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DanHeron wrote:here's another 2010 guitar:

American Special Strat HSS (black, 3colour sunburst) - £679.99:

Fender American Special Strat HSS main features include:

* Black finish
* Alder body with gloss urethane finish
* 9.5� radius Maple neck
* 2X Texas Special Single coil Pickups
* 1X Atomic Humbucker Pickup
* Vintage-Style Synchronized Trem

That is a a feature set that seems like it'd appeal to a lot of players. Very good job Fender.

Mike wrote:

dezb1 wrote:

robroe wrote:


Dick Dale Acoustics

Is Dick Dale the guy who designs Stevie Wonders Wardrobe?

I don't know what your joke is supposed to hinge on exactly.

And I don’t know why you’re telling me this; the fact that you’re a bit dense doesn’t concern me.

I'm dense is your explanation for your "joke" not working on any level whatsoever?

*golf. clap*

The joke sort of does work. Stevie Wonder wears ridiculously colourful clothing. This signature Dick Dale guitar is ridiculously colourful. It's fair to assume that it was Dick Dale who decided the colours on this guitar, so a joke can be made about him designing Stevie Wonder's wardrobe, just, it's not a very funny joke.

Unless Stevie Wonder designs his own wardrobe, in which case it doesn't make any sense.

BacchusPaul wrote:The joke sort of does work. Stevie Wonder wears ridiculously colourful clothing. This signature Dick Dale guitar is ridiculously colourful. It's fair to assume that it was Dick Dale who decided the colours on this guitar, so a joke can be made about him designing Stevie Wonder's wardrobe, just, it's not a very funny joke.

Unless Stevie Wonder designs his own wardrobe, in which case it doesn't make any sense.

i think mike's point is a joke needing that much explanation is one that missed the target. know your audience and all that. . .

I dunno, a Stevie Wonder joke to a board of musicians seems pretty reasonable... he was one of the more influential musicians of the past couple decades.

Goddamn that Jazz Bass is HAWT!

I was just thinking this. My taste in basses has completely changed in the last two years. Then, I would have said that bass was hot, now I think it looks stupid. I don't like all the covers and shit, I like a bass to look like it's for playing, stripped down and ready for action.

I can understand that, but I don't think the covers would really impede my playing style. I don't pick very often, and when I do, it's usually in the areas that aren't covered, and my finger picking would be right between the two covers. Of course, changing strings would be a bitch with the bridge cover, which is a down side.

I pick right on the bridge pickup for the most part.

this road worn shit has gotta end. why cn't people just fuck up their own guitars by, i dunno, playing them alot?

gaybear wrote:this road worn shit has gotta end. why cn't people just fuck up their own guitars by, i dunno, playing them alot?

Or kicking them down the street or something... Also that strat has Teh Kurdtz.. or is that just what I think?

As silly as those road worns are, I think they look, feel and sound terrific.

i'm sure they play great, i'm just never gonna get the appeal of buying something pre-worn to make it look like it has some sorta fake history, when you can buy a regular one and mark it with real history that happens to be your own.

yea, but japanese and mexican guitars with candy-esque poly finishes will never age that way. My Jag-Stang has chips off that don't look nearly as "vintage and relicy". It looks like someone nibbled on it.

i've never seen a 70s tele deluxe or whatever with that sort of wear on it. they were poly finishes.

tell a lie, i saw a picture of the guy from supergrass with one that had no finish left on the fretboard, but it looked more like it had been removed deliberately.

Sublimedo wrote:As silly as those road worns are, I think they look, feel and sound terrific.

Park me here. I was skeptical but waited to see and play one, and I was impressed.

stewart wrote:i've never seen a 70s tele deluxe or whatever with that sort of wear on it. they were poly finishes.

tell a lie, i saw a picture of the guy from supergrass with one that had no finish left on the fretboard, but it looked more like it had been removed deliberately.

Period correct wear?

Offset guitars is THAT way.

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