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Rhett Shull and Tim Pierce publicly criticize Fender’s cease-and-desist strategy

Guitar World reported that Rhett Shull and Tim Pierce had publicly criticized Fender’s cease-and-desist strategy, turning the dispute into a wider player-and-community conversation and pushing the backlash into large guitar YouTube audiences.

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This note is one entry in the AltGuitar Legal Timeline — a chronological record of the Fender-style guitar-shape dispute, court rulings, cease-and-desist reports and market reactions. See the full timeline for the surrounding context.

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