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New for 2013: American Rustic Ash Strat and Teles (link)

i have an ash strat. it's solid though not rustic... i like it well enough.. though i can't really tell a difference in sound over any other strat.

shame they don't have the tele in white

blane wrote:i have an ash strat. it's solid though not rustic... i like it well enough.. though i can't really tell a difference in sound over any other strat.

Yeah, I think I mostly like it for the aesthetic bits. Nothing wrong with that

Just get some whitewash and turn that stuff into shabby chic.

Was thinking a crackle glaze or perhaps a touch of the rag roller

Body wood quite literally means nothing on a Strat apart from having visible grain or not.
I don't like ash Fenders much, they're heavier than a '70s Les Paul on a bad day.

Chris Fleming wrote:shame they don't have the tele in white

fuck yes.
that 50's tele with a bigsby was trans white and looked amazing.

paul_ wrote:Body wood quite literally means nothing on a Strat apart from having visible grain or not.
I don't like ash Fenders much, they're heavier than a '70s Les Paul on a bad day.

Agreed...thanks, Paul. For all our obsessing about wood, it can't be over-empahsized. Wood is a minor variable (virtually undetectable by the human ear) in electric guitar tone.

BTW, Sloan, I used to spend lotsa time in Cleveland. I was an Ocoee guide and kayaker.

Cheers,

Doug wrote:BTW, Sloan, I used to spend lotsa time in Cleveland. I was an Ocoee guide and kayaker.

Wow!
We've got a pretty new Amazon fulfillment center and Wacker is building a plant here (solar tech from germany), so there's been a lot of bullshit being built up. Chain restaurants and hotels etc...

for some reason I was expecting the fungal infected wood like this, which can look quite cool



but then I realised that's spalted maple, not ash

These ash models look pony. with squier doing what they're doing at the moment it makes fenders moves like this look pathetic. Okay not pathetic, but uninspired maybe

Sloan wrote:

Doug wrote:BTW, Sloan, I used to spend lotsa time in Cleveland. I was an Ocoee guide and kayaker.

Wow!
We've got a pretty new Amazon fulfillment center and Wacker is building a plant here (solar tech from germany), so there's been a lot of bullshit being built up. Chain restaurants and hotels etc...

I always liked Cleveland. Some of the other guides were from there and I always stayed nearby at Hiwassee Outfitters. Small world!

Yeah, development's good in some ways, not so good in others. At least ya got a better tax base and more jobs. That's good for everyone who can tolerate the new metro-busy culture...and the ma & pa shops that get squeezed out of business

Cheers,

For some reason, I read the thread title as Fender "Rustic Ass" Series

71Smallbox wrote:For some reason, I read the thread title as Fender "Rustic Ass" Series

You don't always get what ya want...

Oh man I'd take back all the shit I've thrown in fenders face if they released a Rustic Ass line.

Dave wrote:Oh man I'd take back all the shit I've thrown in fenders face if they released a Rustic Ass line.

Fender marketing copy writers go wild:

"Fender's new Rustic Ass line...bodies an' necks carved from 100% Georgia mule bone. For ass-kickin bone tone."

RUSTED ASS

Thanks, WTR.