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Post subject: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 1:37 pm
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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 9:53 pm
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You all are going to think I'm nuts...but I'd actually PAY Fender, to work at the Custom Shop.


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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:53 pm
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Yeah- it would be cool to go there and pay them to let me work there for a week. Like 500 bucks. They'd make a ton of dough off nitwits like us if they did that. I can change light bulbs or install some new faucets but I'm NOT going to unclog and toilets. They might enjoy having me around enough to offer me a job anyway--right? Maybe? Cool. :D


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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 6:37 am
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stroker vance wrote:
Yeah- it would be cool to go there and pay them to let me work there for a week. Like 500 bucks. They'd make a ton of dough off nitwits like us if they did that.

They'd pay a lot more in fines and lawyer fees, because that would break at least two federal laws.


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Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:04 am
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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 9:08 am
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stroker vance wrote:
Yeah- it would be cool to go there and pay them to let me work there for a week. Like 500 bucks. They'd make a ton of dough off nitwits like us if they did that. I can change light bulbs or install some new faucets but I'm NOT going to unclog and toilets. They might enjoy having me around enough to offer me a job anyway--right? Maybe? Cool. :D

Hm. It's the basis for an interesting idea.

I just paid A LOT to attend a short course at a cookery school run by a very famous chef in a nicely appointed room attached to the kitchens at his superb restaurant. It was really just a super-glamorous eating-and-cooking experience for enthusiastic amateurs, and a very handy, profitable side-line for the restaurant, judging by how much staffing and resources they happily put into it.

I also pay (in fact an amazingly reasonable price) to attend week-long summer school courses in violin-making at the Cambridge Violin Workshop ever year. This will be my fourth year, coming up. Again, partly but not entirely these courses are filled by enthusiastic amateurs who come from all over the world to learn top quality luthiery. There's no shortage of customers.

There's money to be made at this.

I wouldn't pay to be free labour for Fender - but I sure as heck would pay for, say, a week-long advanced guitar-making course at the Custom Shop lead by one of their Masterbuilders. There's nothing crazy about such a scheme: it could be good for all involved, and sure as eggs is eggs they'd have masses of applicants. I'd be at the front of the queue!

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Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 8:22 am
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stroker vance wrote:
Yeah- it would be cool to go there and pay them to let me work there for a week. Like 500 bucks. They'd make a ton of dough off nitwits like us if they did that. I can change light bulbs or install some new faucets but I'm NOT going to unclog and toilets. They might enjoy having me around enough to offer me a job anyway--right? Maybe? Cool. :D

Hm. It's the basis for an interesting idea.

I just paid A LOT to attend a short course at a cookery school run by a very famous chef in a nicely appointed room attached to the kitchens at his superb restaurant. It was really just a super-glamorous eating-and-cooking experience for enthusiastic amateurs, and a very handy, profitable side-line for the restaurant, judging by how much staffing and resources they happily put into it.

I also pay (in fact an amazingly reasonable price) to attend week-long summer school courses in violin-making at the Cambridge Violin Workshop ever year. This will be my fourth year, coming up. Again, partly but not entirely these courses are filled by enthusiastic amateurs who come from all over the world to learn top quality luthiery. There's no shortage of customers.

There's money to be made at this.

I wouldn't pay to be free labour for Fender - but I sure as heck would pay for, say, a week-long advanced guitar-making course at the Custom Shop lead by one of their Masterbuilders. There's nothing crazy about such a scheme: it could be good for all involved, and sure as eggs is eggs they'd have masses of applicants. I'd be at the front of the queue!

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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 6:55 am
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Yo Ceri! With all that in mind, you recall that the chief issue in the idea of the resurrection of the Fender University on site participation program seemed to be the matter of cost....a juice vs squeeze factor. What do you imagine Fender would ask for a week long luthier seminar?

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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2014 10:26 pm
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I'd say 3000 bucks.


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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Fri Feb 07, 2014 5:39 am
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stroker vance wrote:
I'd say 3000 bucks.

Sounds like a realistic Fender MSRP, but remember, this is The Custom Shop....kick it up another C-note or two. :?:

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Post subject: Re: Pix of the Custom Shop and Visitor Center
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2014 8:11 am
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I don't know...if I had three grand to spend I'd probably just buy 2 American Standard Precisions and maybe a Squier Classic Vibe P to go along with it. Now if I already was enriched in Fender Bass..then I'd pay to work at Fender for a week.


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