He's just harkening back to his earlier assertion that Fender ought to be able to provide a black hardware option.
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Fender Lame-o American design experience Fail
- Thread starter Kirk Bryant
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Hey, if he wants to wear a Fodera on his head and play a Fedora, that's his business!
It's sooo lame I can't get this in tort!!!
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Well, they are "able" - they choose not to. Don't like it, go somewhere else. I still don't get it, I guess.
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Is something like this so much to ask from Fender? They are a huge company I'm sure they could make a tort fedora!
Is something like this so much to ask from Fender? They are a huge company I'm sure they could make a tort fedora!
Could you please change your username? It hurts my feelings when you like one of my posts and it says "Nobody likes this."Thanks! I fixed it.
I think the point of all of this is that if you want a Fender you will have to settle for what Fender makes because Fender only makes the Fenders that Fender makes.
Notice that the image I saved from my Design Experience build has the very same hump in the lower cutaway contour that you had on your actual bass!
Let's not forget that there is a similar production anomaly with some older Fenders that is considered a hallmark of the era it originated from. This could be considered a identifying characteristic of the ADE basses for years to come! Let's face it, it does not affect playability and it's also not visible from the most important angle.
Yes, I learned all about router humps as a result of this experience. I never new such a thing existed as I've never had one on any Fender or other bass for that matter. Apparently though, they are sanding out the hump in my new body. Also the neck pocket was poorly done so I would have sent it back for that alone. So, hopefully the redo will be nice.
I think the point of all of this is that if you want a Fender you will have to settle for what Fender makes because Fender only makes the Fenders that Fender makes.
Well I think that's the point you know? Fender only makes the fenders that fender makes and that's what makes fender fender and not a fender copy like fedora
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Also an excellent tongue-twister for the rug rats.
Well...there's certainly a lot of something there. Apologies for it running so long. Or for leaving the unfortunate reader with so much to unpack.
FWIW I certainly hope they wouldn't all agree. It would be a dull world if everyone thought exactly like me. I'd certainly not enjoy living in it. As far as tempering things with that last line, please mentally insert it after reading anything I post. Because everything I share is just my opinion. Perhaps a carefully considered opinion more often than not. But I don't claim to have any answers. I just offer observations and recommendations based on my own thinking and experiences. So take them with a grain of salt. Or better yet...a nice frosty Margarita!
Hmm...better take these one by one...
1) I didn't say people felt duped. Nor do I think many do feel that way for the most part. I would more characterize it that a good number of potential buyers might have felt disappointed. I know for certain one potential buyer was.
2) I didn't mean to imply what the Custom Shop produces is somehow not worthy of consideration when I said tinker-toy. (I wouldn't mind owning a custom shop P or J bass in the least.) It's a term I learned back in management school. Apparently "tinker-toy" has picked up some negative connotations it didn't have when I picked up the phrase. The technical term was "flexible modularized construction." Perhaps Prof. Canty was looking for a little more colorful or sexy a phrase to help us retain it while we were struggling to stay awake at 8:00AM for his Monday morning class.
3) I say "Fodera" you say "Fedora"...
The bloody automatic spell check on this miserable iPhone strikes again! That's it. I'm disabling it. (Thx for catching that! Fixed now.)
I don't see it so much as excessive self-gratification or materialism being the problem. I think it's more this incredibly corrosive "sense of entitlement" this nation is succumbing to. To think yourself the best because you believe it to be so. And to expect nothing but the best for yourself because you believe you deserve it - even in the absence of any rational reason why it should be given to you.
That's a big problem, I'll agree. But I don't think that's what's happening with the design experience. I think it's just Fender's sloppy choice of words, and some overly...enthusiastic?...language when they made the announcement. And I think that contributed to the disappointment a lot of potential buyers felt when they discovered there was considerably less there than they thought they'd see. Or been led to expect.
Either way, it is what it is. If it works for you, that's fine. And I'm sure they're all very nice basses and guitars too. Fender makes a fine instrument. But they are what they are: personalized production rather than what I'd consider custom musical instruments.
But again all of this is nothing more my personal take based on my own business experiences and philosophy. Fender probably doesn't see it that way at all. And props to them for at least trying. Because with their sales numbers, it certainly wasn't something they had to do.
Or so I think anyway.
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