New Fender Modern Player Series?!?

Dannymec · Post by **Dannymec** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:40 pm

The black marauder picture they released looks terrible. The blue one looks decent though.

I could rock it.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:44 pm

The knob location is more Strat-like on that Jag for teh volume swells, which is something that always irritated me about Strats. I tend to catch the volume knob when i strum, much prefer them out of the way like on original Jags, Stangs and Teles.

In my opinion the Toronado is a more pleasing design than these Jaguars, they seem to have a pointless mass of wood with minimal hardware, yet the Toronado is more in proportion...

Thom · Post by **Thom** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:05 pm

Fran wrote:In my opinion the Toronado is a more pleasing design than these Jaguars, they seem to have a pointless mass of wood with minimal hardware, yet the Toronado is more in proportion...

And they don't have a Strat jack...seriously no excuse for that.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:08 pm

Thom wrote:
Fran wrote:In my opinion the Toronado is a more pleasing design than these Jaguars, they seem to have a pointless mass of wood with minimal hardware, yet the Toronado is more in proportion...
And they don't have a Strat jack...seriously no excuse for that.

Amen to that.

taylornutt · Post by **taylornutt** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:10 pm

DanHeron wrote:wow the jaguar looks a lot better in this colour:

Maybe they should just re-release the Toronado as a 24" scale instrument. That's all this really is except with a Jaguar shape and no ugly strat jack.

theshadowofseattle · Post by **theshadowofseattle** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:22 pm

IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT MARAUDER YOU ARE OUT OF YOUR MIND

THIS IS HUGE

THIS THE BEST THING FENDER HAS DONE IN YEARS

lorez · Post by **lorez** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:58 pm

lots of interesting guitars in this range and those prices great if the UK ones are close to those euro ones. Fair play to Fender for mixing it up after having 70 plus variations of the strat

mellowlogic · Post by **mellowlogic** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:44 pm

sholkham wrote:wow, the marauder looks like a Bilt guitar minus all the cool stuff

That's the worst thing I've ever seen.

George · Post by **George** » Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:50 pm

mellowlogic wrote:
sholkham wrote:wow, the marauder looks like a Bilt guitar minus all the cool stuff

That's the worst thing I've ever seen.

The Bilt is a copy of the original 60s Fender Marauder so it's not surprising.

othomas2 · Post by **othomas2** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:38 am

Personally this is my favourite from the bunch

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:48 am

They should rerelease the Katana by now.

serfx · Post by **serfx** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:33 am

othomas2 wrote:Personally this is my favourite from the bunch

i just like those pickups..

and they look like they might Drop into a gibson EB/SG bass really nicely

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:02 am

Berto wrote:call me crazy, but i really dig the marauder

Billy3000 · Post by **Billy3000** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:16 am

serfx wrote:
othomas2 wrote:Personally this is my favourite from the bunch

i just like those pickups..

and they look like they might Drop into a gibson EB/SG bass really nicely

I like the look of this too. I don't normally like the regular telecaster basses with just the neck humbucker pickup, cause they always sound too muddy to me. I figure that a bridge humbucker should balance that out. I'm interested to try one of these out.

Noirie. · Post by **Noirie.** » Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:46 pm

Haze wrote:also available in lake placid blue

Reminds me of this old Tanglewood Super Six a shop near me has in at the moment.

Zack · Post by **Zack** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:22 pm

tele thinline should have been the tc-90 reissue
jaguar should have been the toronado reissue
maurader should have been the previous models or not done at all.

what a buncha poo. like stated in other comments, fender needs to quit putting strat parts all over everything.

MikeG · Post by **MikeG** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:51 pm

They look fucking awful.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:33 pm

Apparently the only thing worse then Fender resting on their laurels is when they attempt something new.

Haters gonna hate.

Fran · Post by **Fran** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:35 pm

Hardly new though Ends, everything here is largely based on an existing or old design.

endsjustifymeans · Post by **endsjustifymeans** » Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:44 pm

There's only so many way to cut a piece of wood and attach magnetic pickups to it. I think that Marauder is WAY out there for Fender. New body style and a triple stacked bucker?

Guitarists are actually a pretty conservative bunch, there's only so much change we can tolerate at once and I think Fender nailed it. It's not like anybody here is going to be rocking some mathematically designed headstockless carbon fiber jobber any time soon.