Why are you a Fender player? Gibson is an equally established brand favored by many famous musicians, and their is quality well-known, PRS is an up-and-coming power player, and several other companies make decent guitars (Schecter, Ibanex, BC Rich, Minarik). So why do you play Fenders?

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Use the search tool.

Seriously, a lot of discussions on this topic!

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I have a Gibson LP, a Gretsch, a Fender Strat and Tele. The Fenders are more comfortable to me. The LP is heavy, I just like the feel of the Fenders better.

Gibson happens to be quite spendy. That's one reason. So is epiphone for that matter. I haven't seen a 700 dollar Squier yet, and I doubt I will.

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My b. I did a search for "why fender" and nothing was found. If it's an old topic (which I figured it would be, but didn't find it) we can just let it die.

It's cool. Good topic. Let me see, I like the looks, sounds I can get, the feel of the necks, ease of replacing parts, priced right for most folks,quality instrument, and I always wanted what my heroes used!! How's that for a start?

Personally, I love numerous things about Strats in general:
1) Very pretty, comfortable and playable
2) Great to modify and create "project guitars"
3) Huge tonal change from an HH Gibson to an SSS Strat

That being said, I still love my '79 Gibson SG alot, too ...

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Because Fender has not come up with recent brilliant innovations like Kiefer Sutherland signature guitars, robot guitars, swiss cheese guitars, dyslexic guitars, and fruitstripe gum technicolor dreamcoat guitars...

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Fender necks are much easier to play for me than Gibsons because I have stubby fingers and the Gibson necks are just a little too fat. Fenders are also within my budget, kinda. A thousand bucks for an american strat / tele or $2000 for a Les Paul Standard? No contest. They sound better for blues and clean. I love my strat and plan on buying many more.

I apologize if I sounded snarly, but I keep seeing the same questions and just thought it would be a good idea if more people knew how to use the search tool. Here's one of many :

http://www.fender.com/community/forums/ ... ght=choose

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The people who ride Harley Davidson bikes have a response for that kind of question. When someone asks them "Why Harley?" they respond, "if you have to ask the question you wouldn't understand the answer."

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Honestly, i have never played a guitar BESIDES my 1965 Univox HR-2 (which i'm about to modify and will post the progress on this forum) That has the feel of a Stratocaster body or neck.

Gibson has their dimensions, and i just don't have the feel for them. Body contour, weight, and maple fretboard have a lot to do with it as well. You just don't get that with other brands. Fender also has 6 different neck profiles.

I wanted to learn to play guitar so I figured, if I bought a good "brand name" like a Fender, then I would be removing at least one obstacle to learning to play well. And I think the MIM Stratocaster offers about the best bang for the buck when talking quality entry-level electric guitars. It feels good in my hands and I love the sounds I get with it. It's hard enough to learn by yourself without having a guitar that plays like a kazoo.

Besides... it's just cool as all heck to watch TV and see some guy like Clapton on stage playing a black Stratocaster and being able to look across the room at my own.

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