Sparrow Big Daddy Review by Chopper

Here’s Chopper Sivertz of the Deadcats and the Reverberators showing his Sparrow Big Daddy”Ace” with Kent Armstong single coil p/u’s and a licensed Bigsby whammy bar

We tried doing a side by side comparison of Choppers’s Big Daddy, and my Twangmaster but we had some technical difficulties videotaping it. The results were; suprisingly the Hollow-body w/ single coil pickups sounded a bit thinner. The Twangmaster has a wider range of sounds, going from a sort of mushy humbucker sound to an ice-pick in the forehead tele bridge sound.  I was quite surprised how much bite the Big Daddy has! Definitely a great axe for Rockabilly, Blues or Instro-Surf. It has the tone block under the bridge so there’s no feedback problems and it sustains well. The only problem we’re having is the “floating” bridge tend to float right out of place, when you press the whammy bar too far. The weak point of the Twangmaster (or just about any stock tele style Guitar) is the input jack. It’s about a $15 part to replace. There’s something weird about those recessed jacks, it’s better to have it flush w/ the body.

When left to our own devices Chopper and I both tend to buy “vintage”(pawnshop) gear. So we were pretty lucky that Billy Bones came along and offerred to set us up with a pair of brand new axes. I’m going to be demoing some of their new pickups. Sparrow is making their own pickups now and with the attention to quality and detail they put into their Guitars, I’m sure they’re going to sound great. I’ll keep you posted of course.