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Post subject: Dream up your Custom Shop Fender!
Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 9:44 am
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If you could have a Custom Shop Fender made and cost was not part of the equation, what would you get?

Here's my choice:

Solid mahogany body, set maple neck Jazzmaster in Sherwood Green, mint green pickguard. Tune-o-matic bridge-Jazzmaster tremolo w/ Seymour Duncan JB/Jazz pickups (w/ coil tap), Schaller locking tuners, mother of pearl dots on a ebony fretboard. Basically a perfect marriage of Fender and Gibson guitars!

Let us know what you would get!


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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 1:07 pm
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it would be a koa tele body with a flamed maple tele c shaped neck with jumbo frets. it would have no pickguard, gotoh tuners, Banjo Tuner with locking Dropped D bone nut, Bigsby Wang Bar, and pearl white with metalic orange flames.

I want to put a SD Antiquity in the Neck and a Strat SD Antiquity in the mid, and a Lindy Fralin Blues in the Bridge. I want the tone pot to have a bypass switch so you get the pu's true signal. also a push pull vlume pot for out of phase. I think that covers it......


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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:13 pm
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I'd get a Cruz-built closet classic 1962ish Hotrod Stratocaster. Alder body, cherry Burst color, thin undercoat for resonance. Custom Shop pickups specified to be similar to Texas Specials set low, but without the overly prominent g string (not really a problem but why take anything off the shelf). Flamed maple neck. Dark rosewood fretboard with 22 frets, because I like the tone and I use the frets. Medium jumbo frets or jumbo frets after I try both out to decide. Wide string spacing similar to the current American Standard. 9.5 inch neck radius for good chords and lead. Mother of pearl dots. One of the Custom Shop's excellent bone nuts. Custom knobs - something like the Muddy Waters Telecaster.

That's really similar to my current Hotrodded Highway One that I play right now. Man, I love that bendy little tone-filled guitar.


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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:42 pm
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Surf Green Ash Thinline Stratocaster, Tortoise Shell Pickguard, One Piece Rosewood Neck /w Maple Skunk Stripe, 22 Medium Jumbo Frets, Abalone Dot Inlays, Gold Dome Pickup Covers, Gold Gnarled Tele Knobs, 7 way Pick Up selector with the button for the Bridge Pick Up (like the Deluxe Players Strat), Gold Vintage Style Tuners, Gold Two Point Synchronized Trem, The jury's still out on Pick Ups. Lace Sensor (Red bridge, Gold Middle, Blue neck), Vintage Noiseless, Texas Specials, Tex-Mex, or custom wound '69's. strat58cat and flamekaster got me looking into the vintage pick ups.

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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 5:57 pm
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Hello Secretsoundz,

Well I'd like to have the Custom Shop
remake me a Starcaster, no relicing

Cheers.


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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 6:30 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 28, 2008 7:16 pm
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mine is really simple


Id want a 3 color sunburst stratocaster with telecaster volume controls


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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 6:27 am
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In Honor of Opening Day (Baseball, for those outside of th USA), I suggest;
One Piece "Oval Shaped" Hickory Neck, with Louisville Slugger logo branded over 9th fret
Ash body with choice of Baseball Bat stains, like Walnut, Cherry, Hickory, Ebony, or Brown.
3-ply White/Red/White pickguard, to represent the Baseball and its Laces.
Chrome Hardware
Vintage Tremelo
Vintage Tuners
Special Wound Pick Ups with a catchy Baseball name

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Posted: Mon Mar 31, 2008 8:58 am
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Last week I said:

"I'd get a Cruz-built closet classic 1962ish Hotrod Stratocaster. Alder body, cherry Burst color, thin undercoat for resonance. Custom Shop pickups specified to be similar to Texas Specials set low, but without the overly prominent g string (not really a problem but why take anything off the shelf). Flamed maple neck. Dark rosewood fretboard with 22 frets, because I like the tone and I use the frets. Medium jumbo frets or jumbo frets after I try both out to decide. Wide string spacing similar to the current American Standard. 9.5 inch neck radius for good chords and lead. Mother of pearl dots. One of the Custom Shop's excellent bone nuts. Custom knobs - something like the Muddy Waters Telecaster.

That's really similar to my current Hotrodded Highway One that I play right now. Man, I love that bendy little tone-filled guitar."

I forgot a couple of things. Thanks chemobrain. I would get a countoured heel for easy access to the upper frets. I would get chrome Shaler locking tuners because I'm not really very good at wrapping the strings (although it works). If the new brass-steel bridge plate going into the body from the new American is really better, I would want that. I would have five springs in the vintage, chrome tremolo system. I would have the entire body shielded with the best material - copper or whatever is best. I've seen Hamer is doing shielding at the factory and so the Custom Shop can do that also. Not that hum is really a problem with the Texas Specials now, but this is cost-is-no-object stuff. That's about it.


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