Mate if your turn around is 3 months then you're doing great compared to some in this forum.

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My Rig: Guitar into Pedals then into Amps and out into Speakers.

Yup...some poor devils around here have been waiting since March!!

What did the guitar store give for an answer?
-T

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I like that signature on your posts Tyrone - very clever.

As for the waiting time on your Strat, you're specifying a particular colour and model. It will exist somewhere of course assuming that Fende make it, but your dealer can't hold every colour and every model. They simply couldn't store that level of stock. So it has to be ordered - then the distributor has the same issues to manage.

Here's a really radical idea that has always worked for me. I go into the store and try a guitar from their extensive range. If I like it, I buy it and immediately take it home. If they haven't got exactly what I'm looking for, I try another store.

What if you fixate on a specific guitar and wait months for it, then try it out and it's not for you or it's bit of a turkey? What if it's a great guitar but looks completely different "in the flesh"? Life is too short for that sort of grief.

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Fender Highway & Classic 60s Strats, Fender Toronado, Telecaster, Gretsch Projet, Charvel 3, PRS SE Soapbar II & Custom 24, Burns Batwing and many others!

Thanks but I can't take credit for the sig. It come from a character in a TV Show called "Futurama" . The character is Zapp Brannigan.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapp_Brannigan

Completely clueless character!

See the link for other famous lines...
-T

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"You can't spend what you ain't got, you can't lose what you ain't never had" ~ McKinley Morganfield

I don't know why there is a backorder for your guitar. We don't work for Fender, we just play them

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Obligatory gear list: Fender, Rickenbacker, Gibson, Gretsch, Vox, Martin, and more Fender.

That guitar appears to be in-stock at Musician's Friend:

http://guitars.musiciansfriend.com/prod ... sku=501158

Free shipping to boot.

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Bill

Thanks for the replies ,I was really worried about the guitar.

Cancel your order and buy it from Musician's Friend and you'll have it in a few days. The have the rosewood neck in stock too.

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Bill