IMPORTANT OBSERVATION: Road worn strats/teles

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:14 am

I went to GC today and saw a whole display of them. Don't know if it was mentioned in the other thread but an old friend that still works there pointed out to me:

The number and location of dings/chips is identical on every guitar! it's like one medium sized, 3 small dings on the upper horn, forearm contour wear, then like 5 small dings surrounding the jack plate and well, just look at the supersized picture from the fender site, it's IDENTICAL on every single guitar.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:24 am

That's really shitty, but hardly surprising.

Maybe they used the same road each time.

gaybear · Post by **gaybear** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:42 am

Nick wrote:I went to GC today and saw a whole display of them. Don't know if it was mentioned in the other thread but an old friend that still works there pointed out to me:

The number and location of dings/chips is identical on every guitar! it's like one medium sized, 3 small dings on the upper horn, forearm contour wear, then like 5 small dings surrounding the jack plate and well, just look at the supersized picture from the fender site, it's IDENTICAL on every single guitar.

well, of course. factory made "relic" is gonna be the same. what's the surprise?

Nick · Post by **Nick** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 4:46 am

Well, the Joe Strummer tele, each one was different. Some had almost no finish at all, some were mostly finish, some were mostly primer. Each one I've seen was unique.

the marking's aren't all identical like they're done with a machine, but they definitely have a code that they go by. I guess it's so if you're buying one you know if marks were "intentional wear" or if it was "added" later by an actual ding.

ultratwin · Post by **ultratwin** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 1:38 pm

Fender's response to the squilions of guitars returned and thrown on the B-list: Never another scratch-n-dent special from this guitar line. Unless you want to be an ass trying to point out a non-intentional factory scratch/chip that doesn't belong there, that is.

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:12 pm

The mongs who buy them deserve their mass produced damage

I'd be ashamed to go into a shop and ask for one .... can I have one just like that but a bit battered

no sir we don't have one of them....but I can take it outside and go 12 rounds with it if you'd like

yeah super ta

TITS

ekwatts · Post by **ekwatts** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:15 pm

Hahaha, "mong". I don't use that word enough.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:16 pm

Don't like that word. racist and ignorant in so many ways, like.

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:19 pm

Is it racist?

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:28 pm

Un-PC, but racist? 0_o

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:28 pm

If these don't flop, I lose what little faith I have left in guitar players.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:31 pm

I think they'll do well short term to fit the probably very small nichÃ©, and as a novelty.

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:33 pm

I think they will sell when I was younger I would of liked the idea

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:42 pm

BobArsecake wrote:Un-PC, but racist? 0_o

Well, does the term not imply that people with downs syndrome look like people from Mongolia, hence the term mongoloid?

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:44 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:
BobArsecake wrote:Un-PC, but racist? 0_o
Well, does the term not imply that people with downs syndrome look like people from Mongolia, hence the term mongoloid?

I never made that connection, is that where it definitely originates from?

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:45 pm

I know that 'mongoloid' would have been a commonly used professional term until more recent times.

I can't imagine the word 'mong' not being a derivation.

BobArsecake · Post by **BobArsecake** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 5:51 pm

BacchusPaul wrote:I know that 'mongoloid' would have been a commonly used professional term until more recent times.

I can't imagine the word 'mong' not being a derivation.

I see, crikey D:

nomorebridge · Post by **nomorebridge** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 6:03 pm

The way I figured it mong just means idiot now days.... I know it has something to do with Downs or whatever but I thought it had been reclaimed as it were. Nevermind

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Sat Jan 10, 2009 9:35 pm

Down's Syndrome

Since people with Down syndrome may have epicanthic folds, the condition was widely called "Mongol" or "Mongoloid Idiocy"[48] John Langdon Down, for whom the syndrome was named, claimed in his book Observations on the Ethnic Classification of Idiots (1866), that the Mongol-like features represented an evolutionary degeneration when manifested in Caucasoids. The use of the term "Mongoloid" for racial purposes has therefore acquired negative connotations because of the connection with Down syndrome.

from wiki.

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Sun Jan 11, 2009 1:13 am

Mongoloid is actually the scientific term for the asian bone structure though. The other bone structures being Negroid and Caucasoid.

IMPORTANT OBSERVATION: Road worn strats/teles

IMPORTANT OBSERVATION: Road worn strats/teles

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