Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!zehntel!dual!decwrl!dec-rhea!dec-katadn!bottom From: bottom@katadn.DEC Newsgroups: net.music Subject: Re: FENDER ? Message-ID: <816@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 09:37:44 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.816 Posted: Fri Mar 1 09:37:44 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 3-Mar-85 03:02:50 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Engineering Network Lines: 27 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........