{"id":11724,"date":"2016-10-09T17:04:12","date_gmt":"2016-10-09T16:04:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11724"},"modified":"2016-10-09T20:59:12","modified_gmt":"2016-10-09T19:59:12","slug":"fender-no-bender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brennigjones.com\/blog\/?p=11724","title":{"rendered":"Fender (no bender)"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s a new guitar emporium in Nottingham.<\/p>\n

PMT has been open a week.<\/p>\n

I know this because when I went there today, I tried three Fender Stratocasters, and I asked how long they had been hanging on the wall.<\/p>\n

One week. Since we opened (was the smart reply).<\/p>\n

Anyway, this is a MIJ Fender:<\/p>\n

\"MIJ
MIJ Fender Stratocaster<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this is an American Fender:<\/p>\n

\"American
American Fender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And this is another American Fender<\/p>\n

\"American
American Fender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

You wouldn’t get much change out of \u00a31,000 for any of these three.<\/p>\n

I’m not going to buy any of them, I was just checking them for ‘playability’.<\/p>\n

Ash said (in not so many words) that I would do better playing with a v-shaped neck Fender Strat, than I would with my Epiphone SG.<\/p>\n

And then he let me play one of his v-shaped neck Fender Strats.<\/p>\n

OK, so Ash’s Fender has been professionally setup, so the action is much lower on his Fender than it is on my not setup SG.<\/p>\n

But notwithstanding this detail, the shape of the Fender Strat neck fits my hands better than the shape of the SG neck.<\/p>\n

And I found playing Ash’s professionally setup, v-shaped neck Fender Stratocaster much easier<\/del> less difficult to play than my SG.<\/p>\n

However, all three Fenders felt the same to my inexperienced fingers.<\/p>\n

I can tell the difference between the Fenders and my SG, but I can’t tell the Fenders apart.<\/p>\n

Anyway, the bottom line to all of this is that I’m looking to sell my acoustic guitar, get the SG professionally setup, and buy a used MIJ Fender.<\/p>\n

I’ll try some more this week, but I think all this will do is to reinforce the difference between the SG and a (any?) Fender Stratocaster, to my uneducated fingers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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