Fender Custom Shop Relics
Well... for anyone who wants all the character without the stories on their guitars, they can pay 3-4000 dollars Canadian for it! At least, through Fender's Relic'ing Options. So... sitting in the store with nothing to do, I had to pick one up to see what the whole craze was. And yeah, I have to say, it's pretty neat... It felt pretty historic and vintagy... except, when I tried to tune it, I realized, they had relic'ed the tuners so zealously that the rust prevented me from twisting them!
That's uh... a little overboard.
posted by Jonny at 7:04 p.m.
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If I understood what you just said, I'd probably have some oohing and ahhhhing to do... =)
I went to a music in-service yesterday and got a "learn how to play guitar" cd for free. Maybe one of these days I'll pick one up and try to play it. =)
BTW, my student teacher knows you. =)
I know you're a busy guy, but if you ever have a few moments some time, it would be awesome if you could demo some guitar at the school. My students just LOVE hearing live music, and when I played an old recording of "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" in prep for the Rememberance Day assemly, one student asked me when I was going to play the guitar for them. Ha, if they only knew how horrible I am with guitars. I can barely play my ukelele! But yeah, if not, that's totally okay too. =)
I'm totally digging that KT Tunstall song though. For fear of sounding like a total dork, I wont tell you how many times I reloaded your page just so I could listen to it... but i guess you already know how dorky I am. =) And I'm damn proud of it. =)
must be nice to have something of such value in your hands baby! you'll never have that much money in your hands again WHAHAHH!!! *sigh...the salary of a teacher :P
Ah, sorry, I guess I can be pretty hard to catch on at times. Nah, there's no need to ooh this guitar. The whole relic'ing thing is a market ploy to sell fools a guitar that looks old and well used. I mean, people are paying BIG BUCKS to get a brand new guitar, that's beat up.
I mean, the whole ripped jeans thing is pretty ridiculous in itself, but this is just off the wall (Literally).
So anyway, the one I picked out was $3599, and the tuners were so rusted, I could barely turn them. Why would anyone blow 3.5k on a guitar that isn't even functionable?!
Ridonkulous!
As for never being able to afford these things (not that I would want to), there's always huge sales with 0 down, 0% financing, and Layaways! So there is hope yet :P
What I mean to say is... for the same price, I'd rather have the White Falcon :D
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