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Since loving all this talk of " Fender will be shit in the next 10 years " and whatnot today I got froggy , hopped on my bike and zoomed down to the Fender Museum in Corona, CA which happens to be just over a 1/2hr drive from my place .. Thought I would share some of the pics ...........



The ORIGINAL Kurdst JagStang Prototype :




The original signature guitar to Kurdt's slug.......





A really cool gold glitter Jag......


Eric Clapton's original Strat....


The original Stevie Ray.....


Wanna say this is Thom Yorke's Tele.......


They had one of these at the Custom Shop Factory ... The Wayne Kramer Strat . It plays remarkable ... I did not think it was a Mexi Strat . And that middle humbucker is pure punk. Jammed on it through a Blues Jr and a Hotrod DeVille ... It's really nice .. And the Blues Jr is an awesome tiny lil amp IMO ......


Hope you liked the viddles...

Rox wrote:Wanna say this is Thom Yorke's Tele.......

Nope.

Cool pics, velly intellesting.

The Tele guy is Andy Summers.

Wow.. Post some stuff on the Fender Museum and the only 2 post are critiques .... Sheesh..

PROTIPS:

1. Quit whining. Your first post was antagonistic, what did you expect in turn?

2. Keep posting rad Fender museum shots.

I love the Venus and orig. JS. I only wish Kurt had ordered a flatter/bigger butt end to the thing.

theshadowofseattle wrote:I only wish Kurt had ordered a flatter/bigger butt end to the thing.

When I looked at the cut up pictures, it makes me want to build my own JS with a mustang pickup and a hotrail like he asked for. The humbucker wasn't in the original plans it looks like.

Rox wrote:Wow.. Post some stuff on the Fender Museum and the only 2 post are critiques .... Sheesh..

I didn't critique anything. I just pointed out that the guy in the picture was Andy Summers and the Tele was his (or a model of his).

Yeah, a tiny correction followed by a compliment doesn't equal a critique. Wasn't like I picked you up on your flash handling.

mickie took me there. it sucked. its the size of an apartment. if you want to see a real fender museum go to the HOG

That's not the Jag-Stang prototype, though it likely served as one for the production model... Kurt's earlier blue JS was slightly cooler looking to me, as it had a solid white pickguard which matched the lower curve perfectly.

The guitar labeled "original Stevie Ray" is "Lenny", an old '60s Strat that SRV's wife Lenny bought him before he was famous. He swapped the neck out for an offbrand all-maple one with a thicker profile and he used it to play the instrumental "Lenny" and then a soundalike replacement instrumental later in his career (after divorcing Lenny). Fender bought it and made a limited $10,000 copy like they did with Clapton's Blackie and Rory Gallagher's Strat.

I always found it interesting that Fender occasionally painstakingly recreate premium custom limited runs of low-end Fender copies, like they did for Billie Joe Armstrong with his "Blue" Fernandes Strat copy in the late '90s... they made him some Fender Custom Shop backups of it with a JB chiseled into the bridge position all shitty after his tech assured him that the real Blue would not survive another refret. In the SRV case they carefully copied an AllParts/Boogie licensed copy neck or something. Maybe in 10 years time they'll be doing $5,000 sigs based on Squiers, with period-correct minipots commissioned from CTS.

paul_ wrote:That's not the Jag-Stang prototype, though it likely served as one for the production model... Kurt's earlier blue JS was slightly cooler looking to me, as it had a solid white pickguard which matched the lower curve perfectly.

Isn't that the second Jag-Stang? The one that wasn't able to be delivered to Kurt before he died?

I should make my own BJ Armstrong Strat tribute with my strat. LOL


DSC03940 by Hentai No Baka, on Flickr

paul_ wrote:Fender bought it and made a limited $10,000 copy like they did with Clapton's Blackie and Rory Gallagher's Strat.

Pretty sure Rory's strat still belongs to his brother Donal, with the original strings on it that Rory last played with before he died. I remember reading an interview with Donal talking about how big a deal it was shipping it to Fender when he considered it like a precious relic, and how happy he was to get it returned.

Always seemed a strange guitar to try to copy exactly to me, given that the neck had to be changed on it so often because Rory's sweat would melt the wood or something.

I might be wrong though, it was a good few years back that I read that interview, I may have made some stuff up in the meantime.

Oh yeah, I just meant the limited run replicas were of the same ilk, not that they also bought those other guitars... I think GC owns Blackie now rather than Fender.
I don't think the neck on Rorys strat was changed a lot, but Fender did give him a 60s style neck to put on it when the original warped from heat/moisture. He ended up swapping them back when the original settled back to where it could be adjusted. It was refretted a lot; they said when they took it apart that it has a badly done fretjob as is, with jagged-edged jumbos.
They did a great interview with Donal when the Strat came out, he traveled with Rory so he's got stories of his own about the gear... I believe he bought some of it in the first place.

Rox wrote:

Such a sweet ass guitar.

BacchusPaul wrote:

paul_ wrote:Fender bought it and made a limited $10,000 copy like they did with Clapton's Blackie and Rory Gallagher's Strat.

Pretty sure Rory's strat still belongs to his brother Donal, with the original strings on it that Rory last played with before he died. I remember reading an interview with Donal talking about how big a deal it was shipping it to Fender when he considered it like a precious relic, and how happy he was to get it returned.

Always seemed a strange guitar to try to copy exactly to me, given that the neck had to be changed on it so often because Rory's sweat would melt the wood or something.

I might be wrong though, it was a good few years back that I read that interview, I may have made some stuff up in the meantime.

By coincidence, I've just read the latest issue of guitarist on my iPad about Rory's strat. Donal let joe bonamassa play the real deal original at a gig recently. Doesn't say wether he changed out the strings or not.

From what I gather the strings on it were furry with rust and unplayable, so I'd imagine they'd've been changed. Again, the interview I read was a good while ago, so all sorts could've changed since then.

Fender might have taken them off if they dismantled it to clone it. Presumably with permi$$ion.
Currently in our set "Bought and Sold" - about ready to gig "Brute Force & Ignorance" (with slide).

ekwatts wrote:

Rox wrote:

Such a sweet ass guitar.

just got the vista model like this.

i happen to have sold my early 60s silver/glitter top Fender Rhodes Piano Bass to the Fender museum... some 5 or so years ago.
i've seen pics of it on display, but dunno if it's this museum or the other one (fender music center or something it was called).

it was DEAD mint and my 1st "big" ebay sale!

Pat.

ps: you guys know that Courtney did NOT design the Venus at all, right?