YES!!!!!!!!!!! my 1st post on this forum was about making a Robbie sig telecaster but a "Last Waltz" strats better although i hope they make it look bronzed not really bronzed i mean the TLW guitar weighed 80POUNDS

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Current Gear:
1968 Kay Strat
Kramer Focus 111S
Johnson 15w amp
Squier Black and Chrone Special Tele

I can say as young guy Ceri that I know who he is very well and I know there are some more of us out there too . I can see how many others my age though would pass over him without a blink as when people talk to our generation about music in the past all we retain are names like Clapton, Hendrix, Gilmour etc etc.

Keep your Hendrix and Gilmour
All I need is some Eric Clapton and Mr. Robbie Robertson A REAL GUITAR HERO.

No offence to you hamms i just thought this was a good point to say this

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Current Gear:
1968 Kay Strat
Kramer Focus 111S
Johnson 15w amp
Squier Black and Chrone Special Tele

none taken, to be honest clapton has and always will be my guy, just saying that when someone my age ask someone that lived during that time about guitar players you're much more likely to hear hendrix and the others before robbie robertson.

take it for someone your age dude i bet im one of the youngest people with Robbie as my hero im 13

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Current Gear:
1968 Kay Strat
Kramer Focus 111S
Johnson 15w amp
Squier Black and Chrone Special Tele

I would buy a RR signature Strat. As long as it is like the Last Waltz One, not as heavy though.

If they make it a high end Custom Shop Model, it will probably move the focus more toward people who know who he is, and would be more likely to buy it.

To be fair, though a lot of people might not be overly familiar with his name, most probably have heard his playing more than they realize, and hum to 'The Band' songs. he has a distinctive style, and tone. A lot of more mature(look at me soft selling it to us over 35 oldsters,) players are big fans.

i would even say, if you were to poll non guitarists as many or more would have heard of Robbie, than Eric Johnson. this is not a comparison of abilities, just a statement, that some players who aren't household names outside of guitardom have signature models.
Personally i see a bigger audience for a Robbie Strat than the G.E. Smith Tele. Or the j mascis Jazzmaster.(<-- opinion here, don;t get mad, not trying to disparage these guys, but I think they are more 'niche audience' artists than Robbie, the Band was gigantically popular--especially among music industry insiders.) I think it would have a pretty large appeal. especially since it would be significantly different than any of the other Artist offerings.

EXCELLENT, I'm delighted to hear it! My respects to you both.

Yeah, it's always a disappointment to be reminded that names we love are unknown to the world at large. And when people have heard of fine musicians it is often for their extracurricular activities, like their drug adventures or who they are married to or how they died...

Ours is a very small and specialised world.

Oh well...

Cheers - C

And Seth Lover's name isn't on the first humbucker patent. He was working for Gibson, so Gibson got the patent. Thus, the p.a.f.

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Aye lol maybe there could also be a limited run of Robbie Robertson Crossroads 07 Guitars

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Current Gear:
1968 Kay Strat
Kramer Focus 111S
Johnson 15w amp
Squier Black and Chrone Special Tele

I'm a big Robbie fan. But I don't think Fender would make a copy of his Last Waltz bronze Strat out from the Custom Shop line in a limited edition. Like posted above, how many people these days know who he is? Sad..

That guitar is also very particular. Bridge and middle pickups close together, and at the same tim its not a "metal guitar" like lets say the Dave Murray Sig (be it a humbucker or no). A regular production of one of them wouldn't attract too many buyers in a worldwide way in my opinion.

I think its distinctiveness would be awesome though. if you ask me a few of those 'artist' guitars don't seem to have anything to set them apart from the production models except the branding.

I also don't think we need more 3-tone sunburst strats anymore

Well unless they switched up from the traditional colours. Like a cool purple to blue burst option.