Mustang / and fender 51 / 72 (+ CV Tele colour pg 8)

Mages · Post by **Mages** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 4:40 pm

umm...

Mages wrote:it would definitely look better with something like a toronado bridge

but yeah, I think it's only a small complaint in an otherwise pretty cool guitar. also, we don't really know what the final guitar will look like, this is likely a prototype we are looking at. of course it wouldn't surprise me in the least if it has the strat hardtail in the final but we can cross our fingers I suppose.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:15 pm

The Mustang type thing looks kind of neat from that one picture but I would need to see a bigger photo.

Atleast Fender is doing something with the different body shapes besides the Telecaster and Strat. They're never going to make everybody 100% happy, but so what.

Besides Schecter Motor Ave. guitars who is a smaller builder also used Fastback for a model he made, that might be discontinued. Silvertone also has a recent model called Fastback.

Dannymec · Post by **Dannymec** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 5:32 pm

Why not just use the Squier jazzmaster bridge? Don't they have an excess of those now?
Then they can at least call it a DUO-SONIC II

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:57 pm

because those bridges are ugly and shit.

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 6:58 pm

prolly because those parts are an ocean away.

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:16 pm

I wouldn't mind the strat hardtail bridge on it if they made the pickguard fit around it correctly. It's only stupid if they have the pickguard shaped for the normal mustang bridge.

Grant · Post by **Grant** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:44 pm

Strat style hardtail is perfect, non-wraparound pickguard is fine but

endsjustifymeans wrote:He's right, toronado bridge would have made all the difference.

I just so happen to have one of these lying around! Am sooo excite. Like honestly, you guys have no idea. I even have a cooterfinger body I was gonna route for WHRBs.

Which... might still be a cheaper option depending on the price of this thing. Hmm.

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:45 pm

do we have release dates or cost?

SKC Willie · Post by **SKC Willie** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:48 pm

we don't even have real pictures yet.

probably an early april fools joke

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 7:52 pm

I am not even wondering about an exact cost but what product line it will be equivalent to.... blacktop at $450, or Classic Player at $800.....

I have a felling it will be more the $800 range

I also find it funny Fender is basically moving from their roots to HB's... good for me, bad for purists

I was dead set on buying a Squier Jag for modding this next fall but I may be waiting on this Stanger Fastback

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:30 pm

Basically how my Jagmaster mod will look when I eventually finish it!

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 8:36 pm

just had to repost this so i can periodically look at it from behind a place without the facebook:

George · Post by **George** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:35 pm

It looks like it has the vintage styled folded saddles which gets my vote (even though it's easy as pie to change). It's probable it'll line up for a Toronado bridge anyway.

SGJarrod · Post by **SGJarrod** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:52 pm

hotrodperlmutter wrote:just had to repost this so i can periodically look at it from behind a place without the facebook:

AKA...he needs jerk material at wizork...

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:21 pm

Richard Greco, you see right through me.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:44 pm

Hotrod, just posted those items you bought from me.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:49 pm

much obliged, friend.

honeyiscool · Post by **honeyiscool** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 10:57 pm

I have no problem with HB routes. Given that I like to change pickups, you can easily put a single coil in the route, and if one thing pisses me off about the Mustang, and it's probably the only thing, is that in the standard body, the bridge route is backwards, which means that staggered pickups end up all wrong. A HB routed Mustang gets rid of that problem for me.

Plus, the P-rails, which might be the most fun pickups ever, will probably fit nicely, and the three-way switches plus the pickup selector would be perfect for them.

hotrodperlmutter · Post by **hotrodperlmutter** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:23 pm

found this pic on a private forum. the gent who posted it says he got this pic direct from a source at fender, who says that this is official:

i know, i wish it was some sort of over the top jokey troll thing instead of this supposed legit hunkapoopee.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:28 pm

Wow you found another one of the releases... awesome. Guess I was just being paranoid haha.. I personally like it. Not sure about the mismatched covers.