This looked like a thread I could maybe use without starting another. Heading over to Fort Lauderdale / Miami then Vegas for a family holiday. Does anyone have a heads up on a shop that sells Fender CS telecasters. I've been hunting the web but email responses have been nil so far.
MrDINO wrote:This looked like a thread I could maybe use without starting another. Heading over to Fort Lauderdale / Miami then Vegas for a family holiday. Does anyone have a heads up on a shop that sells Fender CS telecasters. I've been hunting the web but email responses have been nil so far.
Guitar Center usually stock CS in their bigger stores....
MrDINO wrote:This looked like a thread I could maybe use without starting another. Heading over to Fort Lauderdale / Miami then Vegas for a family holiday. Does anyone have a heads up on a shop that sells Fender CS telecasters. I've been hunting the web but email responses have been nil so far.
Guitar Center usually stock CS in their bigger stores....
To be fair though, any guitar over $2k is a waste of money.... it's just fancy schmantz extras...
Like a case. Or a pickguard.
AM Standard Fenders retail at $3k.
Which is pretty shocking I'd say. Defo seems a lot.
As far as second-hand goes $2k seems to be the point where quality and value for money are at their optimum (or thereabouts). You can buy a lot of guitar for $2k.
To be fair though, any guitar over $2k is a waste of money.... it's just fancy schmantz extras...
Like a case. Or a pickguard.
AM Standard Fenders retail at $3k.
Which is pretty shocking I'd say. Defo seems a lot.
As far as second-hand goes $2k seems to be the point where quality and value for money are at their optimum (or thereabouts). You can buy a lot of guitar for $2k.
Fender, Gibson et al are so meh, still riding the coat tails of 50+ years ago, they charge a massive premium for the name.... Just don't do anything for me, so many better modern builders offering better instruments for less...
Slowy wrote:
That's the problem; everything rewarding is just such hard work. Regret takes much less effort.
Tired argument, methinks. Brands are worth $. Thats why 'Local Kola' is 50c a can and Coke is $1.50. It's why an unbranded cotton T is $9.95 from K-Mart and one made in the exact same country in similar conditions with 'Country Road' on the tag is $129.
If you persist in trying to break things down to their physical constructs you'll always be disappointed in pricing, cause it just don't add up that way.
I'm not disagreeing with you per se, just pointing out the pointlessness of the discussion - brand, history, perception, X factor - they all have a value even though it is largely intangible. Just ask Evian...
jeremyb wrote:Fender, Gibson et al are so meh, still riding the coat tails of 50+ years ago, they charge a massive premium for the name.... Just don't do anything for me, so many better modern builders offering better instruments for less...
Ibanez, of course, would never offer a guitar above such prices...
Yes JB, and good to see those makers like PRS breaking out of the "big names" moulds by producing flame maple topped, mahogany bodied, humbucker fitted sunburst guitars.
Almost everyone is on the coat tails of those trail blazers from the 40's and 50's.
"Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible god and destroys a visible nature. Unaware that this nature he's destroying is this god he's worshipping." - Hubert Reeves