I Still Love My 594s

594s? Still?

I especially love my Mccartys! ;)
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I still love my 25" McCarty. I had to give up an SC 245 to get the McCarty and thought I would miss the shorter scale, but I don't. If I lost all my gear and had to choose between the regular McCarty and the 594, I'd probably stay with the regular one.

That said, I'm with the OP: I'm sure the Silver Sky is a wonderful guitar, but I played my McCarty last night and stayed up way too late enjoying it. :-)
 
Heck yeah!

Just had a blast recording over the March jam track with mine tonight. I love my other guitars, but the 594 is simply great at what it does.
 
LSchefman said:
I love McCartys. Seriously, that’s a pretty snappy one, Tonart, with the all-singing, all-dancing flames and the 408 Paul’s Guitar pickups!

But this thread is all about me. And 594s. :p
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Aye Captain! :D
 
In music there’s a circle of fifths - in photography there’s a circle of confusion. I have merged the two for my own personal use...

I love my 594 too. But I ended up selling more bicycling and photo gear than needed to fund it, and ended up buying a modern player plus tele to keep it company. I was gonna just stay with one electric, but I was playing the 594 a ton and it was starting to feel too routine, like I could start taking it’s wonderfulness for granted. The MP tele isn’t in the same league, but it’s fun in its own right and it gives me all of those Fender strat and tele sounds that the 594, with all it’s goodness, doesn’t get close to. And it plays the role my #2 road bike always played when I was riding a lot - a fun diversion that mostly was there to occasionally be the contrast that reminded me of how sublime my #1 was. I think of it as my budget hardtail Silver Sky. I’ve been a strat guy all my life but always blocked the tremolo, so this three pickup tele gives me those nasally, reedy, quacky, funky sounds in an affordable package. And I like having a maple fingerboard to grab too...

-Ray
 
RaySachs said:
In music there’s a circle of fifths - in photography there’s a circle of confusion. I have merged the two for my own personal use...

I love my 594 too. But I ended up selling more bicycling and photo gear than needed to fund it, and ended up buying a modern player plus tele to keep it company. I was gonna just stay with one electric, but I was playing the 594 a ton and it was starting to feel too routine, like I could start taking it’s wonderfulness for granted. The MP tele isn’t in the same league, but it’s fun in its own right and it gives me all of those Fender strat and tele sounds that the 594, with all it’s goodness, doesn’t get close to. And it plays the role my #2 road bike always played when I was riding a lot - a fun diversion that mostly was there to occasionally be the contrast that reminded me of how sublime my #1 was. I think of it as my budget hardtail Silver Sky. I’ve been a strat guy all my life but always blocked the tremolo, so this three pickup tele gives me those nasally, reedy, quacky, funky sounds in an affordable package. And I like having a maple fingerboard to grab too...

-Ray
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Ray, in my case there’s also the circle of doom, which is a certain peculiar expressway interchange encountered when driving from Michigan to Chicago to visit my daughters. But I digress.

When it comes to guitars, I’m all-PRS, but I like Fender for putting my son and his bandmate in an ad. So I’m going to be supportive of your Tele decision even though my choice in a guitar in that direction will be a Silver Sky, provided I don’t get stuck in the endless loop of the circle of doom before I snag one.
 
LSchefman said:
Ray, in my case there’s also the circle of doom, which is a certain peculiar expressway interchange encountered when driving from Michigan to Chicago to visit my daughters. But I digress.

When it comes to guitars, I’m all-PRS, but I like Fender for putting my son and his bandmate in an ad. So I’m going to be supportive of your Tele decision even though my choice in a guitar in that direction will be a Silver Sky, provided I don’t get stuck in the endless loop of the circle of doom before I snag one.
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Starting to think all circles are bad!

If I'm ever in the market for a high end strat and I develop an affection for tremolo bars, maybe I'll think about a Silver Sky. Or if Robert Cray and Paul ever have a heart to heart like Mayer and Paul did, and they make a hardtail version of a Silver Sky, and PARTICULARLY if they offer it with a maple fretboard (seems unlikely given Robert's preference for rosewood), then I might start saving my pennies for that. But short of that, I'm happy enough playing cheap Fenders. I've had a few strats and teles, never paid more than $800 for any of them, and loved a few of them a LOT - one of them was my only electric for 30+ years.

And this new tele, which I wasn't even aware existed until I stumbled onto it in a Guitar Center a few days ago, seems to tick all of my current boxes. Hardtail, maple fretboard with a neck that felt better than any of the 6-8 others I played that day, three pups with really good strat quack sounds despite two of the pickups not being strat pickups. And, although the pups are NOT noiseless, something about how they're wired, maybe with the humbucker in the circuit, makes it hum free. Also really inexpensive and has a strat tummy cut, which I appreciate as I get older and fatter. I wanted to like the somewhat higher end Nashville tele, but I've played them several times and I can't seem to bond with that 12" radius fretboard. I'm not sure why - I had an Ibanez semi-hollow with a 12" board and it was one of the best playing guitars I've ever played, just half a tick behind the 594. But I've yet to play a Fender with a 12" radius that I liked much at all.

-Ray
 
RaySachs said:
Starting to think all circles are bad!

If I'm ever in the market for a high end strat and I develop an affection for tremolo bars, maybe I'll think about a Silver Sky. Or if Robert Cray and Paul ever have a heart to heart like Mayer and Paul did, and they make a hardtail version of a Silver Sky, and PARTICULARLY if they offer it with a maple fretboard (seems unlikely given Robert's preference for rosewood), then I might start saving my pennies for that. But short of that, I'm happy enough playing cheap Fenders. I've had a few strats and teles, never paid more than $800 for any of them, and loved a few of them a LOT - one of them was my only electric for 30+ years.

And this new tele, which I wasn't even aware existed until I stumbled onto it in a Guitar Center a few days ago, seems to tick all of my current boxes. Hardtail, maple fretboard with a neck that felt better than any of the 6-8 others I played that day, three pups with really good strat quack sounds despite two of the pickups not being strat pickups. And, although the pups are NOT noiseless, something about how they're wired, maybe with the humbucker in the circuit, makes it hum free. Also really inexpensive and has a strat tummy cut, which I appreciate as I get older and fatter. I wanted to like the somewhat higher end Nashville tele, but I've played them several times and I can't seem to bond with that 12" radius fretboard. I'm not sure why - I had an Ibanez semi-hollow with a 12" board and it was one of the best playing guitars I've ever played, just half a tick behind the 594. But I've yet to play a Fender with a 12" radius that I liked much at all.

-Ray
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I wouldn’t be surprised if PRS eventually offers a model with maple boards, and/or swamp ash bodies, just for variety’s sake.

One of the CU22 Soapbars I had back around 2000 had a maple fretboard, and it was spectacular in both sound and feel (nitro finished neck and fretboard).

Not that anyone else needs to feel the way I do, but once I got into PRS guitars, everything else kind of felt unnecessary.
 
LSchefman said:
I wouldn’t be surprised if PRS eventually offers a model with maple boards, and/or swamp ash bodies, just for variety’s sake.

One of the CU22 Soapbars I had back around 2000 had a maple fretboard, and it was spectacular in both sound and feel (nitro finished neck and fretboard).

Not that anyone else needs to feel the way I do, but once I got into PRS guitars, everything else kind of felt unnecessary.
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To me, PRS, particularly the 594, isn't necessary - it's a luxury I managed to afford and I'm really grateful I was able to. But if I'd never played one, I'd still be having a blast playing some $800 wonder... If I was into having several guitars, I could imagine more than one being a PRS. But I've spent a lot more of my life with one electric than two and have never owned or wanted more than two. Oddly, the overwhelming greatness of the 594 is what made me want a second one again. I didn't want to start taking it for granted - wanted the occasional reminder of what a sublime playing and sounding guitar this is. And I like Fenders too, as another flavor, one I've been into for a loooooong time... Although talking about this is making me want to check out an actual Robert Cray strat now, which I've never played, but which I can get used for about what I paid for this tele. And it's from a Sam Ash so I can return it locally if it doesn't work out. So the tele may be a short lived thing. Or not... One way or another, I'll have strat sounds and feel at my disposal... If I love the Cray, but don't love the RW board, I can always swap out the neck for a 50s series soft V or something down the road...

-Ray
 
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