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Post subject: Re: Guitarmotel
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:55 am
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This is IT !!
It's the 100th Fender Custom Shop Guitar on our site ( yes, you read it: one hundredth)!!!
All different, from 1988 till 2013 !!
Hats Off to all the people working at the Fender Custom Shop since its ineption being still there or gone
It's definitely a great joy and pride for us, owners of these beauties to be part, although we are not American citizens, with our little input, to "safeguard" America's Best Mastercraft in Musical Instruments.
But, you can guess, it took a lot of time, patience, and money ( :oops: ) to catch these, which, for most of them, never surfaced on the internet.
We think it reflects the evolution of the Fender Custom Shop with a special view to its artistic side reflected in rare and seldom known guitars.
To celebrate the 100th, we wished to come down to the roots with the very first Limited Edition from the Fender Custom Shop: the Fender Stratocaster Homer Haynes Limited Edition (HLE) from 1988.
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Hey, more to come from our vaults of course... :wink:


Beautiful masterpiece, mon ami. :wink:

IMO this guitar would be perfect with the stock anodized pickguard and matching parts (including pickup covers and dome metal knobs, of course!).

Well, the Fender Custom Shop did it THEIR way... :roll:

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Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:13 pm
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Merci beaucoup, mon ami! Good job. Creating this wonderful collection for posterity, and sharing it with the world. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Guitarmotel
Posted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 1:45 pm
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Notre plaisir Doc,
Some work, indeed, but the pleasure to share...

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:02 am
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That is a lovely HLE Strat!


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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 1:50 am
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That is a lovely HLE Strat!

Thanks, yes mint condition...

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 6:52 am
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alainlafrance wrote:
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That is a lovely HLE Strat!

Thanks, yes mint condition...


Thing is, with something looking as pristine as that, I wouldn't dare to play it!

Great guitar - great collection. Thank you.


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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 7:13 am
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arth1 wrote:
alainlafrance wrote:
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That is a lovely HLE Strat!

Thanks, yes mint condition...


Thing is, with something looking as pristine as that, I wouldn't dare to play it!

Great guitar - great collection. Thank you.

We play all of them, still, some more often than others... :wink:
A guitar is made to be played not shown in a glass case...
it has to be tuned at least twice a year, potentiometers have to be turned from 1 to 10 regularly, the finish cleaned, it needs fresh air as much as possible, etc, etc...
This is called maintenance :D
PS Relics are perfect for gigs...
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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 8:43 am
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In your place I would see a video of yours SHOWING us the Jeff Beck signature Esquire in action!


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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:30 am
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Wasn't that the Normandy gig, or am I having a senior moment :?:

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:33 am
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Wasn't that the Normandy gig, or am I having a senior moment :?:


Normandy gig, one of the last ones...the age, mon ami, the age...

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 9:34 am
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In your place I would see a video of yours SHOWING us the Jeff Beck signature Esquire in action!

You see it, simply you don't hear it :D :D :D

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 10:40 am
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[quote="alainlafrance] Normandy gig, one of the last ones...the age, mon ami, the age...[/quote]

I hear ya!! Mon ami...If I had to 'shlep' out to Normandy from Paris and back to gig, I'd hang up my guns too. I did that trip last May. Folks reading this should know that it's at least a 2 hour ride via 'freeway' from center city.

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 11:29 am
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arth1 wrote:
alainlafrance wrote:
Butterscotch wrote:
That is a lovely HLE Strat!

Thanks, yes mint condition...


Thing is, with something looking as pristine as that, I wouldn't dare to play it!

Great guitar - great collection. Thank you.


Very much so, indeed!

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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:45 pm
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It appears that our friend Alain is a huge El Becko fan.


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Posted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 12:56 pm
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chromeface wrote:
It appears that our friend Alain is a huge El Becko fan.

From what we know of his personal collections, he's a huge fan of quite an assortment of artists, and maybe even El Greco :wink:

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