Bronco-Sonic

speedfish · Post by **speedfish** » Mon May 30, 2016 3:11 am

This is kinda weirdly interesting:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Fender-Custom-S ... 1593358674?

jagsonic · Post by **jagsonic** » Mon May 30, 2016 8:11 am

Cool yes... but this price - about 10 times more as i paid for a similar guitar.

i know, cs...

speedfish · Post by **speedfish** » Mon May 30, 2016 1:48 pm

jagsonic wrote:Cool yes... but this price - about 10 times more as i paid for a similar guitar. i know, cs...

Yep and I don't understand the reference to the Bronco either. Just not a Bronco without the tremolo.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Tue May 31, 2016 5:53 am

They could've called it the "Charles Bronsonic" and they didn't, to give you an idea of how efficient Fender are these days.

HNB · Post by **HNB** » Tue May 31, 2016 5:55 am

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Tue May 31, 2016 6:38 pm

Fender seems to be terrible with picking names for their new guitars. If they had not called their Pawn Shop model a Mustang, but as someone suggested here a Fastback, they could have still been succesfully selling it

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Tue May 31, 2016 8:31 pm

There's been a bunch of guitars called Fastback already by small builders.

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Tue May 31, 2016 9:12 pm

sunshiner wrote:Fender seems to be terrible with picking names for their new guitars. If they had not called their Pawn Shop model a Mustang, but as someone suggested here a Fastback, they could have still been successfully selling it

The "Fastback" seems to have been Fender's original name for the PS Mustang. The pictures in the service manual have Fastback on the headstock. Interestingly* the service manual also appears to suggest they were originally intending to produce them in Mexico rather than Japan, where the original run with the truss rod adjustment at the heel were made.

*Not interestingly.

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Tue May 31, 2016 9:16 pm

Never knew any of that, cool info.

paul_ · Post by **paul_** » Thu Jun 02, 2016 11:06 pm

I remember them doing a press or NAMM release or something for the Fastback, with the pictures that ended up in the manual.
I also thought the PS Mustang ended up as both Mexican and Japanese guitars at different times, but could be wrong.

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:22 pm

paul_ wrote:I also thought the PS Mustang ended up as both Mexican and Japanese guitars at different times, but could be wrong.

Absolutely correct, although there might be some overlap between the two. I'm still interested in the Japanese version...

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:32 pm

Yeah, the Japanese one came first (in LPB and CAR). Then they moved production to Mexico and added a sunburst version (think they were part of the "Pawnshop 2.0" range).

The Mexican ones have the truss rod adjustment on the headstock and a more satin neck.

The Japanese ones for the domestic market were known as the MG Custom and didn't have "special" on the headstock. They also did those in vintage white:

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:33 pm

Haha. Fcking word filter

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:49 pm

paul_ wrote:I remember them doing a press or NAMM release or something for the Fastback, with the pictures that ended up in the manual.

Thanks for the info. Prompted me to do a bit of googling. Looks like Premier Guitar posted some pictures of the Fastback on their Facebook page prior to the launch but I'm just getting a lot of dead links.

Did find this though:

BearBoy · Post by **BearBoy** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 12:58 pm

Managed to find the Premier Guitar Facebook photo:

jcyphe · Post by **jcyphe** » Fri Jun 03, 2016 3:47 pm

OK I remember this now, those photos jogged my memory.

sunshiner · Post by **sunshiner** » Sat Jun 04, 2016 8:14 am

BearBoy wrote: "Pawnshop Blaze It"

singlepup · Post by **singlepup** » Sun Jun 05, 2016 4:06 pm

I've tried the Japanese ones in guitar stores on multiple occasions. They're fun to play and the WRHBs sound pretty good. I'm just worried that I would play it for a month and then decide that the 9.5" radius isn't for me. Getting older and more picky

speedfish · Post by **speedfish** » Wed Jun 08, 2016 2:07 pm

Just goes to show that even Fender doesn't have access to Bronco tremolos.

NickS · Post by **NickS** » Wed Jun 08, 2016 10:04 pm

speedfish wrote:Just goes to show that even Fender doesn't have access to Bronco tremolos.

This