Offset's at Songbirds Museum

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by hornz » Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:37 am

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Arthon wrote: What is this Jazzmaster color? It looks like some kind of blue burst? If so, I never heard of that custom color.
The green Jaguar on the lower right has me a bit baffled. I've seen blue guitars shift to pea green due to yellowing, but this looks like a nice bright green unless I'm being mislead by the lighting in the photo.
It looks like one of the super rare sparkle finishes. They do exist :)
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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by sikoniko » Fri Aug 25, 2017 2:42 pm

hornz wrote:
scottT wrote:
Arthon wrote: What is this Jazzmaster color? It looks like some kind of blue burst? If so, I never heard of that custom color.
The green Jaguar on the lower right has me a bit baffled. I've seen blue guitars shift to pea green due to yellowing, but this looks like a nice bright green unless I'm being mislead by the lighting in the photo.
It looks like one of the super rare sparkle finishes. They do exist
All three offsets in that picture were sparkle finish. the blue one was a sparkle burst.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by scottT » Fri Aug 25, 2017 3:42 pm

sikoniko wrote:All three offsets in that picture were sparkle finish. the blue one was a sparkle burst.
wow.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by sikoniko » Sat Aug 26, 2017 7:52 am

scottT wrote:
sikoniko wrote:All three offsets in that picture were sparkle finish. the blue one was a sparkle burst.
wow.
before this trip, I had never heard of a sparkle burst finish anything... and they had the offsets and strat's in sparkle burst finish...

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by TheSurfer » Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:02 pm

Their sparkle finish guitars are amazing. The prototype Jazzmaster was previously owned by Norman Harris of Norman's Rare Guitars.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by rbrcbr » Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:44 pm

TheSurfer wrote:
Sun Aug 27, 2017 11:02 pm
Their sparkle finish guitars are amazing. The prototype Jazzmaster was previously owned by Norman Harris of Norman's Rare Guitars.
Man, I went for my birthday and no one else was on the tour, so it was like a private tour. I got to hold/strum around on the prototype jazzmaster for all of 5 seconds. Needed a setup hahaha, I wish I'd had a chance to plug it in.

Nonetheless, I was terrified to even hold it. Such a beautiful guitar.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by FEXII » Thu Nov 09, 2017 4:08 pm

rbrcbr wrote:
Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:44 pm
Man, I went for my birthday and no one else was on the tour, so it was like a private tour. I got to hold/strum around on the prototype jazzmaster for all of 5 seconds. Needed a setup hahaha, I wish I'd had a chance to plug it in.
Sounds great.

Did you manage to get a close look at the XII collection?
I'm still not sure if the one at the top is Daphne or Sonic Blue, and the Black one has some stickers on it or something, or maybe they are reflections.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by rbrcbr » Thu Nov 09, 2017 11:57 pm

FEXII wrote:
Thu Nov 09, 2017 4:08 pm
rbrcbr wrote:
Thu Nov 09, 2017 1:44 pm
Man, I went for my birthday and no one else was on the tour, so it was like a private tour. I got to hold/strum around on the prototype jazzmaster for all of 5 seconds. Needed a setup hahaha, I wish I'd had a chance to plug it in.
Sounds great.

Did you manage to get a close look at the XII collection?
I'm still not sure if the one at the top is Daphne or Sonic Blue, and the Black one has some stickers on it or something, or maybe they are reflections.
Not close in terms of holding and playing one, but I definitely took a look at them in passing. Wish I had taken more time to look over them. I'm pretty sure the top one is sonic blue though, from what I remember, and the black didn't have stickers - definitely a reflection. Those were some of the cleanest custom color Fenders I've ever seen.

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Re: Offset's at Songbirds Museum

Post by FEXII » Fri Nov 10, 2017 6:46 am

Thanks for the info. It certainly is an amazing collection.

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