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ScouserJoe wrote:Hi Everyone,
Many thanks for your support in our dispute with the E-Bay seller. The offending material has now been removed from the item description on E-Bay, so I have re-instated the item on my website.
Members of the forum are once again able to download the free PDF. The original link is now functional again, but is repeated here ..
http://www.mountain-images.co.uk/shadows/shadows-fender-facts.html
Tone20002 wrote:Hi Geoff
I can't really add anything to Ian's explanation. In the early stages of the project we did discuss whether the other Signature models should be included but decided against it for the reasons Ian has so eloquently set out.
With regard to the 40th Anniversary strap, here is a photograph. The Custom Shop and Hank signature logos were picked out in gold leaf but, as you can see, it had worn quite badly on my strap. Since the photograph was taken I've painstakingly touched in the gold leaf and it looks much better now. However, to be honest, I'm not to keen on the strap because it is very wide and the leather is very stiff and rigid which makes attaching and detaching it very difficult. Incidentally, I note that the photograph of the strap on Hank's guitar no. 00 currently adverised on eBay shows a Fender logo which mine and, I assume, the others in the production models for retail do not have.
Cheers.
Tony
ScouserJoe wrote:Hi Again,
Things are progressing and from the number of people who have pledged support to get this guy to withdraw our work from his description, we might get a result yet .. Thanks to all. Tony and I are considering making this work available again once this particular issue has been resolved.
Charlie Hall has made an interesting comment, saying that he thinks he was present when this guitar was given to Hank. If it is the same guitar, then Hank's immediate response to using it was that he didn't like the neck edges - the strings had a habit of 'falling off'. That would explain why it is only lightly marked - which is not what you would have expected had it been in regular use on the 2004 tour.
At some time in the past, someone did say that they knew the serial numbers of Hank's regular Strats. Surely someone here must have had access to that information through friendship with one of Hank's guitar techies ?
Tone20002 wrote:H Bernie
Thanks for the info' in your post #33. I have the 2000 tour brochure and I've just dug it out. You're quite right - some of the photographs were used for the tray and booklet of the "Marvin at the Movies" album.
There are some excellent photographs of the Signature and 40th Anniversary Strats and, to my mind, the most accurate colourwise is the inside full page one of Hank holding the 40th (opposite another full page one of Hank and Cliff together).
There are several photographs in the brochure which show the strap clearly but there are, in fact, three different ones: one with the Fender logo I referred to previously (which I assume, is the one with 00 on eBay), one with the HBM signature (like mine) and a third which has an oval brown or gold logo (the picture is not clear enough to make it out). I daeresay we could all go one forever about which straps Hank used on which guitars - I don't remember the topic cropping up on these forums before!
Incidentally, while I was looking for the photos I found the "Guitar Player" brochure and there are some superb photographs of Hank's Signature Strat in there (or is it an Autograph?)
I'm off to get my anorak!
Cheers.
Tony
Graylion wrote:Just as a lighthearted comment - shame none of the guitars are pink enough! The bottom 2 on the pdf are closest but need to be lighter.
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