Fender now owns bigsby

Winny_Pooh

https://guitar.com/news/industry-news/fender-acquires-bigsby/

Interesting

Whitecat

Coming soon as a production instrument: 

Winny_Pooh

Yuk, tele deluxe though..

Whitecat

Teles with Bigsbys are frickin' fantastic.

But on a Strat it just looks super-duper mega wrong...

TheMarlin

That’s good news. Bigsby has certain problematic models (B5/B50 etc).  Fender have a history of fixing problems when they buy a company. 

Love a good Bigsby!

Phil_aka_Pip

Bigsby = clunky pile of junk.

hate 'em.

Winny_Pooh

Phil_aka_Pip said:

Bigsby = clunky pile of junk.

hate 'em.

Shut it you clunky pile of junk-food

Sassafras

They might be clunky piles of junk but they're the only vibratos I can get on with for a nice gentle warbling sound.

guitars4you

Sassafras said:

They might be clunky piles of junk but they're the only vibratos I can get on with for a nice gentle warbling sound.

thought I'd misread that 

stickyfiddle

A Tele with a B5 is a fine thing indeed, and considering Fender also runs the whole Gretsch operation it makes a lot of sense. 

ESBlonde

Interesting.

When He left Gibson, Ted McCarty bought Bigsby for himself and now it's owned by Fender. Strange how the industry goes around. If Henry hadn't wasted cash on spurious aquisitions this would have been a prime target to own.

I wonder if Gibsons will still be sold with factory fitted Bigsby made features in the comming years.

BeardyAndy

They already own Gretch so they were halfway there!

Corvus

They don't own Gretsch, they do have rights to make and sell, but the company is still in the family. Gretsh owned Bigsby, wonder why they sold it off, they seem to be doing ok.

ESBlonde

Corvus said:

They don't own Gretsch, they do have rights to make and sell, but the company is still in the family. Gretsh owned Bigsby, wonder why they sold it off, they seem to be doing ok.

Perhaps doing the opposite of Henry and concentrating on thier profitable core business.

Corvus

Maybe, but they could flog Bigsbys to anyone inc Gibson without bias, I wonder if Fender will carry on or if Gibson will not want to source from a Fender company. Either way if they improve the US castings it won't be a bad thing.