Username: Password:
« previous next »
Pages: 1 [2] 3

Author Topic: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$  (Read 6643 times)

Gizmo

  • Bantamweight
  • **
  • Posts: 192
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #15 on: January 04, 2009, 10:19:14 PM »
Does anyone know if they'll have humbucker routing?

I know some of the MIM do but the 50's and 60's classics didnt?

I like the tele's and am looking forward to trying them after speaking to a UK dealer who has tried one and said they're great.

I like both colours but the blonde really needs a black pic guard. Dodgy paint colouring in but i think this looks much better.

Logged

dheim

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 1945
  • DON'TPANIC!
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #16 on: January 04, 2009, 10:32:39 PM »
uhm... i can't get the point of buying an OLD - not vintage - looking guitar, unless it's really old (and this means a lot of money)... in general i'm worried about the risk of scratching the paint on my axes, and i wouldn't spend extra money for an already scratched guitar! you know, entropy is a natural and unavoidable law of phisics... have just a bit of patience, and your guitars will look very OLD and vintage in 20 or 30 years!  :)
Logged
Mule, MQ, Stockholm, CS, RY, MM, PK, ANB, CNB, AWP, CWP, PiG90...

too many? ;)

Twinfan

  • Light Heavyweight
  • ******
  • Posts: 10528
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #17 on: January 04, 2009, 10:41:35 PM »
Quote from: dheim on January 04, 2009, 10:32:39 PM
in general i'm worried about the risk of scratching the paint on my axes...have just a bit of patience, and your guitars will look very OLD and vintage in 20 or 30 years!  :)

Yours won't!  You have to be pretty harsh on them for a long while before they get really beaten up...
Logged

Twinfan

  • Light Heavyweight
  • ******
  • Posts: 10528
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #18 on: January 17, 2009, 04:16:58 PM »
I've just seen some Road Worns in Sounds Great - can't believe they're here so quickly!!!  The guitars were quite nice in the flesh, fairly light, and the relic-ing was 'OK'.  Just 'OK'.

I'm not sure if I like them.  £750 seems like a good price to beat Nash/McGuire etc but their relic-ing is much much nicer..............
Logged

badgermark

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 1864
  • Mm-hai!
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #19 on: January 17, 2009, 04:35:32 PM »
Thing is, every single one is identical. Same relic job on each guitar.
Logged
Mississippi Queens, Holydiver.

Twinfan

  • Light Heavyweight
  • ******
  • Posts: 10528
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #20 on: January 17, 2009, 04:35:56 PM »
Yup - that's the issue I have with them.
Logged

AndyR

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 4715
  • Where's all the top end gone?
    • My Offerings
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #21 on: January 17, 2009, 04:45:39 PM »
Not seen one yet, so I've got an open mind at the moment.

It wouldn't worry me they all look the same - I'd only have one (of each? :roll:) in the living room :lol:

What does concern me is "are they better built/players" than the equivalent un-worn Fender Japan guitars that are about £100 cheaper (if you can find them) last time I looked...

Luckily I'm fairly gas-less at the moment. It seems like 2008 was a frantic year of gear acquisition and 2009 is going to be a year of using the b*ggers :D

(Wait until I walk into a shop and see another Japanese 62 re-issue strat :lol: - but even then, what's it going to do that Edith doesn't do for me already??)
Logged
Play or Download AndyR Music at http://www.alonetone.com/andyr

dave_mc

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 9796
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #22 on: January 17, 2009, 05:53:47 PM »
^ yeah, that's exactly what worries me too. you can get MIJ fenders for quite a bit less, and based on the MIMs I have tried, they're likely to be a lot nicer (and other japanese copies of similar quality would be even cheaper again), or you can get USA reissues for only about £100 more (assuming the road worns sell at close to the RRP). I'm biased because i don't like relics, to me it's paying more money for something i like less, but i'm not sure of the wisdom of buying what is effectively a mid-range guitar, for a pro price. especially when you can get pro quality instruments for the same price or less.

Also, as a regular at the tokai forum pointed out, the neck finish would appear to be urethane, not nitrocellulose. that's another big problem, especially with fender trumpeting its nitro finish...

http://www.fender.com/products//view_specs.php?full_partno=0131012&name=Road+Worn%26trade%3B+%9150s+Stratocaster%26reg%3B

and reading a review last night (last month's guitarist, i think), they appear to have a die-cast, not steel, trem block... again, nowhere near good enough for the price.

:evil:
« Last Edit: January 17, 2009, 05:56:57 PM by dave_mc »
Logged

Ratrod

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 5264
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #23 on: January 17, 2009, 07:45:00 PM »
To make things even worse, Fender will increase their suggested retail prices by 30%.
Logged
BKP user since 2004: early 7K Blackguard 50

38thBeatle

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 6098
    • http://www.myspace.com/alteregoukband
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #24 on: January 17, 2009, 07:51:47 PM »
Reviewed favourably in the latest edition of Guitarist. I have no strong opinions either way-I am not a great fan of relic guitars but that said, if I saw one that I liked and the price was right I'd see it as a guitar that was worth buying. I loved Phil's Bravewood  but that is another thing entirely.
Logged
Send three and fourpence we're going to a dance
BKP's: Apache, Country Boy, Slowhands.

Sifu Ben

  • Welterweight
  • ****
  • Posts: 1328
    • http://www.swindonkungfu.co.uk
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #25 on: January 17, 2009, 07:53:38 PM »
I think for that money I'd rather have a USA Standard though.
Logged
Cold Sweat, Nailbomb 7b, Cold Sweat 7n

dave_mc

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 9796
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #26 on: January 17, 2009, 07:57:08 PM »
30% increase? :lol:
Logged

Bob Johnson

  • Featherweight
  • ***
  • Posts: 445
    • http://www.legraguitars.co.uk
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #27 on: January 17, 2009, 08:16:39 PM »
I've got a few genuine Fender shagged out bodies and necks lying around the workshop if any body wants an real relic building give me a call!
Logged
Regards,
Bob Johnson
Legra Guitars

hunter

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 5262
    • http://www.myspace.com/christophjaeger
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #28 on: January 26, 2009, 05:40:51 PM »

Hmmm, Guitarist seem to like them, according to the review in the latest issue, all 4 models got a "Guitarist Choice" award. On the other hand, 90% of the tested products in that issue got one, too.
Logged
Tweaker's Paradise - Player's nightmare.

dave_mc

  • Middleweight
  • *****
  • Posts: 9796
Re: Genuine Fender relics coming for under 1000$
« Reply #29 on: January 26, 2009, 05:53:42 PM »
yeah, that's the problem. and it's kind of a vicious circle... they give more awards, so then the people not getting awards complain that they don't get awards, which leads to more awards being added... :lol:
Logged
Pages: 1 [2] 3
« previous next »