Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by panoramic » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:02 am

FAHQ i need one of those,i have been gassing for a 12 anyhow
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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by shoule79 » Thu Jan 24, 2019 10:40 am

The price in CDN will be sick, but I see this happening for me. I’ve been wanting a 12 string for a couple years. Likely in the summer when work slows down. Maybe by then I can score a used one too ;)

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by invisible man » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:06 am

I can already envision OSG coming up with rotary switch mods, stereo mods, Spitfire tort, etc...
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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Jaguar018 » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:45 am

invisible man wrote:
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:06 am
I can already envision OSG coming up with rotary switch mods, stereo mods, Spitfire tort, etc...
I already see OSG quibbling about the shape and then wanting different colors.

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Embenny » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:48 am

Jaguar018 wrote:
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:45 am
invisible man wrote:
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:06 am
I can already envision OSG coming up with rotary switch mods, stereo mods, Spitfire tort, etc...
I already see OSG quibbling about the shape and then wanting different colors.
Not me. Any Offset that comes in LPB can stop right there and I'll be happy.

It comes in more than red/white/black/sunburst, so it's already ahead of most of the offerings of the last 10 years.
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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Stereordinary » Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:58 am

Kind of hilarious that they practically traced the bridge plate that I designed like ten years ago.
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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Axolotl » Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:19 pm

Jaguar018 wrote:
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:45 am
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I already see OSG quibbling about the shape and then wanting different colors.
As excited as I am for these, I noticed the shape being off almost immediately. For some reason it makes me think of a chubby shark :freako: but I'm sure we'll see more vintage-speced iterations of the xii in the upcoming months/years. This is great news all around, I'm jonesing that LPB pretty bad...

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by mizbiz » Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:21 pm

Stereordinary wrote:
Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:58 am
Kind of hilarious that they practically traced the bridge plate that I designed like ten years ago.
I’m fairly confident that someone from Fender’s R&D team lurks here, and probably most other guitar centric forums. This, among many other “coincidences,” would lead me to believe that a theory suggesting that their “research” mainly consists of harvesting ideas from these boards would not be entirely unfounded.

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Pacafeliz » Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:10 pm

That is SO COOL news!!! :-*

...any info on what Squier will be bringing out?
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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Bradley-Jazz » Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:15 pm

All the cheeses....

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Tehz_ » Thu Jan 24, 2019 1:26 pm

Fuck!!!! I wasn’t going to buy any new guitars this year, but...fuck! I need one!

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by baseggio » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:03 pm

Man, I caught some shit at home last year for grabbing one of the CIJ Strat XII's. Had I known this was coming I would've waited.

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by eggwheat » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:08 pm

What’s with the bridge? Does it have full 12 string intonation adjustment? If it does the intonation in the picture is way off! Unless they are just renders..

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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by Bradley-Jazz » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:15 pm

It looks like one of these (or something close) in a curved surround -

http://www.warmoth.com/Gotoh-Twelve-Str ... 0C707.aspx

So I think it has 12 saddles on there, six main ones with six little sliders piggy backing on them.
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Re: Fender Alternate Reality Electric XII 12-String

Post by baseggio » Thu Jan 24, 2019 2:27 pm

Yeah, why can't Fender make a 12-string with all twelve strings through the body like they used to?

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