The ratio of "Guitars Made For Girls" to "Guitars That Are Not Necessarily Made With A Specific Gender In Mind" is grossly disparate, but Daisy Rock is always working to level the playing field. They've just announced two new guitars in their Rock Candy Special line: the Honey Velvet and the Purple Velvet.

The Honey Velvet and Purple Velvet are basically just new finishes available for the Rock Candy Special, previously only available in pink. Pink, as you know, is the most "Female" of colors, followed by Purple, and then Honey. The new guitars, then, would seem to represent a step away from Daisy Rock's guiding principals, aesthetically anyway. Of course, what do I know: I've got a Y chromosome. I'm imperfect.

The new Rock Candy Specials do, however, cleave to the company's construction dictum, and both guitars feature light weights and slim, fast necks. The figured, quilted maple top cohabitates with a sycamore body, which -- not to cast aspersions of relative normativeness -- is a rather unorthodox coupling. The more traditional neck is rock maple, with a rosewood fretboard.

The electronics on the Rock Candy Special deliver the Rock in the ax's moniker (Lewinski). A pair of Duncan Designed HB-103 Humbuckers kick out the jams while a master tone-tap yields sparkling, single-coil sheen for the ultimate in tonal diversity. The hardware brings home the bacon with a Tune-O-Matic bridge and Grover tuners; it's the perfect balances between excitement and stability (which is what every woman wants or so says my significant other).

Finally, Daisy Rock are aware of the completely unjust wage discrepancies between genders; did you know that the average American woman earns 67¢ for every dollar a man makes doing the same job? That's why Daisy Rock only charges 67% what they could if they were marketing towards men! Rock Candy Special guitars are only $499 street!