Radar-Love

Great post Radar-Love! That's the first time I've ever heard of the SUNN Mustang - where on earth did you hear about that rare bird?

We have talked on-and-off a bit about Sunn guitars around here over the years, starting back around 2002 or 2003 or so. There were a couple of H-C members in the past that had a Sunn "Mustang" guitar. The Sunn Mustang would sometimes get mentioned if we were talking about FMIC's various fumbles and debacles over the years.

In the meantime, enjoy a bit of vintage Sunn 0))) amps and... Colonel Sanders.

Also' date=' there are MIM Squiers in existence. There are MIJ Squiers as well. [/quote']

 

 

 

Not to mention MIA Squiers.

 

 

 

 

After FMIC decided to pluck the Squier brand name from obscurity (i.e. -- Squier Strings from 1890s ~ 1970s, bought out by Leo Fender in the '60s) for their new budget line of Strats, Teles, and P/J basses, it seems they couldn't make up their mind where to manufacture Squiers for a few years. Since the beginning of Squier Guitars, there have been MIJ, MIA, MIM, MIK, MIN (Indonesia), and MIC Squier models.

 

As far as budget-line Strats go, FMIC makes 'em all over the world, actually. And, over the decades, FMIC has slapped some of the oddest labels on those budget Strat headstocks, such as this major WTF marketing disaster (below) that FMIC did back in the '90s after their purchase of Sunn.

 

Yes. Meet the Sunn... er... Mustang! Made in India. ...which, of course, is not really a Mustang, but a Stratocaster!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Of course, FMIC strikes again more recently with the Starcaster debacle.

 

 

 

 

A REAL STARCASTER (reissue)

 

 

And the "other Starcaster," which is probably a Starcaster By Fender... er... Strat

 

 

I played a friend of mines tele that's made from ash and it's pretty heavy. Good to hear that's a good guitar for the money.

The typical white ash that Fender uses is usually denser than swamp ash (a.k.a. -- southern ash or green ash). However, there are also heavy grades of swamp ash -- which cost less because they are less desirable.

​No matter what its weight is, at least so-called swamp ash usually has a nice interesting grainy look about it compared to some white ash.

I'll vote for the Fender Esprit / Fender Robben Ford Signature Model.  

Dewar had been bed-ridden for several years from a series of strokes he suffered

earlier. He was in poor shape for a long time and required a nurse to be present

24x7 in order to live. He could comprehend people talking to him, but could not

communicate back in a normal fashion. In the end, his metabolism finally just

gave out and he could not be revived.

The US string manufacturers that I know of are D'Addario, Dean Markley,

and Ernie Ball.

Fender makes strings in Ensenada, Mexico.

Tomastik-Infeld makes strings in Austria and Germany.

There are 2 or 3 string manufacturers in China and 1 possibly in Korea and

maybe 1 still in Japan.

I believe D'Addario makes more strings than anyone else, and is the OEM

for several brands -- the same is probably true for Dean Markley.

Tomastik-Infeld has been making strings for aeons now.