yes britsh guitars absolutely own anything america has ever produced.

Is that the statement you wanted? or do you want some other ludicrously misaligned bit of drivel.

I really suggest you learn to read a whole post and judge it as a whole post before you start making comments on 'the brit'.

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My god, I rest my case... keep with the topic and stop calling me a brit.. I think your arrogance is assuming I am one. Im scolding per say, to people who argue with each other about family heritage or get personal on a guitar forum because no-one wants to read it and you make yourselves look bad.. Let it go, please- this is taking good discussion too far and this is the whole reason I added my post. be considerate to those who enjoy these forums. I feel for the guy who started the topic.. sorry dude.

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Big Jay,
and to all who have particapated
i cant belive how the topic has evolved from my first simple question, to the debate that is now on going, any chance we can now close this question and get on with the music, i now regret asking my question,
Peace and Love

wow! out of control?

Good golly Miss Molly: this thread has gone all over the place in the 20 hours since I last looked at it! What fun!

As to the subject, as usual Mr Chet Feathers' brief posts really cover most of it.

Regarding nationalistic rivalry - really, do we need it? British guitars v American ones is a particularly daft route to travel. Though we (Britain) have a long list of the world's finest amplifiers we have never had a mass market guitar industry, much as Burns of London would have liked to become the British Fender. They didn't succeed.

British guitars are all made by small scale luthiers. I can give a list of magnificent builders who do work to set against anything anywhere. Not better, not worse: at that level of the market it's all about fine personal preferences. Saying one instrument is better than another with luthier built guitars is even sillier than with mainstream ones.

For the record: I am British and I love Fender guitars! Enough.

Amusing picture to set before you on the cars thing. There's a well known British (Scottish) comic character actor, Robbie Coltrane. Nuns on the Run; a couple of Bond films; the character Hagrid in the Harry Potter films... Robbie is a petrol head in his spare time and loves huge American cars of the '50s. Also happens we know his sister (an illustrator) who till recently lived at the end of our road, so Robbie came our way from time to time.

A great sight was to look out the front window and see Robbie Coltrane (a very big man) wearing RayBans and a bootlace tie sailing past in a gigantic American car with fins at the back, the top down and classic rock and roll playing on the stereo. Who cares what (and who) comes from where? That was a sight worth seeing...

Cheers - C

good point ceri but i would debate the amp thing
and wont. i'll just say i have a few marshalls tube and none tube
and i have some Crate tube and none tube amps and and far as all out
power and tone the Crate has my vote over the marshalls.
that all i'm going to say here.

I think Fender could have avoided this whole "controversy" by simply marketing the Highway One line the same way they marketed the California Series of the late '90s -- part of the work was done in Baja California and part of the work was done in southern California -- hence the name California Series.

Crazy stuff is happening on these Forums lately. I can feel the change.

every two years i make the trip across the pond
to visit friends always bring a strat or two except
these days airport sec brake your family jules.
alot of mojo in england. i consider Enfield my 2nd home.

ran all my serial numbers on my highway ones
and they all came back made in corona not made
in corona/mexico just plainly stated corona.
thank you.