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Post subject: GA45SCE
Posted: Thu Aug 09, 2007 10:20 am
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This is my first post on the Fender Forum.

I have a GA45SCE. I've had it for about six years now and the finish is hardly worn in at all. I have a couple of dings in it and one of them is really good too. The tone from this guitar has really opened up over the years. This has been my go-to guitar since I bought and people who play it are surprised Fender has an acoustic this good. I think this is Fender's best acoustic.

The guy who sold it to me handled it recently for the first time in a few years. He used to own one as a backup and was impressed with the way the guitar sounded now. He said he would have kept his if he'd known the guitar would have opened up as well as mine has.

Anyone else own one?


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Post subject: Re: GA45SCE
Posted: Sun Jun 24, 2012 4:57 am
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Hey there, Jonzer. Looks like I'm a bit late to the party...

I have a special history with this guitar. From the moment I tried one out, I knew I was on to something special. It was an acoustic electric, that was an acoustic first, but also electric. Not one of these tinny thinbody parlour guitars that only sound good plugged in. It had the woods I wanted where I wanted 'em, the action was right, and the neck fit my hand as if it were made for me. More importantly, I just played better when I played this guitar. Better than I've played on guitars costing 3 times as much.

I bought this guitar around 2001 / early 2002. Unfortunately, this was short lived as I had to return the instrument in order to make bail - less than two weeks after I bought it. In retrospect, I should have just waited my time, but jail isn't really my scene.

A few years later when I'd finally saved enough money to afford another guitar, I knew exactly the guitar I wanted. It was 2004 right as the Korean factory was in the process of shutting down. Fender was out of stock, and on the edge of officially discontinuing this model - but after some insistence on my part they agreed to make one more for me if I was willing to pay full retail in advance (nearly double what I paid the first time), and wait a few months. I'm not one for delayed gratification, but I knew that I had to have this guitar. I agreed to their terms without hesitation.

The dealer waited until I arrived to open the shipping box. I was a bit surprised to see that there were no packing materials. No peanuts or polystyrene braces, no bubblewrap. Just a guitar case, packed in a box that was only just big enough to hold the guitar case.

I needn't have worried. The guitar case was built like a luxury Abrams tank: Bullet proof on the outside, soft and thickly padded on the inside, weighs about 60 tons. I opened the case in anticipation, and was greeted with a nearly overwhelming smell of adhesive. Some people might have been put off by that, but to me it signified that I was holding in my hands a guitar which was made explicitly for me.

This wasn't some bottom row music shop plank that had hung on the wall for months or years, being fondled by every out of work hack guitarist in town looking for ten minutes of free guitar time. This guitar came directly from the luthier's hand to my own.

This guitar is my Excalibur, and I wouldn't trade it straight across for a top of the line custom shop Stratocaster.

After 8 years, my opinion hasn't changed. This guitar has met every expectation. It looks as good as they day I opened the box - not a scratch on it, nor sign of wear. Don't get the impression I've left it sitting idly in its case. Time has only served to improve the sound. It sounds fantastic acoustically, and it sounds even better plugged in. The only way I can describe it is to say that it sounds professional. There's a richness and harmonic depth that you just don't find in other a lot of other guitars in this price range. And a lot of guitars in the higher price ranges are selling more mother of pearl and gold accents than sound. This is a player's guitar.

Maybe I've just been lucky. Lucky to have found the first one that played so well for me, lucky to have gotten the second one at all when it would have been easier for Fender to deny my request, lucky that they were both supremely well crafted instruments.

I don't think it's just luck, though. I think it points to consistency. For this guitar to be such a consistently good product from unit to unit is a matter of systematic dedication to a number of details - Design, sourcing and inspecting parts and materials, skilled luthiery and construction processes, finishing, quality control and testing, et cetera. It points to a top-down dedication to quality in the department that built these guitars.

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For the record, the glue smell went away after a few months.


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