00:00hold your horses kids this ain't your
00:02daddy's spender Mexico
00:12anymore giddy up Jonathan it's me back I
00:15love to gety up and me Jonathan do
00:18people really hold their horses anymore
00:19does anyone understand that probably
00:21it's it's an old term what percentage of
00:23Americans do you think have been on a
00:24horse at this point in history not many
00:27not many not many so
00:30the quality of Fender
00:33Mexico right now in the year
00:38this uh we might have been wrong it's as
00:41good as you can hope
00:44for it's good no it's good it's okay so
00:47we we've been pretty like we've been
00:49pretty um abashedly honest about things
00:52when we see manufacturers like dropping
00:54balls and everything but damn it's like
00:56fer Mexico has stepped up yeah I don't
01:00know what's happened down there over the
01:01past like I think it's been something
01:03that's been happening over the past like
01:04year and a half to few months with the
01:07transitioning but it's the payoff is in
01:10the guitars now and we're seeing some of
01:12best made in Mexico Fender guitars we've
01:15ever seen yeah like we're gonna talk
01:18about them right now number one the old
01:21Mike mccre it's like that guitar is so
01:26good you we we just stole one to a
01:28gentleman he was so nice um
01:30but when we were like Dereck are a guy
01:31behind the cameras he's not wearing a
01:33shirt today so he's off camera but um he
01:35he was playing one the other day and he
01:37was like I like this one better than
01:38this guitar here I'm like but that's a
01:39custom shop yeah I think I like this one
01:42though I'm like they're good guitars man
01:45I think we were talking I think I'd
01:46rather have that guitar than an American
01:50Pro and maybe I'd rather have it than a
01:53mod shop 100% certaint cuz I know it's
01:55being built for that yeah I mean I just
01:58I there's a lot of American guitar I'd
02:00probably choose that over I it'd be hard
02:03to say I'd choose it over a custom shop
02:05you know no um I mean no but if I if I
02:08was on a financial thing and I was like
02:10you know I want to get a great amp and a
02:11great guitar Mike mccre is in the target
02:14range for it it gives it sort of itches
02:16that custom shop itch a bit SC Relic
02:18thing um but it sounded and the fit and
02:21finish on it was what really sort of
02:22blew us all away and I I'd say even
02:24better than the first batch of Mike MCC
02:27Crees the first batch was okay all the
02:29subsequent ones have been very very okay
02:33I'm just kidding very
02:35good very I was still processing on when
02:38he saids subsequent I was like I've
02:40never heard of that said that way I was
02:41like that's cool subsequent instead of
02:43subsequent I like that subsequent I
02:45think so but how do the British say it
02:47because they say everything differently
02:49I don't know correctly but differently
02:51is it correctly well because they said
02:52it they've been been the words so yes I
02:54think we say it incorrectly because
02:56we're Yanks that's fair I just have to
03:00guitar number two it's also in The Relic
03:02land slightly not as bad as Mike's but
03:05but it's one of those if you're looking
03:07for the the equivalent of that in a
03:09Telly I I that's when I'd actually like
03:13to really I'd like to have that guitar
03:14you talked about it thinking the my only
03:17qualm with the first few we saw is they
03:19were heavy you know they they are he the
03:22Mike mccre were not that heavy the the
03:24Jason isabels were a bit heavier I
03:25remember and that might that's probably
03:27not well it may be across the board I
03:28don't know we only had a few but um but
03:30man good guitars they look awesome they
03:33sounded and played great now let's jump
03:35into this so why are we saying like it's
03:36so great right now it's not because we
03:38got a truckload of fener Mexicans we got
03:39to sell it's honestly we don't carry
03:41that many it's um honestly fener had its
03:45problems like with some of the
03:47production CU we we trumpeted for years
03:49like if you're in that price range we're
03:51like get a classic Vib Squire over a
03:53player you know series classic VI Squire
03:56over players classic VI squ I don't know
03:57that players plus made sense for a lot
03:59of folks you know what I mean um well
04:01that that's a tricky price range too cuz
04:03you know they're in that sort of $1,200
04:05range now like Mike's a little bit more
04:07obviously yeah but I feel like it's such
04:09a substantial leap it's a I think it's a
04:12much better guitar some of that is maybe
04:14our bent like we like the kind of
04:16vintage Vibes like uh and we like the
04:18Relic and we like the you know that sort
04:19of nitro thing so you know I get that
04:22we're ugly and we like things that look
04:24ugly so if you don't like ugin things to
04:27put out our flaws no but like fenders
04:28had us issues with that like their
04:30production schedule I think they've
04:31changed a lot of things and you know and
04:33they were just grinding out just
04:35printing guitars during the pandemic
04:37right they were just
04:39like pedal to the metal full full court
04:42press like there many like Blitz I'm
04:44doing all sorts of sports things now
04:45it's exciting cuz I saw the Super Bowl
04:47it's the one sporting I watched of the
04:49year um Sports balls Sports balls um but
04:53no they were they were gring things when
04:55that level production gets up with any
04:56of the manufacturers it's hard to keep
04:59level of QC we noed some fret issues
05:01some neck issues some curing we thought
05:03was some of the finishing it was just it
05:06wasn't up to what we consider like you
05:07know top but then now everything that's
05:09coming in lately pretty darn good we
05:12have one that should be arriving a it's
05:14I think it's a roadworn like 50s
05:15butterscotch blonde and something I just
05:17saw it just shift and on its way like
05:19the vent yeah something like that
05:21they're doing like a limited edition run
05:22of that just for like independent
05:23dealers I think and we were able to get
05:25a couple that's another one the the
05:29Venta I think on the whole pretty pretty
05:32cool I think it gets overlooked
05:34sometimes that weird again it's kind of
05:36like the players plus it's in that weird
05:38spot but I think the road war ventas in
05:42the beginning like they got much better
05:45as time went on a little bit seems to me
05:47no CU at first it they were a little bit
05:49eh and then the the next batches were
05:51great and then they can you said some
05:53right like you know the first batches
05:55were like sharp Frets like little things
05:57like that right where maybe these were
05:59rushed and then all that sort of seemed
06:01to be get ironed out and and they were
06:03go back to some of the original Brad
06:04Paisley I remember when some of those
06:06first hit like I felt like the the
06:08finishing on the nexts hadn't finished
06:09yet cuz there were there everybody would
06:11be like man it's so sticky it was sticky
06:13and the smell was so strong too it was
06:15just it hadn't cured or something it was
06:17just it was a strange
06:18moment but now back in the day let's do
06:21a little history on Fender Mexico too
06:23not like a deep dive history that's a
06:24whole other video but Fender like you
06:27know we used to go to Fender Mexico as
06:29are really Baseline cheap y affordable
06:33entry guitar Squire was something we
06:34need to think of and so those I mean I
06:39never come to merest and say that to us
06:42guitar pleas but um no it's it's
06:44something that that has changed now
06:46that's what it's not it's not the the
06:49fender of yester year where that's like
06:51the basically there's some of the best
06:53guitars fenders making right now are
06:54coming from the mexan factory same with
06:56like some of the other manufacturers
06:57like Taylor Guitars some of our favorite
06:59hits the GS mini we always play GS minis
07:02I see one on the wall over there too I'm
07:03going to grab it later play with it
07:05coming from coming from Mexico go um no
07:09so it's it's nice that fener is sort of
07:11like linked up with the QC that we're
07:14getting in some like their higher you
07:15know the flagship lines so you know just
07:17either USA production or the custom shop
07:19even and that it always does filter down
07:21sometimes it takes time I think there's
07:22the bumps with Co so we're thrilled with
07:24what we're seeing right now well I'm
07:26just I'm glad that uh you know obviously
07:30are up there too so I'm glad that it
07:34wasn't like oh we'll raise prices but
07:35it's the same stuff you know what I mean
07:38I'm glad to see that okay if you're
07:39going to pay this much for guitar made
07:41in Mexico it should be really good it
07:43should be phenomenal and I think you
07:44know no right cuz you you are there's a
07:46premium for these like the Mike mccre
07:48and the Jason isabels and the um George
07:50Harrison I almost forgot that got from
07:51The Beetles name but that that was an
07:53expensive guitar that sold out
07:55immediately we couldn't even get anymore
07:56I think we got one and it was like like
07:59well I don't know if they just
08:01misallocated production or if they just
08:03didn't anticipate the demand on it that
08:05people were willing to pay $2,000 plus
08:07well man the I mean when the PTI Le came
08:09out they were expensive for at the time
08:11remember how we all talked about that I
08:13can't remember how much they were were
08:14they like 12 11 1200 bucks I guess oh I
08:17in my mind they were so much cheaper
08:18that is that is true we were like man
08:20that's a lot but but you know it had the
08:22the what is a power Weena or however you
08:24say that would the really light body
08:26super light um you blow on it it could
08:28ch and it was Relic it was Sparkle I see
08:32those now like like uh pop up used and
08:34it seems like they got a pretty good
08:35cult following kind of thing they exist
08:38out there people dig them so no so if
08:40you haven't dipped in got your feet wet
08:43a little bit with old Fender Mexico at
08:44some we're give you a thumbs up for most
08:47of the stuff we're seeing out there it's
08:48pretty let give a solid thumbs up thumb
08:51and a half because we we had a thumb
08:53like this for a long time it really was
08:56it was it was like ah anybody came in
08:58story like I don't know but now it's
08:59like give him like you know you almost
09:02forgot the Mexican acoua
09:09that I did forget that maybe it was on
09:11purpose I just just when you did this it
09:19know God who was I seeing like God we so
09:22Neil de Diamond tribute band he was
09:23playing a um acoua Sonic Jazz Master
09:26yeah just like Metallica no I just
09:29thought it was so funny because he I was
09:31talking to him before the show he's like
09:32I just I just bought this I did my
09:34treated myself to new guitar day and I
09:36just bought this I was like
09:39cool I didn't let him know I had a
09:41guitar store or anything I just started
09:43giggling B that's probably good it's
09:44probably good then but unfortunately the
09:46rest of the people in the for like oh
09:47back owns a guitar shop like I don't we
09:50Fender don't worry about we don't
09:52believe in that don't wor about it no I
09:53just having some fun with them but um no
09:56it's um yeah I think that's all we got
09:58so check them out if you got questions
10:00hey fire them to us check any of your
10:02like local authorized dealers too go if
10:04you're in the UK go buy Peach go by an
10:07they got everything they have it all
10:09right now if you're in the USA you're
10:11anywhere near the shop are like I think
10:13Wildwood is opening back to the public a
10:14little I heard that maybe a little bit
10:17that's kind of big news they've been
10:18close to the public for for years at
10:20this point um you know go by seia
10:22they've got it all go by music Villa go
10:24by Sims go don't go by Chuck elens cuz
10:26they're usually having a salsa dance
10:29that's it like subscribe p and salsa
10:31everywhere hit the bell pists and salsa
10:34car was like Hey round up the F fenders
10:38dancing dipping he's not even from
10:39Mexico close but not there I'm not going
10:43from I have some some love there as well
10:47that's all thank you for joining us
