Why You Can't Go Wrong With A Fender Custom Shop

The Fender Custom Shop makes possibly one of the best electric guitars that money can buy. If you like it exotic, relic'ed or NOS fender has a guitar for you. Baxter talks about how he fell in love after he got his first fender!

[allisonholmesmusic]

I’m saving my money for a custom shop Strat as a reward for quitting smoking. Should be able to afford it in less than a year

[stevesmith]

Just a random compliment from North East England - I enjoy all of Casino's videos but the Baxter and Jonathan stuff is like I'm sitting around drinking coffee with the guys and learning about guitars and laughing a lot. Brilliant, guys. Stay well.

[MrJireh]

Some day i will buy a guitar from casino guitars, cause by now.., ..you guys are like my pals....cheers from Mexico 👍🏻

[lisahaubert]

Jim Haubert here, I have a Rory Gallagher Custom Shop Strat and you are absolutely correct, you cannot go wrong with the Custom Shop!! Mine is pro quality, just fits in my hand, feels real natural the whole way up the fretboard!!! It has a 25 1/2" scale length but feels like 24 3/4", great strat honk to it, went through a bunch of Fender strats in my life but this one is just different, comfortable like an old pair of shoes!! Don't care that it's a relic, just the best guitar that I have ever owned or played and I have gone through a ton of them!!!

[Waltos]

I too, love the Custom Shop. My dealer told me to expect the Tele I ordered in about 6 months. It showed up 18 months after I ordered it. Likely a dealer issue rather than the CS. BUT, I do love my Tele. Great guitar.

[njco]

I love this format! It's like getting drunk with a few friends at the bar and chatting about guitars. It just turns out that y'all know a lot more about guitars than my friends do :)

[PureMagicStudios]

I have a CS Nocaster from 2018. The best guitar I have ever played! It will stay with me my whole life.

[scottmckusick]

Thanks so much for the discussion! Having lusted after a Custom Shop 63 (my birth year) Tele for decades, and after having seen countless online discussions "debating" the "value" of the relic process, I appreciate your sharing your insights about what makes the Custom Shop relics special. So nice to hear experienced voices for a change. Keep rocking guys!

[theHAL]

A favorite channel. Covers guitars in a interesting freewheeling 360 degree manner covering the technicals to the emotional, and all in between. Great stuff!

[RPSartre]

I love my 64 L series custom shop fender strat. Closet classic with 7.25 radius - vintage feel all the way. It came with Josefina pickups!

[marka.]

For years I was in the camp of "why would I spend that much money, I love my Mexican-made Fenders even more than the American-mades I've bought, isn't Custom Shop just a fancier American?" Turns out, no, absolutely not. Long story short, my most magically awesome guitar is my Custom Shop Strat. And I also own a higher priced Gibson Custom Shop R9 LP (which I also love but I play my Mexi-Strat more often). I was even inspired to write a letter to the Fender Custom Shop guys and thank them for changing my life. It's that good. Needless to say, that's the one guitar I would keep if I had to liquidate all but one. No hesitation.

[windmillcancersurvivor]

I can attest, concur, worth the extra money! Was interested in a Suhr and someone said "why not get a Fender?" I did and it is the bomb!

[joseph]

Relic guitars are in just like classic cars with patina. The best ones really are really resto-mods with modern brakes, engine, trans, etc. if you're going to drive it all the time. Custom shop guitars are great for a players to take on stage.

[cardbored_]

I was wearing a pair of jeans with holes in the knees and a guy stopped me and said "you must do really hard labor..." I replied: Yeah, being a blues lawyer is rough.

[ruiseartalcorn]

I have always wanted a Custom Shop Tele. I have also always wanted to be rich enough to afford one! ;) Maybe one day ;)

[HendrixRipoff]

The blue strat in the back, it's perfect.

[troyoswald]

love you have a great shop here, its like hanging out there, but just at times when they are closed.

[goeldner]

I ordered a 61 Strat in shell pink yesterday. It’s just gotta cross the country. Hopefully it makes it here before everything’s locked down

[subzero]

im not big on relics. I like the NOS and then aging it myself. but i do wanna get a custom shop strat mainly cause im left handed and its a nightmare finding a guitar i wanna buy. awesome vid boys.

[bryanstrader]

Just got my first custom shop, a 55 tele journeyman, and its absolutely amazing!