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What options would you like to see added to "Design Your Own"
More Body/Neck Wood Options 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
More Finish/Color Options 24%  24%  [ 8 ]
Inlay Options 12%  12%  [ 4 ]
Hardware Color Options 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Pickup/Preamp Options 30%  30%  [ 10 ]
5 String Option for Bass Guitars 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
More Pick-guard Options 0%  0%  [ 0 ]
More Bridge Options 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Customer Signature on Headstock Option 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
Top Wood Option 6%  6%  [ 2 ]
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Post subject: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 3:21 pm
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I personally like the idea of having a custom instrument. I'm pleased to see that Fender designed an online guitar configuration tool. I just recently ordered a custom guitar (SB5000) online from a California based guitar company due to the number of options available and the price at which they are selling. I have always been a Fender guy and I would love to configure and order a Fender bass guitar online. I would however like to see more options (more woods, finishes, preamp options, etc) added to the online configuration tool. What options would you guys like to see added?


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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:38 pm
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The fact that you can order what they bill as a "vintage style" instrument, but it doesn't come in Nitro finish is the deal breaker for me. Also, for the Precision Bass they should make more available than the stock pick ups. The guitars get the CS pick up options. Why not the P bass? The 57 RI, 62 RI and 59 RI CS pick up should be available, imo. If they actually allowed you to order the Nitro AVS custom colors and expanded the available pick ups I'd buy a ADE P bass this year. However, I won't spend that kind of money on a lower quality finish. There's no point.

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Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 5:54 pm
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Yes, more options for pups would be nice. I actually wanted Tex-Mex in mine.

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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 6:13 pm
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I played around with it the other day. I built a Telecaster that was way overpriced. I could have bought a Danocaster on the Gear Page for less. The options are limited and if I can't get a nitro finish on an ash body then you've lost me. I appreciate what Fender is doing but the're trying to market a product for full blown retail. This is just like the swag they sell in the Fender store. I can go to a local Fender dealer and find the same shirts and hats for a lot less.

If Fender wants to make this a viable part of their business which I think they should it would be smart to price this product more in line with their dealers. Prices for American made guitars have gone crazy the last 6 years regardless of the manufacturer. I cannot afford them anymore.


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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 7:51 pm
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Humbuckers would be nice.


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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Wed Mar 19, 2014 8:03 pm
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Yes, humbuckers.
People are buying other brand guitars not only because they feel other brands are better, but because Fender does not offer many humbucker choices. Humbuckers are like a red-headed stepchild to Fender, for some reason. Beats me why, because when they do it, they do it well (like the Seth Lover original wide range humbucker).
The HH configuration is pobably the most successful pickup configuration ever, yet there are very few choices from Fender. Which seems a shame.


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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:48 am
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arth1 wrote:
The HH configuration is probably the most successful pickup configuration ever, yet there are very few choices from Fender.


Why not HHH with coil tapping and splitting abilities?


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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:11 am
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There is a point here where Fender has to draw the line.... Yes the options are limited, but there is also the factor of these instruments are built by the main house, not the Custom Shop...
Various finishes and exotic bodies and multiple combinations are not going to be cost effective.
Pure and simple..... In addition there are certain options that are reserved for the higher end lines and Custom Shop.....
I'm actually pleased that Fender has finally offered separate necks and bodies as well as the options to have a guitar with some degree of personalization...
It's not going to be everything everyone wants but it is a progressive step.... 8)

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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:29 am
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53magnatone wrote:
There is a point here where Fender has to draw the line.... Yes the options are limited, but there is also the factor of these instruments are built by the main house, not the Custom Shop...
Various finishes and exotic bodies and multiple combinations are not going to be cost effective.
Pure and simple..... In addition there are certain options that are reserved for the higher end lines and Custom Shop.....
I'm actually pleased that Fender has finally offered separate necks and bodies as well as the options to have a guitar with some degree of personalization...
It's not going to be everything everyone wants but it is a progressive step.... 8)



That's not really true, though. In the case of the vintage series instruments they already do all these finishes. The American Vintage series has plenty of custom colors in Nitro. In a lean manufacturing environment this is known as scheduling exotics. What would happen is that people would place their orders with the understanding that there needs to be enough of a demand for a certain color (whatever their smallest work order number is) for the order to be run. So we'll pick a random number. Say 24 as most lean environments prefer multiples of 8. So when there are enough orders for Vintage series instruments in a particular color they get run. So when you get 24 Shell Pink orders, whether they be Precision, Jazz, Strat or Tele you run them. Generally you would schedule these at certain point in your build schedule. Say Friday afternoons. Depending on which orders for which colors you have you could even schedule them before and after corresponding AVS runs that use that custom color. So you'd finishing running your regular production run of 58 Strats in Shell Pink, the next series of orders would be your ADE Shell Pink vintage exotics for the week. Then you switch to the next exotic. Say your ADE Aztec Gold Vintage exotics, and then lead that right in to your 65 AVS Jazzmasters in the same color. This eliminates change over, and maximizes your flexibility. The addition scheduling is paid for by the old 5% upcharge that Fender used to charge in the 50's for custom colors. This is doable. So doable. There are businesses in every industry that do this. Everyday of the week. To me, and I'm betting to a lot of the vintage Fender lovers out there, this would be HUGE. I'd probably order a P bass every year if this was implemented. Especially since each year they could change the custom color options slightly.

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Post subject: Re: Design Your Own Options
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 6:47 am
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53magnatone wrote:
There is a point here where Fender has to draw the line.... Yes the options are limited, but there is also the factor of these instruments are built by the main house, not the Custom Shop...
Various finishes and exotic bodies and multiple combinations are not going to be cost effective.
Pure and simple..... In addition there are certain options that are reserved for the higher end lines and Custom Shop.....
I'm actually pleased that Fender has finally offered separate necks and bodies as well as the options to have a guitar with some degree of personalization...
It's not going to be everything everyone wants but it is a progressive step.... 8)


What's the point of building a guitar with the choices that are offered when I can buy one of those at Guitar Center? There aren't any incentives to having to wait 3 months for a plain guitar. I think that the build your guitar feature we become very popular when more options are added, but right now its just something to play around with in my opinion. There aren't too many advatages to buying a guitar using this tool. Fender has tons of colors/finishes on guitars that aren't made by the custom shop. As a matter of fact, how many custom shop guitars have you come across? Carvin has a number of options available when building a guitar online (that's why I bought one) and the guitars are reasonably priced. I'm not comparing Carvin to Fender, I'm just pointing out that having more options can be done. :D


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 10:11 am
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If "All the above" were a choice ...

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Can you choose no inlay?

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:23 pm
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chromeface wrote:
arth1 wrote:
The HH configuration is probably the most successful pickup configuration ever, yet there are very few choices from Fender.


Why not HHH with coil tapping and splitting abilities?


More pickups than needed kills sustain, even when not in use.
(Unless they're Lace pickups, which dampen the strings very little.)


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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:34 pm
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Soulstirrez wrote:

What's the point of building a guitar with the choices that are offered when I can buy one of those at Guitar Center? ....... As a matter of fact, how many custom shop guitars have you come across? Carvin has a number of options available when building a guitar online (that's why I bought one) and the guitars are reasonably priced. ......I'm not comparing Carvin to Fender, I'm just pointing out that having more options can be done. :D

....... Fixed .....

As for the Custom Shop ..... :?: :roll:
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It's a 56 NOS in case you cannot tell..

And No... You're not going to buy a " Design Your Own " @ Guitar Center.... Sort of pointless to ask for features and include a middle man....

Carvin.... I'm well aware of since the 70's, having played their guitars they are nice, but we here are kind of Fender biased....

Since this was in reply to your 6th post, perhaps you might want to click on the Introduction thread and try to be a bit less acidic in introducing yourself... :wink:

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Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:43 pm
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To TheKingOfPain.. I understand your point but I think Fender is trying to offer another avenue.
It's definitely not for everyone, is minimalist but then again, because of the numbers of potential customers, there isn't much sense in offering the same colors as the normal production runs...
That is not what this " Design Your Own " is, or at least seems to be ...

Yes there could be some tweaking and I think we'll see that eventually.... But we also need to keep in mind that as large as Fender Inc. is, minute changes are not up to just one person...
But perhaps Mike Eldred would be best in answering these types of Q & A's ... :wink:

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