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Title: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: Dave W on April 16, 2020, 05:55:54 PM
Fender Will No Longer Build Production Model Guitars With Ash (https://reverb.com/news/fender-will-no-longer-build-production-model-guitars-with-ash)

It's probably a good move, better than jacking up prices due to short supplies. Some people will be very unhappy. Doesn't bother me, I prefer alder over ash.
Title: Re: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: doombass on April 16, 2020, 11:37:34 PM
I'd wager that in just a few years time, ash will be considered the most beautiful and best sounding tonewood for a Fender. I'll keep an eye and an ear open to see and hear my Hotrodded Series Precision transform into something fantastic.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: Pilgrim on April 17, 2020, 07:23:25 AM

It's probably a good move, better than jacking up prices due to short supplies. Some people will be very unhappy. Doesn't bother me, I prefer alder over ash.

The market's past behaviors indicate that people always want what they can't get. Ash may be assigned mystical qualities in the future.  :P
Title: Re: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: Alanko on April 17, 2020, 12:31:59 PM
Ash bodies remind me of the toilet seats that were in a fairly downmarket hotel I stayed in on a school trip to Switzerland.

I see a Fender with an ash body and I smell a peach air freshener that isn't quite covering up all the other smells.  :rolleyes:
Title: Re: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: Dave W on April 17, 2020, 09:12:35 PM
I'd wager that in just a few years time, ash will be considered the most beautiful and best sounding tonewood for a Fender. I'll keep an eye and an ear open to see and hear my Hotrodded Series Precision transform into something fantastic.  :mrgreen:

Wait until it gets reliced by emerald ash borers, then it will be worth a fortune.  :mrgreen:
Title: Re: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: gearHed289 on April 17, 2020, 09:14:08 PM
It's probably a good move, better than jacking up prices due to short supplies. Some people will be very unhappy. Doesn't bother me, I prefer alder over ash.

Agreed.

Maybe I'll snatch up a couple of ash bodies while I'm out hoarding toilet paper?  ;D
Title: Re: Fender discontinuing most ash bodies
Post by: Rob on April 19, 2020, 03:03:15 PM
Agreed.

Maybe I'll snatch up a couple of ash bodies while I'm out hoarding toilet paper?  ;D

 :rimshot: