Univox Hi Flyer

[709slash]

how mutch are those

[SparkyT3D]

Looking to trade this guitar, message me if you're interested

[birthdaycake13]

@SparkyT3D what do you have in mind when you say trade?

[SparkyT3D]

@birthdaycake13 Ideally I want to trade it for either a Duo Sonic (a parts-built one or 90's MIM) or some sort of other equally odd guitar. However, as of today I decided that I want to learn Banjo more than anything and would trade it for a banjo in a heartbeat.

[birthdaycake13]

you should make a video of it on clean in you can.

[hotmonkeypunk]

that finish is fuckin perfect...can i have it?

[InterspeciesErotica7]

I had one of these years ago. I liked the neck, really thin. Pickups were really nice. The plastic saddles sucked, swapped it to a Tune-o-matic. I only bought it cuz Kurt Cobain. It was like $150 fourteen years ago. Wish I held on to it... oh well

[guitarcapo]

I had a phase 4. Mine had a single stop tailpiece where the strings wrapped around the bridge and went straight out. The bar had bridge intonation for a wound G! I ended up replacing the bar with one with adjustable intonation and then selling the thing. Sounded great and played easy. Tuners were a little sloppy and cheap.

[jammersession]

what is better this or a fender mexican strat

[Grungemusic13]

still a beautiful guitar i have one

[andy92811]

How does the guitar play?

[SparkyT3D]

@andy92811 it's certainly not the best player, but hopefully this summer it'll see some restoration and get the play time it deserves. The bridge and the nut both suck pretty hard so they'll have to go for sure. I had a telecaster bridge pickup electrical taped in the bridge humbucker ring (which sounded fantastic!) Dunno what I'll end up doing exactly, but it's in pieces now begging to be fixed. :)

[Grungemusic13]

@thejakeludwig

ha sorry man unless someone found one in their basement your out of luck i have a univox Hi-flyer phase 3 in sun burst but that was lucky and free

[quietcrowd]

hey, it's Kurt Cobain playing a yellow Univox!

[fras3r666]

sick guitar

[guitar6321]

ahh man it would of looked cooler with black finish and rosewood fretboard

[benjamin308]

Weird seeing it 'flipped' like that. I always thought the hi-flier' looked like a lefty anyhow. looks in great condition.

[thepostboxtheory]

very nice guitar, i've got one but the electronics are fucked at the minute..

[stigfink]

My first ever electric guitar was a Univox Hi-Flyer EXACTLY like that one. Wish I still had it.

[speakofthedevil94]

ive been trying to find one this weird yellow color, the univox website never mentions it,very weird

[stigfink]

That's because it's not yellow. It's natural wood. This video just makes it look yellow.

[PieceofMindmusic]

companies tend to be reluctant to mentions there old products especially when it comes to electronics. it sucks if you ask me.

[garagerawk27]

Well it looks yellow, but it's just refered to as "natural" they simply polyurethane over the wood without using stain or painting it::) it's yellowy hue could be from age or the lighting in the video.

[samuelmichaud]

So who's playing if this is a mirrored video?

[SparkyT3D]

My reflection.

It's a macbook camera recording in Photo Booth.

[samuelmichaud]

OOOH ok. Anyway... how long you been playing? You got some good flow going there:P

[TheCousin666]

you have to use QuicktTime Pro! ;)

[Livitation3]

Hi,good playing.I am interested what is the output of these humbuckers and what wood is used for that guitar,answer please,appreciate it .Thanks

[speakofthedevil94]

dont know the humbuggy outputs, but the wood is "plywood" as reffered to by univox players, but it is in fact alder

[caketown334]

i just bought one phase 3 for 200 im known in my town with my band for using cheap good guitars

[speakofthedevil94]

ok kurt cobain wanna be

[SparkyT3D]

Since a bunch of people asked: It's a righty phase 3 Univox. I just never bothered to mirror the video correctly. D'oh! :D

[raquel1234ful]

beautiful tone kinda bad quality but for what i can hear it sounds like if i was next to your amp i might dance

[bug219]

I just bought an univox hiflier for only 20 bucks

[SparkyT3D]

ORLY?

[bug219]

some lady was selling it at the local flea market where i'm from.

[Tornadoes76]

I have the same guitar i sanded it down so its raw wood and eurithaned it its sick its not a good death metal guitar

[Ziplock74]

wow, i would've shit my pants with excitement. and then i would have bought it. heh.

[uripijuli]

@bug219 what the hell? only 20?¿ how idiot is the guy that sold it..

[AcousticLauson]

@bug219 thats insane :D

[101Volts]

Apparently Univox guitars are much better copies of Mosrites than what Eastwood make. Supposedly, Eastwood guitar necks are too big and the factory standard pickups sound like they have too much of a "Bite" to them. (That isn't good)

[wisesatyr72]

I determined to buy this guitar for $200 no more or less!!

[guitarcapo]

Why are you determined not to pay less for this guitar?

[acepple95]

just by lookin at this guitar you can tell that it has smoothness and great tone

[SparkyT3D]

There's a Lace Sensor Red Dually in the bridge. I'm not a big fan of the p'up, but the original pickup was beyond repair. There used to be a SD JB in the bridge, but for most of it's life, there was a telecaster bridge pickup taped in there. That sounded the best, but looked like ass. :D

[dirtymikerocks]

What kind of bridge pickup are you using?

[wisesatyr72]

People always overbid on this model from Ebay

[Whicol2]

There is no such thing as "overbidding" the people (AKA the market) determines the price. This is how the free-market system works. Stop complaining...

[jks2]

that's beacause cobain and johnny ramone made them famous. if you want a guitar like that for about 350 bucks brandnew then go for an eastwood they made hi - flyers and a johnny ramone model (although the ramone models cost twice as much)

[kordel123]

Kurt Cobain had a guitar like that in sunburst, in the late eighties.

[musicmanincognito]

Awsome guitar man! Need some lessons though...

[menga111]

sounded pretty schweet to me

[gTyler26]

what was wrong with it???

[humbermad]

for me the closest sound to a is the real mosrite is the eastwood. it really sounds good to me trouhgh a

[101Volts]

Really? I am considering buying an Eastwood. How does it compare to Ricky Wilson's style? If you don't know, Ricky Wilson was The B-52's original guitarist.

[SparkyT3D]

No, the video from my macbook is just mirrored. I'm up in college and opted to bring the telecaster with me. I miss that guitar. :/

[Leftyguitarplayer123]

lefty?

[jks2]

if you can find a lefty mosrite/univox then you are lucky!

[comehead914]

kurt cobain found one in his mailbox

[menga111]

really?

[Ziplock74]

he used a righty one with the strings reversed, comehead914 ;D

[comehead914]

yeah but univox sent him one for the in utero tour

[Ziplock74]

not a lefty one though

[Whicol2]

They never made leftys. This video has been "mirrored" or flipped around.

[violentaddiction123]

no Univox went under in the late 70's, the only univox he used in the in utero era was the white one in the heart hspaed box video

[Whicol2]

All of you guys are wrong.

Univox never sent Kurt anything. They were a subsidiary brand of Matsumoko guitars, they basically underwent a name change in 1981 and surfaced as Westbury guitars.

Kurt only used the white HSB Hi Flier on the In Utero TOUR. Earlier, in early-mid 1993, he frequently used his Phase 1 S/b Hi Flier (Aka "Hi Flier Custom"...but not really), including the SNL '93 performance.

Sound straight, everybody? ;)

[Fenvox79]

I have a phase 4 hi-flyer. All natural, humbuckers and a black pick guard. Theres nothing truly like a Univox!

[Bander89]

sounds awesome liek the way you play the guitar

[Heartshapedbox088]

nice.