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Post subject: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Tue Aug 18, 2015 6:45 am
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I ordered my last CS guitar in 2013 prior to any of the more recent changes in the CS including management. I am considering ordering another guitar but want to make sure the quality and accuracy is still the same. Anyone ordered a CS since the changes? Are they still being made to the same quality? Thanks for any input!


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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Sun Aug 23, 2015 1:35 am
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Can't comment on the guitars. However, the number of posts on this forum have slowed to a trickle. :?

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Tue Sep 08, 2015 10:21 pm
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sgg63 wrote:
...Anyone ordered a CS since the changes?...


Well, if they did, it would be another, what, 2 years or more before getting it? Check back in a couple of years. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2015 9:26 am
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I too have noticed the posts are few lately with no wow factor to them. I am beginning to wonder what is going on with Fender! I am starting to lose interest in the brand and I am hoping that the winter Namm Show will have something this time, that will spark my interest to make a purchase. The last year or so for me had negative results in me wanting to purchase a custom shop Fender. I am keeping my fingers crossed! :D


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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Mon Nov 09, 2015 6:26 am
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Wonder if you'll hear from Mike Lewis regarding your point of view?

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Mon Nov 16, 2015 11:38 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
Wonder if you'll hear from Mike Lewis regarding your point of view?

We can hardly get a word in edgewise with all the communication from FCS...


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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 4:23 am
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arth1 wrote:
ZZDoc wrote:
Wonder if you'll hear from Mike Lewis regarding your point of view?

We can hardly get a word in edgewise with all the communication from FCS...

I'll drink to that.....as is your custom. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:28 am
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posting here is like throwing a message in a bottle in the ocean :roll:

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Tue Nov 17, 2015 7:57 am
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alainlafrance wrote:
posting here is like throwing a message in a bottle in the ocean :roll:

Wonder if Lewis is worried that he might wind up like Eldred if he puts too much effort into appeasing the proletariat customer base who pay their wages.

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2015 3:26 pm
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Well, I'll be getting my JS masterbuilt P-bass soon (it was shipped from US friday), so hopefully I'll be able to tell you the quality soon enough 8)


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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2015 7:38 am
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They're too busy sat in the office sniffing 100 dollar bills. They don't want to communicate with the foolish peasants that keep buying their guitars.


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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:42 am
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All the Fender discussion/ forum pages are slow. One of the first forums, fenderforum.com, really slowed down in the past 2 + years. I look from time to time around in these Fender forums and it's pretty much the same stuff over and over, maple vs rosewood, pickups, do you like relic or not...... I think we ran out of things to discuss.

If you want vintage correct, I found the new AV series really good. I own vintage and several CS MB (one-off) order Strats and I have to say I am really impressed with the AV guitars. I bought one of the 60th '54s and recently one of the '56 Strats. Great guitars and I found them on par with the CS stuff. Mike Lewis was in charge and he did a great job with them. You just have to look for the right one.
I really lost interest in the CS stuff. I don't like the real fancy stuff anyway and when it comes to vintage, well the AV series does it for me. The CS turns out mostly 9.5" radius fingerboards and the Relic thing got somewhat old for me. I am not against relic at all, but I finally like new looking again.


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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:27 am
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"I really lost interest in the CS stuff. I don't like the real fancy stuff anyway and when it comes to vintage, well the AV series does it for me. The CS turns out mostly 9.5" radius fingerboards and the Relic thing got somewhat old for me. I am not against relic at all, but I finally like new looking again."

You summed up my feelings to a tee, after getting a new AVRI, nothing else Fender offers interests me, and for quite some time CS was all I would own. Unless they add to the current AVRI line up I don't see buying anything new.


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Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 9:26 am
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my56strat wrote:
"I really lost interest in the CS stuff. I don't like the real fancy stuff anyway and when it comes to vintage, well the AV series does it for me. The CS turns out mostly 9.5" radius fingerboards and the Relic thing got somewhat old for me. I am not against relic at all, but I finally like new looking again."

You summed up my feelings to a tee, after getting a new AVRI, nothing else Fender offers interests me, and for quite some time CS was all I would own. Unless they add to the current AVRI line up I don't see buying anything new.


+1

I searched high and low literally for years before finding a CS "Closet Classic" Strat with the traditional 7.25" radius fretboard and vintage fret wire. Apparently they have to be specifically ordered as the CS routinely builds only 9.5" necks with "speed bump" frets.

I'm hoping that the AVS line will expand with more color choices for each of the model years that are represented. Ice Blue Metallic and Ocean Turquoise Metallic for the post-1961 Strats would be popular finish options......

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Post subject: Re: Hows the CS guitars since the recent changes?
Posted: Thu Dec 10, 2015 3:08 pm
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New colors would be great, didn't they say they would keep releasing new colors when they first came out with the new AVRI series? Never happened after the first limited colors-shell pink and a couple others , but at this point, a AVRI 56' strat with a correct 2 tone burst on ash body and a hardtail would be about the only thing that would really get my $$$. Maybe it's me getting older, or just where Fender has gotten as a company, but I now look at my 2 strats, and think...I can stop here, gas is gone!


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