New Fenders

MikeM · 2011-01-08T20:32:38+00:00

I am really impressed with some of the Fenders coming out nowadays. Blacktop range, now these http://www.fender.com/products/roadworn/models.php?prodNo=0131082 Almost a perfect guitar. I think the 6 saddle bridge is a good decision on there part as the attack of the 3 saddle might be too distinctive for most players. If the bridge were a 5/2 with S1 switching or something it'd be a Fender that I'd buy and NOT mod. And the relicing is tasteful too, none of this gaudy psuedo gigged crap and it's a nitro topcoat so it'll prob wear pretty nicely too. Two thumbs up to Fender! If only they were cheaper in SA. P.s (Wasn't there a thread similar to this recently? Or am I going crazy? ?) Edit: Retailing at E1200, it might be a decent deal considering it comes stock with a Seymour Duncan and is a MIA nitro...

MikeM

singemonkey wroteAnd Mike, I don't think it's ok to call people with different preferences to you, "gear whores." It's like that tired BS assumption that people who own more than two guitars can't play a lick. It's crap.

It should have read "not just US gear whores" as I consider myself one. ?

singemonkey

MikeM wrote
singemonkey wroteAnd Mike, I don't think it's ok to call people with different preferences to you, "gear whores." It's like that tired BS assumption that people who own more than two guitars can't play a lick. It's crap.
It should have read "not just US gear whores" as I consider myself one. ?

Fair enough.

chris77

I liked the Roadworn Deluxe Tele more.
http://www.guitarguitar.co.uk/images.asp?image=102/10010615141229f.jpg
As cringeworthy as it might seem, this one is too subtle.... :-[
I know, I know - The whole relic thing is lame. (If i had the funds I would buy a properly done one in a flash btw, lame or not. :sorry? But if you're going to do it, give it some nelly.
Make it look like a guitar that's been around the world a couple if times, instead of just around the block.

nicovlogg

Whenever I see a guitar like that I just itch to remove those bridge saddles, get some metal polish, and polish the ashtray. ☹

singemonkey

I wasn't saying it was lame Chris77. I was saying that distressing a mass produced instrument is going to:

a) look really fake

b) have very little variation from one guitar to the next

There are one or two distressed instruments that give me GAS. Notably this one, which just wouldn't look the same all shiny and new:

A Verrilli with a mahogany neck ???. Love the distressed black with three nickle covered hums. That's a guitar that looks like it could have been issued to panzer commanders.

domhatch

Now, see, that just looks rock solid. And I mean rock solid. Never mind Panzer commanders, you could've dropped it out of a few bomb bay doors I know of...

singemonkey

domhatch wrote Now, see, that just looks rock solid. And I mean rock solid. Never mind Panzer commanders, you could've dropped it out of a few bomb bay doors I know of...

Ebony board too ?

Gearhead

who built mahogany necked triple bucker ebony boarded Strats when this was supposedly built? It's alright by me if someone makes an early sixties guit look half a century old but this is anachrony!

domhatch

Gearhead wrote who built mahogany necked triple bucker ebony boarded Strats when this was supposedly built? It's alright by me if someone makes an early sixties guit look half a century old but this is anachrony!

P'raps. But doesn't time travel (which is what these relic-type guitars are, really) result in anachronisms anyway?

singemonkey

Gearhead wrote who built mahogany necked triple bucker ebony boarded Strats when this was supposedly built? It's alright by me if someone makes an early sixties guit look half a century old but this is anachrony!

Well, since distressing a guitar is fantasy anyway, this is also alternative history, right? There's that famous Peter Jackson "documentary" about the discovery of cinema in New Zealand well before it's actual invention. Fooled the public (made them pretty mad when they found out though).

I can just see myself answering at a gig, "Verilli were an Italian company that made illicit copies of Fender Strats in the early '60s using a mixture of smuggled Fender and Gibson parts."

Nah, I wouldn't really. But it's all part of the fantasy, right?

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