what's fender smoking?

[tc]

Re: what's fender smoking?

^It might look nice, but the flame maple is not enough to distract me from the fact that it's missing two strings.

 

[innerdreamrecords.co]

Re: what's fender smoking?

 

[ImmortalSix]

Re: what's fender smoking?

Their trying to keep up with Kirn is what they're trying to do

 

[Laughing Kookaburra]

Re: what's fender smoking?

Then i'm in a sharp minority that doesn't like flametops on fenders (except for the amdlx that existed 2004 to 2007). I don't know, it screams "not fender!" when to me a fender is supposed to be relatively crude. Bolts, planks of wood, transducers, some wires and metal, and a bridge. I just can't get used to it... I would have LOVED though a mahogany stratocaster, or a strat where all the parts are top-shelf (ie: cost-be-damned, we're putting inserts, an EJ-strat bridge, duncan ants or BKPs or duncan CS in, etc., I did notice the dots weren't abalone... perhaps the abalone dots were struck down by CITES?

Sorry, but I just can't get used to it.

FWIW, I'm not a fan of flame on a Fender, or most anything else for that matter, but that's just me. However, I can see the appeal of these.

 

[bigmack209]

Re: what's fender smoking?

seems great to me, i've seen plenty of guitarists with custom shop birdseye or flamed maple and a pickguard. (referring to custom necks also)

 

[malymal86]

Re: what's fender smoking?

I like!

 

[dr. ad]

Re: what's fender smoking?

the maple carved-top tele looks pretty sweet to me

 

[Gamera]

Re: what's fender smoking?

I have a pickguard-less FMT Fender Strat from 2004. I got the impression they didn't really sell a lot of them. When they first debuted them they offered them in multiple colors. After a year or so they dumped the colors and only offered the traditional amber and bursts I think. A year or so after that they dumped the whole line. I got the impression folks had a hard time warming up to the unconventional looks from such a conventional name. IMO this new series may be better received thanks to the more traditional look of the pickguard.

 

[Revelation777]

Re: what's fender smoking?

^It might look nice, but the flame maple is not enough to distract me from the fact that it's missing two strings.

That guitar isn't missing any strings?!

 

[Kam]

Re: what's fender smoking?

That guitar isn't missing any strings?!

Of course it is. It only has four! What kind of a real musician would play an instrument with only four strings??

 

[tc]

Re: what's fender smoking?

I guess obvious joke wasn't so obvious.