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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:12 pm
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 8:14 pm
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Very interesting! And what a wonderful finish for a guitar to have in a picture like this! Looks just like my MiM except the fretwire is larger. :D


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54 reissue? Nice!


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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:13 pm
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Nice guitar! :)


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Post subject: Re: guitar as art
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:28 pm
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[quote="paisley strat"]Tell me what you think[img]

Nicely photographed. However, in keeping with the theme of the post I would have to say that the true 'guitart' collector in this group is alain. 8)

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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:32 am
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The beauty of the Fender Stratocaster is no accident. More than any other guitar design, the Stratocaster makes use of cyma and ogee curves. These curves are "s" curves that feature a convex segment followed by a concave segment. You see these shapes not only in the body but also the lower edge of the headstock and on the pickguard.

The cyma or ogee curve has been called the "line of beauty" because it is especially pleasing to the eye. Its use dates back to ancient Greece, but English and American furniture makers used it extensively during the Queen Anne period. Perhaps the acme of furniture beauty is the highboy chest that features four cabriole legs and a bonnet top that leads gracefully up to a finial. The headstock of a Stratocaster looks very much like a cabriole leg.

Whether Leo Fender did this all consciously or by accident, he was following a tradition of high artistic design dating back thousands of years.


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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 8:41 am
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that's why they developed those wall hanging guitar holders isn't it?

HA HA HA

GUITART!

HA HA HA
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Posted: Wed Nov 19, 2008 9:55 am
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[quote="soggycrow"]: Based on the history in the "Chronicles", they were looking for form and function based upon an analysis of how the instrument was to be used. Art mimics life in this case. :wink:

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