Fender Limited Edition Shortboard Mustang

brainfur · Post by **brainfur** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:31 pm

lol "shawbucker" wankers

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:32 pm

ultratwin wrote:Looks like a slab of shortbread.

That's what I keep reading.

It'll probably transpire some years down the line that Fender had a load of parts again that they didn't know what to do with so made a run of shite to get rid of them.

It also reminds me of when you're a kid and you draw something that you're really proud of, and you keep adding bits to it and you ruin it. However, instead of Fender getting angry with themselves for bollocksing up some great work, because they're making money (I assume some people will buy these) they're going through the back catalogue and fucking up everything they ever did that was good.

dezb1 · Post by **dezb1** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:50 pm

I like it, should have an N6 sticker on it...

Golden_Sonic · Post by **Golden_Sonic** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 3:56 pm

brainfur wrote:fender need to hire some sleazy italians to design new guitars

Why italians?

cur · Post by **cur** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 4:23 pm

Golden_Sonic wrote:
brainfur wrote:fender need to hire some sleazy italians to design new guitars
Why italians?

Because G&L hired up all the French.

But really they should just hire up G&L because Fender is just making a bad copy of G&L's good copy.

stewart · Post by **stewart** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 5:06 pm

fuck that double cut tele too. stinkin'.

Fakir Mustache · Post by **Fakir Mustache** » Fri Jan 23, 2015 6:18 pm

Golden_Sonic wrote:
brainfur wrote:fender need to hire some sleazy italians to design new guitars
Why italians?

I think he likes this: http://www.fetishguitars.com/

But maybe Italians today would not design the same types of guitars.

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:26 am

Golden_Sonic wrote:
brainfur wrote:fender need to hire some sleazy italians to design new guitars
Why italians?

Because Italians design cool shit..

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:08 am

MatthewK wrote:It's like a home build project that someone proudly posts in the forums, everyone says "oh yeah, nice one, great" and never, ever looks at the thread again.

Until the same guy makes the thread annually 3 more years in a row and gets super pissed off when people link to the older editions/don't appreciate recordings made with shortscale guitars.

wadeaminute · Post by **wadeaminute** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:41 am

I dig it for what it is. A hard-tailed, P90ed, shortscale guitar with an interesting laminated, real-wood feature that looks like racing stripes. If they would have stained it with a transparent surf-green, and if it was $499, I might. Blue stain, even. But they were going for a surf board reference, so that's fine.
It could be much worse - they could have made it a 25.5" scale...

awfurby · Post by **awfurby** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:21 am

link to all the new fenders

Rox · Post by **Rox** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:13 am

Is it me or are there a lot of humbuckered Fenders ?

There's some crap this year but it isn't all too bad .. The Roadword Jazzmasters and Jaguars are cool. The Laquer ones also . The Sandblasted Ash teles look bitchin... The Sergio Vallin Offset Strat thing looks pretty cool. I'm mixed on the Longboard Strat and Shortboard Mustang.. The David Lozeau strats seem too " Affliction " but the price is not too bad . There's some shit but they're not all duds ..

Golden_Sonic · Post by **Golden_Sonic** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:34 am

I'm not proud of my country, especially if we talk about guitars&co. , but vintage Eko, Meazzi and other old italian guitars sound pretty well and also at a good price: you can easily get an old Eko for less than 400â‚¬. Besides, I think that vintage italian guitars are as cool shit as Eastwood guitars, and Eastwood makes really good instruments IMHO.

weeping_moon · Post by **weeping_moon** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:53 am

No thanks Fender!!!!

Why finally put stripes all around on this ugly model?

Put out the original comp colors with the original mustang feauters and do the stripe all around.
Comp orange, dark placid blue, candy apple red.
And make them with matching headstocks as well. 7.25 radius.

This is almost as ugly as the mexican ones made with p-90s.

P-90s maybe sound good but i hate the look of it.

Mustangs are great guitars why ruin them?

Freddy V-C · Post by **Freddy V-C** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 12:52 pm

That Mustang is horrible, but it actually looks okay next to THIS MONSTROSITY. WHAT THE FUCK!!??!?

James · Post by **James** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:12 pm

Such a shame. They did all the hard work. Strat hardtail. Brilliant switch placement. Non-slotted tuners (taking a bit of a guess there). Wrong anniversary 50th anniversary year. It's only a strat jack away from being the slice of perfection it should have been.

YuriK · Post by **YuriK** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 1:51 pm

Freddy V-C wrote:That Mustang is horrible, but it actually looks okay next to THIS MONSTROSITY. WHAT THE FUCK!!??!?

That doesnt even look like a fucking fender.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 2:29 pm

oh my.

Golden_Sonic · Post by **Golden_Sonic** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:31 pm

They're trying to copy the look of the vintage Aria Pro TS series:

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Sat Jan 24, 2015 3:35 pm

Yeah, first thing I thought of when I saw that Strat was the Aria bass John Taylor used to have in the early 80s. Like this: