Eric Johnson Signature Strat...

BS123

BS123

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Hi all,

I was in one of my local "mall" music stores, a place I never buy stuff because of their unwillingness to any price matching, and I picked up the new 2005 Fender Frontline catalog. There's a lot of new cool stuff Fender is offering. A MIM 50's Esquire for one. It's part of the "Classic" series; but that's for another thread. After three years of planning and design (y'all know how Eric Johnson is about tone), the Eric Johnson Signature Stratocaster is being unveiled this year.

It's basically a 57 Strat with an alder body, with a 57 white pickguard and special'y designed pickups. The trem route is a big block like the 50's style. The neck is a 1-piece quartersawn maple neck with 21 frets, 12" radius and medium frets.

Fender puts their artist signature line in the general production line or the Custom Shop line. I dare say that this one with be a CS model...
 
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BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cant wait to see thousands of people in music stores now trying to play the beginning of "cliffs of dover" :D

maybe its a sign of things to come!!
 
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Yeah, I saw that also. (Got my copy of the catalog.) :)

Very cool looking.
 
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\m/(00)\m/ said:
BADASS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cant wait to see thousands of people in music stores now trying to play the beginning of "cliffs of dover" :D

maybe its a sign of things to come!!
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Then they would be wrong anyway because "Cliffs Of Dover" is played on his cherry ES-335. :wink:
 
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A lot of people don't know it, but for the same price, Fender will team build you your own signature strat. I wouldn't mind having Eric's signature strat, over most others, but I think I'd rather write my own specs down and have Fender do it.

Thanks for the heads up on this guitar though. I posted a link to Eric Johnson's supposed signature amp a few weeks ago, by boutique company Fulton Webb.
 
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Gearjoneser said:
A lot of people don't know it, but for the same price, Fender will team build you your own signature strat. I wouldn't mind having Eric's signature strat, over most others, but I think I'd rather write my own specs down and have Fender do it.
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Yep, a few years back, I wrote up the specs to have a Tele built by them. I almost sent it when I found that it was cash up front and a 36-month wait...
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I hope I'm not swaying too far off-topic here, (its relative to the new catalog), but we were talking about the apparent loss of the Toronado line over here, but it looks like, not only is it still around, but they have some new models.

Called Toronado GT HH's: Twin humbucker equipped, painted to look like '70's muscle cars. :laugh2:

They're not bad, but I don't think I'd want one of those colors.

Edit: Just noticed . . . the 'buckers are Seymour Duncans. :)
 
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BS123 said:
Yep, a few years back, I wrote up the specs to have a Tele built by them. I almost sent it when I found that it was cash up front and a 36-month wait...
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I'm told the wait time has decreased significantly but even then I'd rather build a warmoth... Fender didn't wanna do a lot of the stuff I wanted on mine.

I'm gonna go head up to GC and snag a catalog when i get outta here. I wonder what the neck shape on the EJ strat is like? Plus those pickups interest me... I know he uses DiMarzio HS2's sometimes and he's even got a signature humbucker set by DiMarzio.
 
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B2D said:
I wonder what the neck shape on the EJ strat is like? Plus those pickups interest me... I know he uses DiMarzio HS2's sometimes and he's even got a signature humbucker set by DiMarzio.
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The neck is a soft V-shape. It's a one-piece quartersawn neck with a 12" radius.

The pickups in his sig Strat were designed by one of the master builders and him. It'll tell you everything in the new Frontline catalog...
 
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BS123 said:
The neck is a soft V-shape. It's a one-piece quartersawn neck with a 12" radius.

The pickups in his sig Strat were designed by one of the master builders and him. It'll tell you everything in the new Frontline catalog...
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Very cool... I love those newer MIA strats with the neck that goes from a V in the lower registers to a C inthe higher ones... woooo!!!
 
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That will be very cool, IMO. I can't wait to play her at GC when she comes out.
 
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Is there anything sweeter than a big ol' chunky V neck that you can really get a grip on? I think not.
 
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i saw this in the catalog today. Not enough of an interesting change for me to consider. Basically it can be built from parts laying around the Fender shop- the only thing new is the pickups, and I bet SD could do better. I am sure they will sell thousands though, since people tend to fall for the 'switch a couple of things and resell the same guitar' trick over and over.
 
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BS123 said:
A MIM 50's Esquire for one. It's part of the "Classic" series; but that's for another thread.
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info please...start that other thread...i wanna know about this esquire...

-Mike
 
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Well in any case I'm going to hear Eric Johnson's ACTUAL GUITARS tomorrow night!!! :banana:
 
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B2D said:
Well in any case I'm going to hear Eric Johnson's ACTUAL GUITARS tomorrow night!!! :banana:
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You go man!! and tell him we said "Hey"....
 
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