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_tom_

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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #15 on: April 02, 2011, 12:54:33 PM »
I think they look terrible! The big pickguard just looks really cheap to me.

edit - the '51 that is, I quite like that Mustang Special :)
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #16 on: April 02, 2011, 02:29:08 PM »
Quote from: _tom_ on April 02, 2011, 12:54:33 PM
I think they look terrible!

There is always at least one Gibson fundamentalist who comes in to spoil the party  :P :D

Personally, I think Fender's designs lend themselves better to to this sort of thing than Gibsons - even the Gibson 'shapes', which should be malleable to modification, look like abominations, but the the Fenders, somehow, do not.
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #17 on: April 02, 2011, 03:14:16 PM »
Is this better? Or worse?
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #18 on: April 02, 2011, 03:29:36 PM »
Quote from: Frank on April 02, 2011, 03:14:16 PM
Is this better? Or worse?

Actually, I quite like that, but I think it needs more knobbers.
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #19 on: April 02, 2011, 03:30:55 PM »
Quote from: shobet on April 02, 2011, 03:29:36 PM
Quote from: Frank on April 02, 2011, 03:14:16 PM
Is this better? Or worse?

Actually, I quite like that, but I think it needs more knobbers.

I know! I kinda made it as a joke then realised it looks fairly funky. I should work for Gibson :(
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #20 on: April 02, 2011, 03:37:48 PM »
I like them- Fender do seem to have got themselves together well and exploit their heritage. Gibson would do well to imitate.
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #21 on: April 02, 2011, 03:58:28 PM »
Quote from: Frank on April 02, 2011, 03:14:16 PM
Is this better? Or worse?

I've seen worse in actual production, its not bad.
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2011, 02:54:44 PM »
Quote from: Frank on April 02, 2011, 03:30:55 PM
Quote from: shobet on April 02, 2011, 03:29:36 PM
Quote from: Frank on April 02, 2011, 03:14:16 PM
Is this better? Or worse?

Actually, I quite like that, but I think it needs more knobbers.

I know! I kinda made it as a joke then realised it looks fairly funky. I should work for Gibson :(


Get it patented quick, Gibson are building prototypes as we speak....

(Then again they'll only sell a handful so it's not as if you'd make any money from it!)
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #23 on: April 03, 2011, 05:33:43 PM »
so these aren't april fools' then? I was a bit wary when I saw they were released on april 1st... :lol:
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #24 on: April 03, 2011, 06:18:27 PM »
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #25 on: April 04, 2011, 12:41:55 AM »
Quote from: dave_mc on April 03, 2011, 05:33:43 PM
so these aren't april fools' then? I was a bit wary when I saw they were released on april 1st... :lol:

Well the web page is still there. And I suspect there'd be uproar if Fender promised these then didn't deliver.

This has made me revisit one of my all time favourite messageboard threads of all time, the Squier 51 modders' forum. A wonderful mix of outlandish horrorbags and truly individual design classics.

http://www.instituteofnoise.com/squier51/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5263
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #26 on: April 04, 2011, 08:45:03 AM »
Quote from: Frank on April 04, 2011, 12:41:55 AM
Quote from: dave_mc on April 03, 2011, 05:33:43 PM
so these aren't april fools' then? I was a bit wary when I saw they were released on april 1st... :lol:

Well the web page is still there. And I suspect there'd be uproar if Fender promised these then didn't deliver.

This has made me revisit one of my all time favourite messageboard threads of all time, the Squier 51 modders' forum. A wonderful mix of outlandish horrorbags and truly individual design classics.

http://www.instituteofnoise.com/squier51/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5263

good link
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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #27 on: April 04, 2011, 12:15:10 PM »
Quote from: Frank on April 04, 2011, 12:41:55 AM
Quote from: dave_mc on April 03, 2011, 05:33:43 PM
so these aren't april fools' then? I was a bit wary when I saw they were released on april 1st... :lol:

Well the web page is still there. And I suspect there'd be uproar if Fender promised these then didn't deliver.

This has made me revisit one of my all time favourite messageboard threads of all time, the Squier 51 modders' forum. A wonderful mix of outlandish horrorbags and truly individual design classics.

http://www.instituteofnoise.com/squier51/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=5263

I liked these two...





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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #28 on: April 04, 2011, 12:21:12 PM »
I love all of these designs but I've come to the realisation that I just DONT LIKE Fenders. They're too light and the necks are too skinny.

I'll go buy a Gretsch.

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Re: EXTREME Fender GAS - and the return of the '51
« Reply #29 on: April 04, 2011, 12:27:53 PM »
I liked the shell pink one ... and the one with the flower inlay on the neck

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