Pacafeliz wrote:i would do them, all.
IMMEDIATELY, after seeing the pics, I thought to myself "okay.. so these are ALL Pat's guitars?!"
Figured I'd better check the entire thread to see if you'd already been here.
Pacafeliz wrote:i would do them, all.
Hang on, Fender are now producing this (sort of!), showcased at NAMM 2015:hornz wrote:zhivago wrote:Have you guys seen this '52?
On sale at Rumbleseat at the moment
I quite like this one, I love Jaguars and I like blade Humbuckers...especially if those are anything like what Alex Lifeson had in his Hentor Sportscasters. Ah yes, RUSH on a Jaguar.zhivago wrote:
Damn, that`s ugly as hell imo!hornz wrote:
Hang on, Fender are now producing this (sort of!), showcased at NAMM 2015:
Take off all of the other nonsense and I think the body shape is actually pretty cool!Fenderguy wrote:`59 burst
Yeah I had a book that was similar at one point, to be honest if I had a Jazzmaster and skills/money in 1982, zhivago would probably be posting a picture of one with an embedded flanger and DR-55. I think sometimes it's hard for people to see how unsentimental the 70's and 80's were and it wasn't always a terrible thing, I think it fostered both sacred and fully heathen ideas, because sometimes I feel we are a little too reverential about the past and while all these Fenders had a chance of being great guitars, a worrying amount of old garbage is being stickered up as 'vintage' when it's just old and second hand (nothing wrong with that, it's a nice honest term).scottT wrote:^^^
This is true. I can't help but think of the extreme example of the door that was cut into the Last Supper. Hey, they needed a bigger door. Sometimes expedience trumps everything. We may cringe now,--even about mass produced objects like cars and guitars--but these things just weren't held in the same regard as they are now. Then of course there's just plain ol' ignorance. I have a hunch this sort of thing reached it's peak in the '70s. I have a book called "Customize Your Electric Guitar (1981) that I think of as the culmination of the modification ideas of the previous decade...routing for humbuckers, drilling for multiple coil tap/boost switches, carving out a battery cavity for active circuitry etc...oh and of course the brass nut for extra sustain. Sometimes I'm surprised so many relatively untouched guitars survived the ravages of that age.