new Robin Medley

[yabba]

After getting rid of all my guitars with floyds a while back, I recently had a bout of extreme gas for a floyded guitar and finally caved:





it's a 1992 USA Robin Medley Special; swamp ash body, maple/rosewood neck with a reallly comfy thin (but not too thin) and wide neck.

I had only very briefly played a robin in a shop before this and thought it was nice but forgot about the brand until I got the floyd bug recently and started looking into 25.5" scale, bolt-on H-S guitars. I have to say, this is a REALLY nice guitar, especially for the price (not so sure about the purple pickup, but that wasn't stock and is an easy swap). From what I've seen, Robins are overall really excellent guitars for the money if anyone else is looking for such things

[j2379]

yeah ive played a few of them i liked them alot. that looks great congrats & ditch the purple pup

[fuel0707]

Those guitars do intrigue me. Looks like a nice one but I agree - get a different-colored pickup.

Congrats on the new guitar!

[Bengal]

I've always dug those Robins as well...

Another vote for a pickup swap...

[jcm800x]

Nice man, I had a seafoam green one back in the early 90's, nice player.

[xbolt]

Kick Arse Guitars!

I have this one on the way


and I also have these including a twin of yours...also a 92

[quiksilver]

Cool. Always loved the Robin headstock.

[nhspike]

Rockin' Robins!

Really good guitars... rumored to have ESP necks on some versions.
The owner of the music store I used to work at had three axes he would never allow out of his sight... and early cherry '70 LP, a white Model 4, and his Yellow Robin Medley.
All three were outstanding instruments.
Congrats!
Hey xbolt, nice collection!!!

[scotty]

That reverse body is freaky looking and the headstock is kinda strange to. Cool collection of Robins.

[xbolt]

The Gold one is a 21 fret Tokai built Robin
The Natural and Black Medleys are Texas Built
The "reverse" Raider I is ESP built Robin

[uberthrall]

Congrats on the Robin. I've always loved those guitars. Especiallly the ones with the
offset V headstocks.

[Superfly]

This one just oozes mojo !! Love it !

[yabba]

and I also have these including a twin of yours...also a 92

nice! I noticed there's yet another sibling on ebay right now:

http://cgi.ebay.com/Robin-Electric-Guitar-With-Soft-Gig-Bag_W0QQitemZ190194860170QQihZ009QQcategoryZ2384QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Rockin' Robins!

Really good guitars... rumored to have ESP necks on some versions.

I think they were originally built in japan by tokai, then by ESP, and then in the late 80s (? early 90s?) they moved production to texas.

The Gold one is a 21 fret Tokai built Robin
The Natural and Black Medleys are Texas Built
The "reverse" Raider I is ESP built Robin

aha! there we go, the full spectrum of origins

I'm still tweaking the setup, but I have a feeling this will become a go-to guitar, the neck is reallly nice. very well built as well. I'm not a huge fan of the pickups (aside from the color of the purple one..) It's a tone zone in the bridge and some crazy hot PJ marx blade thingy in the neck. Anyone have pickup recommendations for a swamp ash/maple bolt on? I used to have an alder/maple charvel bolt-on with a duncan custom in the bridge and really like that... what do you have in your medley special, xbolt?

[xbolt]

I put a JB in it which sounds good but I have a whack of JBs in other guitars.
The black Medley has a Duncan Custom TB which is just amazing in Ash!!!

I have a vintage DMZ SD on it's way which I'm gonna try vs the JB just to see...I bet an old Schaller 2in1 would sound good too

[sonicsamurai]

the one at the top is pretty nice actually