the seller states was actually used by Prince. I just read this in Google News a few minutes ago - the sale is starting at $70,000.

Looks like the blue rave to me

Never saw him play a purple other than habibi

http://www.guitarworld.co...0000/29387

1Sasha said:

mrfog said:

2020 said:

Great idea! The orgs very own mass drop I'd totally like to get in on this group buy since you both are so knowledgable and really could help this company create the ultimate replica

The more the merrier I would think - should improve our chances of getting them to include the features we would like...

This could be interesting!

What language does rareelectric converse in - as I have some asian...chinese/korean friends who could do any technical translation with them

I have seen some very technical schematics somewhere on the web for the cloud in the past...

I'm going hunting and see what can be found...

On central's site...

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mrfog said:

1Sasha said:

There is a purple Cloud guitar on eBay which the seller states was actually used by Prince. I just read this in Google News a few minutes ago - the sale is starting at $70,000.

If anyone wants to pay 70k for a mass produced Schecter Diamond Series cloud that was patently never touched by Prince, then good luck to them!

Lol. And the Certificate of Authenticity states "Personally owed by Prince". Unless that's proper legalese, I would think a legit COA would at least be spelled correctly and state "owned".

injuredpinky said:

^

It is a truly awful advert - I am minded to inform fleabay of this nonsense

Shameful

Connected said:

Connected said:

TXfan said:

TXfan said:

Marco81 said:

Has anyone had a symbol guitar made?

They quoted me $998 for the symbol guitar

damn I thought the Symbol guitar would be much more....I think I'm going to get both a Cloud and Symbol from these guys.

The more I read about Cloud guitars (and the different Hohner variatios) , the more confused I get.

For example, I had no idea that there was a black Cloud guitar by EPS (or ESP?) that is used by a Japanese artist. It looks like an updated, futuristic version of Prince´s Cloud. ALMOST the same, but slightly different.

pandaleka said:

I'm on mobile so I can't post the picture, but Purple Stream on Facebook posted a picture of one of P's cloud guitars on display at one of the Smithsonian museums, beside the Purple Rain LP. That gives some scale if anyone was still wondering about its size and all that.
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Marco81 said:

Can we get all specs for clouds, symbol guitars and one-eyed bass guitars all here please??

it wont matter...im the only one who can play like him

Marco81 said: