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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 4:42 pm
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it does feel like a played neck. more so at the back rather than the fretboard edges which dont feel quite rounded enough for me although they appear to be slightly rounded, maybe thats intentional aren't the closet classics like it too? It really wouldnt suprise me if fender took the plans for the hotrod neck from the Blackie guitar, its a very popular model, if you know you've got a winner why not use it.

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Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:48 pm
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Fender's doing so would be an interesting move. To reiterate, I am not referring to the Fender Artist or Custom Shop Artist Eric Clapton Signature Series guitar.

I am referring to the Tribute Series duplication of Eric's mongrel stage guitar of which there were less than 300 made, the original of which Guitar Center paid nearly $1million for at the auction in NYC several years ago.

From the comments of people I know in the business who have actually handled both the original and the duplicate, there is something 'familiar' about the shape of the Hotrod's neck.


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Posted: Thu Jul 03, 2008 8:36 am
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Here in the UK them things aren't readily available to try especially where i live out in the sticks. I spent a week trying to locate a 57HR and found 3. 1 in london, 1 in lancashire, and 1 in glasgow scotland and ended up making the 163 mile journey to lancashire to try before buy.


Er, just a side note, but I'm surprised to hear about that. A moment's glance at Googoyle found me lots of them all over the country at well-known and respectable real-world music shops. I wonder where you are, nikininja, that you had to drive 163 miles to find your Hotrod?

Anyway: loved your gear (Pics thread) - that's a proper working musician's setup!

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Im in lincolnshire just outside skegness to be precise. Lots of places are saying their in stock on their web site but when you call em its a different story. The usual answer is it was sold last week, we can order you one in if you pay a 10% deposit. I'm just not prepared to pay for anything i haven't played. I got a real duffer doing that (the esp ltd in my pic's) and vowed never to part with any money for a guitar i cant try out. During the course of my search i even found out that fender have 22 candy apple hot rods in the country at their warehouse. No one is to blame really, the shops have suffered terribly since the rise of Internet shopping, with people unashamedly going into a shop trying something out then buying it online. They cant afford to stock mid to high-end stuff anymore. There's a few places that do but you pay for that privilege. The place in london that had em wanted £1400 thats £200 over fenders rrp and puts you nearer to the custom shop rather than american vintage range. I'd like to blame manufacturers/distributors but despite rosetti/gibsons best efforts at making 'stocking high end instruments' a nightmare, i cant. The sad truth is we've done this to ourselves. For the sake of saving £100 odd by shopping online we've forfeit the whole joy of going to a shop trying the guitar your intrested in, paying cash and walking out with it.

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Im in lincolnshire just outside skegness to be precise. Lots of places are saying their in stock on their web site but when you call em its a different story. The usual answer is it was sold last week, we can order you one in if you pay a 10% deposit. I'm just not prepared to pay for anything i haven't played. I got a real duffer doing that (the esp ltd in my pic's) and vowed never to part with any money for a guitar i cant try out. During the course of my search i even found out that fender have 22 candy apple hot rods in the country at their warehouse. No one is to blame really, the shops have suffered terribly since the rise of Internet shopping, with people unashamedly going into a shop trying something out then buying it online. They cant afford to stock mid to high-end stuff anymore. There's a few places that do but you pay for that privilege. The place in london that had em wanted £1400 thats £200 over fenders rrp and puts you nearer to the custom shop rather than american vintage range. I'd like to blame manufacturers/distributors but despite rosetti/gibsons best efforts at making 'stocking high end instruments' a nightmare, i cant. The sad truth is we've done this to ourselves. For the sake of saving £100 odd by shopping online we've forfeit the whole joy of going to a shop trying the guitar your intrested in, paying cash and walking out with it.


Well, that's very interesting indeed.

I'm amazed to hear about that shop in London trying to sell for over the RRP. Blimey! Waste of their own time, apart from anything else, you'd have thought. Go on, spill the beans, who was that? Not Regent Sound, I hope. I saw a Hotrod 57 in there just the other day, and I've normally found them very fair on pricing.

Totally agree about the difficulties of the market place, these days. Whoever thought we'd see ruthless old Sound Control/Turnkey go down the pan? (That's the UK equivalent of Guitar Center, for our Stateside friends.)

I had a comparable time trying - and failing - to buy an Am Deluxe Tele (Aged Cherry Burst, M/N). For that money I want a nicely grained piece of timber under a transparent finish, so I sure ain't going to buy sight unseen. I went into shop after shop asking if they could order one for me to look at: they could, but only for a non-returnable deposit. So what happens if the example that arrives happens to have dull, featureless ash? I still have to buy it, or another guitar. That's no good for me, and they weren't prepared to take the chance of getting left with an unsold instrument on their walls. This is even in glamorous shops such as Regent Sound, or Mansons in Exeter, who have miles of extremely high end stock lining their showrooms. A customer who's hot to buy, shops desperate to sell, yet somehow we couldn't get the two bits to join up. Bizarre...

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it was one of the denmark street shops. i couldnt tell you which one, heres the link to it

http://www.denmarkstreetonline.co.uk/in ... tstart=150




sound control going under was a terrible blow. they were shoddy in alot o ways but i got some good deals there. There used to be a shop in birmingham musical xchanges that was the biggest guitar shop in europe for awhile, the size of half a soccer pitch. i bought my first fender there (the white one) £200 new. my first marshall amp. my first marshall stack, various charvels, jacksons, a dean (when no one knew who dean were in the uk), more pedals than you could spit at. That shop had real history everybody shopped there i saw tony iommi in there one week and glen tipton the next. Its gone now, soundcontrol bought it a few years ago and now as far as i know its gone.

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