If you ever work your way over the mississippi, Igot 2 cold Coronas and we make some of the best chicken enchaladas youll ever taste ,it would be a pleasure to meet you doc.

I'll drink to that It's on my bucket list along with trip to a certain castle in Scotland. Hope that 'guitar' is still there when I arrive.

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You want my advice? Save up an Extra 800 and get a Gibson Les Paul, If fender wants to play these price games show them you will rather go to a different company than to be coned into buying their Guitars.

Fenders in no way should even be worth over 1,000 dollars.

You can now get a Gibson Les Paul for the price of a Fender stratocaster deluxe.

Are you on commission or what?

"Illegitimus non carborundum" mate!

It's just another 'opinionator' awaiting admission to the 'get real' world. Often wonder about the etiology of these passions.

Every producer in the industry in off-shore production making their own versions out of 'mystery wood'...Gibson in particular, under two 'marks'...theirs and Epiphone... this digruntled voice is soapboxing what he thinks a Fender guitar's price point should be.

I'll retire to bedlam

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What he should have said is You can get a Deluxe Strat for about 300 less than a Gibson Les Paul Standard.

Actually, what he should have said was a lot less than he did.

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+1

What price increase?

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