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Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:40 pm
by Dannymec
The black marauder picture they released looks terrible. The blue one looks decent though.
I could rock it.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 7:44 pm
by Fran
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...
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:05 pm
by Thom
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:08 pm
by Fran
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:10 pm
by taylornutt
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.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:22 pm
by theshadowofseattle
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
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 8:58 pm
by lorez
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
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:44 pm
by mellowlogic
sholkham wrote:wow, the marauder looks like a Bilt guitar minus all the cool stuff
That's the worst thing I've ever seen.
Posted: Mon Sep 26, 2011 9:50 pm
by George
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:38 am
by othomas2
Personally this is my favourite from the bunch
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 12:48 am
by Bacchus
They should rerelease the Katana by now.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 1:33 am
by serfx
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
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:02 am
by endsjustifymeans
Berto wrote:call me crazy, but i really dig the marauder
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:16 am
by Billy3000
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.
Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2011 4:46 pm
by Noirie.
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 2:22 pm
by Zack
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.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 5:51 pm
by MikeG
They look fucking awful.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:33 pm
by endsjustifymeans
Apparently the only thing worse then Fender resting on their laurels is when they attempt something new.
Haters gonna hate.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:35 pm
by Fran
Hardly new though Ends, everything here is largely based on an existing or old design.
Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 6:44 pm
by endsjustifymeans
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.