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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 12:29 pm
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That's easy, this Christmas I got an original 1951 Precision Bass. And with a neck date of 12/17/51, it may have been a Christmas gift for the original owner, too.
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Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 8:24 pm
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A Merry Christmas for you affprod ! You must have been very nice this year ! :D

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Sun Dec 28, 2014 10:46 pm
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affprod wrote:
That's easy, this Christmas I got an original 1951 Precision Bass. And with a neck date of 12/17/51, it may have been a Christmas gift for the original owner, too.
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Holy cow!!! Merry Christmas indeed!!! What a beaut.


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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2014 8:02 am
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Fender certainly has gone through some interesting evolutions in bridge/vibrato designs. :shock: By date, this guitar had to have been built early on in the resurrection of the company. They were building limited numbers of the Vintage Reissue series in the states. Do you happen to know if your guitar was built in Japan?

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:13 am
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Fender certainly has gone through some interesting evolutions in bridge/vibrato designs. :shock: By date, this guitar had to have been built early on in the resurrection of the company. They were building limited numbers of the Vintage Reissue series in the states. Do you happen to know if your guitar was built in Japan?

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My only Christmas Fender gift ever was my 1986 MIJ Stratocaster


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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2014 6:37 am
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ZZDoc wrote:
Fender certainly has gone through some interesting evolutions in bridge/vibrato designs. :shock: By date, this guitar had to have been built early on in the resurrection of the company. They were building limited numbers of the Vintage Reissue series in the states. Do you happen to know if your guitar was built in Japan?

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My only Christmas Fender gift ever was my 1986 MIJ Stratocaster

:oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: :oops: Must have read that one with my bad eye.
Have to admit that I did see something unusual about that bridge. Now I have to go buy him lunch. :?

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Thu Jan 01, 2015 7:15 am
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Hi Doc,

Happy New Year!

Even in late 1986, new American Strats were hard to find and much more expensive than their Japanese counterparts. I'd been away from guitars for several years and had no knowledge of the issues Fender and Gibson were facing in the mid-'80s.

In 1992, my son bought a Mexican Strat and it cost less than my '86.


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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2015 5:28 am
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[quote="affprod"]That's easy, this Christmas I got an original 1951 Precision Bass. And with a neck date of 12/17/51, it may have been a Christmas gift for the original owner, too.

Wow!

On the polar opposite of the price range. This was little early...

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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:15 pm
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My favorite Fender Gift would be an update to the Fender Fuse Software....!!!!!

OK. My wife gave me the Fender Squier guitar for Christmas 2013. After that my gifts to me were the Mustang III and the EVH 5150 III. Both great amps, and after fixing the sharp fret ends, the Squier guitar plays great.

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 3:23 pm
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Easy, the 60th Anniversary 50's Classic Player my wife bought for me recently :)

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Posted: Thu Jan 08, 2015 8:20 pm
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My favorite Fender Gift would be an update to the Fender Fuse Software....!!!!!


You might as well wish for a 30th anniversary model of the Fender Katana, or a 50th anniversary model of the Fender Rhodes Suitcase..

I think this thread was meant to list gifts that actually happened, or at least were somewhat realistic wishes, not just technically possible.


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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 9:28 am
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On Christmas Eve, I bought myself a pair of Fender Expo powered speaker arrays. That's 22 speakers, 11 per unit. Each box has one 1" tweeter, four 3" upper-midrange drivers, four 3" lower-midrange drivers, and two 6.5" woofers. The woofers are angled up and down in a box that sits on the floor with a perfect handle on top near the front edge, and the rest of the speakers are in a column that easily stabs into the top of the woofer box for simple setup.

They are pretty enough that my wife, who hates technology, likes having them on either side of her upright piano as eye candy, so I don't have to pack them into the closet with the rest of my gear. They are versatile enough to use as a great home stereo with an iPod or CD player (using the RCA inputs). They sound great even when turned down low enough to be background music.

And when cranked up loud enough to fill a decent sized dance hall (using the XLR inputs), they still sound clean and clear with no clipping. The sound coming out is as clear as the signal going in, even at full volume. And then there's that magical cheating on the inverse square rule. With normal speakers, twice as far away is half as loud. With these, twice as far away is almost as loud as twice as close.

Unlike most speaker arrays, this one has pretty good bass sound. I still use a subwoofer when I do techno stuff, but for acoustic music, it's perfect just like it is.

One, placed in a corner, aimed at the opposite corner pretty much covers a whole room. If you want stereo sound, two will give you that, and double the potential size of the room you can fill with sound. A bigger venue could use a third one in the middle, maintaining stereo left and right while the middle combines them for mono clarity. Each has a left and right input, combined for the sound coming out of the box, but kept discrete for the pass-through outputs. Daisy chain in creative ways to your heart's content.

No speaker stand, implying no shoving a heavy speaker up the pole, and no connector or control out of reach while the speaker is set up. It sits on the floor and reaches to about 6'-5". No excessively heavy lifting. Base and tower together weigh 52 pounds, and I carry them separately. Easy to store. Easy to transport. Easy to set up. Easy to control while set up. Lovely to look at and to listen to.

What's not to love?


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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 1:14 pm
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What's not to love?

Only because you asked:
- No pan knob, so with multiple units, you have to use a mixer. Likely not a big problem.
- Somewhat weak volume, according to some reviews.
- In all honesty, 2x6.5" should not be called subwoofers like Fender does. Those two will move about the same amount of air as a single 9" speaker with the same travel. If there's a bass player in the band, he might not be satisfied with that. But you have a sub, so there should be far less problems.
- No corner/edge protection and no cases. So you may want to handle them with care, i.e. always do it yourself.
- Made in you-know-where.

But the linear placement is good, they're small enough for wives not to hate, and the price is really nice. If what you play isn't too bass heavy nor needs really high volume, I'd say you got a nice system there.


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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Tue Jan 13, 2015 11:37 pm
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I grew up playing my dad's '66 Mustang and this old Princeton Blackface amp from roughly 1967. A few years ago, I went home for Christmas with the wife and kids and my dad pulled me downstairs within 5 minutes of getting home. He gave me that Mustang and amp for Christmas that year! By far the coolest gift I ever received. More importantly, it was a great moment with my dad I'll never forget. Burn the house, sell the cars, get rid of the computers and iPads....I don't care. I want that guitar. :)

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Post subject: Re: What's Your Favorite Fender Gift?
Posted: Wed Jan 14, 2015 5:38 pm
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I combined a bunch of gift cards to get a Mustang III v1 (when that was still the current version). Still enjoying my uber-versatile amp. :D

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