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Location: Yorkshire, England | I have brought this up in another link, but I just wondered what everyone else thought about a revival of the solid body electric range now that Fender have supposedly taken over Kamen. Many is the time I have thought about putting a Stratocaster neck on a Breadwinner or Deacon body. (Not that it needed it - It was one of the Breadwinners best aspects.) How long also, before the Fender influence filters through the present Ovation range ? |
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Location: Capital District, NY, USA Minor Outlying Islands | Yes, I've thought about it. From past experience with Tacoma, Fender seems first to prune away superfluous offerings. It took them about a year as I recall. For instance, Tacoma used to make a fine mandolin. Now no more. (If I'm wrong correct me). To my knowledge they haven't added any new offerings, and I guess it's been two years now. Though tacoma is also making guild's. There is no evidence of cross polinization. Possible resurrection of old models, but very unlikely that there will be "filtering". It would diminish the brand. The guy who runs Fender seems to be pretty savvy. But really who knows, you really should be asking the amazing karnac, because I don't even think the president of fender at this point knows. |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | Breadocaster, kinda like a Telewinner? |
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Location: Yorkshire, England | Well......... never thought about that! I suppose that would be a different model. What about a Vipuar as well? |
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Location: 6 String Ranch | That's good, we're on a roll here. |
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Location: Yorkshire, England | Yep ! Let's not get carried away though - we don't want these new model names to sound too stupid ! |
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Location: enid, ok | Breadmaster? Teledeacon? Broadpreacher? Hey, I had to write something, it's my 75th post. How about a Deacwinner Precision LTD? |
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Location: Yorkshire, England | Fantastic - This discussion has now moved on to a whole new level ! Congratulations on your 75th posting! |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Jizz Bass. |
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Location: Scotland | 9 posts and in the sewer. Not a record I'd guess, but pretty damn good. Well done Dave. |
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Location: Phoenix AZ | Yeah, sorry for the delay. I could have sunk this one much earlier if I wasn't busy at work today. Dave |
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Location: GA USA | We have a member named Deaconstrat, who refit his Deacon with new pickups and a 5-way strat pu selector. It's in his gallery. I guess he was ahead of his time. |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | Originally posted by Captain_Lovehandles:
We have a member named Deaconstrat, who refit his Deacon with new pickups and a 5-way strat pu selector. It's in his gallery. I guess he was ahead of his time. I had to look! (Y'know... Like a car-wreck...) But I was expecting three pick-ups. Y'know HSS or HSH.
I actually don't look half-bad. |
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Location: Latitude 39.56819, Longitude -105.080066 | Originally posted by Old Man Arthur:
I actually don't look half-bad. but how does the Deaconstrat look :p |
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Location: Keepin' It Weird in Portland, OR | OOPS! :eek: It don't look half-bad either.
("I" wouldn't look half-bad with one of them either) |
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Location: enid, ok | I'll have to check out the dekiestrat. I'll leave Arthur with his delusions. |
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| Who cares what electrics Fender makes, they've never produced a 24-fret neck like my original Deacon. Plays like butter. Fender wishes their strats and teles played that well...screw 'em. |
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