Fender Yngwie Malmsteen Tribute

[MrBump]

Holy Moly!!!

http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_yngwie_malmsteen_tribute.htm

Eight grand!!!  At that price you wouldn't be able to afford all the doughnuts needed to finish off the "tribute"...

Mark.

[Philly Q]

I've already done the doughnuts bit (and they have taken their toll :( ).  So I only need to find the eight grand....

They are scarily expensive, but I do think the Yngwie Strat is cooler than any of the previous Tribute models. 

[Lew]

The original Rising Force album is still frikkin great, AMAZING tone, vibrato, composition and feel all over that album... it's also the only one I really like  :lol:

The guitar looks cool as hell though  8)

[dave_mc]

well i was only coming in here to make some kind of joke about its having a donuts compartment, but i think that ship's already sailed...

[MrBump]

well i was only coming in here to make some kind of joke about its having a donuts compartment, but i think that ship's already sailed...

... you know how EVH stashes his ciggy between the strings at the headstock?  Do you think that Yngwie has strats made so that each tuning peg can fit a ring doughnut..?

[dave_mc]

:lol:

[dheim]

my first guitar was a USA cream fender stratocaster with maple fingerboard with "normal" headstock. but i sold it in my "true evil black metal" period...  :?
i still call myself with the worst terms you can imagine for that...
so no need to add anything, please...
 :lol:

[Prawnik]

OK, Fender finally gets the patent number thingee (none of the other Fender RI that I have seen has the patent number(s) on the headstock decal the way the originals do, but I can't see the guitar well enough to tell if the number is right) but why does this guitar have a four-bolt neck?

Unless Malmsteen's body is not original or the guitar has been modified, all bullet-truss rod Strats (with a very few exceptions in mid-1971) are three-bolt. If it has been modified, did Yngwie use an original Fender F-style neckplate? I can't see whether the neckplate has a serial number. An original Fender pre-1976 neckplate should.

(OK, I took another look and it seems that the guitar might have originally been a three-bolt converted to four-bolt.)

The fact that this guitar has two string trees pegs it to 1972 or later (although a second string tree was a very common mod in the 1970's).

I cannot see the trem, but there is no reason Fender would screw that up (unlike almost all their pre-1971 RIs).

For that money, I could buy an original 1972 Strat and do the work myself and come out money ahead. For that money, I would want things done right.

[dave_mc]

Unless Malmsteen's body is not original

looking at pics of malmsteen from the 80s, i don't think his body is in original condition any more...

:lol:

[Philly Q]

OK, Fender finally gets the patent number thingee (none of the other Fender RI that I have seen has the patent number(s) on the headstock decal the way the originals do, but I can't see the guitar well enough to tell if the number is right) but why does this guitar have a four-bolt neck?

Unless Malmsteen's body is not original or the guitar has been modified, all bullet-truss rod Strats (with a very few exceptions in mid-1971) are three-bolt. If it has been modified, did Yngwie use an original Fender F-style neckplate? I can't see whether the neckplate has a serial number. An original Fender pre-1976 neckplate should.

(OK, I took another look and it seems that the guitar might have originally been a three-bolt converted to four-bolt.)

The fact that this guitar has two string trees pegs it to 1972 or later (although a second string tree was a very common mod in the 1970's).

I cannot see the trem, but there is no reason Fender would screw that up (unlike almost all their pre-1971 RIs).

For that money, I could buy an original 1972 Strat and do the work myself and come out money ahead. For that money, I would want things done right.

I can't claim to be an expert on this, but Fender borrowed the original guitar and copied it as closely as they could, so all the non-period-correct features, like the 4-bolt neck, would be mods made by Yngwie (or a previous owner).  So in that sense they have "done it right".

The price is another matter.

[Prawnik]

When I took a better look at the photo on the website, it appears that the guitar is supposed to be a converted 3-bolt.

I don't know Malmsteen's guitars enough to know how the original is equipped.

But Fender have screwed this sort of thing up before, so it wouldn't have surprised me if they did, again.

[Philly Q]

It's not the greatest pic in the world, but you can see here that they've reproduced the 3-bolt conversion:

[Rock Pig]

It's not the greatest pic in the world, but you can see here that they've reproduced the 3-bolt conversion:
[Picture]

Well, that gives you a pretty damn good idea of why it's so pricey; this thing leaves to stone unturned.
You have to wonder; did they actually take the neck off of Yngwie's original to check that?

Nice guitar.
If I had that kind of money though, I'd be having something custom built for me personally. Can't see the point of guitars that are just going to wind up in glass cases :\

[Ian Price]

I do like it but wouldn't buy it - even if I had that sort of money! I would rather by a CS relic and save the extra money for GAS emergencies!

[Philly Q]

You have to wonder; did they actually take the neck off of Yngwie's original to check that?

They certainly did.  It seems they took the whole guitar to pieces and copied everything, including getting the right types of electronics under the scratchplate and reproducing the tatty little "Play Loud" sticker.

http://www.fender.com/yngwie/english/