guitargourmet
08-22-2009, 09:27 AM
Good morning folks,
I was just writing a little story about Ulrich in my new blog and thought, "Hey", y'all might like to hear part of the story. Now, I don't want to bore anybody, but to me there is nothing better than some insider information of what is happening in the guitar world.
A couple of years ago Ulrich Teuffel started a top-secret collaboration with Fender Guitars. He told me about it and asked my opinion and made me swear by the neck of my favorite guitar that I would not tell anybody about it. I did swear, I sold the guitar in the meantime and I guess today I can at least talk about some of the circumstances.
Let me simply call it the “under-cover” project… The plan was to release a new affordable custom electric guitar which is a mix of a lifstyle item and an electric guitar. I met x, the president of the Fender R&D department at the Frankfurt MusikMesse in 2005, he came personally to our booth and purchased two GG DVD's Vol1 (the one with Teuffel on it). One for himself and one for the board. We had a long talk and he stated several times that everybody at Fender Inc. belietypoves that – if there is a new Leo Fender – it truly has to be Ulrich Teuffel. I was pretty impressed.
What happened to that project? Who knows. Maybe it got stuck in the “hoe-zone” of beaurocracy. I assume it is like this super secret airforce Aurora fighter plane project. Nobody has ever seen it, but everybody believes that it exists. I have held a prototype in my own hands. I know it exists. I am a true believer. I even have a photograph with my little two year old daughter and the prototype. Let me tell you - I pulled every trick to buy that hand-made prototype. There was no way.
I still love the idea and the concept of this guitar. And as well as I know Ulrich, he is the guy to eventually pull it off! Go, Ulrich!
Y'all have a great Saturday,
Cheers
Holger
BTW The second part of the Teuffel story is uploaded on the Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDVoEl8uDy0
I was just writing a little story about Ulrich in my new blog and thought, "Hey", y'all might like to hear part of the story. Now, I don't want to bore anybody, but to me there is nothing better than some insider information of what is happening in the guitar world.
A couple of years ago Ulrich Teuffel started a top-secret collaboration with Fender Guitars. He told me about it and asked my opinion and made me swear by the neck of my favorite guitar that I would not tell anybody about it. I did swear, I sold the guitar in the meantime and I guess today I can at least talk about some of the circumstances.
Let me simply call it the “under-cover” project… The plan was to release a new affordable custom electric guitar which is a mix of a lifstyle item and an electric guitar. I met x, the president of the Fender R&D department at the Frankfurt MusikMesse in 2005, he came personally to our booth and purchased two GG DVD's Vol1 (the one with Teuffel on it). One for himself and one for the board. We had a long talk and he stated several times that everybody at Fender Inc. belietypoves that – if there is a new Leo Fender – it truly has to be Ulrich Teuffel. I was pretty impressed.
What happened to that project? Who knows. Maybe it got stuck in the “hoe-zone” of beaurocracy. I assume it is like this super secret airforce Aurora fighter plane project. Nobody has ever seen it, but everybody believes that it exists. I have held a prototype in my own hands. I know it exists. I am a true believer. I even have a photograph with my little two year old daughter and the prototype. Let me tell you - I pulled every trick to buy that hand-made prototype. There was no way.
I still love the idea and the concept of this guitar. And as well as I know Ulrich, he is the guy to eventually pull it off! Go, Ulrich!
Y'all have a great Saturday,
Cheers
Holger
BTW The second part of the Teuffel story is uploaded on the Tube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDVoEl8uDy0