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http://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/1012/newnamm-2015-fender-limited-edition-guitars/50440

Some I'd love, others not so much. The oiled Ash strat would go great with my tele, but I can't believe they couldn't do a better job of matching the three piece body, especially since it is a US model. My favourites are probably the Korina and Redwood teles.

Those Sandblasted finishes look intriguing, but the use of "topography" in the blurb says to me that they might be a bit bumpy...
    Some of those are pretty cute. The double cutaway Tele is kinda fun and will find some fans. Likewise the Tele on a Jaguar bod. I sorta like the 'shortboard' mustang except that, with a hard tail, it's not really a Mustang anymore.

    Lots of options for different tastes, but not as adventurous as their Pawnshop range from a couple of years back.
      Saw these a few days ago and I quite like some of them... Too bad they'll cost 90 000 a fret when they land here :-\
        Ebony fretboard on the Blackout strat...yes please! Reckon they could have gone a little further and blacked out the bridge, input jack, tuners & misc screws though. They've done a few Jim Root blacked out models Opeth regularly drools over, perhaps a little over the top for a US Strat though.

        Also digging the look of the oiled ash strat - though I couldn't help thinking that Wizard has been doing waxed finishes for a while now and (imho) I reckon that's the way forward...

          Perhaps its just me as a heretic, but as I looked through that (with the exception of a few tele's) I kept thinking 'oh look another strat, oh and another, and a tele.....'

          I get the whole idea that the strat is a classic, and don't mess with something that is 'right' (whatever that means), but personally I really am not taken in by any of these.

          Just my opinion, and if they work for you then great, I'm not hammering down on anyone who loves these. Just for me, I'd rather watch paint dry than look at more strats. ?

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            yes as you know i'm a huge fender tele fan............ but really it irks me when they offer a vintage 52 reissue tele ..BUT it's made out of an african wood.........grrrrr ..

            if it's a vintage reissue make it exactly that .... those are the ones that should be made from old reclaimed alder to be period correct ... vintage frets and wiring and neck shape and radius, wood types and pickups all perfectly period correct ....instead as far as i can see all the so called vintage reissues are actually modded to have modern specs......
              Big G wrote: Just my opinion, and if they work for you then great, I'm not hammering down on anyone who loves these. Just for me, I'd rather watch paint dry than look at more strats. ?
              I wouldn't be totally surprised if a lot of people at Fender agree. The world is seriously overStraturated. Fender are apparently concerned about a declining market - with about enough Fenders out there already that every guitar player in the world could have two and there'd be a bunch left over. I think Gibson is too, probably - accounting for their strange marketing and other behaviour recently.

              Keira, I'm basically with you. I reckon that these vintage years have become brands in themselves - referring to fretboard radius or types of saddles, or various things. So they feel justified changing one aspect and saying, "It's a '52 but!"

              Saying that, I do like a blacktop '58 reissue LP - and I don't think they made any in '58.
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