Washburn USA - what's the scoop?

[cecilbag]

No German Floyds. Even the Washburn Custom Shop made N4's haven't used German OFRs for the longest time. MIK Floyds.

Any N4 you see with a Floyd Rose tremolo, it's a MIK, 1000 series trem.

The new, lower pricing kinda makes sense to me. The pre-2016 N4's were made in the Washburn Custom Shop thus commanding custom shop prices. The shop in Ohio is not a custom shop.

Pretty sure the Relic and new 2.0 versions all had OFR Trems.

I bought my Alder and Padauk 2.0 N4's in 2011 and both of them came with 1000 series OFRs.

Washburn has never been known for consistency.

This is crazy for the price of the guitar. Then again I had a Zakk Wylde Gibson custom shop v which came with a Korean floyd

 

[Jack Luminous]

Very nice Tele !

I'm a big fan of Stephen's Stringed Instruments. I have 2 Davie's N4's and a Stephen's Extended Cutaway Tele from 1992. I agree, extremely well built guitars. It's the best Tele I've ever played.