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Post by hbsurfn on Dec 22, 2006 17:18:08 GMT -5
Hey fellow Splawn owners. As a contractor in Southern California, I was lucky enough to be working on a job at the Fender factory in SoCal last week. Amazing place.....saw the whole facility and many many cool things and some things I wasn't supposed to see..... like a stack of guitar bodies in a certain striped pattern.... Worked in the Custom shop and in the workstation of the famous John Cruz who crafted the SRV and Blackie limited edition Strats. Saw at least 50 just finished and in progress custom shop signatures, closet classic's and Relic's. Could probably get fired for this post, but thought I would share what I saw anyway. Love my Splawn Competition head.
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Post by TuskerKevin on Dec 22, 2006 17:21:26 GMT -5
awesome!!!!!
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Post by cableguy72 on Dec 22, 2006 18:09:08 GMT -5
Sounds like Fender is getting a limited run of custom shop Frankensteins ready for the market. Hope they don't ask for $25,000 like the Clapton Blackie strat.
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Post by hbsurfn on Dec 22, 2006 20:41:12 GMT -5
Well the Fender custom shop is there as well as the Jackson/Charvel, Guild and Gretsch custom shops. There is literally guitars and guitar bodies and necks everywhere....hanging on the walls, in peoples offices and cubicles, in showrooms, vaults, laboratories....everywhere. racks and racks of bodies and necks. I have to go in every area of the factory to complete my job, but I kept finding excuses to go into the custom shop area so I could nose around. Cool people too, love to answer my silly questions and talk about guitar stuff.
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Post by Hacksaw on Dec 23, 2006 11:38:15 GMT -5
they would never get rid of me! can I be a tester? where do I apply to get a job here!
intesting news.. we wont tell anyone you mentioned it ;-)
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Post by VomHalen on Dec 24, 2006 6:38:43 GMT -5
fender is releasing a franken strat replica, ed's going to talk about it in an 18 minute video included w/ the next Guitar World magazine...i wouldn't hold my breath on it being less than $10,000
did you see any 5150 III heads while you were there?
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Post by TuskerKevin on Dec 24, 2006 7:54:06 GMT -5
Hey Vom, send me that link we were chatting bout yesterday bro! Thanks again, I found a power supply!
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