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Post by heem6 on Jan 5, 2010 22:01:16 GMT -5
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Post by nickwellings on Jan 6, 2010 8:30:57 GMT -5
So we established this was not an HM, but very closely related? Looks nice, if you can live with being an advertisement for beer when you play it!
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Post by heem6 on Jan 8, 2010 22:10:34 GMT -5
Yep, he sent me a bunch of pictures and it clearly shows there is no contoured heel joint, clearly the body is not an HM, and the headstock reads "Fender Stratocaster" and doesn't mention HM anywhere.
His ad reads that these were part of a batch of guitars commissioned by Budweiser for a promotion in Boston or something like that.
Still, it would be pretty cool for a bar band.
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Post by lbeast on Jan 9, 2010 10:46:14 GMT -5
Unless the bar only served Miller.  The body sure looks identical in layoutto the forged HM STrat Ultra on eBay in September 2009. |
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Post by heem6 on Jan 9, 2010 18:38:27 GMT -5
Good deduction, LB!
That's what we figured it was, too. In the thread here about that HM Ultra, the poster went back to the old forum (www.heavymetalstrat.yuku.com), read about the Budweiser Strat and concluded that's what his HM Ultra body was originally from. I'd tend to believe it because it has the same shape and has the square neck heel joint same as this one.
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Post by heem6 on Jan 9, 2010 18:40:26 GMT -5
This is what the neck joint looks like.Attachments:
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Post by lbeast on Jan 9, 2010 23:08:12 GMT -5
Yeah I saw the old posts on the old forum, did a little of my own research and came to the same conclusion that you & others came to. I'll bet a lot of Bud guitar owners repainted theirs to get rid of the advert. Probably what happened there with the faux ultra. The seller probably needed a body for that ultra neck he bought and decided he'd use something that had an HM like neck pocket. It appears the Bud strats may be identical in neck pocket shape and scale to an HM.
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Post by lbeast on Jan 14, 2010 8:37:17 GMT -5
HA! No sale! Bring it on down to economicalville!  |
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