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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 11:52 am
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I am very disappointed that the guitar I was going to buy was not the Brown Canyon Telecaster that I saw at the winter Namm Show. Fender has disappointed me for the first time ever and it will take sometime for me to get over it.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Wed Jun 15, 2011 2:50 pm
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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:10 pm
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I just talked to one of the Fender district managers and it sounds like the supplier of the wood from the trestle was not able to supply enough redwood from the trestle to make the 500 guitars so they had to go to another source. Hence the name change. From what he told me he thinks only a few got out with the brown's canyon trestle wood, only about 10. So if you have one with the certificate and the neckplate then it's one of only a few, so it's very collectible.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 1:20 pm
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Fender should have informed their dealers and customers of this, because I would not have put in a order for the Brown Canyon if I had had this information earlier in the year. Oh well maybe something else will come along at the next winter Namm Show from Fender that will spark my interest.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 2:00 pm
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bmckeen wrote:
I just talked to one of the Fender district managers and it sounds like the supplier of the wood from the trestle was not able to supply enough redwood from the trestle to make the 500 guitars so they had to go to another source. Hence the name change. From what he told me he thinks only a few got out with the brown's canyon trestle wood, only about 10. So if you have one with the certificate and the neck plate then it's one of only a few, so it's very collectible.

I'd like to hear this story in a little more detail from someone in a higher Fender corporate position than a District Manager.

It would seem highly unlikely, and most likely bogus, that there is not enough wood from an entire bridge to build 500 Telecaster bodies, regardless of how bad of a condition the bridge was in. It seems quite odd that Fender would embark on the Browns Canyon Telecaster marketing campaign, absent knowledge that there was an adequate supply of redwood from the Browns Canyon Bridge.

More likely, there was a cost change provision that was provided for under the wood contract, associated with the amount of waste wood generated to provide select slabs of redwood. The contract may also have contained an escape clause or a right of refusal associated with such a related change in cost.

After an initial processing run of select wood from the bridge, there may have been a price rise under the contract. Fender may have refused a price increase associated with the processing of the wood, and exercised an escape clause or a right of refusal under the contract.

Otherwise, there was likely a breach of contract by someone, which may have included the rejection of a substantial amount of wood by Fender due to wood quality, that arguably did not conform with Fender's intent and agreement under the contract. It's possible that this coincided with Fender's discovery of a more affordable source of recycled old growth redwood.

The use of the term "Browns Canyon" Telecaster was likely limited under contract to the use of the actual bridge redwood.
That would force a change in the name of the "Browns Canyon" Telecaster.

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Thu Jun 16, 2011 8:42 pm
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After locating pictures on line, of the "actual" 60th Anniversary Flame Top Tele that I had pre-ordered, I have added some additional pictures and descriptions to my above posting, in order to further illustrate my criticism of this "Telebration" Telecaster and the changed that were made to these guitars from what was displayed at NAMM 2011.


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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 6:34 am
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Hi all the following link to an earlier topic has an explanation why the change in name

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56971&start=15

Brown's Canyon sounds better to me than Old Growth, I bet Fender where not too happy with the supplier!!!

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Post subject: Re: Why has the Browns Canyon Telecaster name been changed?
Posted: Fri Jun 24, 2011 11:37 am
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ukraider wrote:
Hi all the following link to an earlier topic has an explanation why the change in name

viewtopic.php?f=7&t=56971&start=15

Brown's Canyon sounds better to me than Old Growth, I Fender where not too happy with the supplier!!!

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