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Fender Producing LTD Custom Shop Broadcaster Replica
While we’re on the subject… it looks like Fender is currently reproducing its incredibly rare Broadcaster in a high-end Custom Shop ‘Relic’ model –– apparently the first time the guitar has been reproduced bearing its original logo. With just 200-some of the original Broadcasters built before Fender received its famous request from Gretsch to cease [...]
Continue reading...Smithsonian Channel Presents– Electrified: The Guitar Revolution
5. August 2010
Well, August is Inside the Music month over at the Smithsonian Channel, and as part of the music-related festivities the good folks at Smithsonian will be offering up something for all of you guitar lovers. Electrified: The Guitar Revolution is a documentary covering the history of what we all know to be music’s greatest invention [...]
Continue reading...Fender’s Limited Edition ‘Snake Head’ Telecaster Now In Stores
28. July 2010
After writing about it a few weeks back I’ve received a number of inquiries about Fender’s unique new Snake Head Telecaster, so I thought I’d point out that this Limited Edition Tele appears to finally be showing up in stores. The guitar, which is part of Fender’s “Telebration” celebrating 60 years since the introduction of [...]
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26. July 2010
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Continue reading...Fender Custom Shop Producing 1956 Stratocaster NOS In Sea Foam Sparkle
13. July 2010
Wow… so this retro beauty is apparently the latest addition to Fender’s Time Machine series of guitars. I don’t know about you, but Sea Foam has always been one of my all-time favorite Fender finishes, and with this Strat the Custom Shop has taken it even a step farther –– with an NOS (New Old [...]
Continue reading...Gibson Announces ‘Collector’s Choice’ #1 – The Gary Moore Aged & Melvyn Franks VOS ’59 Les Paul Standard
12. July 2010
So this is it –– the first set of guitars from Gibson’s new “Collector’s Choice” line of high-end Custom Shop replicas. To inaugurate the series, Gibson has seen fit to reproduce Thin Lizzy guitarist Gary Moore’s classic 59 Les Paul Standard. The guitar is being made available in two very limited-edition runs: 125 of the [...]
Continue reading...Fender Offers Up Custom Shop Vintage Pro 1956 Stratocaster NOS
6. July 2010
While we’re on the subject of Fender’s famous Custom Shop, here’s yet another new line of guitars that have sprung up quietly in recent weeks –– the Vintage Pro 1956 Stratocaster NOS. Like the Vintage Pro 1963 Teles mentioned last week, these new Strats were built to look, sound, and indeed handle, like a 1956 [...]
Continue reading...Fender Introduces Vintage Pro 1963 Telecaster Custom NOS
25. June 2010
At this point I’m not entirely sure when Fender “officially” introduced these new Custom Shop Telecasters, but I’ve just become aware of them myself and thought I’d better point them out here for all of you rabid Tele fanatics. Dubbed the Vintage Pro 1963 Telecaster Custom NOS, these guitars are apparently part of Fender’s Custom [...]
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9. August 2010
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