Just noticed...I'm a F, F, F, Fender!

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Just noticed...I'm a F, F, F, Fender!

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I've been promoted to Fender rank! Noice :winky:

Here's a 'few of my favourite things'...


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Peep show cont'd....

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'64 Jag 'Stock.jpg
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...and more peepage...



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...and finally, some more peepage....





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Accountants...save money on a 3-bolt neck...spend it on etching a tuning key.jpg
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I hope you recall my dibs on that Super.
Jops wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.

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robthemac wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 7:45 pm I hope you recall my dibs on that Super.
Roger and Wilco, saar! :winky:

Although, if you weren't hung up on it being vintage 'n' all (plus my one needs a step-down xfmr as it's US 110v)...if this dude relists, it could be a hassle-free and flexible (home/stage) deal:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace ... f=IIIEpOP4

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You could ask BG to make you a Fender permanently so you don't get promoted to junkie.

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clubhouse wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 7:53 pm
robthemac wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 7:45 pm I hope you recall my dibs on that Super.
Roger and Wilco, saar! :winky:

Although, if you weren't hung up on it being vintage 'n' all (plus my one needs a step-down xfmr as it's US 110v)...if this dude relists, it could be a hassle-free and flexible (home/stage) deal:

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/marketplace ... f=IIIEpOP4
Slightly hung up on vintage! Otherwise would get a Mike / Thomas one new!
Jops wrote: Sun Sep 18, 2022 7:46 am Spring is the comic sans of reverbs anyway.

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I happen to think the Starcaster headstock is one of the nicest out there. Probably why I like the Novo headstocks, too.

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IMOCD wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:07 pm I happen to think the Starcaster headstock is one of the nicest out there. Probably why I like the Novo headstocks, too.
Your comment made me go back and look at it closer, which I’ve never done before, and now I look at it and see the shape of a high heel as seen in profile/rear three quarter view.

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IMOCD wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:07 pm I happen to think the Starcaster headstock is one of the nicest out there. Probably why I like the Novo headstocks, too.
...yeah, gotta agree, man, and some of the Fanos too. I first met this ol' gal on the wall of Mayer's Music shop, Tauranga, 1981...instant stiffy...but, y'know...I played it cool 8)

Would often go in there to drool at her and then the shop dude guy (super nice cat...like a guy that let me jump in the seat of a brand, spanking, new AR Brera on the show-room floor when they first came out. I turned up after work in my boots, covered in work-smut and sweat, just to check it out from afar...some dudes, man, they just get passion!) got her down of the wall to let me fondle...couldn't afford the $800 they were asking, so...

Came back from uni later that year and perused the newspaper classifieds and BOOM! Starcaster for sale, $500 ono! Rang dude up, he comes round next day to mine with her, a sh-wing and a sh-wang and a deal is done. He was given her by a guy who couldn't pay the $300 he owed for a job so cashing it out to me for $450 made his day.

My first 'real' guitar and despite its CBS-tics and foibles, has served me well. She a bit of a trailer-park hustler, in my mind. A bit rough around the edges, hard-bitten and drunk most of the time...but smokes like a train and is all bank! Made a chunk of change keeping the wolves at bay for a young family and triggers lots of memories. The wide-range HBs have really grown on me over the years as I realised they aren't and never will be PAFs. Seth did a great job with them and they suit a good many styles and amps...sound frickin' chewy-as through my Marshall 1974x. :thumbup:

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clubhouse wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:30 pm
IMOCD wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:07 pm I happen to think the Starcaster headstock is one of the nicest out there. Probably why I like the Novo headstocks, too.
Seth did a great job with them and they suit a good many styles and amps...sound frickin' chewy-as through my Marshall 1974x. :thumbup:
Hah! Had no idea Seth was responsible for the wide range HB. :thumbup:

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IMOCD wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:42 pm
clubhouse wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:30 pm
IMOCD wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:07 pm I happen to think the Starcaster headstock is one of the nicest out there. Probably why I like the Novo headstocks, too.
Seth did a great job with them and they suit a good many styles and amps...sound frickin' chewy-as through my Marshall 1974x. :thumbup:
Hah! Had no idea Seth was responsible for the wide range HB. :thumbup:
Yeah...I read in an interview he felt the CuNiFe WRHB, was sonically, the pickup he tried to design the PAF to be. I think that he was maybe an old-school engineer concerned with the maths and fidelity rather than what necessarily sounded 'righteous'. The WRHB certainly sounds a lot less mid dominant than a PAF by character and both are fine flavours in their own right. If you think of the 'Fender sound' then the WRHB is certainly in that wheel-house versus a 'Gibson sound' for a HB...still has the power to fuck an unsuspecting amp up though :winky:

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Thewilltopowerrock wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:29 pm
IMOCD wrote: Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:07 pm I happen to think the Starcaster headstock is one of the nicest out there. Probably why I like the Novo headstocks, too.
Your comment made me go back and look at it closer, which I’ve never done before, and now I look at it and see the shape of a high heel as seen in profile/rear three quarter view.
Ha..I dig your view, man...stiletto! Cool eye/brain thing you've got going on :!:

She's a little trampy, not slutty mind you...she'll gut you clean if you cheat on her...slender neck width, fat fingers beware.

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We need some proper pics of the Jaguar and Starcaster.

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