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Post subject: An Open Letter to Fender
Posted: Mon Oct 01, 2007 5:19 pm
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October 1, 2007

To: Fender Musical Instruments


RE: Recently Purchased Vintage Reissue '62 Stratocaster


Dear Fine Folks at Fender,

I have purchased many Fender guitars, ranging from the MiM Standard Telecaster to a Custom Shop Showmaster, and pretty much everything in between.

At my local store recently, I tried an absolutely beautiful Ocean Turquoise '62 Stratocaster and was floored. No way, I thought, could this guitar sound this good. So I unplugged and went to a more middle of the road amp. Nope: sounded just as good.

Naturally, I bought the guitar.

At home, knowing that it had come straight out of the box the day before, I grabbed my tools and prepared to do a setup. First I checked the neck, then the string height, then the intonation, then the height of the trem above the body. Then I sat back, dumbfounded. Everything was exactly to spec. Absolutely incredible. My sales guy assures me the only thing he did was tune it.

I wanted to compliment the actual guys in the factory who made this guitar, but figured that would be difficult to do (from the tag: Prep by N. V.; Assembly by M.I.; Tune/Test by CS; Inspector S.P.), so I thought I would write this letter. This is simply the finest guitar I have ever played.

Well done! Whoever Fender has working in the American Vintage part of the line, keep those folks! My #2 is a '62 RI Telecaster, and I have the '62 Jaguar on layaway. If all the '62 American Vintage Reissues play this good, I'll be getting the Jazzmaster too!

Sincerely,
Ed


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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 10:29 am
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Ed: thanks so much for taking a moment to share this story with us. There's nothing quite like the satisfaction of owning a quality instrument, eh??

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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:39 pm
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Brad Traweek - Fender wrote:
Ed: thanks so much for taking a moment to share this story with us. There's nothing quite like the satisfaction of owning a quality instrument, eh??


Well... I could tell you a story about a date a had with my first wife back when we were in high school together.... but leaving that aside: Yep. :mrgreen:


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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 12:51 pm
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Fender, I also want to thank you for my Highway One. Okay, my Highway One wasn't set up exactly to spec, because the bridge pickup was too low, and the truss rod is a little bit too tight causing a nice low action but some unamplified fret buzz on frets 5-7 due to the fact I pick pretty hard. However the bridge was set up right at a 1/8" float, no fretting out, no intonation problems with the guitar going out of tune as you fret the strings, or any of those nightmares. So I want to thank Fender for setting up my Highway One so it is essentially superior in design and executed well, and making it so adjustible that whatever isn't just right gets fixed easily by me as I set up the guitar perfectly the way I want it. Merging my efforts and preferences into the guitar as I set it up, along with playing the heck out of it, makes the guitar mine.

I had a guy tell me he doesn't play his Strat today, just playing an Ibanez Vai, because it's got a thin neck and a wide fret board and blah blah blah. So easy to play, he says, but I learned on a Strat. Ibanez?! Are you freakin' kidding me? I mean what do you say to it? Pal, put away the Ibeniz and get a real freakin' guitar. He kept telling me he sucks and I didn't believe him but now. . . if you can't play a Highway One Strat then where's the hope for you. When Clapton and Mayer and Buddy Guy and Robert Cray and Sambora and Stevie Ray Vaughn and Jeff Beck switch to Ibinfez I'll learn to speak Japanese but I won't switch to Inbigfez. for just a bit over $500 at Guitar Center you can get a real Fender Stratocaster Highway One that is a beautiful music machine out of the box. I swear these music store "luthiers" with their fret jobs are slandering Fender's reputation with all these guys who don't know you may need to adjust the truss rod to your style of play. It kills me. Fender is the original and still the best. Gibson, okay, not my style but who can argue with it, Inabigfez is too too much - it's a freakin' clone pal, a freakin' clone! Why not a Dean.

Also, Fender, thanks for the Blues Junior. The combination of my Highway One and Blues Junior is too incredible for my ears to even comprehend. The Blues Junior is a totally versatile little combo and all you have to do is turn the freakin' knobs to get any sound you want.

And that's all I've got to say about that.


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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:05 pm
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I too want to express my gratitude,admiration and respect for the wonderful people who work for the Fender Musical Intruments Corporation. I've never owned an FMIC product that I would rate as less than superb.And at such modest prices!
YOU ARE THE BEST! :P

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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 1:09 pm
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Fender = Fine Quality Instruments 8)

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Posted: Tue Oct 02, 2007 5:24 pm
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Ya know, if you think about it, Fender changed the blues. Before the strat came along the blues was played on the old, huge, jazzboxes from the 40's and 50's. Great tone but they are one trick pony's. Then came the strat and the genre was transformed.

Because of Fender the blues became rock. No strat, no Jimi. No SRV. The tone and the style we know as blues rock wouldn't exsist in it's current form. This deserves a huge THANK YOU FENDER!

Also, thanks Fender and Eric Johnson for making the finest production model solid body guitar ever made......and keeping it affordable!!

If Gibson was making the EJ strat they'd be charging 3 or 4 thousand dollars for them.

Thanks!!

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