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Yeah, er, double mocca-frocca-chappa-lattechino with fragrant berrie jus and slightly whipped semi-skimmed organic dairy-free cream please...
The sort of coffee that takes 10minutes to make. At peak time.
The sort of coffee that should come with a free punch in the face and a complimentary kick in the balls..
I am wondering, is there currently a Custom Shop guitar available that isn't reliced? I know there is NOS but that is still aged.
Can you buy a pristine immaculate Custom Shop guitar?
And the models with modern hardware - basically higher spec versions of Fender USA models - are generally not aged.
And of course you could do a custom order and have it however you like.
Maybe something like a Teuffel Tesla.
They seem to be more like custom shop builders choice, which frankly is a better name.
for such a radical (OTT) name, they're playing it very safe aiming for the CS market for perhaps customers who don't want someone elses tribute model?
They felt slower- friction was definitely an issue, so I didn't buy one.
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pile of junk.. really.
fret buzz 11-21 st fret, choked out on bends, rosewood board super light colour and bone dry .. horrible.
righty electrics wired anti-clockwise , so totally fkin useless and also righty knobs so that didn't work either.
nice sticky lacquered neck.
piece of £2885 shit.
But it's a Custom Shop so it must be great
NOT.
From experience and observation, being a postmodern is one of the things that reduces the used price. A brave choice to buy new unless you are certain you are keeping it.
I remember walking down our local high street with my Italian dad in the mid 90s when coffee shop fever was first taking hold, as we watched all the people coming out with their huge cups he said, very clearly
”Cappucino is for Breakfast, or children”
Correct !
Having worked in music retail (long time ago... in the 90's) it is often down to what the shop does when it receives the guitar.
Most shops unpack the guitar and stick it on the wall.
Good shops take the guitar out of the box, assess what it needs and does a restring or set up, tweak at the nut and then will offer you another setup as part of the sale.
There seems to be far fewer 'good shops' out there these days.
I was at a shop here in Geneva a few days ago- not a single guitar I played was intonating well or close to being in tune.
I pointed this out to the store owner and I got a shoulder shug.
OK, but I'm simply not spending 2-4k on an instrument that plays like a bag of spanners.
The thing is that there are plenty of people who will, so there is less of an incentive for vendors to up their game.
If 'we' collectively started complaining about this sort of thing then it is possible that a few retailers would get the message.
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The Mexican Classic Series (now Vintera) is probably a better bet than the US Standard. At least it has a proper bridge.
If you can find a good Mexican one, then they can be stunning guitars. The difference is that you might have to try 10 of them to find a really good one. With the higher end of the US factory range (AVRI, now American Original), you might have to try 6 of them to find a really good one. With the Custom Shop guitars, it may be 50% of them that are really good.