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I also have a Butterscotch / Maple / BlackGuard Squier Tele which is a great-player but I don't seem to have a snap of it......:-k

 

Pip.

 

EDIT : Here's the Squier. The black Strat-like thing was given away some time ago;

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...and here is a snap from circa 1984 showing a few of the "Gone but Not Forgotten" Fenders I've had over the years - clockwise from rear-centre;

1967 Fender 'Swinger' in black; '71('72?) Strat in tri-burst; '82-ish '57 R-I Strat in two-tone 'burst; all-original '64 Strat in LPB.

The G-T copy was my first ever guitar. A 1976 'Grant' LP. The p'ups were swapped for these DiMarzio 'Dual-Sounds'.

I still have it. It's surprisingly good for a cheapie.

The other 'Strat' is a Tokai 'Springy Sound' which belonged to a bandmate.

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American Fender Select Stratocaster

 

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Thank You!

 

Yours' are superb too. I remember seeing the above one in my fav local shop. It was wonderful - I am just not a Strat guy. But I have to admit, I was thinking: it's made like a Fender would do a Les Paul :)

 

Cheers... Bence

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beauties you've got there 4H. here's mine. i've had several other Strats over the years, but this is my only one now.

 

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Karloff from the looks of that neck you've played that bad boy a lot

 

 

4H

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Karloff from the looks of that neck you've played that bad boy a lot

 

 

4H

 

yep, i've had it many years. it has an odd wear pattern on the neck. it was 2 years old when i got it, and the wear had begun, and just worsened over the years. Lately i've been thinking about getting another Strat.

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I do.

 

I have a mid 1990's American Standard Tele and a mid 2000's American Standard Strat.

 

An old Mustang bass.

 

A Jazzmaster, a Jaguar, a Modern Player Thinline Tele and a Modern Player Marauder.

 

I have a couple of their amps also.

 

I also bought my daughter a Squier Jazzmaster she's using in her garage band, and for learning.

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kidblast that's one beautiful guitar , I had the same guitar and a friend wanted it a whole lot more than I did . He paid out of his yang yang for it too , you just gave me the need to buy another one

 

 

 

4H

 

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1980s MIJ Fender System III Contemporary Strat, very modded -

 

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1967 Fender Telecaster with Parsons-White B Bender, Fender 6-saddle bridge, so far 2 refrets and neck re-varnish -

 

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A house isn't a home without a handful of Fenders. I currently have a 2008 Precision, my #1 guitar 97 Tele, a 2013 Esquire, 2003 Strat, and 2005 Jazz.

 

rct

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1965 Model 800 pedal steel. Bought it from an 87 year old. I believe it sat in it's case since around Woodstock because NOTHING worked. It's cleaned and ready to go, if I were brave enough to set up the copedent (pedal configuration). I'm quite leery of it and may get rid of it to buy a 6 string (non pedal) on legs:

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1985 D'Aquisto Standard. I recently picked this up and the long version of the story is as follows: It was traded in at Ezzy's Music Shop in Van Buren, ME in 1989. Mike Ezzy offered it to me at that time for $750. I didn't bite. I was dead set against any Japanese Fenders. In 1990 I softened up a little and spent an hour or two with it in the store. At that time he dropped the price to $550. I came very close to buying it but at the time our first baby was just about ready to be born. In fact the last time I saw the guitar was in June of 1990 when my (extremely pregnant) wife and I took a drive in my 1973 VW bus and ended up in Van Buren. I knew the only way to own it was to put it on plastic and I just didn't dare. Fast forward to about 2005, I discovered that it was still owned locally and supposedly I worked on it or at least gave it a checkup but I don't remember it taking place. I even have a handwritten letter here somewhere from the owner thanking me for working on his guitar. I don't remember it at all. Skip ahead now to 2014, the owner put it up for sale for $1400. I agonized over it and over the next year we exchanged a few emails until he offered it to me for $1000. The previous owner was meticulous and hardly ever used it, and when he did, he might have placed doilies on it and wore a bib and latex gloves. It's 30 years old and still in beautiful condition.

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1965 Palomino. belonged to a busker in Mississippi. It had dessicated masking tape holding it together and the "pickguard" was a piece of black contact paper. I pieced it back together, all the while preserving the patina. I sold it on ebay and immediately regretted it. I almost cried while I was boxing it up. I took a chance and offered the buyer a chance to back out if he was having second thoughts and thankfully he DID. This is a horrible guitar. Horrible. Horrid. Heinous. But I love it for some reason.

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1983 Strat. This was made during the "Smith Era" of Fender, one page of which involved them transitioning back to the 4 bolt neck and cutting the oversized headstocks down. Also using up old parts, ergo the black plastic when they had switched to white 2 years previous. The pickups are dated '79! It will cut glass. Nothing subtle here.

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1983 P Bass. Somewhat the same scenario as the Strat. The electronics are dated 1981 and it has a 1979 serial number on the headstock. It came with the original black WARPED pickguard (also outdated leftover stock like the Strat's) so I replaced it with a white Fender guard. Nice bass!

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And of course, my musical soulmate, the 1977 Telecaster I've owned since Day One. Any note that is in my head comes out this guitar. I can play things I never thought possible. It can get violent sometimes.

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I think that's it. Not sure.

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A house isn't a home without a handful of Fenders. I currently have a 2008 Precision, my #1 guitar 97 Tele, a 2013 Esquire, 2003 Strat, and 2005 Jazz.

 

rct

Thank you brotha rct , got any pics ?

 

 

4H

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