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I got an Urge 2 (Stu Hamm sig) with that.
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I've had 2 r/wood Custom Shop Strats delivered today - shed loads on order inc a few Custom Orders for customers - all due to arrive over the next few months in dribs and drabs
Just a thought, but if they can still get rosewood timber into the USA, or indeed use up their remaining storage/stock of rosewood, then they can keep it all for USA sales only and not worry about any messing about with additional cites for overseas
I've just had 2 x C/Shop models arrive today - USA export cites was granted in Dec 2016 - it took a further 3 months for EU import cites to be authorised - I here there are 5 large containers of stock (sat in Holland) that the authorities are going through bit by bit - this sitting around is costing Fender money - they can't invoice the dealer until goods are actually ready for stock - so a serious reduction in cash flow, even if it is just a short term impact
'Buy NOW from us as you won't be seeing any more' kind of thing. Low standards.
I suspect that Fender will still run rosewood for lower cost models from the USA/Mexico, but offer them for sale only in the USA as this gets rid of any cites issues required for sales to the EU or elsewhere in the world
Can envision rosewood on USA-only models (like PRS does with the majority of their Brazilian rosewood) but anytime you introduce another border it seems to me it would make it that much more difficult.
and they still have to get the raw wood from India to the USA and/or Mexico
@guitars4you - what's your retail experience of people's preference at the higher end of maple vs rosewood boards on Fenders out of interest? My completely unfounded belief is that rosewood boards outsell maple currently, I may be very wrong.
Yet on Tele's I bet it is reverse
But Strats outsell Teles by again 2/3 to 1/3 maybe 3/4 to 1/4
Beauty is in the eye of the beer holder
My trading feedback - I'm a good egg
- Crafty old Mayer, no wonder he got PRS to make him a Strat.
- Best sales ploy this year. There'll be a queue outside the dealers tomorrow as we panic buy like the great bread and sugar shortages of the 70's.
- Maple, Hendrix, Gilmour, Clapton, Knopfler, Holly, Stevie Ray all sounded just as great when they played maple neck Strats.
- Pau Ferro, Ebony, are all great alternatives, only the cork sniffers are going to snort at them.
- Fender are financially a long way up shit creek, no wonder they are scrambling for alternatives as rosewood as CITES slow down their cash flow.
- Wonder how much the prices will rise between now and the END!
- Would Coda be unhappy if I bought all 35 of their rosewood Custom Shops tomorrow? It might be a better investment and return than the bloody Natwest give me on my money.
- I bloody hate rosewood boards anyway.
- We're on the verge of WWIII, all this won't matter as that nuke approaches the 51st state.
Totally stopping buying wood from consider managed sustainable sources will only put more strain on the rosewood as that loss of income will need to be recovered. perhaps via blackmarket sales. None of this stuff is very enforceable on the ground in emerging economies.
If there are better sustainable woods that work such as Pau Ferro then they certainly should be used instead of on low priced instruments but this whole thing has become a sledge hammer to crack a walnut. Which ultimately the prestige Asian furniture market.