1984 Fender Flame.
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- Опубликовано: 26 авг 2024
- A quirky Fender from 1984. Made in Japan.
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Thank you to Jimi & Sive from Jimi's Music Store in Ballymount, Dublin for allowing us to review this fine instrument😄
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Guitary Stuff from Dublin, Ireland with Phil and Dan
I just bought this guitar from Jimi, love it so much!! Great playing!!
Ham Soro Awesome👍Congrats. A cool guitar indeed. Dan enjoyed polishing that one😉
Aussie Phil & Dan Thanks man!!Haha, it was definitely well looked after, it's so clean for an 84!!
Thanks for the review. I just stumbled upon one of these at a pawnshop down the road. Its frickin beautiful. $1100 usd, on layaway for a bit, but it will be mine, oh yes. It will be mine.
ray fostore Did you find this in a pawnshop in the US or the UK if you don’t my asking?
@@revbull In the US.
ray fostore Thanks. I had the exact one in this video for about 20 years while living in the US. Amazing guitar. But our house got robbed last year in the UK and they got all my guitars as well as everything else. I’m hoping it will turn up in a pawnshop or somewhere at some point.
@@revbull Oh, that sucks so bad.
Fender didn’t change the Robben Ford model’s name to an Esprit - The Esprit was the bigger, more 335 sized guitar in the same series as the Flame which Robben Ford also played pre-signature model. Incidentally, Wurzel from 1980s Motörhead also played a Fender Flame.
thanks for info Elliot, didnt know that about Wurzel. cheers!
You’re the Wurzel, mate, if anyone is...
Right. Ford played an Esprit. Diff is slightly bigger body and symmetrical cutaways on the Esprit. Third model of the series was D'Aquisto, archtop hollow-body with F-holes. Named after the designer of these 3 models of the "Master Series". Also each model had 3 versions:. Standard, Elite, and Ultra. They're playing a Flame Standard. The plain round fretboard dots give it away. Elite abd Ultra have MOP diamond-flake marker inlays.
Robben Ford played an Esprit Ultra, which had Ebony tuners (Elite had Mother-of-Pearl tuners, and Standard just the plain metal ones) and Ebony fretboard, vs. Rosewood on Standard & Elite. Also the trussrod cover will have "elite" or "ultra" engraved in it..Standard has a blank cover.
Also these models contain Double pot Tone controls, where 5 is full treble. Then, and you can feel the detent at 5, it picks up "TBX" which adds presence to the tone.
Great stuff guys! I have Esprit Standard from that era and it's great guitar (I'd like neck to be a bit beefier...). Both Flames and Esprits have shorter Gibson scale, though and body wood is actually alder (at least in Fender's documentation). Yours is modded similarily as mine: I think that bridge piece is not original Schaller roller saddle model (tailpiece seems original) and pickups are not original Schallers. Also splitcoil switch was not featured on Standards originally. Standards came with 1meg pots for all volumes and tones and I know some modded Esprits that have new pickups and old pots and it's kinda unusual sound for 2HB guitar. Anyway, thanks for sharing and cheers from Finland!
Hi mate if you have 1500$ to spend would you get this guitar in new condition or a Gibson in this price range? I love the Gary Moore sound
Best to play each one and see which you prefer. Good luck in choosing the right guitar for you