New Fender Light Ash Tele & Strat

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Has anyone seen these yet and am I the only one sporting a stiffie or what? Just got the new Sam Ash catalog and there are 2 new Fenders, a light Ash Tele and light Ash Strat. Both have birds eye maple necks, abalone inlays and Seymour Duncan PU's. The price you ask, $599... Unless it's a misprint I may be getting 1 of each...

Here's a link to the Fender site, look at this beauty....

http://www.fender.com/misc/winternamm2004/other/Lite_Ash_Tele.html

Let me know what you think...
 
They won't be available until later this month. Who knows when they will really be in stores?

These are Korean, presumably from Cor-Tek (Cort), who does other FMIC instruments.

That explains the price. I suspect the build quality is substantially better than MIA and MIM production.

I'm not crazy about the combination of the woods, but imagine these will be excellent values.

I have read that they have chambers in them for lightness, but I do not know if this is true or not.
 
well if fender keeps in line with the new stuff that they have been putting out latley (even the squier line), these will probably be killer for the price. i dont think were gonna get any in till mid month (work at musicians friend). but if you want one better put in an order now, cause i think they are gonna be on back order for a while, i think our estimated shipment is lower than out back orders already, and they have only been on our site for a couple of days.
i dont know about the chambering, i havent heard anything about that yet.
 
Well, the strat is not chambered, as it has arm and belly contours. It is possible to chamber a guitar with these (I do it), but I have never seen anyone else do it, and I know Fender has not.


Light

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Light said:
Well, the strat is not chambered, as it has arm and belly contours. It is possible to chamber a guitar with these (I do it), but I have never seen anyone else do it, and I know Fender has not.
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The guy I know who saw these at NAMM said that the Telecaster was chambered, though he said nothing about the Stratocaster. I have no idea if that's correct or not.

Cor-Tek has put fairly complicated chambers in other instruments they made for FMIC in the past (M-77T DeArmonds, for one), so they know how to do it, but I would personally be surprised if these are anything but lightweight ash.

I'm waiting for a more detailed and complete page on these on Fender's website.

In any case, they look like they'll be well-made and good values.
 
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