Fender Custom Shop Amp.... £9k...!!

skaguitar

Just saw this on facebook and looked it up on their site....!!

£9k   ... what do we think.....I'll have 2  

https://worldguitars.co.uk/2016/12/coming-soon-tobacco-barn-tone-monster/

capo4th

It will have a very woody tone and will be sold within a week to some PRS playing dentist

Sassafras

Worth every penny because it comes with a "leather bound Masterbuilt photo album".

If people pay $70k for a Dumble amp, they'll pay £9k for this considering there are only 5 of them (at the moment).

Sassafras

Also someone had to sand off all the rough edges using nothing more than a nail file.
Very time consuming.

skaguitar

Sassafras said:

Worth every penny because it comes with a "leather bound Masterbuilt photo album".

If people pay $70k for a Dumble amp, they'll pay £9k for this considering there are only 5 of them (at the moment).

I understand the rarity of them...but you could get 3 or 4 high end boutique amps for that....although I was considering one of the 65 reverb knotty pine limited editions...so if I had £9k spare I would buy it...lol

Gassage

I was aware of this as a Fender person (not matt) told me about it three days ago.

IvisonGuitars

I love the look of it but not the price.

More shocking to to, once i'd had a quick shifty through the World Guitars site is the rrp price of Gibson Custom stuff now....What?!

skaguitar

miserneil said:

I love the look of it but not the price.

More shocking to to, once i'd had a quick shifty through the World Guitars site is the rrp price of Gibson Custom stuff now....What?!

derailing my own thread...I also noticed how many pre owned Nik Huber's are for sale on their site...?

Winny_Pooh

Its a 5e3. Load of overpriced average gear from Fender again & again. Anyone in their right mind would buy a Lazy J/Victoria etc

jacksparrow

For 9k the could solder the bleedin switches FFS.

ICBM

jacksparrow said:

For 9k the could solder the bleedin switches FFS.

They could fit a more appropriate speaker than that ceramic Celestion too. And better valves.

Looking more closely at the inside pic, the standby switch is in the wrong place in the circuit so it will probably blow rectifier valves, and it looks like the fusing is the same stupid arrangement that led to this…



That's the inside of a Custom Shop Twin-o-lux after a valve short caused the socket to vitrify itself and burn out the wiring loom, because there is no HT fuse only a pointless filament one.

Not impressed, even at "only" two grand. £9K is taking the piss.

57Deluxe

hope it comes with a 25 year Rentokill guarantee too...

ICBM

Not to mention that at that price, you could have three original 50s 5E3s in any combination of all-original to fully overhauled and roadworthy, and probably enough left over for a Champ or some other model.

IvisonGuitars

The crazy thing is, I bet that amp is already sold before it hits the shop floor.

ICBM

miserneil said:

The crazy thing is, I bet that amp is already sold before it hits the shop floor.

But don't worry, it will be available at a more sensible price in a few months when he gets tired of it.

Gassage said:

I was aware of this as a Fender person (not matt) told me about it three days ago.

RaymondLin

I'm sticking to my lazy j then.

hotpickups

Bloody riculous. Too much money in the world sometimes it feels 

Voxman

These are specially designed for the PWMMTS market.  

longi

A fool and his money.....

4114Effects

Right. My friend has an old shed he needs taking down. Seems like a great candidate for an custom Danplifier build. I'll make sure the wood is full of screws and woodworm holes. I'll use special custom "green" capacitors (Just Mallory caps wrapped in spare wrappers from the quality street green triangles.)

I'm only going to make one, which will make it 5x rarer and therefore 5x more valuable. 

Anyone fancy a pre-order for £45,000?

IvisonGuitars

Gassage said:

I was aware of this as a Fender person (not matt) told me about it three days ago.

Amazingly, his reputation is such that major manufactures now just ring him up and give him first dibs on everything before they release it to the general public....