Hot or Not? Robin Ranger Standard

[dmn23]

I'd hit it if I had the cash to spare.


https://reverb.com/item/327977-robin-ranger-standard-2002-sunburst

$950 + $50 Shipping

2002 Houston TX USA hand made, totally stock, Robin Ranger Standard in a satin sunburst finish. Just an amazing instrument you won't be able to put it down, I'm reluctantly listing this only because I have another from the same year with a maple fingerboard, this one sounds better. If a rosewood board on a fender scale is your thing it doesn't get any better than this. Small marks around the edge of the body, nothing major just honest wear from use, one spot on the neck where the rubber on a guitar stand reacted with the nitro finish, (see pix), you don't notice it while playing it's purely cosmetic, frets are in great shape, it feels, sounds and plays great. Comes with a Gator HSC. Make it yours before I change my mind.
Specs from the Robin website: http://robinguitars.com/ranger_standard.html

 

[Tig]

I like it. The price isn't stupid from what I know about Robin's.
Robin Guitars all be like our local hero for decades around here.

Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmy Vaughan playing a double-neck Robin family style.

Billy Gibbons checking out his Robin custom order.
c. 1996

Jimmie Vaughan on the low down with his Ranger Baritone
c. 1988

The Robin RV-2, with tone so sweet.
Eric Johnson c. 1982

 

[Ignored Member]

I was interested in those when I was a kid but I thought the pickup layout was stupid.

Now I know the pickup layout is genius and I was stupid.

 

[Dogsinplastic]

Super hot. Always wanted one. Unfortunately they closed shop because people weren't buying enough to keep afloat.

 

[Coralkong]

Yeah, I vote hot.

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

Hotter than a UT co-ed!

 

[Denverdave]

Very - very hot. I used to own one that looked very similar to that and like an idiot sold it....

 

[Denverdave]

Hotter than a UT co-ed!

that might be pushing it.......

 

[Mark Wein]

Maybe....

 

[Guitar Heel]

I've always thought these were cool.

 

[Flatspotter]

Now there's a confused guitar.

 

[Stratguy]

I'm in the "maybe" category too.

 

[Scott_Abene]

I love these things

 

[vintage clubber]

I was interested in those when I was a kid but I thought the pickup layout was stupid.

Now I know the pickup layout is genius and I was stupid.

I like it!

 

[Chicken Man]

I like the pickup arrangement, but that pickguard doesn't do it any favors--open pickup routes are not a good look. It kind of looks like a Tele-Strat Frankenstein a little bit, where it doesn't quite hang together aesthetically. And that's not a great piece of wood to have a transparent finish on.

 

[jaxn slim]

I like that a lot except for the burst.

 

[Ignored Member]

I like it!

Is that a TV Jones in the neck? How do you like it?

 

[dmn23]

I'm not sure why you'd want to put a Tele pickup at the bridge but ditch the ashtray. Isn't that sort of one of the pillars of the Tele sound? Or maybe it just makes the other two pickups sound wonky.

 

[Ignored Member]

Man, every time I come back into this thread, I have to stop myself from hitting the USA Custom Guitars site and ordering one of those Ranger strat bodies.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

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