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Originally Posted by tiktok View Post
With all these changes, they'll probably bomb. Look at how Fender's been struggling to survive with all those American Standard Strats and Teles, which also feature bad fret sizes, fretboard curvature, the wrong pickups, etc. JM's and Jag's sell like hotcakes anyways--why change anything?
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Did I miss something? I had read in several non-guitar nerd sources that the new series was a success. And larger fret size and board radius MUST be an issue for a marked number of players. How can you explain their nearly exclusive use on most high-end Fender knock-offs? How do you explain the Baja, Nocaster, and Thinskin love that abide here?
I think Fender may be finally moving in the right direction. I also think the MIJ/CIJ vs. MIM argument is dead with rising fuel costs and great workmanship coming out of Ensenada.