What do you think is wrong with the Fender Select Series?

newfmp3 · **Joined:** Tue Jun 26, 2012 5:10 pm **Posts:** 30

Xhefri wrote:

This thread has been really fun to read. A hoe (tarty) guitar? :lol:

I really think a guitar is something to look at as much as to play. They are a work of art, which can be handled, used, and can produce amazing sounds. So it is a mixed deal. And as with anything, there are always personal preferences. Myself? I am a sucker for wood grain, flame, bird's eye, etc.

One thing about the Select Series is that they look a lot like the Japanese Foto-flames. Not that that is bad. :shock:

Either the Foto Flames looked really real, or the Select Series looks really ....LOL. But either way I like the look. Never played one so can not comment on quality or tone. Below are some foto-flames I have owned. Very similar to the Select.

I guess if I was going to spend up to $2000 I would buy a 1990s Fender Ultra. Nice flame top, great quality and sounds like less money than a Select.

I have not seen the foto flames in person. I knew about them years ago, but still haven't seen one. Do the foto's have that 3d effect that real flamed maple has?

Ceri · **Posted:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 11:44 am

John C wrote:

Ceri wrote:

Aside from whether or not we like flamey timber, the price is the key determining factor here. The Selects are around the cost of an entry level Custom Shop guitar, and that might be a thought provoking choice for some of us.

Unfortunately entry level CS has gone way up - they are more like $3K US now. Of course the Selects do cross over into the price range of used CS guitars (and there are plenty of them around).

Hi John: well, allowing for the effect the Atlantic can have on these things a quick bit of (belated) research on my part suggests we're both sort of in the ballpark on this. Where I live a Select Strat seems to be running a fairly steady (and hefty) £1586 / $2534. However, a new 2012 Custom Shop Strat is £1748 / $2793. So their prices don't quite overlap - but there's not a huge difference.

Oddly, a Fender Select is a lot more my side of the pond than yours; but a CS Strat seems to be a couple of hundred less. Bizarro!

Anyhow. I must admit, faced with the choice of an entry level CS Strat or a Fender Select I just don't know which way I'd jump! A nice problem to chew over.

John C wrote:

The Select Strat is not chambered - I was corrected about this on another thread.

Ah right, thanks for the clarification. Then would I be right in thinking Fender still haven't made a chambered Strat anywhere in the catalog? Does that seem a surprising omission, given that so many other makers have been doing them for many years now? CNC makes it a pretty simple thing to achieve, after all.

Some of us like light guitars.

Cheers - C

Xhefri · **Posted:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:08 pm

newfmp3 wrote:

I have not seen the foto flames in person. I knew about them years ago, but still haven't seen one. Do the foto's have that 3d effect that real flamed maple has?

Check out: http://xhefriguitars.com/page7.html as I have the history of the foto-flames on there.

John C · **Posted:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:16 pm

Ceri wrote:

[Hi John: well, allowing for the effect the Atlantic can have on these things a quick bit of (belated) research on my part suggests we're both sort of in the ballpark on this. Where I live a Select Strat seems to be running a fairly steady (and hefty) £1586 / $2534. However, a new 2012 Custom Shop Strat is £1748 / $2793. So their prices don't quite overlap - but there's not a huge difference.

Oddly, a Fender Select is a lot more my side of the pond than yours; but a CS Strat seems to be a couple of hundred less. Bizarro!

Anyhow. I must admit, faced with the choice of an entry level CS Strat or a Fender Select I just don't know which way I'd jump! A nice problem to chew over.

Wow - that is quite a difference; here in the USA the MAP on a Select Strat is $2,150 while the MAP on a new Custom Deluxe Strat is $3K, putting the overlap more close to a used CS here (you can usually turn up a used Time Machine for $2K or less).

Xhefri · **Posted:** Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:33 pm

John C wrote:

(you can usually turn up a used Time Machine for $2K or less).

+1 And a very nice one at that!

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