spudmunkey
Well-Known Member
Shortly after I started playing guitar, probably around 1988-ish, I remember falling in lust for the first time, for an out-of-budget guitar. It was a strat-alike made by Blade. They were the "high end" models sold at my local store, Hartford Music Center in Wisconsin. This wasn't a high-end store, at all (for example, their highest-end non-marshall was a Crate Blue Voodoo). They have since closed.
I'll admit that I was too new of a guitar player to have any insight, or memory, on if they were actually good guitars....but man, oh, man, did I ever love the look of 'em. The only other strats I had seen in person were solid paint, or at beast, a standard classic burst of some sort. The Blade guitars seemed like a Ferrari or something, in comparison.
I saw another guitar recently from a different company that had a similar aesthetic to the one in that little store that I lusted after. I hadn't thought of that company in a long time, and it inspired me to look up Blade to see if they were still around.
Sure enough, they are: https://www.bladeguitars.com/
Does anybody have any experiences or info on Blade Guitars? Either from decades past, or recent?
It looks like they have at least two quality tiers of sub$1000 guitars and then $2K+, based on only a few minutes of googling, so I have no idea how accurate that is...
Their Falcon double-block trem sounds interesting. Allows pull-back even with the trem resting on the body, apparently.
It's hard to tell, but the pickgauard is a sort of brass-y colored "sepia mirror" material.
![179060_189525057738303_3786296_n.jpg](https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/179060_189525057738303_3786296_n.jpg?_nc_cat=105&_nc_sid=7aed08&_nc_oc=AQkWKtDDtpN1So9Klm4ig4kM03bi7HDM4f3K8Kwaxvj6kLjOnTvO2qrPhEI4-l_pnJ8&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=d67b2b88aa465589364331c556d6a334&oe=5EE031FA)
I'll admit that I was too new of a guitar player to have any insight, or memory, on if they were actually good guitars....but man, oh, man, did I ever love the look of 'em. The only other strats I had seen in person were solid paint, or at beast, a standard classic burst of some sort. The Blade guitars seemed like a Ferrari or something, in comparison.
I saw another guitar recently from a different company that had a similar aesthetic to the one in that little store that I lusted after. I hadn't thought of that company in a long time, and it inspired me to look up Blade to see if they were still around.
Sure enough, they are: https://www.bladeguitars.com/
Does anybody have any experiences or info on Blade Guitars? Either from decades past, or recent?
It looks like they have at least two quality tiers of sub$1000 guitars and then $2K+, based on only a few minutes of googling, so I have no idea how accurate that is...
Their Falcon double-block trem sounds interesting. Allows pull-back even with the trem resting on the body, apparently.
It's hard to tell, but the pickgauard is a sort of brass-y colored "sepia mirror" material.
![RH4_MV_horiz-1110x420.jpg](https://www.bladeguitars.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/RH4_MV_horiz-1110x420.jpg)