WOW.
I am a big Fender fan. I have three Fender posters on my wall, three Fender t-shirts, a Fender clock on the wall, two Strats and a Tele, a big book on the history of Fender, Fender stickers… Yeah, I’m that guy.
But wow. The Parallel Universe Maverick Dorado is one of the ugliest guitars in recent memory.
Let me paint a picture – the headstock is long and tall, and droops to one side at the top, like an elf hat in a cartoon. The body shape looks like a melted shovel.
You could argue about the body shape – it looks like a cheapie from the 60’s but some like that look. The Filter-tron clones were designed by Tim Shaw, who is an outstanding pickup designer – I’d trust anything he makes. If you want to look retro, the Bigsby is always a good choice – they are very good at that Bigsby wobble sound, at the cost of tuning stability. You may want to throw the guitar across the room when you have to string it, but that’s part of its “charm.”
Put it all together with the worst looking headstock ever, and you’ve got a $2,499 joke. Even the name is stupid – the Maverick Dorado. That’s a western movie name generator at work, that is. Lemmie try:
The El Durango Diablo!
The Grande Colorado!
The Fort Chisum Rifleman!
I’m surprised it doesn’t have four pickups. Or just one pickup, right in the center.
I know, I know. The Maverick was a Fender guitar flop from back in the day that they decided to bring back from the dead. And now it’s stumbling around with new pickups but the same old stinky corpse.
I mean, I guess it’s better than not ever doing anything different. Sometimes you gotta throw shit against the wall to see what sticks. This shit will stick to the wall, I bet.
