Showing posts with label Pawn Shop. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Pawn Shop. Show all posts

Saturday, April 23, 2011

The "Pawn Shop"

Pawn  Shop? Pawning your guitar? Nah.. It's just a name.
I am still wondering why Fender would give their new guitar model the name "Pawn Shop". 


Fender '51
If anyone can recall, this '51 isn't something entirely new. Previously, there was already a squier version of it available, which was discontinued. This Pawn Shop features a push-pull spilt-coil system and the pickup selector comes in form of a 3-Position Rotary.
Fender '72
A modification of '72 Thinline? Somewhat I guess, just that the bridge pickup is an Enforcer and not a Wide-range. However, '72 Thinline is a Telecaster. This is more like a stratocaster featuring a telecaster's headstock. The same goes for '51. No pickup selector for this guy. It comes with a tone blender instead but they serve the same purpose.

Mustang Special
The old mustang features a set of single coil. The Pawn Shop is equipped with Enforcer™ "Wide range" Humbuckers. It also feature a different bridge; a '70-style Hard-Tail Stratocaster bridge. No tremolo bar this  baby.