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Post subject: ICEHOUSE Guitar
Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:00 pm
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Does anyone out there have any kind of info on Ice House edition Fender Squire Stratocaster?


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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:42 pm
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It was a giveaway, identical to the SSS Affinity with the exception of the ICehouse finish.

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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 5:58 pm
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I've seen one on Ebay posing by a pool and the guy relisted it a gazillion times...Don't know if he ever sold it. It appears to be a Korean made neckthru similar to the Showmaster series that is no longer manufactured. Here's a link to one on a Squier forum.
http://www.squier-talk.com/forum/squier ... strat.html


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Posted: Sat Jul 16, 2011 9:02 pm
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I haven't heard of the Icehouse Fender was it made to honor the group Icehouse?

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Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:22 pm
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I'm interested in this particular model which in fact was crafted (I guess that is a nice way of saying made in) in Indonesia. I don't know much about guitars however, I am interested in knowing if this is worth anything.


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Post subject: Re: ICEHOUSE Guitar
Posted: Sun Jul 17, 2011 7:45 pm
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You might want to consult a reference book like Vintage guitar price guide, Blue Book of Electric guitars, or even better see if you can find some completed listings on ebay.That will give you an idea of its value. These guitars were probably part of a Miller Brewing promotion or contest. They're not inherently more valuable because of the advertising unless a memorabilia collector is willing to pay a premium.


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Posted: Mon Jul 18, 2011 12:07 am
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A gas station/beer store nearby had a Squier Bud Lite Strat hanging up in a cool plexiglas frame outlined in neon.

Beer companies have them made and then give them to beer stores to use as displays. (It sounds expensive, but many of the neon signs they give away cost them more -- the neon frame I mentioned above was more expensive than the guitar.) Eventually the beer store owner wants fresh displays so he/she takes the guitar home or gives/sells it to an employee or customer.

The primary purpose of them is to be advertising signs, not musical instruments. So they're the bottom-end cheapest Squiers with vinyl graphics glued on the front. They aren't super rare nor particularly collectable. Whatever collector's value they have is as beer memorabilia, not as guitars.

They aren't any worse than a regular Affinity. If you want a cheap guitar that's a little unusual/distinctive they're fine. But don't pay big bucks and don't expect it to become super valuable years from now. (Of course no one expected Coca-Cola memorabilia would become as valuable as it has, but that's a fluke -- millions of companies have given away advertising stuff and the vast majority of it is near-worthless.)


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