219- Fender Just Started a WAR… Are Basses Next?

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🗓️ 29 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Fender just lit the gear world on fire. Scott and Ian dive into the backlash surrounding Fender's cease-and-desist letters, why builders across Europe are furious, and what this could mean for some of the most iconic guitar and bass shapes ever made. Is Fender protecting its legacy, or creating a PR nightmare?

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0:00.0	A Fender coming for the jazz bass?
0:02.3	Oh my God.
0:03.3	Has that been on your mind over the last few weeks?
0:05.7	Of course.
0:06.8	Yeah.
0:07.2	Of course it is.
0:08.3	By the way, these aren't fenders.
0:09.8	What are they?
0:11.0	They're lulls.
0:12.1	They're lulls.
0:12.8	Now, luckily for Spencer Lull, he's in the US,
0:15.3	but unless you've been living under a rock,
0:18.1	you've been hearing about what's been going on with Fender over the last,
0:21.7	is it two, three weeks or something now? Basically, they've sent out a bunch of cease and desist
0:26.5	letters out to makers in Europe that have been making strat-style bodies for their instruments.
0:35.5	They've sent them out with a cease and desist,
0:44.4	asking them to settle and also asking them to destroy inventory.
0:46.3	They've been reaching out to people like Toman,
0:51.4	asking them to destroy inventory of style instruments that aren't,
0:53.2	that haven't been built by a fender.
0:56.5	So it's the, I guess, that my take on it so far is that there's sort of like outrage Rhett Rett Scholl he's done videos on it Tim Pierce
1:03.9	I think every guitar I mean YouTube under the Sun my dad even thought about becoming like a guitar
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