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Post by Mfitz804 on Sept 16, 2023 7:51:10 GMT -5
I’d build a batch. They’d be weird, though. Just sayin’ “I know I wanted one, but mine is backwards!!”
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Post by Leftee on Sept 16, 2023 8:36:01 GMT -5
I’d build a batch. They’d be weird, though. Just sayin’ “I know I wanted one, but mine is backwards!!” I can make rightee-weird too.
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Post by Mfitz804 on Sept 16, 2023 9:53:41 GMT -5
“I know I wanted one, but mine is backwards!!” I can make rightee-weird too. I’d consider one…
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Post by Mfitz804 on Sept 16, 2023 9:55:58 GMT -5
Fearless Leader didn't even keep up his promises to me more often than not. I wasn't even offered a chance to *BUY* the place, let alone be ..given it. Chris made it pretty clear that it was available. I wasn’t interested in operating a forum business so I never inquired. I have to imagine the price would have been such that even if you and I pooled our resources, we wouldn’t have done it. But when the idea for a free version came up…
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Post by Larry Madsen on Sept 16, 2023 12:25:23 GMT -5
Pretty hard to sell something that can be had for free. 😜
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Post by samspade on Sept 16, 2023 16:30:50 GMT -5
The fact that 68 people did this is quite a feat. I guess with the mod-shop this isn't really needed, but these sound like there was some good body materials.
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Post by Leftee on Sept 16, 2023 17:25:47 GMT -5
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Post by samspade on Sept 16, 2023 17:46:19 GMT -5
Like the f-hole. Never saw an inverse pickguard/burst, should maybe patent that lol.
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Post by reverendrob on Sept 17, 2023 3:33:43 GMT -5
Fearless Leader didn't even keep up his promises to me more often than not. I wasn't even offered a chance to *BUY* the place, let alone be ..given it. Chris made it pretty clear that it was available. I wasn’t interested in operating a forum business so I never inquired. I have to imagine the price would have been such that even if you and I pooled our resources, we wouldn’t have done it. But when the idea for a free version came up… Yep, and the concept of "sweat equity" was a non-starter - I didn't want to run a "business" but I would have kept it going. I wouldn't have paid a dime for the state of it, considering I knew full well *I* was the only one who could do anything with the database, especially the photos - the routine I used for the photos was surreal but it worked (they aren't uploaded as files, but as snippets of segmented database so they were both smaller *and* more secure). Other proprietary stuff, well, it was the name of the game and I did all of it. He thought he'd get a "static site" for cheap he could sell ads on forever for peanuts. I quoted him market (I didn't even gouge) and he coughed. That was also at the same time he was trying to hold off my pittance of a severance check (in lieu of years of "players to be named later" that were never given to me - he'd agreed and conveniently forgotten to "give" me some of his voluminous pile of unused instruments and gear. I never got anything there, for the record). My severance was such a pittance that when he got stupid towards the end I was willing to let it rot and pull the plug on the spot, as you can attest given our contemporary discussions. But he realized that the jig was up, and the monkey wasn't going to make someone else rich without getting some peanuts. Because even at the end, the expenses for the place were $150 a month TOTAL or less.
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Post by telebob on Sept 23, 2023 7:01:11 GMT -5
I actually played one a few years ago at Brian's Guitars in Cheshire Connecticut. It was going for $1800 if my memory is correct. Very nice guitar.
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Post by jazzmastertele2020 on Sept 23, 2023 19:19:51 GMT -5
They really were well-spec’d and an artifact from an exciting time on that board.
But my Strat search is over for now. I just pieced together an all-Fender parts-caster for way less than what an FDP LE would run. Went for the classic ‘62 sunburst look so no custom color or matching headstock this time (would prefer Daphne Blue over Surf Green). Something to shoot for down the line I guess. I know this won’t be my last Strat!
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