Hagstrom Select Super Swede Cocoa

by Gig Stig

Hagstrom have some pretty famous endorsees that include Benny Anderson from Abba and none other than Elvis Presley himself who used a Hagstrom guitar on his 1968 TV Special comeback simply called "Elvis". It was therefore particularly dissapointing that production of their instruments had to stop in 1983 ...

Well they're now well and truly back on the scene and their current range has a wide range of high quality instruments not least of which is the Select Super Swede, a kind of Les Paul hybrid. However there are many differentiating features that distinguish the Select Super Swede from a Les Paul, for example the Resinator fretboard uses a composite wood material that feels and plays like high quality Ebony.

Tonally this guitar offers a great clean sound that's warm and resonant and the neck pick-up wouldn't be out of place in a jazz quartet whilst the hum-bucker at the bridge does a very fair Larry Carlton impersonation once the amp is set up to suit. I have to hold my hands up and admit that I do like the Hagstrom range- they offer something a little left field from the standard Les Paul type models ... check out the model range at the Nevada Music Warehouse ...