Fender Custom Shop channelling Gibson at NAMM 2017?

fandango

Some tasty Fender Custom Shop productions at NAMM 2017 (http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/namm-2017-fender-custom-shop-stand-in-pictures-647167)

Worth a peek through the 50 guitars (= 50 USA States?) but whilst there's a lot of bling paint jobs (a strat's a strat, isn't it) there are some interesting Gibson take-offs:
#601 Jackson F-Bird Mahogany
#608 Jackson White Monarkh
#609 Jackson Black Monarkh
#615 X-Stroyer Vanilla Shake

PS - Sorry, can't upload photos, so you'll have to make do with the link.

Paul_C

 There wasn't a single one I would want, most looked dreadful to me and I usually love wacky stuff.

Voxman

Paul_C said:

 There wasn't a single one I would want, most looked dreadful to me and I usually love wacky stuff.

I have to concur, nope, not for me either  - I like the #500 & #501 Old Ironsides Champ 120Vs though! 
 

Jez6345789

Very marmite

guitarcookie1

Malcolm Young "Salute"'looks good, but that's about it.. 

bbill335

I don't know what the hell is up with this bridge or what improvement it is over the normal Mustang one.


Paul Frank has great taste in whacky axes.


[It's 1959, we are in the offices at the Fender factory]
RECEPTIONIST: LEO, there's a customer one the phone, wants to order a guitar with a fancy sparkle finish and is gonna pay top dollar for it!
L. FENDER: Great! What model do they want?
RECEPTIONIST: He wants a Telecaster. He says he wants us to paint it, then take some of the paint off.
L. FENDER: Take the paint off?!
RECEPTIONIST: So's it looks like somebody been playing it a bunch! Seems this guy don't play so good but he wants look like he plays all'a time to impress people!
L. FENDER: [Looks into camera, shakes head]


P-Bass - The Homer Edition


For your aunt's crystal and home-made jewellery shop

olafgarten

I like the Surfcaster but otherwise pretty boring. 

IvisonGuitars

bbill335 said:

For your aunt's crystal and home-made jewellery shop

Christ....

Apparently it comes with a tweed case, COA, a Fender branded Dream Catcher and one of these....

dogload

I like the psychedelic poster Tele and Journeyman Bass VI.

Neil

Why did they ruin that sparkle Tele?

EricTheWeary

Not the one that might grab the attention but if I could do a supermarket grab through that lot I'd be taking the Cabronita strat home. Still wondering why Fender haven't had a go at making a MIM or Squier level strat Cab ( or Luchador as previous custom shop ones were called). 

guitars4you

of the odd ball wacky models then #528 is my fav

Alnico

The hand painted paisley has given me a frankly amazing idea (albeit a clearly obvious one).

Thanks for posting.

impmann

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

thebreeze

I like the Irish Roots tele - the one that looks like it's come out of a skip and probably costs an absolute fortune.....

usedtobe

I quite like the explorer copy, I suppose..

mikeyrob73

impmann said:

Just because you can, doesn't mean you should...

once again shouldnt like it but i do 

Shark_Eyes

The surfcaster is definitely my favourite:

http://cdn.mos.musicradar.com/images/aaaroot/guitars/1jan17/fender-custom-shop/DSC00234-650-80.jpg

crunchman

This would be great in a NOS finish.

impmann

crunchman said:

This would be great in a different finish.

FTFY

earwighoney

Massive credit to Fender.  They are becoming more and more unashamed in selling snake oil.