Fender Rarities Collection Guitars

Three Barrels!!!! I read a lengthy post by Jerry Donahue which said "the three barrel bridge is still the best" and "You just have to accept intonation will be off."

WTF!!! Same mentality with cloth wiring - which wasnt better, but rather the only choice in the 50's...same deal with the ABR-1...
 
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Local guitar shop is an authorized Fender dealer, and have some of the Fender Rarities in stock. I can tell you that the pictures posted in the OP do not do these guitars justice. Ya gotta seem them in person.

Oh yeah... $2500 guitars!!!
 
chilipeppermaniac said:
I knew what Gball thinks too.

And Johnny Goo needs another O on his To
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It has always just seemed weird and wrong to me when they tart up Fenders. They're the ultimate widget...designed to be cranked out on an assembly line cheaply by low-skill workers. The most revered "vintage" Fenders were built by simple factory workers trained in a simple task. They could have been making toasters.

But now...OH...NOW, it takes a small, dedicated team of the World's greatest craftsmen and luthiers, scouring the planet for the finest raw materials, and applying meticulous attention to detail to try to recreate what a 19-year old Mexican girl with zero formal training did in 1962. Blah
 
Sp8ctre said:
We all know if it's a Strat GBall and Robert are not going to like it...

I don't care for most of them, but I do like this one...

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Well....now, I did play a Strat for many years, and - quite honestly - i think they are the most comfortable guitars to play.

I think it's that big, Gibson Les Paul sound that I could never get with a Strat and I must admit that the scale and string spacing feels odd...
 
Robert Herndon said:
Well....now, I did play a Strat for many years, and - quite honestly - i think they are the most comfortable guitars to play.

I think it's that big, Gibson Les Paul sound that I could never get with a Strat and I must admit that the scale and string spacing feels odd...
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My personal comfort nod goes to SG's. Compact, thin body with nice chamfers. Light and nible. Huge tone.

I find Strat bodies comfortable but don't like that they lack neck angle, and don't like the scale. I did have a period where I played Strats exclusively because of course nothing else sounds like them and that was the sound I needed for what I was doing at the time, but in the end when I went back to playing predominantly Gibson it was like going home.
 
Robert Herndon said:
Well....now, I did play a Strat for many years, and - quite honestly - i think they are the most comfortable guitars to play.

I think it's that big, Gibson Les Paul sound that I could never get with a Strat and I must admit that the scale and string spacing feels odd...
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It's okay that you have chosen your weapon to do battle with and it's a Gibson. But we all know you and GBall are just not Strat players these days.

I only have one LP style guitar now and it sits in a case. To be perfectly honest the main guitar I grab lately is my Taylor T5z. It's incredible!

12:30 for some electric sound...

 
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gball said:
My personal comfort nod goes to SG's. Compact, thin body with nice chamfers. Light and nible. Huge tone.

I find Strat bodies comfortable but don't like that they lack neck angle, and don't like the scale. I did have a period where I played Strats exclusively because of course nothing else sounds like them and that was the sound I needed for what I was doing at the time, but in the end when I went back to playing predominantly Gibson it was like going home.
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The Strat in my Avatar has a Warmoth Conversion neck, maybe you would dig it since it's Gibson Scale Length???
 
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