NGD Fender Broadcaster

chris78

The Custom Shop have some great models this year and I was lucky enough to grab this from Peach.

https://www.peachguitars.com/fender-custom-shop-2020-limited-70th-anniversary-broadcaster-nocaster-blonde.htm

I’m not sure how many they will make, but the 60th anniversary models were rare as hen’s teeth and appreciated in value quite a bit.

They’ve nailed the details mainly with the maple plug, no routing etc. It’s nerdy stuff, but I love that level of detail. It’s only arrived today so will getting plugged in through my tone king imperial at volume in the studio tomorrow 

idiotwindow

That's nice. I'd heard this CS Broadcaster was coming out (and had seen one for sale on Reverb) but didn't know they were already reaching UK dealers.  

MikeS

Very very nice. I wasn't even aware of this run. Looks tasty.

RandallFlagg

Nice one, Jorneyman finish is not usually quite relicy enough for my tastes but this one looks good.

Philly_Q

Extremely nice!  I really like the Journeyman finish, it looks very nicely aged close-up but from a distance there's nothing to upset the relic-haters. 

Schmo

Congrats, a very cool & classy relic finish on that one...

BeardyAndy

That's a very lovely thing.

Strat54

Nice guitar, congrats. I was going to have one of the 2010 60th anniversary models but cancelled my order when it was nothing like the specs that make a Broadcaster unique. I posted on the Tele forum about these ones in summer after Songbirds museum posted that they were visited by Team Fender researching Broadcasters. I had high hopes of the level of accuracy being akin to the 2004 masterbuilt '54 Strats, alas when they were launched in Australia last month I realised, they were not strictly nerdy accurate enough for me, but an improvement over the 60th's for sure. I guess they are reasonably priced. The launch model #1 is still for sale on Reverb in Oz.
I won't bore you all with the differences between a vintage Broadcaster and these (yep I've played enough to know), but they are a whole lot more than just a Nocaster/Telecaster with a decal change. Why or why have FCS persisted with the now ridiculously long serial number. Why not give these a more traditional 4 digit number? 
That aside, they will be great guitars I'm sure   

Strat54

BTW They come in three levels of 'damage'
Heavy for you....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SKO5U4jcQ0

chris78

Strat54 said:

Nice guitar, congrats. I was going to have one of the 2010 60th anniversary models but cancelled my order when it was nothing like the specs that make a Broadcaster unique. I posted on the Tele forum about these ones in summer after Songbirds museum posted that they were visited by Team Fender researching Broadcasters. I had high hopes of the level of accuracy being akin to the 2004 masterbuilt '54 Strats, alas when they were launched in Australia last month I realised, they were not strictly nerdy accurate enough for me, but an improvement over the 60th's for sure. I guess they are reasonably priced. The launch model #1 is still for sale on Reverb in Oz.
I won't bore you all with the differences between a vintage Broadcaster and these (yep I've played enough to know), but they are a whole lot more than just a Nocaster/Telecaster with a decal change. Why or why have FCS persisted with the now ridiculously long serial number. Why not give these a more traditional 4 digit number? 
That aside, they will be great guitars I'm sure   

I would love to be bored by the differences as I thought from my knowledge that fender had mainly got these right.
If I’m being picky, the string ferrules are too straight on mine, that’s about all I could find

Philly_Q

chris78 said:
If I’m being picky, the string ferrules are too straight on mine, that’s about all I could find

In the angle they're inserted into the body, or in the way they line up with each other?

chris78

Philly_Q said:

chris78 said:
If I’m being picky, the string ferrules are too straight on mine, that’s about all I could find

In the angle they're inserted into the body, or in the way they line up with each other?

The way they line up. The originals were decidedly wonky 

Philly_Q

chris78 said:

Philly_Q said:

chris78 said:
If I’m being picky, the string ferrules are too straight on mine, that’s about all I could find

In the angle they're inserted into the body, or in the way they line up with each other?

The way they line up. The originals were decidedly wonky 

I never knew that.  Presumably they drilled through from the top then just inserted the ferrules wherever the holes ended up! 

I made a string-through body myself once, but I drilled the bigger holes on the back for the ferrules before drilling from the top, just in case they went a bit astray. 

rze99

Lucky chap!  Wonderful. 

Strat54

chris78 said:

Strat54 said:

Nice guitar, congrats. I was going to have one of the 2010 60th anniversary models but cancelled my order when it was nothing like the specs that make a Broadcaster unique. I posted on the Tele forum about these ones in summer after Songbirds museum posted that they were visited by Team Fender researching Broadcasters. I had high hopes of the level of accuracy being akin to the 2004 masterbuilt '54 Strats, alas when they were launched in Australia last month I realised, they were not strictly nerdy accurate enough for me, but an improvement over the 60th's for sure. I guess they are reasonably priced. The launch model #1 is still for sale on Reverb in Oz.
I won't bore you all with the differences between a vintage Broadcaster and these (yep I've played enough to know), but they are a whole lot more than just a Nocaster/Telecaster with a decal change. Why or why have FCS persisted with the now ridiculously long serial number. Why not give these a more traditional 4 digit number? 
That aside, they will be great guitars I'm sure   

I would love to be bored by the differences as I thought from my knowledge that fender had mainly got these right.
If I’m being picky, the string ferrules are too straight on mine, that’s about all I could find

There are so many. Go buy The Blackguard book and depress yourself in a good kind of way.

idiotwindow

Can't you summarise a few of the differences? Seems a bit dismissive to tell someone to go and buy a book.

Strat54

Yours is much prettier than the Heavy Relic version!
https://www.musikhaus-hermann.de/fender-custom-shop-broadcaster-ltd-70th-2020-heavy-relic-nocaster-blonde-43294/

MikeS

@chris78 I'm giving buying one of these some serious thought. Any idea how many they're making?, and what fret does it start flattening out to 9.5"?. I'm not particularly a fan of the 7.25" radius, but if it's only for a few frets, that's okay.

Strat54

I've been told that it is not a limited run as such like the "BC" serial number 2010 60th Anni's were (they only made 60), but rather it will be made available during the whole of 2020 as part of their '2020 Limited Collection' 

chris78

Strat54 said:

chris78 said:

Strat54 said:

Nice guitar, congrats. I was going to have one of the 2010 60th anniversary models but cancelled my order when it was nothing like the specs that make a Broadcaster unique. I posted on the Tele forum about these ones in summer after Songbirds museum posted that they were visited by Team Fender researching Broadcasters. I had high hopes of the level of accuracy being akin to the 2004 masterbuilt '54 Strats, alas when they were launched in Australia last month I realised, they were not strictly nerdy accurate enough for me, but an improvement over the 60th's for sure. I guess they are reasonably priced. The launch model #1 is still for sale on Reverb in Oz.
I won't bore you all with the differences between a vintage Broadcaster and these (yep I've played enough to know), but they are a whole lot more than just a Nocaster/Telecaster with a decal change. Why or why have FCS persisted with the now ridiculously long serial number. Why not give these a more traditional 4 digit number? 
That aside, they will be great guitars I'm sure   

I would love to be bored by the differences as I thought from my knowledge that fender had mainly got these right.
If I’m being picky, the string ferrules are too straight on mine, that’s about all I could find

There are so many. Go buy The Blackguard book and depress yourself in a good kind of way.

That’s the thing. I’ve got and read the Blackguard book more times than I care to mention. The 60th weren’t great. This time they’ve sorted the plug, tuners, knobs, routing, truss plug. 

There’s brass saddles not steel, but that’s consistent with the later ones. As far as I know, there weren’t compound radius, but plenty had 9.5 and some had 7.25 so I don’t reckon they’re that inaccurate unless you can enlighten us

SlopeSoarer

Lush.... apart from the price