Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic Reissue vs Gibson Flying V
The Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic Reissue and the Gibson Flying V are both electric guitars sharing aggressive. The Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic Reissue leans bright. The Gibson Flying V leans tight and transparent. Current prices: $5200 vs $2033.59.
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Blended from circuit-archetype lineage, dynamic feel, tone-signal overlap and tone-vector distance — the tone vector itself is derived from editorial description text, not a measured acoustic signal, so this reflects how similarly the catalog copy describes the two, not a lab measurement. Shown only within a gear class, and only where there's enough evidence to be meaningful.48% — somewhat different
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Derived from overlapping tonal signals across both listings.- aggressive
Fender Custom Shop '51 Nocaster Relic Reissue
Fender · electric guitar
Gibson Flying V
Gibson · electric guitar
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Citation/mention fame — how often this gear is cited across artist rigs and gear discussion.$5200via Reverb
$2033.59via Reverb
This Fender Custom Shop model tributes a guitar Jeff Beck gave away rather than kept: a modified 1954 Esquire with a 1957 maple neck and brass bridge saddles that Beck handed to pickup builder Seymour Duncan in 1974. Fender's Custom Shop later built a limited run of exact replicas, releasing them badged as a '51 Nocaster Relic tribute with period-correct hardware and heavy aging to match the wear on Beck's original. It carries a single-coil bridge pickup voiced for the bright, biting attack associated with early-Fender single-pickup guitars, distinct from the humbucker-loaded Jeff Beck signature Stratocasters most commonly linked to him. Because the guitar's real history runs through Seymour Duncan rather than Beck's own stage rig, it is more a piece of pickup-industry folklore than a guitar Beck toured with.
The Gibson Flying V was one of the two radical shapes Gibson launched in 1958, originally in korina and so unpopular that fewer than a hundred shipped before it was withdrawn. Two humbuckers, a string-through-body V-plate tailpiece and almost no upper-body mass give it a bright, tight attack with less of the Les Paul's midrange bloom, and the shape only found its audience once hard rock arrived a decade later.
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Genres this gear is documented as being used in.- surf rock
- Rock
- Hard Rock
- Alternative Rock
- Blues
- Metal
- bright
- tight
- transparent
- sustaining
- mid-forward