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FRANZONI
Double Platinum Member
Ireland
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 Posted - 08/08/2009 : 01:46:52
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Bummer.... ... i like the late 80's stuff from fender as after the workers bought out the company the quality seemed to leap foward from the CBS era stuff...i played a couple of custom shop models belonging to some friends(i wrote a topic about the Rory Gallagher strat i had a lend of) ans to be honest wasn't overly impressed.... i was also lucky enough to grab a couple of 80's Jap squiers as spares (strat and a tele) before the prices on these got out of hand.... thats pretty bad Laurie and your right Fender should stand over this as it's clearly a manufacturing error.... thats pretty bad quality control from them....i read somewhere that Gibsons CEO when he took over went along the production line and smashed a couple of Les Pauls off the floor that weren't up to scratch.... |
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FunkenGrooven
Silver Member
USA
360 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 07:41:53
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| Well sure if you are paying full price then go get a new one I assumed you got a super deal or something. |
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DarrinPA
Silver Member
USA
221 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 07:54:17
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Originally posted by jack
Thats why the Fender's I own all say Squier on the headstock...
Haha, same here.  |
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
4854 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 08:42:05
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Originally posted by FunkenGrooven
Well sure if you are paying full price then go get a new one I assumed you got a super deal or something.
Yeah, but it was sold as "good" by the store. The deal was super for a good one, but sucked for one that needed major work. They will sell it to someone who wants it for slide or something that doesn't rely on proper geometry. |
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Dr. Bob
Moderator
Australia
6593 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 08:49:24
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pedals 4 pv
Platinum Member
Canada
1351 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 10:34:09
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Too bad you missed out Laurie, but at least you got your money back. |
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zerksies
Double Platinum Member
USA
3406 Posts |
Posted - 08/08/2009 : 13:26:52
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
4854 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2009 : 17:52:59
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Interesting update...
I was looking at a 2009 3-tone USA standard strat in the music store the other day and it had the exact same problem, except the bridge was offset in the opposite direction.
I checked all the other strats on the wall, and it is only the 3-tone USA standards that have the problem - bridge alignment is all over the place. Everything else was properly centered and straight.
Strange. |
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rhcp_1005
Silver Member
United Kingdom
307 Posts |
Posted - 09/10/2009 : 19:44:42
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| I've got a 3-tone USA standard strat, bought in April this year, and haven't had any problems with the bridge being wrongly aligned. Maybe that store gets some bad batches. |
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verivorax
Platinum Member
Canada
1185 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2009 : 14:58:53
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A lot of US strats pass through my hands, and I haven't personally seen this problem yet on a US standard - only on the '62 reissue (2 or 3 examples). I've seen it as well on some mid-2000s "Classic Series" mexican guitars - thinline teles and the like. It's a bummer when the guitar is otherwise perfect and when the holes are meant to be drilled by template, and then QC'd.. a real ball-drop from Fender there.  |
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Laurie
Double Platinum Member
Canada
4854 Posts |
Posted - 09/11/2009 : 15:01:32
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Originally posted by verivorax
a real ball-drop from Fender there.
It is very hard to understand. Maybe most players just don't care and I'm the exception? |
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verivorax
Platinum Member
Canada
1185 Posts |
Posted - 09/12/2009 : 20:20:14
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I suppose some peoples' styles won't bring them to drop the string off the side of the fingerboard, but certainly some players would not stand for such a fault in their instrument.
Those 62s with the same problem really vexed their owners.. sometimes it's just a matter of re-seating the neck in the pocket, but sometimes it's so grossly out-of-alignment that nothing can save it (except maybe a hearty smashing ). |
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60th anniversary strat - DEAD... returned
