Fender® Custom Shop http://www.fender.com/custom-life Tue, 28 May 2013 16:39:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Green Esquire http://www.fender.com/custom-life/green-esquire/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/green-esquire/#comments Tue, 28 May 2013 15:56:09 +0000 fenderadmin http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=803 Barbed Wire carved into the body along with an inset metal top, set this Esquire apart.

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]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/green-esquire/feed/ 0 Tiki Telecaster® http://www.fender.com/custom-life/tiki-telecaster/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/tiki-telecaster/#comments Mon, 06 May 2013 17:20:06 +0000 fenderadmin http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=794 The vibe of the South Pacific comes alive with this hand-carved Tiki Telecaster build by Dennis Galuszka.

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]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/tiki-telecaster/feed/ 0 Adjusting the Bridge http://www.fender.com/custom-life/adjusting-the-bridge/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/adjusting-the-bridge/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 21:31:52 +0000 Chris Puffe http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=779 In this Master Builder Tips segment, Fender Custom Shop’s Yuriy Shishkov shows how to adjust a tremolo.

]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/adjusting-the-bridge/feed/ 0 Don Was http://www.fender.com/custom-life/773/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/773/#comments Thu, 02 May 2013 17:27:33 +0000 fenderadmin http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=773 Read More]]> DON WAS

Acclaimed musician and producer Don Was has a million great stories. He relates a few of them here in an entertaining conversation with the Fender Custom Shop about his career-long devotion to the Precision Bass—touching on Motown, being a working musician, Bonnie Raitt, the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, Willie Nelson and more. WATCH NOW

]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/773/feed/ 0 JOSH KLINGHOFFER TOURS FENDER CUSTOM SHOP http://www.fender.com/custom-life/josh-klinghoffer-tours-fender-custom-shop/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/josh-klinghoffer-tours-fender-custom-shop/#comments Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:12:41 +0000 Chris Puffe http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=747 Read More]]> Josh2 

Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Josh Klinghoffer recently stopped by the Fender Custom Shop in Corona, Calif., to pick up a few guitars that Master Builder Jason Smith was working on for him.

Klinghoffer left with four 1960 Fender Stratocasters and a ’69 Strat that he is using in the studio and on the Chili Peppers’ upcoming tour.

The band’s slate of summer dates begins April 9 at the Fonda Theatre and continues past Coachella to the Orion Music + More festival in Detroit (June 8-9) and the Firefly Music Festival in Dover, Del., (June 21-23).

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]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/atlantis-telecaster/feed/ 0 Birdflower Telecaster® http://www.fender.com/custom-life/birdflower-telecaster/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/birdflower-telecaster/#comments Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:33:06 +0000 fenderadmin http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=620 birdflower-large

]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/birdflower-telecaster/feed/ 0 Laguna Beach Esquire® http://www.fender.com/custom-life/laguna-beach-esquire/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/laguna-beach-esquire/#comments Mon, 25 Feb 2013 17:36:19 +0000 fenderadmin http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=614 An unforgettable creation by Yuriy Shishkov which incorporates a canvas painting on the guitar, a case that unfolds into an easel and a matching framed painting.

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]]> http://www.fender.com/custom-life/peacock-telecaster/feed/ 0 Eric Clapton “BROWNIE” Tribute Stratocaster® http://www.fender.com/custom-life/eric-clapton-brownie-tribute-stratocaster/ http://www.fender.com/custom-life/eric-clapton-brownie-tribute-stratocaster/#comments Fri, 08 Feb 2013 22:15:51 +0000 fenderadmin http://www.fender.com/custom-life/?p=721 Read More]]> Eric Clapton bought the Stratocaster® he affectionately nicknamed “Brownie” secondhand at Sound City in London on May 7, 1967, a few days before Cream flew to New York to record their second album, Disraeli Gears. It was a 1956 Stratocaster® with a two-colored sunburst finish and a well-worn maple neck and fingerboard.

Watch as Eric Clapton gets his first glimpse and test run of the Fender Custom Shop Eric Clapton “Brownie” Tribute Stratocaster.

Learn more at fender.com/brownie

 

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