Somebody Make it Stop!

[reverend1]

From the how many different lines can Fender squeeze out of the same guitar I present to you the "road worn player series." This is starting to get ridiculous.


http://www.fender.com/products/roadworn

 

[Tiltsta]

Wait until next year's "road worn player deluxe custom modified series". Odd that I have had the same strat plus since 1997, and it looks about as new as the day I bought it, despite several years as my main gigging guitar. Thick poly just never relics.

I kind of hope they make one that looks like my over the top relic trash-o-caster strat.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

so it's a fake beat up guitar with Texas Specials. which will probably get replaced. ok. whatever.

 

[reverend1]

I tried to count in my head how many different lines Fender is currently producing (not counting the custom shop). It's impossible! I feel sorry for Fender dealers; I think this is a ploy from Fender to force their dealers to purchase more inventory even though they are not selling more guitars.

 

[Johnny N.]

Speaking of Texas Specials and Fender making too many models, they used to have a Lonestar Strat. It is an HSS strat with Texas Specials. I saw 9 million HSS strats the other day between two stores and not one of them was the Lonestar. I think they used to have a USA model and quit making it but I thought the Mexican version was still around. Too many models makes it impossible to find one in a store.

 

[reverend1]

Speaking of Texas Specials and Fender making too many models, they used to have a Lonestar Strat. It is an HSS strat with Texas Specials. I saw 9 million HSS strats the other day between two stores and not one of them was the Lonestar. I think they used to have a USA model and quit making it but I thought the Mexican version was still around. Too many models makes it impossible to find one in a store.

They still make the same guitar. I think it's part of the deluxe line but who the hell knows anymore. But it is still around some where in the 12 or so USA lines.

 

[John Watt]

My local music store got a little upset with me one day, when I walked in with a $250, lefty Mexican Stratocaster.
I got a Niagara Falls border store deal from some local roady-equipment renters, turned storage into music store,
and my local store, with the oldest Fender dealership in the peninsula,
said it was the first they saw, and they didn't know there were offshore, low budget guitars available.
The owner got on the phone with Fender, found out everything I said was true,
and caught a big discount for their next order, making me the hero once again.

I bought that guitar so I could keep working on mine while it was apart, catching an unexpected huge gig.
But first I had to finish it and fix it, using parts and materials, making it sound more real. Lots of people heard.
And after that I made a sign describing the parts I changed, what I built, where it was played and with who,
with a $450 price tag, and the guitar was getting beat up.
When I went in the next time, a few days later, the guitar was sold, Bob handed me the $450 with a smile on his face, right away,
and he never told me what he sold it for.
Even then, I was holding those guitars up, neck to neck, to full scale Stratocasters to show guitarists it wasn't a full scale Strat,
or close to the original manufacture.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

My local music store got a little upset with me one day, when I walked in with a $250, lefty Mexican Stratocaster.
I got a Niagara Falls border store deal from some local roady-equipment renters, turned storage into music store,
and my local store, with the oldest Fender dealership in the peninsula,
said it was the first they saw, and they didn't know there were offshore, low budget guitars available.
The owner got on the phone with Fender, found out everything I said was true,
and caught a big discount for their next order, making me the hero once again.

I bought that guitar so I could keep working on mine while it was apart, catching an unexpected huge gig.
But first I had to finish it and fix it, using parts and materials, making it sound more real. Lots of people heard.
And after that I made a sign describing the parts I changed, what I built, where it was played and with who,
with a $450 price tag, and the guitar was getting beat up.
When I went in the next time, a few days later, the guitar was sold, Bob handed me the $450 with a smile on his face, right away,
and he never told me what he sold it for.
Even then, I was holding those guitars up, neck to neck, to full scale Stratocasters to show guitarists it wasn't a full scale Strat,
or close to the original manufacture.

what year was this?

 

[Mark Wein]

I'm not a fan of any of the "won" or "relic" guitars but strangely one of the best sounding guitars I played at NAMM a couple of years ago was a Roadworn strat. I'd have a hard time buying it, though.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

I'm not a fan of any of the "won" or "relic" guitars but strangely one of the best sounding guitars I played at NAMM a couple of years ago was a Roadworn strat. I'd have a hard time buying it, though.

fuck that guy in his stupid meathead face.

 

[Mark Wein]

fuck that guy in his stupid meathead face.

I don't have a picture of you talking to that guy but I do have this:

 

[Denverdave]

As soon as they issue the Deluxe Vintage Modified American Road Worn Players Telecaster I'll buy it.

 

[Help!I'maRock!]

i'd buy one of those duo-sonics if they came in other colors.

 

[mosiddiqi]

The HSS roadworn Strat with a Duncan Pearly Gates looks right up my street.

 

[Kerouac]

Like, but not $1000 like.

 

[parrotheada1a]

Speaking of Texas Specials and Fender making too many models, they used to have a Lonestar Strat. It is an HSS strat with Texas Specials. I saw 9 million HSS strats the other day between two stores and not one of them was the Lonestar. I think they used to have a USA model and quit making it but I thought the Mexican version was still around. Too many models makes it impossible to find one in a store.

That would be one similar to my tone monster, class of 2004. Not a Lonestar, and it has the S-1 switching, plus the rosewood fretboard. At the time I bought it, the upgrade to the Am Deluxe model was 200 bones more for the LSR roller nut, with the maple fretboard option adding another 100 beyond that. My instrument cost under a grand, and the honeymoon isn't over yet by a long shot.

 

[Flamencology]

I'm not a fan of any of the "won" or "relic" guitars but strangely one of the best sounding guitars I played at NAMM a couple of years ago was a Roadworn strat. I'd have a hard time buying it, though.

When I was in the market for a telecaster last year, I think I played about 40 different instruments (Fender and other manufacturers, including G&L) before settling on a 50s Roadworn. I have to admit that I like the look, minus the road-wearing D), but the fact of the matter is that it was the best guitar of the lot, including some that were double or triple the cost. Now, with the number of instruments that Fender churns out, maybe I just got lucky (I played other Roadworns that I didn't like nearly as much) but that's the way it goes sometimes. Fender wouldn't be doing this is it weren't profitable, and I don't think it's anywhere near as disgusting as, say, Gibson's effort to appropriate Hendrix.

 

[reverend1]

When I was in the market for a telecaster last year, I think I played about 40 different instruments (Fender and other manufacturers, including G&L) before settling on a 50s Roadworn. I have to admit that I like the look, minus the road-wearing D), but the fact of the matter is that it was the best guitar of the lot, including some that were double or triple the cost.

I have to admit I do like the yellowish tele. The local shop had one and it played and sounded great. They still have all three of the strats they bought when they were released. They tell me the tele and the basses sell well.

 

[Mark Wein]

When I was in the market for a telecaster last year, I think I played about 40 different instruments (Fender and other manufacturers, including G&L) before settling on a 50s Roadworn. I have to admit that I like the look, minus the road-wearing D), but the fact of the matter is that it was the best guitar of the lot, including some that were double or triple the cost. Now, with the number of instruments that Fender churns out, maybe I just got lucky (I played other Roadworns that I didn't like nearly as much) but that's the way it goes sometimes. Fender wouldn't be doing this is it weren't profitable, and I don't think it's anywhere near as disgusting as, say, Gibson's effort to appropriate Hendrix.

ultimately you have to play it. If its the guitar that feels and sounds right to you and you don't have any problems with the looks then who cares? I'm typing this as I have a vomit-green colored strat in my lap, though

 

[Johnny N.]

That would be one similar to my tone monster, class of 2004. Not a Lonestar, and it has the S-1 switching, plus the rosewood fretboard. At the time I bought it, the upgrade to the Am Deluxe model was 200 bones more for the LSR roller nut, with the maple fretboard option adding another 100 beyond that. My instrument cost under a grand, and the honeymoon isn't over yet by a long shot.

The more guitars I play, the more I realize how good the HSS Strat style setup is. I had a G&L (Tribute model) like that and is the one piece of gear I should have held onto. I keep thinking I love the sound of a Gibson scale guitar, especially a semi-hollow but when I play them in the store, they just arent as comfortable. I am thinking that before it is all said and done, I will own another HSS Strat style guitar.