Yes that's right, I am boldly doing what no other forum member has done before. I am going to try to compile the most accurate list of Fender guitars owned by members of Shortscale.org. There are some rules to make this as accurate as possible.
This does include homemade guitars. By this I mean if you've made your own body, or had someone make you a body to replicate a real Fender, it counts.
If it's by another brand and not licensed by Fender, it doesn't belong here. I suppose we can accept "lawsuit" and "serviceman" guitars that don't belong to any particular company, but not Fernandes Strats that may still be identical. Even if your guitar is made of third party parts, it will still count.
Guitars that mix elements of several Fenders are to be listed as whatever the body is. If you've got a Tele neck on your Strat, it's a Strat. If you've got everything Jazzmaster on a Tele body, it's still a Tele. If you're not sure, post it at the end of your response and let everyone decide whether they think it counts.
Complete guitars only. If you have the parts available to assemble a certain guitar, that doesn't count as having the guitar.
Squier and even Starcaster brands do count.
Tele Deluxe is still a Telecaster, '51 P-Bass is still a Precision Bass, etc.
Nobody cares about your acoustics. Sorry.
So here is the ultimate list of Fender guitars and basses, and the current tallies. I will update the numbers whenever I can based on replies. Please point out if I've missed any. And please try to minimise chat in this thread, otherwise it'll just become hard to follow.
Jaguar: 1
Musicmaster: 1
Bronco: 1
Telecaster: 1
(technically, two of these are being painted right now, but all the parts are there. and they were complete before i disassembled them to be painted)
and malik, don't forget coronado guitars, basses, and twelve strings. also the electric xii. and the weird '80s guys like performers (and their bass variants), katanas, etc. regardless of whether anyone actually owns any of these, the list should be as complete as possible.
Last edited by Justin J on Sat Jun 21, 2008 9:02 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Mustangs: 2 (1976 MIA and 2005 '69 RI CIJ)
Precision bass: 1 (1976 MIA)
Jazzmaster: 1 (parts guitar with MIM strat neck, not yet painted, though.)
Telecaster: 1 (saga kit copy... not sure if this counts since it isn't Fender, but I built it from parts.
Robvon needs to chime in, what does he have like 15 mustys?
If you think of god as a pair of pants, a spiritualist thinks he needs pants, in fact he wants pants but none of the conventional types of pants seem to fit just right, so he makes his own pants and is happy that his knees are no longer cold.-fibus
And I've got a 70's Cimar tele, which puts it firmly in the lawsuit era, but I dunno. I'm confused.
Is it identical to a real Tele? Aside from woods and colours and components, if it's identical to a Tele and clearly intended to be passed off as one, then I'll count it. If it's intended to simply resemble the Tele while still being sold off as a different guitar, that's no Tele.
if you're gonna have cyclones i and ii separate, then you should do that with musicmasters and duo-sonics. at the very least make vista musicmaster an option as it's drastically different than the vintage ones. and don't forget to include the venus xii and strat xii.
I'm not about to bust out a micrometer, but it looks and plays like a tele. It says Cimar on the headstock though. I've always understood lawsuit to almost mean an era of Japanese manufacturing (from which this one dates) rather than specific guitars. Not trying to be a pin in the arse - by all means ignore it and just count my Jazzmaster.
