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Fender: Fender Custom Shop
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For two decades now, the Fender Custom Shop has astounded players and collectors worldwide with marvels of creativity, ingenuity and sheer guitar artistry. From humble mid-80s beginnings in Fender’s original Southern California home, the Custom Shop has grown to become perhaps the world's preeminent maker of custom “instantly collectible” instruments; a veritable dream factory that has made Fender’s finest the world’s finest.
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All of the American and Mexican made Fender guitars start at the factory in Corona, CA. The lumber for the bodies and necks are shipped to the Corona factory where they are cut, fretted and inspected. At this time it is determined whether a guitar body will be painted a solid color or if the wood is nice enough to have a natural or transparent finish. Extremely nice pieces of wood are set aside for the Custom Shop. The Corona factory manufactures pickups, pickguards, bridges, metal chassis for amplifiers, neck plates, metal bridge covers and metal pickup covers. The pickguards are stamped out by a machine and the bevel is added by hand with a router. It was very interesting to see the care and attention that goes into the manufacturing of every single instrument!
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Fender actually sent a batch of matching headstock US reissue Jaguars to Japan at one stage. Colours seen include shell pink, burgundy mist and ice blue. There is currently a batch of special order thin skin matching headstock American Jaguars by dealers such as Wildwood Guitars and Dave's Guitars and made in small numbers as exclusives. The colours are Fiesta Red, Seafoam Green, Sonic Blue, and Shoreline Gold. Custom shop Jaguars can ... be ordered specially, usually with great expense. Though, strictly speaking, these are not classed as "American Vintage Series".
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You can have your Fender® in almost any way you like. From vintage recreations of the 1950's and 1960s the Fender® Custom Shop can build the Fender® tone machine of your dreams. Your wood, your electronics, your color, your specs, your way.
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Some of the world's legendary guitarists have collaborated with the Fender Custom Shop to create instruments to suit their playing style and cred. Fender has copied the specs of these artists guitars into this specially-produced series of instruments.
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