![]() Our Junior is only available in TV Yellow and there’s no doubt it looks well gigged and pretty authentic. In this faded finish with a hint of cherry toner remaining, it looks incredibly authentic. The ’59 Les Paul on the other hand is Lemon Burst and has, in this writer’s opinion, the perfect colour and flaming – not fine, ruler-drawn violin stripes or perfect, wide train lines but slightly haphazard and in no way over the top. That said, this one has an impressive ‘tuxedo’ vibe about it, and its exceptionally dark-grained Indian rosewood fingerboard looks great against the black nitro lacquer. Our dot-neck ES-335 is finished in Ebony, perhaps a strange choice when the model is so well known in its Sunburst, Cherry Red and Natural incarnations (there’s so far no sunburst available). There’s little doubt, then, that the talking point and the initial engagement with these guitars is all to do with these aged finishes. are usually bigger corporate scumbags than even FMIC, I expect a similar outcome with your problem.(Image credit: Future / Olly Curtis & Neil Godwin) Finish This is about $8000 MSRP worth of axes, all with crap necks and I'm stuck with them. FMIC dismisses all problems like this as "climate damage" not covered by their generally-worthless warranty. Of the US FMIC Fenders ALL of them - 100% - developed these problems and began self-destructing within a year of purchase and continue to worsen to this day.ĭirtbag FMIC will not admit a defect, nor will they warrant repairs. Of all of them that are sitting in the same room, some for years longer and some having spent decades in inclement climates, NOT ONE has developed these neck finish cracks. To put this into perspective, I have approximately forty guitars and basses of all vintages. ![]() No strange solvents or cleaners were ever applied - in short, there was no "excuse" for these disintegrating finishes. This happened to new, virtually unplayed instruments sitting in their cases in my bedroom studio in temperate California. ![]() Eventually, the cracks cover the entire neck and the finish begins to lift. Cracks would eventually appear along the grain at spots where the wood had compound curves, like the heel and head. A typical problem was finish blistering at the tip of the skunk stripe and over the fretboard dots on maple fingerboards. The finish started cracking and lifting often before the instruments left the stores. ![]() They may still be producing this garbage for all I know. After having bought five (5) new US Fenders of that general production period and had the neck finishes ALL develop problems, I quit buying FMIC Fenders. I doubt they will warrant this defect - and it is a defect.įMIC produced a tremendous number - thousands - of bad polyurethane neck finishes due to poor prep, poor wood/finish curing or some other problem for at least a full year, to my immediate knowledge, around 2000. ![]()
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