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Post subject: Components Quality
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 10:25 pm
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Some Fender clone makers offer upgraded components, like those from Callahan Guitar Parts, and I wonder if the Fender Custom shop uses higher grade hardware in its guitars as opposed to the hardware used on non custom shop instruments. Or even different grades between Team Built and Master built.

For example the Callahan site's pitch includes this bit:

"When the vibrato bridge was first designed in 1954, it had a machined steel inertia block for the simple reason it gave the instrument the required sustain and harmonic content. Over the years, manufacturers have continuously made this part more inferior in order to cut costs."

That site goes on to boast that all their tremolo blocks are made from:

"cold rolled non-leaded U.S.A steel"

I am a very skeptical cat about people's claimed ability to hear tonal differences caused by specific guitar parts. Unless one can tell the difference in a properly conducted blind test, it's no sale with me. I am not out to kill the joy of those who talk of sustain for days and such glowing reports after changing a small guitar part; fun is fun even if imaginary, and that it's a different discussion anyway, but I am curious about the difference in grade of materials used in any.

There is a review out there on the Callahan bridge plus screws and all, and the reviewer sounds so certain that such bridge is so superior tonally to the original on his Strat, which was, I guess a perfectly good part.

Anyway, is the CS hardware "better" than other non CS hardware?

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Post subject: Re: Components Quality
Posted: Fri Feb 11, 2011 11:28 pm
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We use 1018 CRS on the same machines, with the same jigs, etc. Same as 1954. Check it out.

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