View Single Post
Old February 18th, 2012, 02:00 PM   #177 (permalink)
Le Jab
Tele-Meister
 
Le Jab's Avatar
 
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: London England
Posts: 334
.... and that is a very good point Shepherd. Boutique builders could design and build variations in body shape, use different pick up configs, but they choose not to. They call them 'Tele-style.' Ragging on a company who owns the intellectual property and design rights for the bulk of your output, places you on thin legal ice. With one call to a suit, FMIC could put these guys out of business. If I were a small builder of Fender copies I would go about my business in dignified silence, rather than stoke up potential animosity.
Le Jab is offline