Pawar's Turn of the Century™ Player Guitar


Pawar's Turn of the Century™ Player Guitar
by Billy Cioffi
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I'm a bit of a traditionalist, you know a classicist or maybe, as some people might say, a snob. I love a '55 Thunderbird or that original Corvette lusted after by collectors who all know that sometimes you just can't improve on perfection. They just get it right!! I'm always skeptical about a new guitar company but I have to say these guys at Pawar got it right and beautifully so with this could-be new classic. What I love about the Pawar (rhymes with guitar) Turn of The Century Player guitar is the way the company took a look back at what really works on some of the great classic guitars and incorporated it into their design. At the same time, they also paid attention and used a lot of the worthwhile new innovations of the last twenty years.

As a working musician, who does not have a raft of guitar techs and roadies to relie on, one of the things I appreciate in the Pawar axe is the drilled-through-the-back stringing. This is important for a couple of reasons: you break a string in performance you can still finish the song. With floating bridges and the like you're dead meat with your instrument immediately useless. Stringing through the back also provide much better sustain and tone. Anyone who tells you the wood and it's thickness does not matter much with an electric is blowing smoke. Sure it does!! The heft, feel and balance is reminiscent of the Les Paul Gibson designs from the golden years. It has an "already been played" texture to the neck. The Player features a hand carved maple top, a swamp ash back, a maple neck, and a rosewood fretboard. The scale is 25 1/2 inches with jumbo frets and there are two different neck sizes, both available with Sperzel tuners. The finish on the Player is not translucent and it's not a hot rod, but more of a Cadillac in the sense that you see where the money went...not flashy just classy!

The electronics are the Pawar Positive Tone System™ with a patent pending so exact details are kept secret for now. Pawar Guitars designed the Seymour Duncan Custom shop pickups and they work in a system with a Strat-like, five-way switch to give you the best of the Fender®/Gibson® tones for one, all purpose utility machine.

I can only report that the sound, feel and look of the instrument is breathtaking. One volume and one tone knob plus the five-way switch gives you every thing you need and more. It lists for $2,500 and you won't need another electric guitar...this one does everything but make coffee. A guitar that will suit the needs of any professional, the Player come in Drama Gold, Sterling Silver and Midnight Black. Pawar Guitars is at: 28262 Chardon Rd. 132-A Willoughby Hills, Ohio 44092. Phone: 440-953-1999 Fax 440-953-0183. Web to: www.pawarguitars.com

Billy Cioffi is a Rock and Roll guitarist who has played with many acts from the Fifties, Sixties and Seventies in all fifty states and on five continents. He is also a songwriter, writer and journalist.

Edited by: Barry Rudolph

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