I don't know if there's a reason they're less often mentioned - maybe it's location (location location) or maybe it's that he can't build as fast, or whatever.īut I've never played anything that, IMHO, looked, sounded, or played as well. A Suhr would fit the bill if I wanted an 'improved' strat with a FMT and all the other accoutrements, but if someone around here was still carrying TAs, I'd be down there drooling over them first. I'm a Strat guy, and a Fender guy at that. The Andersons I played were my dream guitar. Our local shop carries Suhr so there seem to be a fair number of players around town with them, but the same is true here at TGP - lot of talk of Suhrs and PRS (which this forum started off as), but barely a mention of Andersons - I here more about Reverends here even!

It's always amazed me how the PRS and later Suhr guitars have taken off and and see so much more press on them - especially PRS - which even became a fad amongst the kind of Nu-Metal set. Later, I encountered Suhrs, and to my knowledge, the Andersons were every bit as good, if not better.Īlso, IIRC, the Andersons were the first guitars I played with the switch that would take you to the Bridge pickup no matter where you were. This was before PRS entered the 'entry level' market with the 'SE' guitars IIRC. Just the most beautiful instruments I had ever played to that point.Īs a Strat player, the Andersons appealed to me - later we carried PRS and I thought they were of the same quality, yet I didn't like most of the PRS guitars personally as they seemed more of a Gibson style which for some reason I just couldn't bond with (though we had a semi-hollow that was just gorgeous sounding and looking). Years ago I worked at a guitar store and we sold them. I'm always surprised that there's not much discussion of them here.

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