What's left for Fender to do?
- marqueemoon
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Handwired Princeton Reverb?
- Shadoweclipse13
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Honestly, I wouldn't even care about some of the crazier models. Sure, I'd love to see a lefty XII, but seeing as how righties would also love to see a XII, I don't see that happening. Hell, just to get a Tele that's not black or 3-tone sunburst, would be amazing. I'd love to see one of the decent, less expensive Jazzmasters in lefty...
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- aliendawg
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
More colors and matching headstocks for Squier offsets
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- tammyw
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Is it too soon to start re-issuing '80s models? This could be the 35th anniversary of bowling ball finishes.
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- Squirrel
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Fender should invent a time machine and use it to create a series of 1950s/60s reissue guitars, which were actually built in the Fender factory in the 1950s/60s and then sent forwards in time to be sold in the present. This would spark an intense online debate about whether said guitars are actually originals or reissues, and the vintage section of this forum would be 99% "is this real/fake/refinished" threads, as opposed to the current 98%. Due to the extra monetary income provided by the future version of themselves, Leo Fender would decide not to sell to CBS and the quality of Fender guitars would therefore never go downhill. This would mean the present version of Fender would no longer need to invent the time machine and employ a superior past version of themselves, causing some kind of paradox which would cause the universe to implode.
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
OMG yes. Please do this!
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
I like this outside-of-the-box thinking. Of course, Fender's wood demand would decimate forests and all that nitro-spray would give the entire town of Fullerton cancer too!Squirrel wrote: ↑Wed Jan 16, 2019 5:54 amFender should invent a time machine and use it to create a series of 1950s/60s reissue guitars, which were actually built in the Fender factory in the 1950s/60s and then sent forwards in time to be sold in the present. This would spark an intense online debate about whether said guitars are actually originals or reissues, and the vintage section of this forum would be 99% "is this real/fake/refinished" threads, as opposed to the current 98%. Due to the extra monetary income provided by the future version of themselves, Leo Fender would decide not to sell to CBS and the quality of Fender guitars would therefore never go downhill. This would mean the present version of Fender would no longer need to invent the time machine and employ a superior past version of themselves, causing some kind of paradox which would cause the universe to implode.
- wooderson
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Based on the price of the HW Deluxe Reverb, you'd be better off going boutique, I'd think.
- marqueemoon
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- loveinathens
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Sunn amp reissues.
- Telliot
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
The cool thing about fretless is you can hit a note...and then renegotiate.
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
I know it's been said a million times but just to reiterate: Actually produce and sell a Marauder II.
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
the problem is if they re-issue the model t. sunn o))) are going to buy all of them
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
Evidently it was hire Ron Thorn.
- Embenny
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Re: What's left for Fender to do?
"If you can't beat them, absorb them."
They could further ingest:
1) Danocaster (and make him head of the Custom Shop relic department)
2) Bilt (MIM Zaftigs and El Hombres for everyone!)
3) Fano (let him do design work, his TC6 could be the basis of a cool series of teles and his JMs have generally been better partscasters of existing parts than Fender's own mishmashes)
4) Kauer (to inject fresh life into Gretsch's lineup or maybe to revive the DeArmond or Guild brands)
5) Waterslide (Custom Shop coodercasters and double-goldfoil designs)
Oh. And hire Paul Rhoney, because that man has more building and design talent than they would know what to do with.
Note: I don't think it's necessarily good for us as guitarists if they do #1-5 above - all those designers seem to be doing well for themselves, and I'd rather see them succeeding independently than being absorbed by the FMIC monolith. But I don't think Paul is building guitars at the moment, and he's exactly the kind of talent that FMIC would do well to scoop up. He could start out by building them Custom Shop Marauder II's on top of giving them some great designs...
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