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--- ipongrac <> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
> > I think it's universally agreed that Fender
> quality has been
> > pretty high once the pre-CBS era began, and that
> includes Fender's
> > AmStd models>>
>
> Ooops, it should be clear that I meant to say "once
> the POST-CBS era
> began"....
>
> --- In ,
> "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
>
> > when I bought this guitar I read in the
> "Frontline" magazine that
> > the body was alder. Then I find out a few years
> later its
> > probably not alder and it has a veneer cap on it.
>
>
> Bill, are you sure about this? What is a veneer
> cap, anyway? I was
> also under the impression that the bodies were
> alder. I would be
> very surprised if they weren't as these guitars were
> Fender's main
> sellers from '87 or something through the mid-'90s.
> But I'll be
> happy to consider the evidence...
>
> > You keep refering
> > to the late 70s and early 80s strats. Like I said
> before I was
> > talking about the American Standard which was
> started in the late
> > 80s. It's well known that the early American
> Standards are not as
> > good as the newer ones.
>
> Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you said that
> these AmStd models
> were among the worst Strats Fender EVER made. I
> understand now what
> you're saying.
>
> > Fender eventually discontinued the line and
> > made them look more attractive and gave them a new
> name.
>
> Didn't they simply make them look more vintage?
> Give the body the
> same contours as the vintage models, and make the
> neck more like the
> vintage Strats. Oh, and have the body routing
> underneath the pickup
> like the vintage models, too. Though I appreciate
> all these little
> touches, and would prefer them, they really don't
> affect the sound at
> all, do they? It's just cosmetic, for those like
> most of us here.
> (Though it's strange that they would do all these
> ultimatelly
> insignificant things while still keeping the
> two-post tremolo which
> is a major tone-sucker - the vintage tremolos sound
> quite a bit
> better. I can vouch for this since my Strat Plus
> had a two-post
> tremolo that I replaced with a vintage one - huge
> improvement, at
> least for the kind of music we play. Hank Marvin
> agrees - his early
> signature models were outfitted with the two-post
> trems, but he
> eventually switched to vintage trems on all his
> guitars.)
>
> Ivan
>
>
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