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From: bottom@katadn.DEC
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: Re: FENDER ?
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Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:37:44 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 09:37:44 1985
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According to my local FENDER dealer this is the scoop. Fender guitars is for
sale. They are not making any guitars at this time. They are still for sale,
but apparently nobody is interested. Fender electronics was sold as a 
separate unit to some Japanese company, they have not made any contact with
dealers as yet. So hoard your fenders as they may be the only ones left.
I would say one thing about the SQUIRE STRATS, I bought one for my girlfriend's
oldest boy and I thought it was a superb guitar as good as the mid 70's fender
product but not as good as the older models and some of the newer ones, however
I played several of the ELITE series strats and thought that most of them were
junk. The whole deal here is that some of the SQUIRES were junk also, typical
of fenders, actually most brands have this problem. Does anybody have any
ideas about why some guitars are better than others made by the same company
and built to the same specs?
 I once played a schetcer strat and it was ok, I think the schecters are 
somewhat at the mercy of the builder as they are kits. 
 The highest quality kit material for strats etc that I have seen are made
by Philip Kubricki (he's associated with Semour Duncan in some way). They
seem to be very good stuff although expensive. 
 
				*db*

dec-rhea!dec-katadn!bottom

ps: I highly recommned Semour Duncan pickups, especially the hot stacks
for fender single coil replacements, they humbuck and they sound great.

*relax....have a homebrew........