"Lenny"....

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So Fender released the SRV "Lenny" limited edition -- $17,000...

What says you? If you had a serious income (like, mid-six figures), would you grab one? Or is that just too much cake for a "instant collector item" guitar....??

(I'd provide a link but not sure that's be OK w/SD so you can go Google it yerself in you need to....)

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I wouldn't pay 17,000 for the original "Lenny."

I'll bet that a MIM strat with a few mods would be able to come pretty **** close.
 
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I just went to the Guitar Center "Platinum Party" where the original Lenny was shown beside the reissue. I thought it was cool to get a chance to the see original, but I didn't even look at the reissue.

I would much rather see Fender offer something most everyone could afford, but what the hell do I know.
 
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dukeplaysbass said:
So Fender released the SRV "Lenny" limited edition -- $17,000...

What says you? If you had a serious income (like, mid-six figures), would you grab one? Or is that just too much cake for a "instant collector item" guitar....??

(I'd provide a link but not sure that's be OK w/SD so you can go Google it yerself in you need to....)

Discuss....
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Don't like SRV (way overplayed on the radio), and don't like his nasty old guitars that look like a truck ran over them.

Now, for about a third of a "Lenny", you could get a limited edition Jimmy Page signature LP, which sounds infinitely better.
 
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Even if you could come up with the money, I'm sure they all sold out to collectors, dealers,etc. in a heartbeat. A regular customer probeably never had a chance. Same thing happened with the Rory Gallagher custom shop model.
 
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Ayrton said:
I just went to the Guitar Center "Platinum Party" where the original Lenny was shown beside the reissue. I thought it was cool to get a chance to the see original, but I didn't even look at the reissue.

I would much rather see Fender offer something most everyone could afford, but what the hell do I know.
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That's kind of my take on it.

SRV has the distinction of being one of those great factors that players have in common. As much as I berate the "Strat and a Hat" crowd for the lack of originality the fact of the matter is that there are so many for a reason. He's just that guy that made the genre accessible to a generation. He is, in effect, a little bit of something to everyone.

Seeing the Limited Editions just smacks of the polar-opposite of what I view him and his legacy as being.

Sure...the market can bear that sort of bread for the limited run. But it doesn't make me think more of his estate and what they're doing with it.
 
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blueman335 said:
Now, for about a third of a "Lenny", you could get a limited edition Jimmy Page signature LP, which sounds infinitely better.
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Yeah..kudos to Gibson for getting it right...considering the first run of Page Les Pauls were so atrocious that it almost made Page walk away from them forever.

:rolleyes:
 
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nah, not for me even if money were no object ... sad to see guitars made that will more than likely never be played ... 'lenny' had mojo for srv cus of its back story and .. well .. cus he was srv .. you cant make a replica of someone else's mojo

i'd rather have guitars that i will play without worrying about devaluing them ... i am sure that there are guitas at 1/10th or 1/20th that price in fender's lineup that i could enjoy just as much

t4d
 
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It is what it is, a collector's piece, nothing more, nothing less. This is the same discussion that came up when the replica of his #1 came out, the EVH Frankenstein replica, the Rory Gallagher, the Blackie replica. All have the same answer, read my first sentence again.

:rolleyes:

I appreciate them for what they are and the incredible craftsmenship that goes in to making them. I've seen two of the Lenny's up close. I wouldn't mind playing one just to feel how they play, but I wouldn't buy one. I'm not in the target market.

Didn't Page play a PRS for a while?
 
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the real one is cool just because it has a strathead Charvel neck on it made by Mike Eldred for Billy Gibbons. the reissue...yawn.

"What surprised Mr. Eldred the most was Lenny’s neck, which had been given to Vaughan by ZZ Top guitarist Billy F. Gibbons. At that time, Eldred worked at Charvel, an emerging custom guitar builder in the 1980s.

“It was a Charvel neck,” he said, “I used to work at Charvel; my job was to shave necks. It should have had my name on it, but I knew right then that it was one of the necks that we made for Billy F. Gibbons ... we’d always write his name in pencil on the heel if we knew it was for Billy. And his name was on Lenny’s neck.” "

-Mike
 
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Jeffrec said:
Even if you could come up with the money, I'm sure they all sold out to collectors, dealers,etc. in a heartbeat. A regular customer probeably never had a chance. Same thing happened with the Rory Gallagher custom shop model.
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The Rory Strat is/was a $2800 guitar... not $17k or $25k guitar.

Your half-right... all of the guitars are sold, pre-sold to guitar center. Same thing happened with the $25k EVH... Fender had ALL of those guitars sold before they were even built. GC bought 'em all.

But, GC still has a ton of the EVH's around... and is having problems finding homes for 'em. For Fender & Eddie, and probably the SRV estate, it's a good move. They all got paid. (maybe?!) But how many people are in the market for something THAT expensive? Rock star & rock star lawyer money. Your average wall-street cat probably won't swing for one even though he probably could... they'd rather have a Lambo, Bently or some other rad whip & get a $5k guitar.

Me? If I were a rockstar & had that kinda disposable income, why not? I'd play it too. Put my own story there. Otherwise what's the point?
 
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The Fender Custom Shop "manager" was also at the party (he unveiled Lenny), and he talked about the history of the guitar and the Charvel neck.

One of the area managers for GC also mentioned that 50 deposits had already been taken for the Lenny reissue.
 
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No, I wouldn't, but I wouldn't fault anyone who did. Obviously, WE are not the target market. I'd never want an exact replica anyway. Sure, I like some guitars because my heroes played them, but to have one EXACTLY like SRV, stickers and everything? I feel like if SRV saw me with that, he'd look at me and shake his cuz I just didn't "get it". Of course, that's my own interpretation but that's what I picture.
 
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Ayrton said:
I just went to the Guitar Center "Platinum Party" where the original Lenny was shown beside the reissue. I thought it was cool to get a chance to the see original, but I didn't even look at the reissue.

I would much rather see Fender offer something most everyone could afford, but what the hell do I know.
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+1. I am sick of these deals. What happened to finding your own "Lenny". The guitar that maybe wasn't the nicest, prettiest piece. But, it played like a stick of Land 'O Lakes butta. I guess it's like anything else, if you got the money you can buy anything you want.
 
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If I made that much money, I'd pass on the Lenny and just buy SRV's regular Fender sig guitars...it looks better and probably sounds as good as the Lenny. But what do I know? I'd just grab anything with a 2-3 tone burst.
 
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blueman335 said:
Don't like SRV (way overplayed on the radio), and don't like his nasty old guitars that look like a truck ran over them.

Now, for about a third of a "Lenny", you could get a limited edition Jimmy Page signature LP, which sounds infinitely better.
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to you.


lenny is over priced. i never liked SRV...not beacuse he has old guitars or because he was too good not to get radio time. but at least look at Fender's guitars as things that have the ability to make great music. i'm not a big strat guy myself. I play the more shortscale dark versions (mustangs, duo-sonics, etc) and I like myself a good p90'ed 335 semihollow. but I respect that strats are great guitars. Not every Gibson is going to sound infinately better than another Fender. especially on such as this which is going to be headed by Fender's top guys, no doubt.
 
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