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    Forum Member OldStrummer's Avatar
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    Now THIS Is What I'm Talkin' About!

    I recently bitched about the lack of innovation by the major guitar makers. Today, I saw that Fender and supercar maker Saleen have collaborated on making the Saleen Stratocaster 1, a carbon-fibered body Strat made by Ron Thorn, Principle Master Builder at Fender's Custom Shop:




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    Re: Now THIS Is What I'm Talkin' About!

    Clearly made for the collector's market and not for players. That has so many ergo no-no's it would be painful to play. Imagine resting your arm on the lower bout - Yikes!

    Typical Saleen, do a bunch of useless crap to make it look like fast but actually adds weight and slows it down.

    Now if they had a Mclaren, Zonda, Panoz, or Porsche guitar you know that thing would be built to perform!
    "No harmonic knowledge, no sense of time, a ghastly tone, unskilled vibrato, and so on. Chuck is one of the worst guitar players I know" -Gravity Jim

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