# Blotnik
> The luxury collector platform for Fender Custom Shop guitars
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## Pages
- [About](https://www.blotnik.net/about.md) - Błotnik is the Polish word for fender — the mudguard on a bicycle or automobile. It's also where the name of the most iconic guitar brand in history comes from. That's the etymology. This is the publication. Błotnik starts there. Fender Custom Shop guitars occupy a specific and serious corner of th…
- [Phillip Gajewski](https://www.blotnik.net/authors.md) - Phil Gajewski is an insurance executive by day and a Fender Custom Shop collector the rest of the time. He lives in Michigan, where he writes about his Fender guitar collection with the same attention to detail he brings to his work — which is to say, obsessively. Błotnik is where that obsession li…
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## Posts
- [Decoding Fender Custom Shop Serial Numbers: What They Tell You, and What They Don't](https://www.blotnik.net/decoding-fender-custom-shop-serial-numbers-what-they-tell-you-and-what-they-dont.md) - When purchasing a Fender Custom Shop (new or used), how much emphasis should one place on the serial number? Serial numbers on Fender Custom Shop guitars are at best confusing, and at worst misleading. In many instances, the serial number may not really tell an owner much valuable information. Ther…
- [The Unicorn: The Guitar that Shouldn't Exist.](https://www.blotnik.net/the-unicorn-the-guitar-that-shouldnt-exist.md) - "A Fender Custom Shop '63 wearing a maple fretboard — the one spec a '63 isn't supposed to have. A year of chasing, two misses, and the rule I paid to learn: never balk."
- [Some Assembly (and Mischief) Required.](https://www.blotnik.net/some-assembly-and-mischief-required.md) - "Hendrix started it. Ian Moore and a Sling Blade cameo kept it going. A kid named Gary Vann with a Squier Bullet sealed the deal. This is the story of how a strat with a tele neck became an obsession — and the Custom Shop guitar I finally chased down."
- [Two Blondes are Better Than One.](https://www.blotnik.net/two-blondes-are-better-than-one.md) - "I couldn't decide between two blonde Telecasters, so I didn't. Here's what happens when you buy both..."
- [The Cookie Monster and Breaking My Own Rules.](https://www.blotnik.net/the-cookie-monster-and-breaking-my-own-rules.md) - A Guitar Center used-market cautionary tale — hacked body cavity, a roasted neck too good to return, and a nickname that stuck.
- [Patience, Cash, and a Police Station: Chasing FCS NAMM Editions.](https://www.blotnik.net/patience-cash-and-a-police-station-chasing-fcs-namm-editions.md) - I've never been invited to the Fender Custom Shop's annual NAMM showcase. Chances are, you haven’t either. The event is dealer-invite only, held behind closed doors somewhere inside the Anaheim Convention Center each January. For the rest of us, it exists mostly through a handful of photos, videos,…
- [Vintage Reissues: The Gateway to the Custom Shop](https://www.blotnik.net/vintage-reissues-the-gateway-to-the-custom-shop.md) - The Vintage Reissue series was essentially Fender's first serious attempt to rediscover its roots, and reproduce its golden-era instruments from the fifties and sixties. That effort helped form the culture, expertise, and customer demand that eventually led to the founding of the Fender Custom Shop.
- [Annie, Are You Okay? The 70th Anniversary 54 Strat.](https://www.blotnik.net/annie-are-you-okay-the-70th-anniversary-54-strat-2.md) - The Fender Custom Shop 70th Anniversary 1954 Stratocaster arrived with one of the most convincing relic jobs the shop has ever produced — and a soft V neck so good it's impossible to put down. A collector's account of three of them.

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