Fender Custom Shop Amp.... £9k...!!

nickb_boy

For an amp of that price thats supposedly got all these bespoke vintage components I'd have thought they'd have done better than a Celestion Fullback that you can pick up for £99 new!
At least it'll have unique insect bites (aka wood worm) in it though

Cacofonix

ICBM said:

miserneil said:

The crazy thing is, I bet that amp is already sold before it hits the shop floor.

But don't worry, it will be available at a more sensible price in a few months when he gets tired of it.

So @Wazmeister has already bought it then?

Wazmeister

Cacofonix said:

ICBM said:

miserneil said:

The crazy thing is, I bet that amp is already sold before it hits the shop floor.

But don't worry, it will be available at a more sensible price in a few months when he gets tired of it.

So @Wazmeister has already bought it then?

Not yet mate, but I'll keep you posted ! 

4114Effects

nickb_boy said:

For an amp of that price thats supposedly got all these bespoke vintage components I'd have thought they'd have done better than a Celestion Fullback that you can pick up for £99 new!
At least it'll have unique insect bites (aka wood worm) in it though

Also would expect some NOS or boutique valves in there, not Ruby and EHX! 

Sassafras

miserneil said:

The crazy thing is, I bet that amp is already sold before it hits the shop floor.

Just as well. I wouldn't want to buy it after it hits the shop floor.
That 100 year old pine must be quite brittle by now.

riccash69

Wow! Thought at least someone might like it? Come on guys, it's a limited edition 1 of 5 in the world, is it worth the sum of its parts? Of course not but that's not really what it's about. Will it go to a rich collector? Almost certainly but isn't that where 95% of all PRS private stock and Murphy aged limited edition Les Paul's go anyway? I love it, and I don't really care what it costs, it's just another piece of gear to lust after. 

Strangefan

riccash69 said:

Wow! Thought at least someone might like it? Come on guys, it's a limited edition 1 of 5 in the world, is it worth the sum of its parts? Of course not but that's not really what it's about. Will it go to a rich collector? Almost certainly but isn't that where 95% of all PRS private stock and Murphy aged limited edition Les Paul's go anyway? I love it, and I don't really care what it costs, it's just another piece of gear to lust after.






 I can in no way ever get excited about a brown wooden box,  amps for me are purely a tool we need, I could never lust after one, (obviously only my opinion) 

clarkefan

Limited to 5 because somebody somewhere chose that number.

Not the same as something limited because that's all they made in 1959 or whatever.

If Fender choose to they could flick a switch and crank out another 10,000 of these if they wanted to.

Gibson can't do the same with actual 59 LPs. 

It is what it is, Supply/Demand,  etc.

StuartMac290

This is all getting very silly indeed  

ennspek

If someone wants to buy it fair play to them, I have no issue with it.

Teetonetal

ICBM said:

jacksparrow said:

For 9k the could solder the bleedin switches FFS.

They could fit a more appropriate speaker than that ceramic Celestion too. And better valves.

Looking more closely at the inside pic, the standby switch is in the wrong place in the circuit so it will probably blow rectifier valves, and it looks like the fusing is the same stupid arrangement that led to this…



That's the inside of a Custom Shop Twin-o-lux after a valve short caused the socket to vitrify itself and burn out the wiring loom, because there is no HT fuse only a pointless filament one.

Not impressed, even at "only" two grand. £9K is taking the piss.

Your posts on amps like this make me depressed. How can they make an amp with such design flaws? Strikes me that they simply don't care or aren't good enough at circuit design to know? 

ICBM

Teetonetal said:

Your posts on amps like this make me depressed. How can they make an amp with such design flaws? Strikes me that they simply don't care or aren't good enough at circuit design to know? 

I don't know, but I would have to guess it's lack of real-world experience in amp repairs. I'm only a small-time amp tech and things like this are obvious to me.

It baffles me that large companies get things like this wrong so often too, but they do. The irony is that many modern amps are unnecessarily over-fused to comply with EU guidelines and sometimes suffer from 'nuisance blows', so why Fender decided to ignore them on these makes even less sense. 

skaguitar

riccash69 said:

Wow! Thought at least someone might like it? Come on guys, it's a limited edition 1 of 5 in the world, is it worth the sum of its parts? Of course not but that's not really what it's about. Will it go to a rich collector? Almost certainly but isn't that where 95% of all PRS private stock and Murphy aged limited edition Les Paul's go anyway? I love it, and I don't really care what it costs, it's just another piece of gear to lust after. 

I did say if I had the money...I would buy it...:)

skaguitar

riccash69 said:

Wow! Thought at least someone might like it? Come on guys, it's a limited edition 1 of 5 in the world, is it worth the sum of its parts? Of course not but that's not really what it's about. Will it go to a rich collector? Almost certainly but isn't that where 95% of all PRS private stock and Murphy aged limited edition Les Paul's go anyway? I love it, and I don't really care what it costs, it's just another piece of gear to lust after. 

I did say if I had a spare £9k I'd buy it....

skaguitar

riccash69 said:

Wow! Thought at least someone might like it? Come on guys, it's a limited edition 1 of 5 in the world, is it worth the sum of its parts? Of course not but that's not really what it's about. Will it go to a rich collector? Almost certainly but isn't that where 95% of all PRS private stock and Murphy aged limited edition Les Paul's go anyway? I love it, and I don't really care what it costs, it's just another piece of gear to lust after. 

I did say if I had a spare £9k I'd buy it....