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WayneM	Lenny and the Thorn Team	Lead	[-]
Posts: 1073 (12/01/07 14:36:37) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Tags : None Must of us have heard that GC and Fender is building about 180 replicas of the SRV "Lenny" guitar. Our favorite inlay team is responsible for the inlay behind the bridge. My local GC has one of the first for sale and they allowed me to take some pictures. The quality is only fair as it was hanging up were no one could take it down without a sales person involved and the lighting was weird. Here it goes.... A full picture followed by some closeups of the inlay... Great job T-team! Wayne
mikef1331	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#1	[-]
Posts: 1377 (12/01/07 15:32:40) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	AWESOME! Big congrats to team Thorn on getting to work on such a special project. Anyone know what kind of saddles those are on the bridge of the "Lenny" Strat? -------------------- Thorn SFC-013 (In Progress)
Ron Thorn	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#2	[-]
Posts: 2422 (12/01/07 18:49:18) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Cool deal Wayne!!! Thanks for snapping those shots and posting it, I only got to see one of the first 6 prototypes completed. I know Stephen Stern was the first Master Builder to finish one completely and that was just 2 weeks ago, I wonder if this is one of them. Mike, the saddles on the original Lenny are Mighty Mite "Toilet Seats". The ones used for these guitars were recently machined by the same company that made the originals in the late 70s. It's the little details like that that are easily overlooked when trying to rationalize the $17K price tag. As a side note, thanks to the 13ga strings on the real Lenny, the E,A,D,and G string saddles all had their compression springs removed and the saddles are slammed against the back of the bridge. The B, and high E have a coil and a half of spring in there. Again, thanks for posting it. Ron
MickYoumans	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#3	[-]
Posts: 1742 (12/01/07 19:59:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	*Quote:* It's the little details like that that are easily overlooked when trying to rationalize the $17K price tag. Maybe so, but it is still beyond my comprehension. $:\$ $17K is quite a sum. Georgia Public TV did a rerun this week of Stevie's Austin City Limits concert and he played "Lenny" on it. Thorn Guitar Gallery Thorn #049 Pics Guitaria CD
Big Mike Blues	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#4	[-]
Posts: 2322 (12/01/07 22:07:19) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Awesome. If I had the dough I'd be all over it. ______________________ POWERED BY THORN 18 140 149 in progressJr90 #0310 www.phatdaddyguitarworks.com <- Now Open
mikef1331	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#5	[-]
Posts: 1377 (12/02/07 00:00:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Thanks for the info Ron. I always wondered what kind of saddles those were. I was just checking out the Fender site and they now have a section dedicated to the Lenny guitar. Check out the link! www.fender.com/lenny/ -------------------- Thorn SFC-013 (In Progress)
Ted Litzenberger	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#6	[-]
Posts: 68 (12/02/07 00:51:57) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Great pics Wayne. Thanks for sharing. Did you ask if you could play it? Ted
Ron Thorn	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#7	[-]
Posts: 2422 (12/02/07 01:46:01) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I hear you loud and clear Mick. It's a ton of coin. Way beyond my means and I doubt something at that level ever will be. My point was that there was a ton of details put into the whole project that may not seem like a big deal, but certainly added to the cost. The "SRV" space tape hasn't been produced since the 80's - it had to be custom "made" in a large sum just for the letters to be cut from. The Anvil case has a different rivet spacing than they are using now, Anvil retooled for "correctness". The inlay material hasn't been produced like that for decades. It required months of testing before it was finally dialed in. The list goes on and on. Fender really did everything they could to make these as accurate as humanly possible. Is it worth $17K, not my call...but it would be tough to build a single reproduction for less than that and be as accurate as Fender. My guess is the will sell out the first day
jimmybcool	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#8	[-]
Posts: 1125 (12/02/07 08:33:21) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I'm impressed with the attention to detail. And it costs money to gear up to do stuff like this. I'd love to have one. And as Master builds with a built in collectable market it has some value. Probably play like butter too. And of course the inlay is superb I know a guy who will probably have to buy one. He already has the Clapton Blackie at $22k, and the Beck tele at $15k . I got the try the Beck and WOW. I think it weighed about 6 lbs. Very loud acoustically too. But these tributes aren't my thang. It don't matter how close they make it to the original - I still won't sound like SRV
Big Mike Blues	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#9	[-]
Posts: 2322 (12/02/07 08:42:34) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	I spent WAY to many years sounding like a bad SRV immitator...and then a bunch of years trying to shake it. ______________________ POWERED BY THORN 18 140 149 in progressJr90 #0310 www.phatdaddyguitarworks.com <- Now Open
Ian Hurtt	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#10	[-]
Posts: 1540 (12/02/07 11:00:35) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	Lot's of time and work went into getting that right. Incredible attention to detail, but honestly I have no interest (and don't have the wallet) for a collectors piece. Now, I would go for one of the Monterey Strat Hendrix repros, those were cool and I could have played it. - John Thorn 091 Jr.90 Hot Rod - in the que!
WayneM	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#11	[-]
Posts: 1073 (12/02/07 20:54:17) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	<Great pics Wayne. Thanks for sharing. Did you ask if you could play it? Ted> I never play a guitar that I never plan to eventually buy. The guitar Mgr. indicated that it sounded great,,,and played great. He liked 5X better that the Blackie repro. that sold for $22K......but that didn't get me to buy it from him. Wayne
graydane	Re: Lenny and the Thorn Team	#12	[-]
Posts: 2595 (01/06/08 04:14:16) Reply Quote More My Recent Posts Message Me Connection Blocking Invite Ignore User's Posts	very cool pics wayne. A lot of dingos and not everyone's cup of tea, but I can sure apprecaite the detail to make it all as close as possible. Look at this one and then at the one Ron, Nick, and Tony are holding, could be the same one or is it? hmmm, nope but very, very close. I hear the hardest part of the entire guitar was Ron having to have some "gaps" in his inlay which is something that he just can't do well at all.

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