By Guitarify on January 23, 2013
Despite having some of the most iconic and popular electric guitars in the world, Fender is not the first company you think of when it’s time to buy an acoustic guitar. In fact, for many people they would be toward the bottom of the list as far as desirability goes. I happen to own a [...]
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By Guitarify on January 19, 2012
Apparently the Music Zoo was given permission at NAMM to take a peak into “Larry’s Lab”. Larry Thomas, the CEO of Fender has commissioned the prototype Fenders in this room to push the boundries. New designs, and new manufacturing techniques. The one shown here was built by Charvels Josh Hurst. The guitar shown here [...]
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By Guitarify on January 16, 2012
Fender has been spewing out a staggering amount of new gear for NAMM. I’ve been trying to just hit the highlights so that Guitarify doesn’t start looking like “Fenderify”. But these new amps are just too cool to pass up. The Machete I posted a few days ago was pretty unexpected, but I think these [...]
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By Guitarify on January 13, 2012
Fender has just released a bunch of videos demoing their new Machete amp. It looks like they are trying to do something a bit different then the usual Twin Reverb, Tweedy, vintage type stuff everyone loves. This amp has a modern sound and seems geared toward hard rock and metal. It’s 50W with one 12″ Celestion speaker, 2 [...]
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