Hey everyone! My name is Chris and I live in So Cal, right on the coast near LA Harbor. I have been playing on and off since about age 13, and I was in a thrash metal band called "Noxious Velocity" with some friends from Venice High School back on the 80s.
One of my first guitars I learned on was a crappy used mini-squire I got at a pawn shop for like 50 bucks, and that's the only Fender I ever owned. I have owned many other guitars since, with my favorite being a blue-crackle painted Charvel made in Japan (which I bought in Tokyo when I was stationed there in the Navy).
So, why am I here today? I have a friend who's wife works at Fender, and I thought if I'm ever going to spend a lot of $$ on a guitar it would be nice to get that employee discount. She started there a couple of years ago, but every time I looked on the site I didn't see anything I liked (into shredders, if ya know what I mean). I was ready to give up and move onto something else in the 600-700 price range cause I started playing a lot during covid and found some guys at my work who want to get a band going post-pandemic.
Low and behold, Fender comes out with this rockin beauty (made in Japan!!) retro 80s Boxer series in silver and black, so I grabbed it (for $500 off retail price of 1199 how could I go wrong?). Let's just say it's by far the nicest guitar I have now, and I absolutely LOVE that it stays in tune despite having no locking nuts at the head or tremolo, making it super flexible to change to any tuning on the fly.
I included my garage band pics as well, which I just finished setting up in anticipation of jamming again soon...
Cheers!
-cp
Last edited: Feb 21, 2021
