Jack plate?
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TBS is right. Callaham products are top notch. If you have questions and call, you'll often talk to Bill himself. Here's the link to Callaham's product catalog.
Thanks Guys! Got it! I called Callaham and they said their jack plate was not made n the US and that my best bet was Fender...the rest of my stuff is Callaham.
I think I'm all set now...just waiting for my body and neck to arrive so I can get on with the build...
I think I'm all set now...just waiting for my body and neck to arrive so I can get on with the build...
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Perhaps DangerousR6 can make you one. I think in his neckplate thread the other day he was working on some.
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I'll second that. Gotoh stuff is top drawer.
Check it out here: http://www.japarts.ca/Gotoh/Gotoh-Accessories.asp
Check it out here: http://www.japarts.ca/Gotoh/Gotoh-Accessories.asp
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It's highly unlikely Fender has a stamping plant or a plating facility. Or, a casting/machining center, for that matter. It would be pretty far outside their core competency. They're not metalworkers. They're woodworkers with some finishing/assembly capacity.
Not many manufacturers of anything complex are what's called "vertically integrated". That is, capable of fabricating/manufacturing goods from raw materials. The Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) and Ford Motor Company are a couple examples of those that were (but no longer). They would import iron ore, coal, raw rubber, cotton, sand, oil, etc., to make steel, glass, fabric, power, etc. and turn it into cars. Most manufacturers have some skill or process they're good at, and get others to do a wide variety of things they're not.
In the case of jack plates, why should Fender buy a massive multi-million dollar stamping line and dedicate it to making one or two things? The line would run out of things to do in the first week it ran, and all that investment would sit there rotting for the next year or two until they ran out of plates again.
Not many manufacturers of anything complex are what's called "vertically integrated". That is, capable of fabricating/manufacturing goods from raw materials. The Bavarian Motor Works (BMW) and Ford Motor Company are a couple examples of those that were (but no longer). They would import iron ore, coal, raw rubber, cotton, sand, oil, etc., to make steel, glass, fabric, power, etc. and turn it into cars. Most manufacturers have some skill or process they're good at, and get others to do a wide variety of things they're not.
In the case of jack plates, why should Fender buy a massive multi-million dollar stamping line and dedicate it to making one or two things? The line would run out of things to do in the first week it ran, and all that investment would sit there rotting for the next year or two until they ran out of plates again.
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I have a ziplock full of knobs. Funny thing, though. There never seems to be the right number of the correct size. If I need two, there's one. If I need three, then, well... I just order more knobs. Last time I had the right number of the right size, they weren't the correct style and I wanted something different, anyway. I think there's a physical law about this phenomenon.
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Cagey said:
That indeed sounds dubious.
I think the best chance any of us have of made in anywhere is to go with the spirit of it. A lot of woods will not come from your home country etc etc.
When I was a kid growing up in the early 60s, my father would not allow any of those cheap things made in Hong Kong or China. Nowadays some of the classic brands have manufacturing outsourced there.
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Cagey said:
I know :laughing7:
Anyway, I admire the spirit of the OP but it probably is a difficult task to source everything from one point of origin.
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