lol Fender

Hell, I recently got a Made in Indonesia Squier Jaguar and it was $400.

Wow. My Mexican Tele was $400, and I spent the saved cash on new pick-ups.

that WaPo piece is sad but I can't really bring myself to GAF about guys like Gruhn, or the industry in general. pretty much the same as I'll feel whenever people stop being all into collectable sneakers imho. NB: I do not own a guitar.

That WaPo article is one of the dumbest things I've ever read.

Three terrible companies are failing, must mean no one is buying electric guitars. Kind of like how no one goes on hikes as proven by REI failing.

There were always be good guitars available under $500, and the best of them won't be new.

Very true - these days the best deals are the Japanese solidbodies from the 70s and 80s. Greco, Tokai, Ibanez, Yamaha, JooDee, Orville, Burny et al. - all made killer instruments to immaculate standards and eventually ended up manufacturing for Fender and Gibson anyway. I bought my 1977 Greco Strat (sorry, Super Sounds) for $250 and it kills any other I have tried - and was only their midrange model.
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7291/16450649541_c44d6e4f28_o.jpg
L-R Greco 1976; Greco 1977; Squier Japan 1983; Ibanez 1984; Fender Japan 1985 - these all came from the same Fuji-gen Gakki factory.

jjj do you still have that red early 80s Yamaha I took a shine to last time I was in town? I'm gonna be back in August and if you still have it I wanna buy it (we're riding the train back to NYC this time so it's a chance for me to bring unwieldy stuff home muhaha)

I don't, but as always, I've got plenty of fun. Stop in when you're in town!

fender is one those brands where you just know it's quality, every time!

Xpost I will!!!

https://reverb.com/news/fender-builds-telecasters-with-original-bench-boards-from-the-hollywood-bowl

https://reverb-res.cloudinary.com/image/upload/v1500320167/Fender-1_emnjjx.jpg

perfect if you want a guitar that you can be sure thousands of asses have sat upon

think I spilled some orzo salad on that seat

massively corroded bridge vs pristine neck is partic upsetting to me

just imagining someone leaving it out in a rain storm

Yep, that's dumb.

Fender get in on the 'slap your logo on a Bluetooth speaker' business that Marshall have been doing lately.
https://www.fender.com/pages/audio-bluetooth-speakers/
£300 and £190 respectively.

They screwed up, if it had looked like a Princeton Reverb I would have loved it. Instead it looks like a cheap intercom with the wrong era logo on the wrong era cloth.
(oh shit did I just out myself as a Fender nerd?)

http://www.guitarworld.com/gear-news/fender-announces-supreme-white-strat/31582

http://www.guitarworld.com/sites/default/files/public/2017/08/supreme-instory.jpg

do not want

what the hell is that fretboard made from

ewww

I don't know, I kind of dig it other than the label. Reminds me of Prince's cloud:

https://www.premierguitar.com/ext/resources/images/content/2016_06/FEAT/Cloud-Guitar/PRINCE--MARCH-18-1985-PHOTO--DEBRA-TREBITZ--FRANK-WHITE-PHOTO-AGENCY--NASSAU-VETERANS-MEMORIAL-COLISEUM-UNIONDALE-NEW-YORK_WEB.jpg

Uhhhhh, "white" and "supreme" together?

https://i.imgflip.com/18ikl3.jpg

hitlercaster

at taco bell, supreme = sour cream. so this suits the taco bell of guitar luthiers.