Robbie Robertson Signature Strat.......wow!

stickyfiddle

Price aside, i think it's a fabulous looking thing.

As for the price, this is surely more easily justified than a 10k Gibson - at least this has a direct cost of something Fender doesn't normally do (the finish). 

bluechargeboy

Octafish said:

You can buy a brand new car for that sort of money. Ok a different scale of economy, but think of all the engineering/development that has gone into that. Probably more in R&D in the dashboard than in that whole guitar, but I suppose if Fender can liberate that amount of money from willing punters then good luck to them I guess.

@Octafish As an aside, my mate went to the Hyundai headquarters in Korea and they were dismantling an S-Class Mercedes with scalpels to discover its secrets!

koneguitarist

I think it's an iconic guitar, price is stupid by any standard. 
But if I won the lottery I would buy it. He's one of my biggest influences. 

JookyChap

All that money and they can't even put the middle pickup in the right place, I ask yer..

Ravenous

Philly_Q said:

I'm not a Robbie Robertson fan and certainly won't be buying one, but I think it's a fantastic looking guitar.

Agreed. Very pretty in an understated way...

richardhomer

I love Robbie Robertson - just started reading his autobiography 'Testimony' - which I got for Christmas.

The guitar is a lot of money - but certainly is an iconic image from The Last Waltz. Like all the other tribute models, they are clearly for wealthy collectors. If I had a few million in the bank, I'd buy one.

olafgarten

I wonder how they did the finish, is it real bronze? 

Rowby1

Dipped in molten bronze apparently!

Looks amazing but really silly money.

impmann

More money than I can afford but a cool guitar and the great man makes a great sound with his...

Strat_a_tat_tat

richardhomer said:
If I had a few million in the bank, I'd buy one.

Oh... so you will be buying one then, Richard.

John_P

Looks cool but needs a floyd rose to justify that kind of price.   

Octafish

bluechargeboy said:

Octafish said:

You can buy a brand new car for that sort of money. Ok a different scale of economy, but think of all the engineering/development that has gone into that. Probably more in R&D in the dashboard than in that whole guitar, but I suppose if Fender can liberate that amount of money from willing punters then good luck to them I guess.

@Octafish As an aside, my mate went to the Hyundai headquarters in Korea and they were dismantling an S-Class Mercedes with scalpels to discover its secrets!

Ha, ha, although wasn't it Ford in the early 60s who took a Mini apart to try work out how BMC were able to sell it for so little. They could only conclude (accurately as it turned out) that BMC were in fact making a loss on every Mini sold.

grungebob

bluechargeboy said:

Octafish said:

Wow, I'm a Strat man, but that's a ludicrous price for a bolted/screwed together guitar. Fender are just taking the piss and I'm certain that it won't play/sound any better than any other sub £4000 CS Strat and who cares if there's only 3 in this country.

Well it has been bolted together, but prior to that they have disassembled the original, measured it all up, profiled the neck, noted where all the defects are, and then recreated all that as exactly as possible. So you are paying for all that activity, creativity and care, rather than "a Strat". Whether that is worth it is another matter, but more has gone into this than goes into a typical Custom Shop guitar.

They did that to the Kurt cobain jaguar too and that was nowhere near the price of this, in fact I think I could have bought 10 of the KC jags for the price of this. 

Now having said all  that I do think it's a real looker

capo4th

Was Robbie Robertson a plumber in his day job ?

guitars4you

capo4th said:

Was Robbie Robertson a plumber in his day job ?

is that because you think Fender are taking the p*ss over the price !!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sassafras

Always makes me laugh when pickups are described as "hand-wound".
Really? Someone sat there with a bobbin in one hand and a roll of wire in the other and wound the wire over 8000 times around it?

Guitar looks like shit. Literally. 

cruxiform

Fucking ridiculous price. Some idiot will buy it no doubt and hang it on their wall. 

WezV

I love the way they are describing a dipped in bronze finish as thin and tonally transparent.

Philly_Q

WezV said:

I love the way they are describing a dipped in bronze finish as thin and tonally transparent.

Presumably it is pretty thin, though, judging by the way it sinks into the ash grain.

I'm trying to remember those metallic finishes you did... was it copper?

Edit:  I just read an old(?) feature on the Fender website saying the bronze added "about 10 pounds" to the weight of the Strat!!

WezV

I have done metal leaf in faux gold, copper, aluminium and a few others.  I have also done copper and bronze paints.   They don't really add much weight.   I can't imagine a dipped guitar would be as thin as metal leaf