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Post subject: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri May 27, 2011 5:46 pm
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Anyone know why the "Browns Canyon" Telecaster name been changed to "Old Growth" Telecaster?

Did Fender run out of redwood from the original Browns Canyon railroad bridge and must now describe the guitar as Old Growth?

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Sat May 28, 2011 5:22 am
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They could have run out because they decided to build more than proposed because of demand. I was lusting after this one from the first time I saw it in the videos.

Or I'm betting there's a Brown's Canyon Deli, Brown's Canyon Hardware or a Brown's Canyon Fill Dirt and Croissants shop that sent them a cease-and-desist letter.

If it's the latter, I'm even more disgusted with myself for not having one because then the originally marked Brown's Canyon Teles would be even more of a collectors item!


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 6:36 pm
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"Bait and switch", offer one thing to dealers and the public at NAMM and deliver another. Not only has the name of the model changed, so has the engraved neck plate and lack of the Browns Canyon railraod bridge photo. Cancelled my order today after seeing this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... ESINDXX:IT

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 7:44 pm
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"They" have done the same thing with the Indiana Barnwood Tele. Now it's the "Old Pine" Tele or some such wording.

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-FEN-0170145-LIST

I've got a Telebration '62 Telecaster Custom on reserve with Sweetwater - I'm hoping it doesn't get jacked around too...

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 02, 2011 8:25 pm
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This whole topic has been going on for months on other forums....I know a couple of the promised Brown's Canyon Telecasters did make it to market.
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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 4:13 am
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I think the Browns Canyon pictured above is one of several that made it to Canada. Someone on the TGF mentioned some may have made it to Europe as well.

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 6:21 am
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theoneafter909 wrote:
I think the Browns Canyon pictured above is one of several that made it to Canada. Someone on the TGF mentioned some may have made it to Europe as well.

Correct theoneafter....that was I..there wasnt several though.. these are 2 that I do know of.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:19 am
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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 1:10 pm
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Still listed as Brown's Canyon here:

http://www.americanmusical.com/Item--i-FEN-0170142-LIST

Strangely the same shop that is now calling the Indiana Barn "Old Pine".

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 2:43 pm
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I am sure they will change it very soon....Yesterday the specs for the Old growth on Fenders site listed a Browns Canyon neck plate today it has been switched .


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 3:51 pm
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It might also be a supply problem. Maybe they realized that they couldn't get the 500 guitars out of the wood they had. So rather than lie to people and claim the wood came from the brown canyon bridge and the farmhouse they just changed the name of the special issue.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 03, 2011 8:35 pm
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raeldridge wrote:
They could have run out because they decided to build more than proposed because of demand. I was lusting after this one from the first time I saw it in the videos.

Or I'm betting there's a Brown's Canyon Deli, Brown's Canyon Hardware or a Brown's Canyon Fill Dirt and Croissants shop that sent them a cease-and-desist letter.

If it's the latter, I'm even more disgusted with myself for not having one because then the originally marked Brown's Canyon Teles would be even more of a collectors item!


I hate to say it but this is probably closer to the truth than other theories. One other thought is being from a railroad bridge, more wood was contaminated and unsuitable for guitar making purposes than originaly predicted.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 8:15 am
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Regardless the folks who were lucky enough to get the correctly labeled tele, all they're doing is watching the collector value head rapidly north.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Sat Jun 04, 2011 2:01 pm
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If anyone wants one of the Brown Canyon Telecasters, Harry's Guitar Shop just got one in the other day. I had a deposit on it, but I don't have the funds now to purchase it because I decided to buy my first new house, so that is where the money went. Call Harry if you want the guitar www.harrysguitarshop.com
Harry was going to hold it for me, but I told him to sell it to someone who has been drooling over wanting one. He prices' are great and he is also a great person to do business with. :D


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 12:56 am
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theoneafter909 wrote:
"Bait and switch", offer one thing to dealers and the public at NAMM and deliver another. Not only has the name of the model changed, so has the engraved neck plate and lack of the Browns Canyon railroad bridge photo. Cancelled my order today after seeing this: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... ESINDXX:IT

"theoneafter909," you are correct!!
Let me tell you 909, "I Dig a Pony."
And "Everything has got to be just like you want it to..., Because...!!!"

I pre-ordered a 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Flame Top Telecaster based on the picture of the guitar from NAMM.

When the Tele arrived, it was quite disappointing. The maple flame top should have been called a "lame top." The book matched Flamed maple top was extremely weak, to the point where the flamed maple top was nearly invisible, and the color varied from side to side of the book matched, flame top, maple halves beneath the bridge.

Here is a picture of the actual 2 color, 60th Anniversary Flame Top Telecaster, that I was to purchase at Pianos 'N Stuff. It is currently pictured on their Internet site:

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The guitar also had a long strange dark line on the back of the guitar which was either a very freak grain line for an alder bodied guitar, or a filled crack, which I would find hard to believe, had I not seen what appeared to be a filled crack. This was NOT a lamination line.

Here is an actual picture of the back guitar that I received from the Internet. The fairly low resolution picture really does not provide an adequate picture of the marking which multiple persons looked at and thought that it looked like a filled crack. While it could have been an odd grain marking, the impression that it "could have been" a "filled crack" was enough to nix the deal without consideration of other disqualifying factors.

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The production 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Flame Top Telecaster is also very different from the Flame Top Tele that was shown at NAMM, which was a 3 color, not a 2 color burst finish, with the NAMM Tele having a gold plated American Deluxe bridge, not the "cheesy" gold American Standard bridge, as on the production guitar.

Here's a picture of the "cheesy" gold American Standard bridge, on the production Flame Top Tele, complete with 13 "Fender" markings, including the silly looking mis-placed Fender logo on the plate, just in case you forget what kind of guitar you are playing.

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The 2 color 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Flame Top Telecaster that I received looked a lot like this guitar at the Music Zoo, so there are more poor examples out there:

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It certainly did not look like this beautiful 3 color, 60th Anniversary Flame Top Telecaster (prototype), with a gold American Deluxe bridge, that Fender displayed at NAMM in January, 2011, as an example of the actual production guitar.

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To top everything off, the Tele's "out of the box" intonation set-up was so poor that the guitar would not produce harmonic tones at the 5th and 7th frets.

While the "out of the box" set-up played no roll in my not purchasing the guitar, you would think that a knowledgeable Fender assembly person at the Corona, CA plant could adjust the intonation by eye, using a tape measure to measure the High "E" saddle placement, and you would think that the guitar should still be able to reproduce harmonic tones at the 5th and 7th frets in "out of the box" condition.

So the bottom line is that the Browns Canyon Telecaster is not the only "Telebration" guitar to under go significant and undesirable changes.

If anyone from Fender should read this, and be interested from a quality control standpoint, the guitar that I discuss above was the only 60th Anniversary Limited Edition Flame Top Telecaster that was sent in March, 2011 to "Pianos 'N Stuff," near Pittsburgh, PA., and is still listed on their web site on June 16, 2011.

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