Offset detectives, did I find a prototype Ryan Jarman Signature Model at the pawn shop?

[s_mcsleazy]

Ah. The old out the back door routine. Something is meant to be disposed/thrown out but it's still useful so someone takes it home with them.

[oid]

Would not surprise me in the slightest if Fender themselves drops the occasional prototype off at a pawn shop. Anyone who reads a thread like one of these is going to be slightly less quick to dismiss the oddball Fender hanging up at the pawn shop as someones refin mod project, it is good for business, builds the lore and adds to the mystique. Prototypes find their way onto the open market a bit to often for it to be sticky fingered employees, Fender either does it on purpose or turns a blind eye I suspect.

I do enjoy these sorts of threads.

[Acidhouse]

Good conclusion. Maybe you will see your ex-guitar on tour someday.

[dren68]

Well, what guitar did you get? Why keep it a secret?

I didn't get anything yet! I'm more of an inept junkhacker type than an owner of fine instruments, so I'm gonna get something later. Maybe a mutated Strat Mini with 4 pickups or something, I don't know yet.

The green guitar wasn't to spec (Chris noticed there was no forearm contour, for instance), so it was marked for disposal and then kind of fell through the cracks.

Weird. I didn't notice that it didn't have contours. That's the reason they got rid of it????

[Acidhouse]

Weird. I didn't notice that it didn't have contours. That's the reason they got rid of it????

Yeah, that’s a pretty bad defect. If any of you guys have any of those old Pre-contoured Mustangs laying around, I will be happy to get rid of them for you.

[Jaguar018]

The other magic part of the story is that OP had the $ to buy the guitar at the pawn shop in the first place. 99% of the time I go into any music store I'm not really there for a purchase.

[dren68]

Weird. I didn't notice that it didn't have contours. That's the reason they got rid of it????

Yeah, that’s a pretty bad defect. If any of you guys have any of those old Pre-contoured Mustangs laying around, I will be happy to get rid of them for you.

Yeah... those, or the ones where they messed the paint up with those weird stripes on the finish. Those are the worst.

[Stephen_42]

Weird. I didn't notice that it didn't have contours. That's the reason they got rid of it????

Yeah, that’s a pretty bad defect. If any of you guys have any of those old Pre-contoured Mustangs laying around, I will be happy to get rid of them for you.

Yeah... those, or the ones where they messed the paint up with those weird stripes on the finish. Those are the worst.

I'm even less picky. Not only would I make do with one of those stripey ones, I'd even take one of those old stripey ones where they got some of the finish on the headstock.

[leokula]

I'm even less picky. Not only would I make do with one of those stripey ones, I'd even take one of those old stripey ones where they got some of the finish on the headstock.

Yeah man, talk about some pretty bad factory QC... What about those with weird slanted pickups? ffs...

[LossyShades]

Just have to say that this thread was a super fun read. Great story and sweet guitar. Glad everybody got what the wanted.

[MyLittleEye]

A necro-post I know but here's a nice follow up - Ryan's Techie doing some work on this, now legendary instrument.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rnXUtL1d6T4