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Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:28 pm
by Mages
James wrote:mage wrote:ok, I see, they are at sam ash. I was wondering about the specifics of the bridge.
But.. a strat is a strat...
well duh, but I just wanna know how faithful it is to the 50s thing.
James wrote:mage wrote:dudes need to chill the ef out, that 50s reissue strat is fucking nice.
It would be nice for these to actually be 'new'. The cyclone was a rehash of old ideas but at least it wasnt another strat/tele/p bass/j bass. The toronado too, nothing revolutionary but at least they bothered to come up with a new shape.
I would be very surprised if Fender managed to release anything this year that haven't already done some time before 1970.
I know what your saying, I'm not a fan of the 1,000,000 different models of strats either. recently I've been digging the 50s strats though. and I personally don't have 1,000,000 different strats so a more affordable 50s strat is fine with me.
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:53 pm
by James
mage wrote:James wrote:mage wrote:ok, I see, they are at sam ash. I was wondering about the specifics of the bridge.
But.. a strat is a strat...
well duh, but I just wanna know how faithful it is to the 50s thing.
http://shortscale.org/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15911
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 10:57 pm
by Mages
yeah, I just saw that and was like, wait.... oh! haha
Posted: Sat May 31, 2008 11:37 pm
by Mike
paul_ wrote:Anyone else notice the proper tuners?
Yeah.
Pretty fucking awesome.
James they may not be new ideas or designs but they are at this
price point.
They're perfectly valid from where I'm standing.
You might have enough coin to go MIJ or MIM on these designs but a lot of people don't.
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 3:42 am
by robroe
from what i can tell these come with slot heads.
boner town slotheads
you think im just gonna post any old stupid bullshit? no.
they also have a new Tele Special that comes in pewter or black with a strat pickup in the neck instead of a chromer. but i didn't post that one cuz its fucking dumb
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 4:33 am
by Justin J
the basses look like they have big, fat leo quan style bridges.
that's pretty cool.
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 12:31 pm
by robroe
there are rumors going around on fdp that a duo sonic will be included in this line up.
they are all going to drop at summer NAMM aparently.
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:25 pm
by Bacchus
Are they actually made of pine?
Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 11:19 pm
by ultratwin
I believe just Le Tele is, mon frere.
Chances are it's either a harder variety than the easily unfinished dented white pine people use for cabin furniture, or is the soft stuff dipped in a gob of Fender's finest South East Asian Polycoat. Should be decent.
Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 5:10 pm
by Bacchus
hmmm, I was under the impression that pine was one of the least approriate woods for making a guitar, given that it's so soft you can dent it with the nails on your finger.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 10:46 am
by cooter
BacchusPaul wrote:hmmm, I was under the impression that pine was one of the least approriate woods for making a guitar, given that it's so soft you can dent it with the nails on your finger.
Coat it in poly and it's pretty much bulletproof I would imagine.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 8:37 pm
by Bacchus
cooterfinger wrote:BacchusPaul wrote:hmmm, I was under the impression that pine was one of the least approriate woods for making a guitar, given that it's so soft you can dent it with the nails on your finger.
Coat it in poly and it's pretty much bulletproof I would imagine.
Aye, but the wood'll still be soft. It's not the paint that is the tone wood, like.
It probably isn't a problem, but I'll steer clear, methinks.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:10 pm
by cooter
The tele is interesting but it's the Duo that has my attention. I honestly have had plywood guitars that sounded as good as tone wood to my ears but I'm a bit tone deaf.
Posted: Fri Jun 06, 2008 11:42 pm
by ElCapitan
my stratele was made out of chipboard and polyfilla and had a badass tone. fuck tone woods.
Posted: Sat Jun 07, 2008 1:45 am
by astro
BacchusPaul wrote:hmmm, I was under the impression that pine was one of the least approriate woods for making a guitar, given that it's so soft you can dent it with the nails on your finger.
I think that varies with the species of pine. Although all pines are technically softwoods, some are as hard as maple. Conversely, blasa wood is a hardwood, despite being as soft as polystyrene.