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Post subject: Hi from the Netherlands
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 4:47 pm
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Hi all,

A big Hello from Purmerend (near Amsterdam) in the Netherlands .
I've enjoyed reading (a percentage of) these forums for a while now, learning a few things about Fender guitars and occasionally drooling over the pictures. Thanks for that!

Recently, I finally bit the bullet and splashed out on my very first, long coveted, Fender Custom Shop Stratocaster. Cunningly, I sold it to missus as "I will only once buy such an extravagantly expensive guitar" :lol: She was still shocked by the price tag... haha... so I guess the Tele & Gibson LP may have to wait for a bit.

I've been playing guitar on and off for over 30 years, and I'm still no good -some would say-. :shock:
I own a few electrics: a quirky, but lovable, pearly white -now yellowish- 1987 Epiphone by Gibson S-800, a transparent black 2007-ish Epiphone Les Paul Prophecy EX and a DIY project superstrat clone that still awaits a playable neck (original is warped and the cheap, second-hand replacement I bought turned out to have a split fretboard) :cry:

Additionally, I have some semi-acoustics (Ibanez EWN30 nylon string & Samick steel string D5) and some acoustics (Yamaha 'Classical Spanish' nylon, Ibanez 12-steel string, which is really hard to play).

For fun, my collection of 30+ years further includes a cute Tele-styled electric mandolin that I just had to rescue from a shop while on an 'old-friends-only' trip to south-western Ireland, and the cheapest electric bass guitar I could find.

The latest addition is the Fender: a CS David Gilmour Signature Strat. ("What?! It looks like a guitar you can buy from Toys-R-us for 50 euro!!!" And it does, but I know better.). It's the only Fender I own and having played it for about a month now, I'm not disappointed. It plays and sounds great, although I'm still in the process of setting it up to (my) perfection. The guitar needed some nut sauce to stabilize the tuning too (seems to have solved the 'sticky' nut issue that made it go out of tune every 10 minutes).

Looking forward to reading more on this forum, and should the opportunity arise, share some of my experiences.


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Post subject: Re: Hi from the Netherlands
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2017 9:17 pm
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Welcome to the Forum RobbertZ. Cool first post. Have fun here.

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Post subject: Re: Hi from the Netherlands
Posted: Wed Mar 22, 2017 12:18 am
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Well, RobbertZ that was quite the introduction as SBLS said. Nice. I'll bet you thought you tricked your wife into accepting your new guitar. Nope. Wives are smarter than that, and sticker shock is common. Still, if she hasn't returned it, you've beaten the odds. They secretly love guitars and guitar players. :D See all the good info. you get here on the Forum? Enjoy your stay.

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