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Post subject: Some Dealers Better Than Others
Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:24 pm
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Best store to buy another strat? I went into Best Buy yesterday and checked out a couple of guitars. I've got an old, cheap Squier with high action that I need to have set up, but it still sounds good. I pull down the American Deluxe, thinking about going good for once, and it's out of tune. I try the Highway One and the volume nob is tweaked, and it frets out when I'm bending playing some blues rock. I ask the guy from Best Buy why's the guitar so f'd up, and he says, "it's got Greasebucket" circuits. I'm like, wow, that can't be what Greasebucket's about. Despite the high action on my old strat that I need to get set up better, it's always ready to go. I got lucky and a very cool assembly worker from Fender's factory in Corona was there. He explained it was fretting out because some frets weren't right and needed to be sanded, and also maybe because the set up got f'd during transportation. Finally found a black/white American that was perfect.

Point is, the guitars in that store were hit or miss. Nobody got them ready to play. I play a lot, but don't buy a lot. Any recommendatiosn of dealers in the Inland Empire that really set up the equipment right? Guitar center? Which one? Wild West Guitars?


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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:38 pm
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Ahhh, did you say Best Buy?

Anywho, generally all guitars will need a final tweak when you get them in order to have them feel good to you. That said you have some fine stores that will not let a guitar get out without the white glove treatment.

Wildwood, Willcutt, Martin, Music Gallery.. etc, etc..

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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:47 pm
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The people at Wild West are fantastic!

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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:50 pm
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I don't know if I would buy any guitar from a Best Buy store.


The top of this page has a "dealer locator" :


http://www.fender.com/dealerfinder/


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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 1:58 pm
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I really had no idea that Best Buy was in the game, in fact I can't believe it. I would learn to make my own before I resorted to them for a guitar.

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Best Buy over here sells the Starcaster but no real Fender Equipment. Very strange I would say Guitar Center.


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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:55 pm
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yeah i'd say Guitar Center too

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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 3:56 pm
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i buy all my guitar gear at TARGET
best place in the world, i used to live under the covering s at the front door when i was homeless.
the kind manager didn't mind, and he gave me money for booze once and a while.


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Posted: Thu Aug 02, 2007 7:01 pm
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X-Road28 wrote:
Ahhh, did you say Best Buy?

Anywho, generally all guitars will need a final tweak when you get them in order to have them feel good to you. That said you have some fine stores that will not let a guitar get out without the white glove treatment.

Wildwood, Willcutt, Martin, Music Gallery.. etc, etc..

Good Luck

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I've bought a few guitars from Wildwood when I was living in Boulder, CO. Those guys are great, helpful and make sure you're getting a guitar that plays well. One of the few truely professional music shops I've been to. They make Guitar Center (yuck) look like a yard sale.

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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 2007 1:47 pm
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Hey, thanks for all the replies. That's what's great about this new Fender community. So I went to Wild West and checked out there stuff. Incredible. The people there are super also and so I went in with no music and barred chords and played riffs and a few solo parts I could remember - on multi-thousand dollar stuff. The cheapest I played was the Jeff Beck in a surf color. The Beck was incredible. There's no resistance to bending at all because its got these incredible tiny ballbearings It's got a real rich tone from the dual coils. The Vintage hotrod '57 was also fantastic, and again with the locking tuners and the tiny ballbearings like the Beck, and a candy apple red paint job that was beautiful. The best was an entry custom-shop deluxe, with the zero resistance tuners, the custom shop pickups, a little seasoning from those guys, team built. Everyone of those was set up so beautifully, the notes couldn't go wrong. It's like, the imperfections that I was used to hearing from myself were gone. Awesome instruments. Too expensive for me, but awesome. Playing this stuff, my respect for Fender, which was already big, is amplified.

Next I checked out Guitar Center. Great selection of the lower-mid range that Wild West doesn't have. I found it there.

60th Anniversary. Wine transparent. Rosewood fretboard. Highway One. What could be more appropriate than a wine and rose California guitar?

Does it have the locking tuners and the tiny ballbearings? No, it's not a Beck or a custom shop, but it plays beautifully. It's a kind of vintage technology mix, and with some of the latest, all put together so that it sings. Even without the tiny ballbearings, Fender in Corona knows how to do it and it bends and bars great. Kudos Fender, and thanks for the great advice on this board.


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Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 11:26 am
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I usually go to smaller stores first before going to Mega stores like guitar center of sam ash. Support the entrepreneur.
In Southern California, I go to Guitar Merchant at the valley. Phil does it the best. Great prices and attention.


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