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

Neil

downbytheriver said:

Neil said:

downbytheriver said:

Shame Fender didn't realise that their target market has no money....

Plenty of their target audience has a good deal of money and £17k for something they wanted would be a drop in the ocean TBH.

Yeah but I was referring specifically to myself! 

Ah right.

Neil

Coincidentally I saw a pic recently of RR with a bronze Strat but it had a lock nut and a Floyd Rose type trem on it.

Same guitar?

Philly_Q

Neil said:

Coincidentally I saw a pic recently of RR with a bronze Strat but it had a lock nut and a Floyd Rose type trem on it.

Same guitar?

Apparently the original guitar now has a Washburn Wonderbar, so that must be it - or a copy.

olafgarten

SteveRobinson said:

Rowby1 said:

Dipped in molten bronze apparently!

I'd like to see that.

The melting point of bronze varies depending on the ratio of the alloy components and is about 950 °C 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronze#Properties

Every material has an ‘autoignition point’ – the temperature at which it will spontaneously ignite without any external source of ignition. With wood, the autoignition point is 300ºC. As soon as wood is heated to this temperature, it starts to release hydrocarbons. These then react with the oxygen in the air and ignite the wood.
http://www.wonderpediamagazine.co.uk/science/what-temperature-does-wood-burn

Maybe if you dipped it very quickly?

Most likely not pure bronze, I can't remember what they were called but there was a company selling a cold spray metal coating that was made from various alloys.

Evilmags

There is no oxygen in the molten metal to make the wood combust...

SteveRobinson

There is at the surface hence my tongue in cheek suggestion that they dip it quickly.

I very much doubt that it is dipped in molten bronze though but I'm open to being proved wrong. Heating wood to 1000 degrees centigrade is going to cause some charring I expect?

More likely that the bronze is electroplated I think.

Sassafras

Evilmags said:

There is no oxygen in the molten metal to make the wood combust...

Does the wood not contain some amount of oxygen?

usedtobe

Maybe they freeze the guitar before dipping it in the molten bronze.. 

Philly_Q

usedtobe said:

Maybe they freeze the guitar before dipping it in the molten bronze.. 

It's beginning to sound like Han Solo....

Bridgehouse

Philly_Q said:

usedtobe said:

Maybe they freeze the guitar before dipping it in the molten bronze.. 

It's beginning to sound like Han Solo....

I'd buy a Han Solo signature guitar.

Ravenous

Bridgehouse said:

Philly_Q said:

usedtobe said:

Maybe they freeze the guitar before dipping it in the molten bronze.. 

It's beginning to sound like Han Solo....

I'd buy a Han Solo signature guitar.

...A piece of junk, but it's got it where it counts!