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I think that number should say more than enough about whether folk can expect it to be a unique instrument with some skilled handcrafted work on it or not.
One that interests me that we haven’t covered is how Fender would feel/what they would do if someone else copied this template and stated to making guitars with it?
I've recently sold a 1963 Strat and a 1980 Wal Custom fretless bass (which fetched more than the Strat) and could've just gone and bought a couple of brand new Masterboltedtogether Fenders.
I have absolutely no axe to grind with people for whom that is an ambition, who every time they pick up their guitar it makes them smile and was all worth it, but the price is not the reason I don't own one, the value is.
There's a lot of marketing crap around guitars, most especially from giant corporate "custom shops", but there are also significant intangibles around musical instruments and consequently times when something just grabs you, regardless of price, value or logic.
I know I'm contradicting myself here, but there's room for all outlooks.
’SHUT UP POOR PERSON AND WIND YOUR NECK IN’
Love the internet :-)
It's all bollocks. Absolute bollocks. While one pickup winder's ear and consistency and the base tone they strive for might be subjectively better than another's there's no magic in a pickup past the selection of components and how it is wound.
It's not like Abby decided to start going off list and winding custom fancypants pickups of her own design.
As for the rest of it, let other people enjoy things. But no denying my impression of 'masterbuilt' might not be be exactly what Fender consider it to be.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
Well, I guess, any artist who has bought or been given a guitar by Fender will have.
Mark Knopfler, Eric Clapton to name a couple.
Totally agree there is an element of marketing BS in all companies and Fender.
As I said I don't agree with templates and masterbuilds should be individual guitars imo.
That and also metal and silicon isn't like wood, you don't get more experience to get better at picking a better piece of wood. The whole process is built on an assembly line and mostly by robots so the crux of it, in terms of manufacturing is just branding as the IQ is widely accepted to be average.
The aspect of bucket list is strange to most photographer hobbyist. There are mainly 2 kinds, those who are gear nerds and those who just care about the photo. Neither will like Leica because if you are a gear nerd you want best bang for buck, best DXO marks - Zeiss Otus, Sony sensors etc. Those who care about the final photo won't care what gear you shoot. So its hard to grasp the idea that a Leica is a camera either camp will ever consider. To both, it's just a badge.
I know people who have Leicas, do I think their images are better than those who shoot with Nikon/Canon/Sony? No. But do I ask them why they buy it and tell them they should have bought a Panasonic instead? No. It's their money. It would be like telling a Ferrari owner he should have bought a Yaris. People who buy Leicas don't think about IQ, spec or even the photo, they just want a Leica.
The difference here between Leica and Fender Masterbuilt is that Leica don't pretend they have better IQ or anything like that over the other brand, they don't name specific engineers as their star man and put it on the sticker. Fender do.
Been uploading old tracks I recorded ages ago and hopefully some new noodles here.
'Hey look, they use stencils to relic Masterbuilt guitars'
'WHAT?? You mean the Masterbuilders just find discarded Squier parts in the bin, wipe the baked beans off, and then watch someone else putting them together and Fender sell them for £6k?? You'd have to be a right mug to buy one of them'
And it definitely doesn't follow that if you chop and change instruments you are some sort of dandy "collector" and not a "player"