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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 4:15 pm
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What ever it might be, it has to have a Clapton neck carve. :wink:

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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Tue Jun 24, 2014 7:32 pm
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ZZDoc wrote:
What ever it might be, it has to have a Clapton neck carve. :wink:


This neck carve is unique to EC as it was fashioned after the neck shape from an old Martin acoustic he played extensively in the 1970s.

From what I see you're a huge fan of those neck profiles.


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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 4:23 am
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chromeface wrote:
ZZDoc wrote:
What ever it might be, it has to have a Clapton neck carve. :wink:

From what I see you're a huge fan of those neck profiles.

We're going on 7 years from the get-go in these pages and, of course, I know, that you've known all this time that, IMHO, its the best neck carve in the stable for my hand.

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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Wed Jun 25, 2014 8:22 am
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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 10:50 am
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I think the Vintage Hot Rods are pretty much the perfect guitars. They're a great combination of what was good from vintage Strats and whats good from now. I Really wish they'd come in more finish options though, for both maple and RW boards.
It would be really cool to see one of the rosewood ones in Shell pink, fiesta red, lake placed blue, etc……That would pretty much be the perfect guitar for me; I'm not sure why they're not more popular.



Price, and the market they appeal to in my opinion. As the more expensive part of the American Vintage line they generally lack one thing. Vintage specs. So, while I wholeheartedly agree that they are killer instruments and of the highest quality. The reality is that when I buy an American Vintage instrument I want a Fender that actually plays, sounds, looks and feels like an old school Fender. Basically the Vintage Hot Rod line is to the American Vintage what the Deluxe line is to the American Standard. The reality is that a lot of players who like the things that get done to these instruments might just rather save a few hundred dollars and get themselves all those bells and whistles on an American Deluxe. Or conversely. Someone like me might look at these and think they just spoiled what was a completely good instrument by messing with the neck profile or the bridge. (why fix what wasn't broken?).

So I think the market for these instruments is very, very small and the people who play them are usually very picky about what they play, I'd think. (ie: If you're picky enough to care about vintage pick ups, wiring harnesses and finishes. You're picky enough to worry about fret size, radius, neck shape and nut width) So the likelihood is that those people might be waiting for something that's right up their alley enough to take the plunge.

Honestly, in a production run instrument these things are about as close to the Custom Shop as you can get. All the quality of the American Vintage appointments with the high end bells and whistles. However, the people who would both appreciate them, and can likely afford them is probably a fairly small list.

As a bassist I'd just love to see the American Vintage basses get expanded. The fact that we can get a Vintage Hot Rod Split Coil with a J pup in the bridge, and a compound radius neck, but we can't get a Single Coil Precision Reissue in the American Vintage line is kind of crap, imo. They should be doing it just like the are with the Split Coils. The AV line has the 58 and 63 models now, and the Custom Shop is now making the 57 and 62. (that used to be available in the American Vintage Line) Why not have an American Vintage 51 Precision Bass and Keep the 55 in the Custom shop and then flip flop them in 5 to 10 years? Also, a Reissue of the old 70's Telecaster Bass II with a 74 Jazz bass pup in the bridge and the Fender Bucker in the neck would be a perfect addition to the Vintage Hot Rod line. Maybe one with a black bound and blocked neck and high mass bridge?

It seems Fender has been increasing the options and amount of low end product steadily and not paying as much attention to the products that should be their flagships. At least that's how it looks to me.



You make some pretty good points. The reason i said id consider the vintage hot rod starts are the perfect guitars is because I'm looking at things from a players perspective.
For example the 7.25 to 12" compound radius just makes sense. I love the vintage radius for chords, which are typically played on the lower frets of the necks….and then the fretboard flattens out which is perfect for soloing. the stability of the two point trem, locking tuners, versatility of S1 switching, even the nitro body is cool.
I do agree most people aren't thinking of it this way. most people who'd pay the price tag of the american vintage series are looking for vintage specs.
I think the previous hot rod series like the 62 stratocaster was more popular; it was also a bit cheaper so maybe the price of the new ones is a problem.

Even though Id like to have the specs of the vintage hot rod strats, at the end of the day it doesn't justify the price different from an american standard.
American standards are pretty much perfect guitars anyway. The 9.5 radius is the happy middle ground for chords and bends, and so are the medium jumbo frets.

I really like when fender does Factory Special Runs of american standards. An american standard finished in a nitro custom color with a slightly thicker neck would be pretty perfect.


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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Fri Jun 27, 2014 5:39 pm
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"Tell us about your dream Fender guitar and what you'd do to make it your own."

As for my dream guitar, without doubt it is a John Mayer signature stratocaster in olympic white. The moment i've tried one from a friend of mine, i knew that "that" was the one :)
Regarding what would i do to make it mine, i'm already doing it since a year ago! When i'm not studying, i'm washing cars at a garage near my home to earn some money. But earning 4€ per hour at a part-time (hard) job, hoping to buy a 2000€ guitar, i got to be sincere... sometimes i feel like giving up. It is too much :-/


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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Sat Jun 28, 2014 6:28 pm
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Fender using blue a lot more would be a good start.

The top line basses have sincerely boring colours.


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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Mon Jun 30, 2014 12:31 pm
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I already have a Maui Blue Stratocaster, so until the Lead Series and other Smith era stuff is reissued, I probably won't buy any new Fender gear.

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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Sat Jul 05, 2014 9:21 am
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"Tell us about your dream Fender guitar and what you'd do to make it your own."

My dream guitar was a mexican made white strat and I spent quite some time looking at classified ads hoping to find one of those rare gems that somebody wouldn't want no more and guess what? Well, I did find it and for a very, very good price. Here's the thing: i'm in Puerto Vallarta so then I had to travel to Guadalajara (6 hours bus ride each way) to meet this guy and then bring it home.

The funniest thing is however, that I also bought an Epiphone SG-400, which was my second dream guitar, and both from the same guy. Talk about a very good business trip!! I couldn't be happier with these two new toys. But the white strat was my dream guitar, I'm soooo glad that I was able to get me one, finally.

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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2014 7:45 am
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Hmmmm... since the bass of my dreams would simply be a 51 or 55 Precision in the American Vintage line. I'll take a crack at a guitar. It's still not buildable in the ADE as there are no nitro finished bodies. However, I'd like a Ash body Tele thinline with a cabronita pick up in the neck, Tele pick up in the bridge, Bigsby tailpiece, White Blonde Nitro with a 4 ply tort Cabronita guard and an American Vintage 52 Tele neck with vintage style locking tuners. That'd be pretty sweet.

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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:32 pm
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I really love this concept, but I wish that there were more options to choose from.


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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Fri Jul 18, 2014 5:00 pm
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Thinline Telecaster with a Bigsby tremolo.

Standard single coil bridge pickup
P90 in the middle (yes I'd have 3 pickups)
Stacked humbucker in the neck position.
24 inch scale.

Lotta you people wouldn't like it. But what the hey! This dream guitar is for me :lol:

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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Sat Jul 19, 2014 10:26 am
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I would like an AV Jazzmaster in Candy Apple Red and white pearloid pickguard with a 25 db boost like the Clapton and Guy sig models to the original electronics. I'd want a maple fingerboard with block markers, MoP not black markers.


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Post subject: Re: The Fender Guitar of Your Dreams
Posted: Mon Jul 21, 2014 8:25 pm
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The next two guitars on my radar are the Fender American Deluxe thinlineTelecaster and the new Fender Coronado ll reissue. What I love about these two guitars is, there's absolutely nothing that I will have to modify with either guitar as I like them with everything they have right out of the factory.

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Posted: Tue Jul 22, 2014 3:41 pm
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If I were to ever get back into playing Electric, I guess it would have to be a 1959 Sunburst Re-issue w/ a Maple neck & fretboard w/ Seymour Duncan Vintage style pups. But for now, I'm more than content with my Fender DG-20S Acoustic.


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