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Post subject: Re: New Necks in the Fender Store
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 2:41 am
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arth1 wrote:
GilgaFrank wrote:
andrew998 wrote:
It only has a 7" radius. Not worth it.


Perhaps you should tell Fender to stop making them then.

Clearly Leo Fender got it all wrong.


Leo Fender was not a guitar player, nor clairvoyant. He did not foresee the new guitar techniques that doesn't work well on a small radius fingerboard, nor the much thinner strings that would become popular.
If you want to play 1950s music, a 7.25" radius is great. If you do fast shredding and heavy bends, it's not. You have to raise the action on the outer strings so much that it becomes hard and slow to play.


I've got a 62 RI Telecaster with skinny frets and a 7.25" radius, I can bend that sucker as far as I want, never chokes on me. But feel free to carry on blaming the guitar if you can't play it.

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Post subject: Re: New Necks in the Fender Store
Posted: Sun Jan 19, 2014 3:21 am
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Unfortunately Fender doesn't sell 22-fret bass necks, only 20-fret. Ditto for genuine pre-2010 USA Deluxe bass bodies.


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