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Post subject: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problems.
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:09 am
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Hi folks,
I'm new here. After playing a stat for 20 years, I finally ordered the guitar of my dreams - a black American Vintage '62 Custom Telecaster http://www.fender.com/products/search.p ... 0106200806


So I ordered it from Sam Ash back in November and it was supposed to take a month. It's now April and it's not in yet. Sam Ash is telling me that Fender is having a problem with their painters. is this true? I can't seem to find any info on this anywhere.

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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:27 am
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Welcome to the forum
Did you ask Sam Ash if another one of their stores has it in stock ?

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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 11:54 am
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thanks for the reply. Sam Ash told me that none of their stores have it in stock. I just can't believe i've been waiting since November for this guitar!


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Tue Apr 05, 2011 5:21 pm
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Well I wouldn't get too anxious about it. I ordered my Amer Deluxe last August and have been told another 2 months a number of times about every two months. The paint seems to be the reason stated the most often. The big retailers are saying August 2011 for just about all of the american mades, now. I gave up worrying about. Hey, maybe you'll be lucky and get it sooner.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Wed Apr 06, 2011 11:50 pm
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I believe it's due to the fact that they laid everybody off. There's nobody around to paint them. The lights are on, but nobody's home.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:45 am
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So demand for product is there but factory manpower is reduced? This sounds so much like every big business in America these days. Who suffers? The customers usually. So sad to hear as I am currently unemployed.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 11:30 am
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It is a sad state of events. The manufacturing industries not only lay people off but forget that there is significant time needed to train new people when demand rises. I too was laid off 1 1/2 years ago.
The good news is demand is on the rise and apparently Fender QC, at least, in not shipping inferior product (I hope). 2011 might not be the best year to purchase high quality product until they get their act together. (although I did buy a MIM Baja that I am very happy with)
Good luck.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 12:39 pm
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thanks for the replies everybody.
So basically, everything new put of the Fender Factory is taking a while?
It's a USA Telecaster and I was just wondering if anybody else who ordered a tele recently is having the same problem.


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Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 5:02 pm
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I really want to check out the new Blackguard Blonde, so I hope they start manufacturing and shipping those soon. That might be the ultimate Tele for me...so long as the neck is tinted and finished to my liking.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:25 pm
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i'd go with musicians friend or american musical. One thing for sure is that I would get a refund. no one should have to wait that long unless it's a custom instrument.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 7:29 pm
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lelms wrote:
Well I wouldn't get too anxious about it. I ordered my Amer Deluxe last August and have been told another 2 months a number of times about every two months. The paint seems to be the reason stated the most often. The big retailers are saying August 2011 for just about all of the american mades, now. I gave up worrying about. Hey, maybe you'll be lucky and get it sooner.


the music zoo has a couple in stock according to their site.
also they have 3 '62 am. vintage tele's too.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Thu Apr 07, 2011 9:11 pm
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Hey,that is the same reason that I was given on a BlackDove tele last year.....July...then August...then September...then maybe February....I ended up buying a different model which turned out to be a good deal but was not all that great in getting the BlackDove tele that I wanted.I still want one but I'm not willing to go through that again.

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Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 12:37 pm
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Save time and money, buy used :)


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 4:03 pm
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Yeah that's the excuse I got LAST SUMMER........ the paint issue I mean. I waited forever on an American Standard Strat and finally gave up and went searching in stores. Found the same one that I had ordered (Black, maple fretboard) and paid a lil more, but got it nonetheless. Right after x-mas 2010 I ordered an American Vintage '57 Strat. They kept giving me dates that kept coming and going. Still it was the paint issue. They said all American made Fender's were way behind on production. I ordered Sunburst and apparently they had a problem with that particular color because it's transparent? Or at least that's what I was told. So I changed it to black and finally got my last week. So I waited from the end of December to the beginning of April.


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Post subject: Re: Ordered a Tele. I'm being told Fender has Paint Problem
Posted: Fri Apr 08, 2011 5:51 pm
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Fender has problems with the paint supply since 2009/2010. :)

I was told one of their paint suppliers went out of bizness.


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