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NickS · Posted: Thu May 24, 2018 12:25 pm Post subject: Fidelity Guitars, Cambridge

Facebook suggested this to me:
https://www.fidelity-guitars.co.uk/shop
About Â£1800 - Â£2000 each including aluminium hard case

DanHeron · . Joined: 24 May 2008 Posts: 3483 Location: Manchester, UK

Aye, been seeing these a lot on Instragram. Really like the design overall, just a crappy headstock.

The guitarist from The Horrors has a signature model -

paul_ · . Joined: 27 Jul 2006 Posts: 8938

I dig the old-school/homemade looks, but I bet the fact that it's a 3-saddle Tele saddle scheme will put some people off. It does leave you wondering "why"... clearly going for a classic vibe with the whole thing, but would've been easy enough to sort 6 saddles. Although I suppose that lone bridge piece that accepts them is a pretty nifty way of having a mostly-original and simple/cheap bridge design on an original guitar, and I like how the shape of it around the mounting screws lets it be used as a through-body hardtail or a bridge in a separate vibrato tailpiece design.
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sunshiner · Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 9:33 am Post subject:

3-saddle Tele bridges are notoriously known for adding up to ten times more mojo to the guitar. If Fano gets away with selling guitars equipped with 3-saddle bridges for a couple thousand bucks each, then there should be something special about those 3-saddle bridges... or not.
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Doog · Posted: Fri May 25, 2018 10:10 am Post subject:

HEADSTOCK?

MORE LIKE

uh

LAUGHING STOCK

Real shame, because they're nice looking. Even though they've got dat bullshit 'form over function' bridge.

Freddy V-C · Posted: Mon May 28, 2018 9:13 pm Post subject:

Ooft.
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