Spotted at my son's guitar recital: Fender Arrow/Swinger

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Spotted at my son's guitar recital: Fender Arrow/Swinger

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My 11 year old son's guitar teacher believes in getting her students performing asap so he had his first gig tonight at school. A few of the kids were obviously playing their dad's guitars and I was super interested to see one of them rocking this Fender Arrow (as it was called in Europe) or Swinger (ib;jb) in the USA. Apparently only 1500 ever made.
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Ha! That's so epic
Reminds me of Dan Akroyd in coneheads

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StrummersOfThunder wrote: Mon Jun 26, 2023 9:39 pm Ha! That's so epic
Reminds me of Dan Akroyd in coneheads
Great movie, that
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Funky!
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So Fender built 1500 of them before they realised the pickup was in the wrong place.....
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