I have just realized that I am a Fender purist! I know a lot about guitars, and I am always learning more (about different brands, various processes of making guitars, parts of guitars...) and I always end up wanting another Fender! I like Charvels and Squiers as well, or anything that comes from Fender really. But I am more of a traditional kind of guy, so I choose Squier over Charvel. And then again, I want Fender! I don't want Ibanez, Gibson, Aria (they are awesome guitars to their own right), but man, I need a Fender!!! Single coils, Fender decal, Fender bell-like sound! I don't need no copies! All I need is a good old strat! No Floyd Rose, no roller nuts, no major modifications! A TRUE FENDER!!!
So feel free to share your passion for Fender! Express your feelings!

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you can save the world with your guitar one love song at a time it's just better, more fun, easier with a fender solid body electric guitar or electric bass guitar.

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Fender Stratocaster (parts build)
Fender Telecaster 72 Custom RI
Fender Telecoustic Deluxe
Gretsch Electromatic Pro-Jet
Gibson Les Paul Standard Plus
Gibson ES-135
Zenith Type-17
Marshall 70's JMP Superbass 100w
Blackstar HT-5

Aww man, you just reminded me. I had to let 2 Charvels go this year because I didn't have the money for them. Damn shame. Both of them felt and sounded so smooth and solid, but back on the shelf they went.. I think one of them is still in a pawn shop on Las Vegas blvd.

$329 !!!!!!

Beautiful guitar man..

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I think most of us here share your feelings about Fender.

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"My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives." Blazing Saddles...

+4 Fender kicks a... What can I say it is pretty much what it is and people including me love Fender guitars tha same way since their insception in fifties.

I have three Fender strats, however I am currently GASing for the Gibby LP. I need one for some other sounds.


BTW.. Pozdrav is Toronta

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Being able to play and enjoy music is a gift that's often taken for granted.

Don't leave home without it!

Pozdrav i tebi! Ceo svet voli Fender izgleda!

Fenders are the only guitars I own and play!!!!

in 30 years of playing, I used pretty much everything with srtings attached - and always always come back to my first love, a fender strat. (although I'm currently looking at a tele. Love is a fickle freind...........)

Fender player 100% here. WHen I first started playing I tried all kinds of guitars, none of them is the same as a FENDER! Once I get my Guild acoustic I'll be all set!

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I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too.

They say less is more, thank god 'cause I really don't know more.
I usually play clean, except on some classic hits where I use a tube screamer, boss blues driver and a dunlop wha wha pedal. my main axe is an 06 american ash deluxe tele, butterscotch blk pickguard, 07 american standard strat ash sienna burst and a 95 mex tele, blonde blk pickguard with a gibson humbucker in the neck position. My amps are a 74 twin reverb, 74 pro reverb, hot rod deluxe and a blues Jr. I get compliments on my tone all the time, thanks to my fender gear. I'm a lead guitarist in two bands, spaz kat ( classic hit cover band ), and The bluez doctorz. Picked up the guitar again after a 25 year break in 2006, due to work, family, etc.,. Never again! Now I need to learn to control my Fender G.A.S. God bless Fender.

I'm the 1st to say I absolutely adore Fenders but there are many other fine guitars that can add different colors to your musical palette.I just love my Eppy John Lennon Casino,my Guild S100 SC and my Vox Phantom XII no Fender can replicate their unique tones just as they can't nail the Fender tone.As a musician who plays different genres of music I like to have widely varied tones at my disposal.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

Well nothing feels like a fender. I fully understand love for charvel. They started out as a replacement fender parts company.

That said I always like to have something else hidden under the hood of my strat, that then has to go into a marshall.

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No no and no

The first electric guitars I have seen in my life were a blue Fender Stratocaster from 1962 and a Nocaster, standing next to a Gretsch White Falcon. I liked the Strat better than the Falcon and the Nocaster was my favourite of the three.
Some years later I discovered the Music of Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton and wanted to become a guitarplayer. Years went by and one day I was on a flea-market where I could aquire some parts from several old bassguitars that turned out to represent the famous P-Bass type. The pickup and electronics even came from an original Fender Precision Bass. The rest were parts from cheap japanese copies from the 70s. I went home with two plastic bags full of bass guitar parts and decided to build a fretless bass out of these and try to learn playing it. The ash body came in a shabby orange finish. I stripped it down to the bare wood and refinished it using expensive watercolours and 11 layers of clear acrylic laquer which I all sanded down after they had dried, thus getting an extremely thin and smooth, silky finish. After assembling the bass I put a warning label that I had ripped from a broken japanese CD player on the pickup cover, strung the bass guitar with Rotosounds and tuned it and adjusted everything.
As a result I got a very unique DIY-Frankencaster Bass that just nailed the sound the old Originals from Fender are so famous for - punchy, growling Rock delight! For around 30$!
Here it is:
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Unfortunately the strings are eating up the fretboard quickly, so I`ll replace it with an original Squier or Fender Precision Bass asap.
The first two affordable electric guitars I really liked because of their sound, looks and playability were korean Stratocaster and Telecaster copies - I`ve always been gassin`for the real thing, but being offered two nice guitars who cost me less than a MIM standard Strat or Tele - I couldn`t refuse this offer.
So I got my first fenderish experience via some decent asian copies that of course couldn`t fully keep up with the Originals from Fender but made me grow fond of that classic Fender sound even more.
I also loved their amplifier sound, but the high prices put them out of my reach, I was still a Teenager and at school, so I just couldn`t afford my dream guitars and amps from Fender. The first Fender amp I bought was a small Mini Deluxe practice amp, followed by a G-Dec Jr. Inbetween I was able to build myself a `58 Fender Champ type practice amp that has become my favourite practice amp by now.
The latest addition to my Fender addiction was an original Fender Telecaster - my first real Fender guitar!
Now I still need a Fender P-bass and a Stratocaster to complete my collection of Fender essentials!
I would call Fender the musical love of my life.