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expiredperpetualcoldbrew posted Sep 3, 2022 1:29 PM
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Chicago Music Exchange has Fender Player Stratocaster PF Electric Guitar (Sherwood Green Metallic) + FE405 Gig Bag on sale for $644.99 when you apply discount code ONLYHERE25 during checkout. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Members perpetualcoldbrew & shhanks for sharing this deal.
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Thanks to Community Members perpetualcoldbrew & shhanks for sharing this deal.
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- Alder body with Gloss Polyester finish.
- Three Player Series single-coil Stratocaster pickups.
- "Modern C" neck shape provides both traditionalists and contemporary players with a comfortable feel.
- 9.5"-radius fingerboard.
- 2-point tremolo bridge with bent-steel saddles
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Written by SaltyOne | Staff- About this Deal:
- This price is slightly lower than a recent FP Deal for the Lake Placid Blue option with no gig bag.
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- Returns: Most new items may be returned within 30 days of delivery and most vintage & used items may be returned within 3 days of delivery for a full refund, exchange, or store credit.
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Chicago Music Exchange has Fender Player Stratocaster PF Electric Guitar (Sherwood Green Metallic) + FE405 Gig Bag on sale for $644.99 when you apply discount code ONLYHERE25 during checkout. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Members perpetualcoldbrew & shhanks for sharing this deal.
About this item:
Thanks to Community Members perpetualcoldbrew & shhanks for sharing this deal.
About this item:
- Alder body with Gloss Polyester finish.
- Three Player Series single-coil Stratocaster pickups.
- "Modern C" neck shape provides both traditionalists and contemporary players with a comfortable feel.
- 9.5"-radius fingerboard.
- 2-point tremolo bridge with bent-steel saddles
Editor's Notes
Written by SaltyOne | Staff- About this Deal:
- This price is slightly lower than a recent FP Deal for the Lake Placid Blue option with no gig bag.
- About this Store:
- Returns: Most new items may be returned within 30 days of delivery and most vintage & used items may be returned within 3 days of delivery for a full refund, exchange, or store credit.
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Pau Ferro is not necessarily 'used as a substitute for Rosewood', it's often chosen for its own qualities. Nor is it exclusively found on low-end guitars. Not unless you think a $3,500 Suhr is cheap and chose Pau Ferro to 'cheap out'.
So much misinformation in your post. Those are but a couple.
Very few professional musicians are anywhere near as much a 'gearhead' as enthusiasts on the Internet playing their keyboards. They choose their instruments because they're tools, they inspire them, give them a preferred sound or experience. Many of them don't know or care much about the finer details vs non-professional, non-touring, non-recording musicians. ;-)
Allow me to introduce you to Jack Pearson (https://jackpearson.com/). He will turn any gearhead's world upside, as one of the best players walking the planet that very, very commonly uses and prefers playing SQUIERs, on stage. Oh, the humanity!
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FACT: If you go and look at the famous Strat players, (Clapton, David Gilmour, etc.) they have Maple necks.
Here's the thing to consider for intermediate players .. and this is NOT a starter guitar .. that is called a "Squier", Those are made in Korea. These are made in Mexico and .. they're not bad. They lose me with the "bolt-on" neck which entirely eliminates any "human craftsmanship of a fine instrument" but you may like it. But for intermediate players, it's important what you actually PUT .. YOUR .. FINGERS .. ON. It's the "feel" of a guitar. It's "how" it plays.
Your pecking order is this:
#1: Ebony
#2: Maple (though I disagree but it's a fact)
#3: Rosewood
#4: Richlite (Martin guitars)
This guitar in this deal has a Pau Ferro fingerboard. Now, Pau Ferro is not AWFUL. It's used as a substitute when they run out of Rosewood because it kinda looks like it. It has a 1960 hardness rating. Maple is 1400 and Rosewood is 2400. Now, how *FAST* a neck is, generally, is how HARD it is. The hardness of the wood on the fretboard also makes it easier and smoother to bend notes (though some would disagree with that and tell you Maple and it's softness makes it easier to bend notes)
FACT: If you go and look at the famous Strat players, (Clapton, David Gilmour, etc.) they have Maple necks. To me, it always felt like somebody played my guitar in July after eating a Hershey's chocolate bar. It drove me insane and I can't stand it. Doesn't mean that's right. Means it's my opinion.
Pau Ferro is what's generally used on .. starter .. or intensely cheap .. guitars. Children's instruments, "First Act" and brands like that. Now I just offended 94 geeks who pick their nose and eat Hot Pockets and have never played in front of more than three people in their life so they'll get on here with some intensely embarrassing revelation that makes every other guitar player who reads this thread shake their head, laugh and go to ESPN.com because they've just exposed themselves for all the world to see exactly who they are. It's just they don't know it. And that's the worst part.
I can tell ya in 45 years of playing and headlining tours that crossed oceans, if I go to play a guitar that has a Pau Ferro fingerboard, the first thing that hits my head is, "This is a cheap, shoddy instrument made by a machine that nobody cared about when they designed it or when they built it".
You wanna play fast?
Ebony:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Fend...GCWPDPSI+1 [guitarcenter.com]
You wanna bend like Gilmour and Clapton?
Maple:
https://www.guitarcenter.com/Fend...CWPDPSIA+1 [guitarcenter.com]
Gig bag? Gig bags are for people who always wanted to play guitar and get the chicks but couldn't be bothered to put in the time to practice. So, they stuff their $650 in to a GIG BAG before they put it in the closet. Where it stays. For 4 years. Before they put it on Facebook Marketplace. The very notation of a "gig" bag is an anomaly. If you are going to a gig, you put your guitar in a case that says "FENDER" in nice script lettering so the other musicians can see what you play.
Or .. another option is:
You could get your head out of your ass and learn this word called:
Gibson
Pau Ferro is not necessarily 'used as a substitute for Rosewood', it's often chosen for its own qualities. Nor is it exclusively found on low-end guitars. Not unless you think a $3,500 Suhr is cheap and chose Pau Ferro to 'cheap out'.
So much misinformation in your post. Those are but a couple.
Very few professional musicians are anywhere near as much a 'gearhead' as enthusiasts on the Internet playing their keyboards. They choose their instruments because they're tools, they inspire them, give them a preferred sound or experience. Many of them don't know or care much about the finer details vs non-professional, non-touring, non-recording musicians. ;-)
Allow me to introduce you to Jack Pearson (https://jackpearson.com/). He will turn any gearhead's world upside, as one of the best players walking the planet that very, very commonly uses and prefers playing SQUIERs, on stage. Oh, the humanity!
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Pau Ferro is not necessarily 'used as a substitute for Rosewood', it's often chosen for its own qualities. Nor is it exclusively found on low-end guitars. Not unless you think a $3,500 Suhr is cheap and chose Pau Ferro to 'cheap out'.
So much misinformation in your post. Those are but a couple.
Very few professional musicians are anywhere near as much a 'gearhead' as enthusiasts on the Internet playing their keyboards. They choose their instruments because they're tools, they inspire them, give them a preferred sound or experience. Many of them don't know or care much about the finer details vs non-professional, non-touring, non-recording musicians. ;-)
Allow me to introduce you to Jack Pearson (https://jackpearson.com/). He will turn any gearhead's world upside, as one of the best players walking the planet that very, very commonly uses and prefers playing SQUIERs, on stage. Oh, the humanity!
That guitar sang in his hands.
Better components and build quality afford an easier route to the sound you want, but there is no substitute for talent. That kid would not be able to get those sounds out of the Squier when he got home. A lot of learning and practice ahead. But we both saw the potential in that inexpensive guitar.
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