Archive for the ‘Fender’ Category
So our affinity for worn guitars seems to continue and Fender knows it. They are introducing another price point for worn guitars with the new “Road Worn” series of guitars and basses.
A quick bullet list of the main features.
- notably distressed nitrocellulose lacquer-finished bodies
- worn chrome hardware (nickel/chrome for basses)
- period-correct specifications
- models: 50s Tele, 50s Strat, 60s Strat, 50s Precision Bass and 60s Jazz Bass guitars
Here a pic of the 50s Strat
Road Worn 50s Fender Stratocaster
So where’s the Road Worn Fender Jaguars and Jazzmasters! 
What do you think about another lower cost relic or worn guitar from Fender?
Based on Fender’s distinctive double-cutaway TC-90 Thinline guitar, the JA-90 puts Adkins’ own personal spin on the classic model, resulting in a single-cutaway, semi-hollow ash-body instrument all its own. Features include a mahogany set neck with a 12″-radius rosewood fingerboard and 22 medium jumbo frets, Seymour Duncan® Custom SP90-3 and Vintage SP90-1 “soapbar” pickups with volume and tone controls for each and three-way switching, a three-ply black/white/black pickguard and an Adjusto-Matic™ bridge with stop tailpiece. It comes in Crimson Red and Ebony transparent finishes.
Jim Adkins Fender Telecaster
Jim Adkins Fender Telecaster
Here’s a link to the official Fender product page for the Jim Adkins Tele. [link]
Jim Adkins of Jimmy Eat World
It really was inevitable that Kenny Wayne Shepherd would have a signature stratocaster one day. And no surprise that it would be a 60s styled sunburst stratocaster with a 12″ radius neck, perfect for blues rock. It looks like the stratocaster will be available from Fender come this September.
Maybe one unexpected twist is a racing stripe style paint job version of the strat inspired by Shepherd’s love of hot rods. (see photo below)
Kenny Wanye Shepherd Signature Fender Stratocaster
Specifications:
- Based on Shepherd’s 1961 Stratocaster
- 3 custom voiced KWS pickups
- alder body
- maple neck with 12″ radius, rosewood fingerboard, 21 jumbo frets
- bridge with Graph Tech saddles
- 3 finishes – black (with racing stripe), 3 color sunburst, and arctic white
If you ever get a chance to see the KWS Band perform live you should check them out. It really is a great rock show and you’ll see one of the best blues guitar players out there today.
Kenny Wayne Shepherd performing live
Check out the very detailed Fender jag-stang video review brought to you by David Taub at nextlevelguitar.com. David goes over all the details of the jag-stang, the history behind it, and plays a bit so you can hear what it sounds like.
Visit nextlevelguitar (links below)
As reported on this Fender News post, the David Gilmour Signature Stratocaster is being released September 22, 2008.
It will be a Custom Shop production available in NOS (new old stock) and Relic styles.
David Gilmour
Gilmour Signature Stratocaster
This post is inspired by a forum post where Fender Jaguar owners are showing off their Jags.
Whether you have a new Mexican Custom Player Jaguar, Japanese Reissue Jag, American Classic, original vintage jaguar, or any other iteration, we would like to see it!
Just upload your photo to flickr or whatever your favorite image host is. And then go to the following forum topic and post your link to your jaguar image. [forum topic URL] (you may have to create a forum account if you have never used our forums before)
Below is just a small selection of some of the Fender Jaguar photos and photo links posted up by their owners.
(Click the images to see larger versions)
danny's jag
fran's jag
jma689's jag
junebug's jag
libtoem's jag
libtoem's jag
mad-mike's jag
pentastar's jag
pentastar's jag
perdie's jag
purplehaze19x's jags and jazzy
richie's jag
rumorsofsurf's jag
salukipilot4590's jag
sickboy's jag
snottysnot's jags
Awesome looking jaguars guys!
Summer NAMM 2008 has just wrapped up in Nashville, Tennessee and here are some of our favorite from the show. There were no real scoops from the show as a lot of the news trickled out leading up to the show.
Fender announcements
- Classic Player Jaguar Special and Classic Player Jaguar Special HH
- Classic Player Jazzmaster Special
- Billy Corgan Stratocaster
- Jaguar Bass
- 65 Princeton Reverb Guitar Amp
Gibson announcements
If you are a Jaguar or Jazzmaster fan this is great news for you. Affordable Mexican models probably right down at your local guitar shops soon. You no longer have any excuses as to why you can’t find a Mustang, Jaguar, or Jazzmaster any more. But don’t even ask about jag-stangs… lol
The Billy Corgan Fender Stratocaster that we started talking about back in January is now on Fender.com as part of their Artist Series. [url] We’re assuming this guitar will get the grand unveiling at the upcoming Summer NAMM that is coming up June 20-22 in Nashville.
Not a whole lot of surprises up to this point. The most interesting specs are as follows:
- colors: (805) Olympic White and (806) Flat Black (satin nitro)
- jumbo frets on Modern “C” Shape neck with large ’70s style headstock (satin poly)
- 1 Special Design Dimarzio® Billy Corgan Single-Spaced Humbucking Pickup (Neck)
- 1 Dimarzio® Chopper™ Pickup (Middle)
- 1 Special Design Dimarzio® Billy Corgan Single-Spaced Humbucking Pickup (Bridge)
- original body shape (?? not sure how it differs from standard stratocaster)
The pickup switching has some non-standard settings that benefit from the single-spaced Dimarzio humbuckers.
- Position 1. Full Humbucking Bridge Pickup
- Position 2. Inside Coil of Bridge Pickup and Full Humbucking Middle Pickup
- Position 3. Full Humbucking Middle Pickup
- Position 4. Full Humbucking Middle Pickup and Outside Coil of Neck Pickup
- Position 5. Full Humbucking Neck Pickup
Update: Interstate music is showing a list price of 1999.99 for this new strat. Which would mean a retail price around 1449.99. What are your opinions on this price point?
Update 2: Sam Ash is showing a list price of 1599.99 with a retail of 1199.99.
