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duhvoodooman
April 5th, 2011, 08:31 AM
Very cool video interview with the late Bill Carson of Fender fame about how the Strat came into being:

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Tig
April 5th, 2011, 08:55 AM
Very interesting!
Thx

poodlesrule
April 5th, 2011, 02:35 PM
Interesting indeed.

Kids, this was before focus groups-derived design.
Stuff for the working man, you know.

sunvalleylaw
April 5th, 2011, 09:52 PM
Very cool! Thanks for that!

Jimi75
April 6th, 2011, 01:04 AM
Pretty cool. Thanks for the post.

Katastrophe
April 6th, 2011, 06:48 AM
Very cool piece of musical history... Great find!

kidsmoke
April 6th, 2011, 08:43 AM
necessity, the mother of invention. Thanks, DVM

As an apprentice tool maker, the journeyman I worked with loved to say that you hoped to stumble into the thing that was "simple, but not obvious". That's what would stick.