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ebaysux - the info is:

The OP (me myself and I) couldn't be arsed to wait so bought a 2009. A few posters have just received orders from the spring. There are very few am dlx 2010 models anywhere in stores. Different dealers are all telling funny stories about the shortage. Example rumours include; recession, layoffs, flood, paint supplier bankruptcy, paint mix secrets no longer available, staff shortages, skilled staff shortages, and the biggie, Fender USA is going bankrupt.

There are two conclusions I think it is fair to make:
-The lack of supply of US made Fenders is probably down to a combination of recession production slow-down and changing paint supplier (this seems fairly reliable as it has come from two separate Fender USA sources)
-If you are waiting for a new US-made Fender on order, then you have probably already had the delivery date put back to sept/oct, and there is really no way to tell when, or even if, you might actually get your guitar

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Oh..I almost forgot what this post was about..lol.

Yeah i had heard it was a paint shortage..but that people could not get natural finish either..which certainly has no paint on it...so I call BS on that one.



I just got my guitar and the paint (Candy Cola) is way different than it used to be at the beginning of this year. I can say for certain that they did in fact change paint suppliers.


That may be the case..but then what would be the excuse then for any delays with naturals?


Even a natural finish requires a lacquer so I'm guessing the paint supplier might supply that as well?


I guess anything is "possible". Time travel anyone? Elves that live in a tree making cookies? Leprechauns? Penny auctions will make me rich?

Some clear coats are poly..some are lacquer. Either way...I would have made sure I had enough paint and clear-coat in stock to cover any length of time that the paint supplier might run low..or if I decided to change suppliers. I would consider that I have a customer base waiting for orders...but who am I to suggest how Fender should conduct business?

All I know..is I still feel the paint supply excuse is rubbish. Just like they told us fuel prices went up due to supply and demand and then we find out demand has actually decreased.

We may never know the truth..heck Fender can not even figure out (or refuses to tell me) what the markings on any of my Japaneses bodies mean.

Don't get me wrong..I LOVE Fender...I love Fenders...but when you really get to the core of it all...it is just another corporate clusterfuck.

Think about it. Does pizza hut run out of sauce? Does KFC run out of chicken? Does GM run out of tires?

Give me a break. Surely there is someone responsible to make sure to order paint and clear coat if they are running low. Or for the past 50-60 years they just paint and never check if they are running low? BS BS...oh did I mention BS.

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ebaysux - the info is:

The OP (me myself and I) couldn't be arsed to wait so bought a 2009. A few posters have just received orders from the spring. There are very few am dlx 2010 models anywhere in stores. Different dealers are all telling funny stories about the shortage. Example rumours include; recession, layoffs, flood, paint supplier bankruptcy, paint mix secrets no longer available, staff shortages, skilled staff shortages, and the biggie, Fender USA is going bankrupt.

There are two conclusions I think it is fair to make:
-The lack of supply of US made Fenders is probably down to a combination of recession production slow-down and changing paint supplier (this seems fairly reliable as it has come from two separate Fender USA sources)
-If you are waiting for a new US-made Fender on order, then you have probably already had the delivery date put back to sept/oct, and there is really no way to tell when, or even if, you might actually get your guitar

...and Finnish cheese is the best in the world...


Oh..I almost forgot what this post was about..lol.

Yeah i had heard it was a paint shortage..but that people could not get natural finish either..which certainly has no paint on it...so I call BS on that one.



I just got my guitar and the paint (Candy Cola) is way different than it used to be at the beginning of this year. I can say for certain that they did in fact change paint suppliers.


That may be the case..but then what would be the excuse then for any delays with naturals?


Even a natural finish requires a lacquer so I'm guessing the paint supplier might supply that as well?


I guess anything is "possible". Time travel anyone? Elves that live in a tree making cookies? Leprechauns? Penny auctions will make me rich?

Some clear coats are poly..some are lacquer. Either way...I would have made sure I had enough paint and clear-coat in stock to cover any length of time that the paint supplier might run low..or if I decided to change suppliers. I would consider that I have a customer base waiting for orders...but who am I to suggest how Fender should conduct business?

All I know..is I still feel the paint supply excuse is rubbish. Just like they told us fuel prices went up due to supply and demand and then we find out demand has actually decreased.

We may never know the truth..heck Fender can not even figure out (or refuses to tell me) what the markings on any of my Japaneses bodies mean.

Don't get me wrong..I LOVE Fender...I love Fenders...but when you really get to the core of it all...it is just another corporate clusterfuck.

Think about it. Does pizza hut run out of sauce? Does KFC run out of chicken? Does GM run out of tires?

Give me a break. Surely there is someone responsible to make sure to order paint and clear coat if they are running low. Or for the past 50-60 years they just paint and never check if they are running low? BS BS...oh did I mention BS.


I don't know. Anything could of happened. After the paint supplier went out of business like they say, then their story is theoretically possible. I doubt the paint supplier would give Fender a heads up that they were soon closing shop, leaving Fender (and the people responsible for ordering colors as you say) in the dark thinking they could get paint from the supplier when they need it on the spot. Afterwards Fender had to find a new paint supplier probably order test samples and then have the colors and mix fine tuned, then order more test samples and so on. All of which can be time consuming, especially finding another supplier in the first place.

Having this coupled with the economic layoffs last year, then shortly afterward orders being received in droves can set them back 6-8 months easy.

Their paint story seems extremely reasonable to me. Especially because the Candy Cola paint on the guitar I just received is a different color mix than the ones before the backorder. Also, I might add a lot nicer and much more true to the name Candy Cola. You gotta see this thing, it's freaking stunning!


Yeah..guess there are a lot of "perhaps" and "possible" and theory. But logically, it would seem any paint supplier would love a Fender account. There is no paint shortage. Even if some colors are special mixes etc..what about black, clear, etc..you telling me they need a chemist and scientific lab to test it? Heck, there best paint ever was supplied from the automotive industry "DuPont" I believe"..I know they are still in business.

I don't know..as stated anything is possible..perhaps I just refuse to believe there is not more to this then corporate politics or massive layoffs, strike etc. There is no paint shortage I am aware of and I can't imagine it setting back orders for months to test paint. heck my car was painted in a day.

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Funny story about London and beer. You see my parents for a graduation gift purchased plane tickets for my girlfriend and I to go to Europe. Neither of us at the time were any kind of world travelers...just spoiled Americans living in the land of abundance and taking everything for granted.

I could write pages and pages of our experiences, but I will stick to the beer story. She is not much of a drinker, myself have been known to indulge. We were both hungry as well but really wanted a snack more then a meal. So we figured we would hit up a few local taverns/pubs whatever..and sit down, order a couple of beers and some snacks..and all is well.

We found out rather quickly this is not the way they do it over there. First mistake may have been the time of day. We have dubbed this time of day as the "stampede of suits". In other words, we are just settling in and want an easy beer and snack...when seemingly out of no where, hundreds upon thousands of men in suits are coming at us. We did not know if we should run the other way..duck and cover, or just shield our faces with our hands and ram into the pack. We chose to run for cover at the closet pub.

Thinking we could sit down and have a simple cold beer and snack turned out to be something not quite in the cards for us. First thing we noticed...no seats. Then we noticed...that yes...it seems in that town, they stand while they drink.

We asked if there was a way to sit down at a table or something and order a snack to hold us over..and we were basically snickered at.

I was a bit disappointed, but figured.."when in Rome"..so until the roads were clear of the stampedes, we stood in the pub drinking tepid beer with the suits...until we no longer gave a rats $@!.



What you found out, is don't go to London :lol:

I really don't like London much at all, too many people, too many businessmen and totally different to the rest of the UK.


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Funny story about London and beer. You see my parents for a graduation gift purchased plane tickets for my girlfriend and I to go to Europe. Neither of us at the time were any kind of world travelers...just spoiled Americans living in the land of abundance and taking everything for granted.

I could write pages and pages of our experiences, but I will stick to the beer story. She is not much of a drinker, myself have been known to indulge. We were both hungry as well but really wanted a snack more then a meal. So we figured we would hit up a few local taverns/pubs whatever..and sit down, order a couple of beers and some snacks..and all is well.

We found out rather quickly this is not the way they do it over there. First mistake may have been the time of day. We have dubbed this time of day as the "stampede of suits". In other words, we are just settling in and want an easy beer and snack...when seemingly out of no where, hundreds upon thousands of men in suits are coming at us. We did not know if we should run the other way..duck and cover, or just shield our faces with our hands and ram into the pack. We chose to run for cover at the closet pub.

Thinking we could sit down and have a simple cold beer and snack turned out to be something not quite in the cards for us. First thing we noticed...no seats. Then we noticed...that yes...it seems in that town, they stand while they drink.

We asked if there was a way to sit down at a table or something and order a snack to hold us over..and we were basically snickered at.

I was a bit disappointed, but figured.."when in Rome"..so until the roads were clear of the stampedes, we stood in the pub drinking tepid beer with the suits...until we no longer gave a rats $@!.



What you found out, is don't go to London :lol:

I really don't like London much at all, too many people, too many businessmen and totally different to the rest of the UK.


The worst if it was, that this was supposed to be the summer, we were from South Florida so packed for summer..IE: shorts, tank tops, sandals. We get there and it is snow flurries and rain..freezing cold. So we spent the first day shopping for clothes.

London was not a bad place to visit...just not good for people like us who were clueless where to go or what to do..or what the city was like. I actually grew up in Manhattan, and really am not impressed with London...a clock, a palace that has a fence around it..nothing spectacular.

We did take an excursion to Leeds castle...and I must say..although it was freezing rain and gloomy and so many events were canceled, the countryside was spectacular..really made the whole trip and the beer episode worth it.

The funnier story is what we went through in London to find a decent hotel room we could afford...ah this stuff was better then a sitcom..and harder to believe it is true..but we can save that for another post..haha.

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I actually grew up in Manhattan, and really am not impressed with London...a clock, a palace that has a fence around it..nothing spectacular....

:lol: :lol: :lol: Hi ebaysux (and everything else sux by the sound of it too): been falling about laughing at your posts. Travelling is really not for you, is it?

Some advice. Never go to Paris: a tower, rude waiters and food without ketchup.

Or Spain: tapas is served in very tiny portions and only late at night.

Or Rome: some old stuff, a lot of it broken. No Pizza Hut.

Or Cairo: everything is old and broken.

Venice? Canals - who needs them?

Holland, as we've heard, is all about thin bits of ham. And again, canals. So what? Don't go back.

And I can see why you left New York too. A couple of small jazz clubs... nuttin' else much.

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I actually grew up in Manhattan, and really am not impressed with London...a clock, a palace that has a fence around it..nothing spectacular....

:lol: :lol: :lol: Hi ebaysux (and everything else sux by the sound of it too): been falling about laughing at your posts. Travelling is really not for you, is it?

Some advice. Never go to Paris: a tower, rude waiters and food without ketchup.

Or Spain: tapas is served in very tiny portions and only late at night.

Or Rome: some old stuff, a lot of it broken. No Pizza Hut.

Or Cairo: everything is old and broken.

Venice? Canals - who needs them?

Holland, as we've heard, is all about thin bits of ham. And again, canals. So what? Don't go back.

And I can see why you left New York too. A couple of small jazz clubs... nuttin' else much.

:lol: :lol: :lol: - C

I am falling off my chair!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

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Never found a bad city.

I have found locals that are bad at giving directions, or enjoy filling you with misinformation though.

EbaySux, did you ever ask anyone whats worth going to see? You missed the Royal Ballet, Opera, history museum (that goes back further than the 1500's) and Albet Hall???

Next time, let us know. I'll show you a world of delights, some of them may even be legal. :lol:

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For tourist hotspot information on these isles all you need to know is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NeFo7zkfk&feature=related

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For tourist hotspot information on these isles all you need to know is this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4NeFo7zkfk&feature=related

Cool, Thanks Niki! I plan on coming there maybe next Spring. Is that a good time? LOL! Like rain, right in May or early June?

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Late May early June is a time when rain is more unlikely. It always rains here, if you want guaranteed rain, March, April and early November are your guaranteed months.

That said if you stay for a couple of weeks you'll likely see it, or you can easily travel for it.

I like you love the rain. There's no such thing as bad weather. Once you resign yourself to the fact you are going to get wet, it's plain sailing so to speak.

All joking aside Wales, particularly the south and Herefordshire border are seriously breathtakingly beautiful places. Get up the Black Mountains mate, you'll love it.

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Okay, I can detect a wee bit of sarcasm when i see it. Yes, granted I am a horrible world traveler. But I have traveled quite a bit of it...and can take the good with the bad. It is just hard to compare anywhere to Manhattan, south Florida, Los angeles..well the places i have spent a good portion of my life residing at.

I did not mean to imply everything else sux..but was merely posting some less then positive experiences for comic relief. I also very much appreciated everything these other countries had to offer, but of course the experiences that often stand out most that you will never forget, are the less then positive ones.

Paris? been there..a few times. Love it. But what do i remember most? Getting lost on a rent a scooter, the rent a scooter lock breaking, and then being charge 7 or 8 HUNDRED dollars for them to come cut the lock off...and this lock looked like something from the Flintstones. I do not recall being treated particularly rude by the french.accept by one bartender...and I am sure my mention of the fact that he would be saluting a Nazi flag if not for us "arrogent" Americans...that he rather enjoyed my company.

On a side note the food in paris did not require ketchup to make it edible. I listened to my mom..who told me to only eat at the places that had a crowd, and she was correct. The food was the least of my worries in France.

Never been to Spain, but I imagine the women are hot..and that would easily make up for any small portion of tapas.

Never been to Rome either, but my drummers mother lives there..and he rants and raves about the food and it's freshness. Granted, he told me the locals are quite "clicky", but every time he comes back from a trip there, he is 20 lbs heavier..so apparently they do food right there. Not to mention, I have never had any negative remarks from anyone who has been to Rome..only that I MUST go there, and that I will love it. I have a trip to Rome on the agenda.

Never been to Cairo. But intended to as I have been to the middle east. And I have nothing negative to report. The food was awesome (I LOVE Mediterranean food), the people were very nice (well I had to get used to haggling over prive for anything), and the whether was perfect. Probably did not hurt that I stayed at the Hiltons...but nonetheless, i did plenty of off the beaten path local exploring, and it was an experience i can never forget and all positive...other then I was sick when we were supposed to catch a plane to Cairo..so I missed out.

Venice??? From every accurate report I have heard, I would love it there. I only hope in my life time I get to experience a gondola with a loved one..before the ancient structures rot and fall in.

Holland. Never said i would not go back..only stated i was almost crushed by a stampede of hungry tourists looking for a free piece of cheese, and that we had to survive on delicious pastry since we did not know what was safe to eat there. I would not have been there 3 times already, nor consider going back if overall i did not like it there. You are simply getting the wrong idea from my posts.

I left NY because I was sick of shoveling snow 4 months out of the year. A few good jazz clubs was not enough reason to stay. Oh don't get me wrong, I have my share of experience here in LA that is much less then positive, but overall..it is beautiful whether, beautiful women, lots of opportunity for a musician, and more then enough to keep me busy. The food?? Compared to NY it SUX...or SUCKS if you prefer..but the weather...oh can I tell you we got the weather in the bag here.











Holland, as we've heard, is all about thin bits of ham. And again, canals. So what? Don't go back.

And I can see why you left New York too. A couple of small jazz clubs... nuttin' else much.

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Ah, ebaysux, don't let a little British humor get to ya. When i read what you posted, i was like, ummmm, this will be interesting. London is a city full of a lot of history and is much older than any in the US (obviously!) It is all in good fun! :lol:

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Good fun indeed. Sarcasm aside..don't worry about me taking anything too personally or seriously, I am on board that this is all in good fun.

As I did state in a reply regarding London, that it is not a bad place to visit. Actually, even the less then positive experiences were experiences nonetheless, and they are priceless.

I actually loved the architecture of the city, and the night life..well to an extent..it really is hard to compare anything to NYC..where I have waited in lines on a Wednesday at 6am to get INTO a packed club.

It could have been a much better experience as I was given a "to do" list and a "where to stay" list by family and close friends who actually live in or near London. But we realized after we got there we had left the notes home. My stupid pride stopped me from calling and asking what to do...so essentially we were like two lost souls dropped off in a city like London with little money and no clue where to go or what to do and ignorant refusal to contact anyone who could actually help us.

I take full blame for that.

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ebaysux wrote:
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ebaysux - the info is:

The OP (me myself and I) couldn't be arsed to wait so bought a 2009. A few posters have just received orders from the spring. There are very few am dlx 2010 models anywhere in stores. Different dealers are all telling funny stories about the shortage. Example rumours include; recession, layoffs, flood, paint supplier bankruptcy, paint mix secrets no longer available, staff shortages, skilled staff shortages, and the biggie, Fender USA is going bankrupt.

There are two conclusions I think it is fair to make:
-The lack of supply of US made Fenders is probably down to a combination of recession production slow-down and changing paint supplier (this seems fairly reliable as it has come from two separate Fender USA sources)
-If you are waiting for a new US-made Fender on order, then you have probably already had the delivery date put back to sept/oct, and there is really no way to tell when, or even if, you might actually get your guitar

...and Finnish cheese is the best in the world...


Oh..I almost forgot what this post was about..lol.

Yeah i had heard it was a paint shortage..but that people could not get natural finish either..which certainly has no paint on it...so I call BS on that one.



I just got my guitar and the paint (Candy Cola) is way different than it used to be at the beginning of this year. I can say for certain that they did in fact change paint suppliers.


That may be the case..but then what would be the excuse then for any delays with naturals?


Even a natural finish requires a lacquer so I'm guessing the paint supplier might supply that as well?


I guess anything is "possible". Time travel anyone? Elves that live in a tree making cookies? Leprechauns? Penny auctions will make me rich?

Some clear coats are poly..some are lacquer. Either way...I would have made sure I had enough paint and clear-coat in stock to cover any length of time that the paint supplier might run low..or if I decided to change suppliers. I would consider that I have a customer base waiting for orders...but who am I to suggest how Fender should conduct business?

All I know..is I still feel the paint supply excuse is rubbish. Just like they told us fuel prices went up due to supply and demand and then we find out demand has actually decreased.

We may never know the truth..heck Fender can not even figure out (or refuses to tell me) what the markings on any of my Japaneses bodies mean.

Don't get me wrong..I LOVE Fender...I love Fenders...but when you really get to the core of it all...it is just another corporate clusterfuck.

Think about it. Does pizza hut run out of sauce? Does KFC run out of chicken? Does GM run out of tires?

Give me a break. Surely there is someone responsible to make sure to order paint and clear coat if they are running low. Or for the past 50-60 years they just paint and never check if they are running low? BS BS...oh did I mention BS.


I don't know. Anything could of happened. After the paint supplier went out of business like they say, then their story is theoretically possible. I doubt the paint supplier would give Fender a heads up that they were soon closing shop, leaving Fender (and the people responsible for ordering colors as you say) in the dark thinking they could get paint from the supplier when they need it on the spot. Afterwards Fender had to find a new paint supplier probably order test samples and then have the colors and mix fine tuned, then order more test samples and so on. All of which can be time consuming, especially finding another supplier in the first place.

Having this coupled with the economic layoffs last year, then shortly afterward orders being received in droves can set them back 6-8 months easy.

Their paint story seems extremely reasonable to me. Especially because the Candy Cola paint on the guitar I just received is a different color mix than the ones before the backorder. Also, I might add a lot nicer and much more true to the name Candy Cola. You gotta see this thing, it's freaking stunning!


Yeah..guess there are a lot of "perhaps" and "possible" and theory. But logically, it would seem any paint supplier would love a Fender account. There is no paint shortage. Even if some colors are special mixes etc..what about black, clear, etc..you telling me they need a chemist and scientific lab to test it? Heck, there best paint ever was supplied from the automotive industry "DuPont" I believe"..I know they are still in business.

I don't know..as stated anything is possible..perhaps I just refuse to believe there is not more to this then corporate politics or massive layoffs, strike etc. There is no paint shortage I am aware of and I can't imagine it setting back orders for months to test paint. heck my car was painted in a day.


I don't too much about paint, but I do know that we had a similar issue where I work.

We sell catering equipment into the catering industry and among the various lines we sell is our own brand crockery.

Now our buyers always make sure to have plenty in stock and to always have back-orders on the go as well with the factory in China.

So when the factory suddenly ceases production leaving us with only our current stock we need to find another supplier.

Easy, you might think, a plate isn't hard to make and there are plenty of factories in China and the rest of the Far East who would be kean for our business...wrong!!

Yes there are plenty of factories, but before we're allowed to do business with them our compliance department has to inspect the factory to ensure that it is compliant with all our environmental and ethical policies, then we have to have samples made and refined until they are correct...then we have to wait for the order to be completed...

Granted the timescales involved in this are almost certainly longer than for Fender finding a new paint supplier, but I would bet that it wasn't as simple as them going, company A has gone bust we'll just switch to company B.

They will have wanted to ensure that the mixes were correct, that the supplier could provide a consistant supply, that the paint went onto the guitar correctly...

That combined with the lay-offs to the work force could easily put production behind...


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Okay, I can detect a wee bit of sarcasm when i see it.

Hi again, ebaysux: not in my post you didn't. Not an ounce of sarcasm there, just gentle humour intended in a friendly spirit, rest assured. :)

ebaysux wrote:
I do not recall being treated particularly rude by the french.accept by one bartender...

(In that spirit of friendly humour) I was in a restuarant in Paris once and an American guy at the table next to me was eating steak à la moutarde - steak in a very creamy mustard sauce. He called the waiter over and demanded ketchup. The waiter looked at him contemptuously for a moment and then simply remarked: "Non". The American, incredulous: "What, you mean you don't have ketchup?" The waiter, his tone infinitely patronising: "Of course we have ketchup. But you may not have it with steak à la moutarde. Sacré nom de Dieu!"

In an outraged silence two cultures, each convinced of their own superiority, stared at one another in mutual incomprehension. It was too, too beautiful! :D :lol:

ebaysux wrote:
...of course the experiences that often stand out most that you will never forget, are the less then positive ones.

And seriously for one second; that may be the difference. I have travelled a helluvalot and sometimes had really awful experiences, as well as a lot of minorly bad ones, such as sullen service, bad food, filthy overpriced hotel rooms, etc etc. Including plenty such in your country.

I can dredge those up - but the odd thing is it is all the fabulous experiences that live in my mind, not that bad ones.

Cheers - C

EDIT: typos


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