I still love my Wildkat...am I just crazy?

[Headshot]

I know that is a loaded question, but it seems that there is something about the body size that feels better than a 339, the neck feels right, and I really like p90's for my jazz sound. I do like my 335-style guitars, and will always have at least one example. Also, recently acquired an Ibanez AF95 in a trade for one of my strat partscasters, and like it as well, and will always have something in that size as well, but...I will sit and play for an hour or so, and find that it is the Wildkat that I don't want to put down.

Truth be told, I am a Strat and Tele guy...been playing all of my jazz on one or the other forever, and because of this forum I have strayed into archtop/hollowbody land. Why am I drawn to my Wildkat? What else is out there similar sized?

[Boston Joe]

If you like it, what difference does it make what else is out there?

[mr. beaumont]

You like your Wildkat because they're pretty cool guitars, that's why.


Didn't they make a "jazzkat" at one time? I seem to remember a set in minibucker maybe?

[Boston Joe]

That guitar looks pretty cool. Is there a version without the bigsby?

[neatomic]

That guitar looks pretty cool. Is there a version without the bigsby?

yes epi just very recently released the "studio" version...sans bigsby..goes for around 350$! red , gold & here's amber natural-



cheers

[D.G.]

I really wish someone would make a "proper" version of this style. i.e. built like a 335 with arched top and back and a block down the middle, and one like a 330, i.e. fully hollow, no block. But keep the p90's!!!

[Alder Statesman]

You like your Wildkat because they're pretty cool guitars, that's why.


Didn't they make a "jazzkat" at one time? I seem to remember a set in minibucker maybe?

Actually it was called the AlleyKat. I had a cherry sunburst one for awhile. Mini hb at the neck and full-side hb at bridge. Not a bad guitar. Been out of production for a few years.

[neatomic]

godin




cheers

[Sam Sherry]

Didn't they make a "jazzkat" at one time?

I made a "JazzKat" and gave it to my son:



Wildkats are great. They work great, they're cheap and they're a great mod platform. Play on!

[Headshot]

Sam, I love what you did there...need one of those pickguards!

[jazzbow]

I made a "JazzKat" and gave it to my son:



Wildkats are great. They work great, they're cheap and they're a great mod platform. Play on!

'You've got skills'

Niice

[neatomic]

just a heads up..musicians friend/guit center have all three colors of epi wildkat studio..with stop tailpiece.. for 299$ this week



cheers

[Boston Joe]

I tried one out in the store. Didn't do much for me. Kind of disappointed.

[Headshot]

I tried one out in the store. Didn't do much for me. Kind of disappointed.

Disappointed how? Not as nice as the regular one, or are they just not built as well?

[Boston Joe]

Nothing like that. I'd never played one before. The guitar as a whole just didn't really do it for me. I was disappointed because I really wanted to like it. A good $300 guitar is a rarity.

[Rob MacKillop]

The might well be really good ones out there, but the one I tried had an impossibly high action and awful pickups. Such a pity.

[Boston Joe]

The might well be really good ones out there, but the one I tried had an impossibly high action and awful pickups. Such a pity.

Well, action can be fixed. Pickups can be replaced, but that sort of defeats the purpose of a $300 guitar.