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Is this the same one?
and at £35,999
Also, if "JC" made 100 of them, they can't take him very long to do!
I see John Cruz is currently 'making' the next batch of earlier spec No.1s he's put pics oh his social media pages. He doesn't paint them still and the new ones don't look any better than these. Maybe if they'd have let Dale WIlson do them individually then the might have looked a little more realistic, instead of reminding me of the Rory G Strat. Shame.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BmDKmRkAr8H/?taken-by=johncruz_fendercustomshop
The length of wait for your Strat Mark is partly due to the fact that Fender these days have JC touring the globe doing promo work. That and the fact Jay Nelson is the only guy painting these guitars there for the Masterbuilders, he must be an awfully busy chap.
Personally I don't buy into the 'masterbuild' thing in the least. What is it - basically someone bolting 2 bits of wood together and adding a few components into pre-cut places. You could probably train a couple of monkeys to do it if you gave them a banana.
http://srvofficialcom-uslegacydevel.obs.smehost.net/sites/srvaughn/files/120321_museum_number1.jpg
On the real 'number 1' the remaining burst is faded to hell and the bare wood above the middle pickup has lots of playing dirt in it. I have seen several 'fan built' replicas that look much more authentic.
This is a pretty pathetic attempt and if it was an un branded partscaster on e bay would be rightly ridiculed.
Personally I have never seen the point of 'artist's relics' it's not 'his guitar' and yet by association with the artist it will never be 'your guitar'. Rather a sad exercise really
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Then I suppose at these prices (or even at £8k), they’re not getting played by anyone. They’re getting stuck in a glass box to preserve the artificial relicing. The mind boggles.