Ive posted comments on this guy before banging on about special wiring and all sorts before, and how its all regular stuff found on deluxe and american standards. But this is a very cool wiring system that you dont get on regular strats with that "blend" control. Now thats Custom Shop thinking!
I made a Strat with this exact same wiring after seeding this video. It was so much fun. I used a real fat Xaviere neck which is wonderful and I had a custom made super super fat Tremolo block and arm made for me. If I had those pickups I would have something almost as good as this guitar. I love the weak pickups too since they're so super clean and smooth. I do like fat warm pickups though.
The larger headstock as a pronounced affect on tone. I love 'em having grown up with them, I had to get used to the sedate 50's look but I love those too now.
there were also some good guitars made during that era too. I get tired of this blanket statement that " all CBS guitars are crap", when the truth is some were crappy and some were awesome, just like any era. The CBS era just seemed to put out bad guitars more frequently, but there still were good ones made. There are 50 and 60s strats that are turds too, every guitar is different.
@YogiSizzle They really didn't get crappy till the 70's when they cheaped out on everything, such as the 1-piece cast bridges and junk like that. Most of the late 60's ones were similar the old ones, just with the bigger headstock.
@YogiSizzle The best-sounding 70's one I ever heard, was put together from factory second Charvel parts by this kid from Holland, who stuck a Gibson PAF in it. ;) It has a '58 Strat bridge, a brass nut and a birdseye neck. I wonder what happened to that dude! ;)
@DarthKazi That would of course be the one and only Eddie Van Halen. While I love the Frankenstein in its Red with Floyd form, the "Original Frank" rocked!
@TheMadMusicMan Yeah, if you look at the pics of it up close, the high E string is literally hanging off the edge of the fretboard. I have no idea how he played that thing, but he did and nobody has a claim to have rocked the guitar world like that since.
@DarthKazi That's ol Eddie's way of building. He knew where he wanted to get and got there. As he says himself, it's a chain. His hands, his axe and his amp plus whatever other stuff he threw in for effects. Music to everyone's ears.
I know it was 7 months ago, but I'd like to weigh in on some of the earlier comments made by macintosh magna and stardust. Magna mentioned Buddy Guy and Hendrix, how they played stock guitars. Well yeah. But nowadays, Buddy prefers to use his lace sensor pickups, and back then, Hendrix was constantly picking up new pedals too mess around with stuff. One of the most important things in finding your tone is experimenting, whether it's with different features or with pedals doesn't matter.
Well music is much more diverse than just Hendrix these days. Hendrix could've benefited from a humbucker here or there, sometimes his sound was too shrill. I like JH but there's a lot of other great players. Open your mind.
He did play humbuckers (occasionally and very rarely SG Customs, Flying V's and Les Pauls. What all these mods do is ruin the purity and classiness of Fender Stratocasters. Of course, that is just my opinion but history seems to be on my side when Buddy Holly, early Clapton, early Buddy Guy etc. played stock instruments. Strats back then only had 21 frets. These mods are unnecessary its too much. Get educated man, its not the strat, its the player!!!
Yeah and the player is me! I think you need to find your own playing. those guys were fine, but I don't want to sound like them, nor should you. I play a lot more styles than any of those guys and need a guitar that can keep up with that.
Dude, I don't wprship Hendrix or any guitar player for that matter. I just like to give credit when credit is due. You talk about styles but you fail to realize that Hendrix played mellow stuff like "Bold as Love", "1983" and "May This Be Love" & back to hard rock like "Voodoo Child (slight return)" and psychedelic in "3rd Stone from the Sun" & back to blues in "Red House" and "Voodoo Chile". He did this all with a standard strat with no mods. Now tell me that isn't versatile in styles???!!!!
Okay I guess Jeff Beck and Clapton don't know what real strats are since they choose to have 22 frets and different configurations. You should go tell them everyone must play the same strat!
Hendrix didn't chick'n pick, jazz, shred etc.. I need a guitar that cover much more than some 60's rock.
Ok, I will like to see you produce the body of work that Hendrix produced in 3 years. I mean, sure Clapton & Beck added that extra fret but since you think that their guitars are "better" do you think that their music is now "better"? Beck and Clapton have seen better days, they have even admitted this themselves, just look up the interviews on YouTube for evidence.
I'm a hobbyist and enthusiast, nothing more and nothing less. You need to educate yourself. You are not well versed in different types of music and instruments. I got a '62 Olympic White reissue strat merely for the beauty and historical significance of the instrument. You don't need more than a standard strat to make great music.
what the f*ck is wrong with wanting one more fret? and who are you to say that 22 frets are unnecessary or "too much"? who are you to say what is good or necessary to OTHER people?
hendrix played w/ 21 frets. good for him. other people want 22. what is wrong with that?
of course you dont need a specific guitar to sound/play good, but theres nothing wrong with wanting different neck shapes,more frets,different pickups,etc. wouldnt it be boring if everyone played _exactly_ the same guitar?
sure, the greats played stock instruments & amps etc. (& thus many of these products have now gained holy grail status) but you could argue that if they were contemporary musicians they would have had their stuff modified to suit (some still alive have)
a lot of these ridiculously priced vintage instruments/amps/effects have loads of drawbacks & are highly over-rated
I find it very amusing that Fender ofers so many guitars with modifications while arguably the best guitarist ever (Jimi Hendrix) played a stock Fender American Stratocaster. This is a clue that you don't need a guitar with mods to make great music. Hendrix played with a 3-way switch, standard pickups and those very thin vintage frets.
I've tried two of these models, and neither of them had the blend control like shown. Both tones just act like nomral tone controls. I talked to someone else and their HBS-1 was not wired correctly either.
I'm buying one, but need to know how to wire the blend control. Dealer couldn't help much.
I love this guitar
humbertoarroyogarcia 6 months ago
hehe their 2011 model is urethane WHAT THE FUCK
BayouBluesMan 8 months ago
Did you get 250Kohm or 500Kohm pots for this Strat ?
Thanks
whoisthenext1 8 months ago
some drive woulda been a great selling point genius
scittball 2 years ago
Ive posted comments on this guy before banging on about special wiring and all sorts before, and how its all regular stuff found on deluxe and american standards. But this is a very cool wiring system that you dont get on regular strats with that "blend" control. Now thats Custom Shop thinking!
davidrg1550 2 years ago
Yeah too complicated for me, I'll stick to my teles
birdmankustomz666 2 years ago
I guess Jimi Hendrix was a big asshole for not playing pre-CBS strats too huh?
Vince70 2 years ago
I wish!!!!
MrROTD 2 years ago
I made a Strat with this exact same wiring after seeding this video. It was so much fun. I used a real fat Xaviere neck which is wonderful and I had a custom made super super fat Tremolo block and arm made for me. If I had those pickups I would have something almost as good as this guitar. I love the weak pickups too since they're so super clean and smooth. I do like fat warm pickups though.
TheMadMusicMan 2 years ago
70s headstocks are cheesy. why does everyone love em? they were made during the dreaded CBS era where fender was at their crappiest.
PopExpo 2 years ago 3
The larger headstock as a pronounced affect on tone. I love 'em having grown up with them, I had to get used to the sedate 50's look but I love those too now.
3Deity 2 years ago
there were also some good guitars made during that era too. I get tired of this blanket statement that " all CBS guitars are crap", when the truth is some were crappy and some were awesome, just like any era. The CBS era just seemed to put out bad guitars more frequently, but there still were good ones made. There are 50 and 60s strats that are turds too, every guitar is different.
YogiSizzle 2 years ago 2
@YogiSizzle They really didn't get crappy till the 70's when they cheaped out on everything, such as the 1-piece cast bridges and junk like that. Most of the late 60's ones were similar the old ones, just with the bigger headstock.
DarthKazi 1 year ago
@DarthKazi Even so there are some phenomenal sounding/playing late 70s strats out there too
YogiSizzle 1 year ago
@YogiSizzle The best-sounding 70's one I ever heard, was put together from factory second Charvel parts by this kid from Holland, who stuck a Gibson PAF in it. ;) It has a '58 Strat bridge, a brass nut and a birdseye neck. I wonder what happened to that dude! ;)
DarthKazi 1 year ago
@DarthKazi That would of course be the one and only Eddie Van Halen. While I love the Frankenstein in its Red with Floyd form, the "Original Frank" rocked!
TheMadMusicMan 9 months ago
@TheMadMusicMan Yeah, if you look at the pics of it up close, the high E string is literally hanging off the edge of the fretboard. I have no idea how he played that thing, but he did and nobody has a claim to have rocked the guitar world like that since.
DarthKazi 9 months ago
@DarthKazi That's ol Eddie's way of building. He knew where he wanted to get and got there. As he says himself, it's a chain. His hands, his axe and his amp plus whatever other stuff he threw in for effects. Music to everyone's ears.
TheMadMusicMan 9 months ago
I wish he'd put some drive on to see how that guitar holds up.
XtwigsXx 2 years ago
The V-shaped neck is the most comfortable neck Fender makes. And they don't make many. I have one on my Baja Telecaster.
nelliethetele 2 years ago
Man, that guitar is sweet - it has a gazillion different sounds to explore and utilize.
Thistlesifter220 2 years ago
Looks nothing like CBS. The headstock changed in late '65 to the boat paddle.
StratMatt70 2 years ago
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TheMadMusicMan 2 years ago
pequeña!!!
betos5470 2 years ago
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Weak sounding, yes sir!
Don't like it, no sir!
and ugly colour, yes sir! Like 70's plastic house paint.. burr..
archicad6 2 years ago
that's a quite characteristic looking axe.
Pocketafro 2 years ago
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Why has nobody ever commented on how not very good he is at playing?
jojothemagichobo 2 years ago
I'm not into HSS Strats, or relic'd ones, but if you put them together I think they look really nice!
Just goes to show two wrongs make a right :P
sooperkula 3 years ago
i love this guitar, i want itit will be greater with a 70's headstock, some like the doug aldrick black strat
GusBounas 3 years ago
aldrich*
i't will be grear also to hear it with a great super lead marshall overdrive. they're not a SH4 down there to hear it clean
GusBounas 3 years ago
I know it was 7 months ago, but I'd like to weigh in on some of the earlier comments made by macintosh magna and stardust. Magna mentioned Buddy Guy and Hendrix, how they played stock guitars. Well yeah. But nowadays, Buddy prefers to use his lace sensor pickups, and back then, Hendrix was constantly picking up new pedals too mess around with stuff. One of the most important things in finding your tone is experimenting, whether it's with different features or with pedals doesn't matter.
meetmeattheshipment 3 years ago
ahhh
Siniscola14 3 years ago
the specs he talked about are not the same as on the custom shop website......?
murraypw 3 years ago
wish it had vintage tuners & 70's style headstock
rg2027x 3 years ago 2
Yeah, 70's head stocks are sexy...
Scarface066 3 years ago 3
i want this fender
spellboundsid17 3 years ago
Well music is much more diverse than just Hendrix these days. Hendrix could've benefited from a humbucker here or there, sometimes his sound was too shrill. I like JH but there's a lot of other great players. Open your mind.
buddastrat 3 years ago
He did play humbuckers (occasionally and very rarely SG Customs, Flying V's and Les Pauls. What all these mods do is ruin the purity and classiness of Fender Stratocasters. Of course, that is just my opinion but history seems to be on my side when Buddy Holly, early Clapton, early Buddy Guy etc. played stock instruments. Strats back then only had 21 frets. These mods are unnecessary its too much. Get educated man, its not the strat, its the player!!!
MacintoshMagna 3 years ago 2
Yeah and the player is me! I think you need to find your own playing. those guys were fine, but I don't want to sound like them, nor should you. I play a lot more styles than any of those guys and need a guitar that can keep up with that.
buddastrat 3 years ago
Dude, I don't wprship Hendrix or any guitar player for that matter. I just like to give credit when credit is due. You talk about styles but you fail to realize that Hendrix played mellow stuff like "Bold as Love", "1983" and "May This Be Love" & back to hard rock like "Voodoo Child (slight return)" and psychedelic in "3rd Stone from the Sun" & back to blues in "Red House" and "Voodoo Chile". He did this all with a standard strat with no mods. Now tell me that isn't versatile in styles???!!!!
MacintoshMagna 3 years ago 2
Okay I guess Jeff Beck and Clapton don't know what real strats are since they choose to have 22 frets and different configurations. You should go tell them everyone must play the same strat!
Hendrix didn't chick'n pick, jazz, shred etc.. I need a guitar that cover much more than some 60's rock.
buddastrat 3 years ago
Ok, I will like to see you produce the body of work that Hendrix produced in 3 years. I mean, sure Clapton & Beck added that extra fret but since you think that their guitars are "better" do you think that their music is now "better"? Beck and Clapton have seen better days, they have even admitted this themselves, just look up the interviews on YouTube for evidence.
MacintoshMagna 3 years ago 3
Ha, okay. Get a clue. Can you even play?
buddastrat 3 years ago
I'm a hobbyist and enthusiast, nothing more and nothing less. You need to educate yourself. You are not well versed in different types of music and instruments. I got a '62 Olympic White reissue strat merely for the beauty and historical significance of the instrument. You don't need more than a standard strat to make great music.
MacintoshMagna 3 years ago
what the f*ck is wrong with wanting one more fret? and who are you to say that 22 frets are unnecessary or "too much"? who are you to say what is good or necessary to OTHER people?
hendrix played w/ 21 frets. good for him. other people want 22. what is wrong with that?
of course you dont need a specific guitar to sound/play good, but theres nothing wrong with wanting different neck shapes,more frets,different pickups,etc. wouldnt it be boring if everyone played _exactly_ the same guitar?
StardustRevolutionX 3 years ago 14
I have to agree with StardustRevolutionX here
sure, the greats played stock instruments & amps etc. (& thus many of these products have now gained holy grail status) but you could argue that if they were contemporary musicians they would have had their stuff modified to suit (some still alive have)
a lot of these ridiculously priced vintage instruments/amps/effects have loads of drawbacks & are highly over-rated
I want to make new sounds, be individual
not harbour on yester-year
discotechwreck 3 years ago
well said
robszymbor 3 years ago
I find it very amusing that Fender ofers so many guitars with modifications while arguably the best guitarist ever (Jimi Hendrix) played a stock Fender American Stratocaster. This is a clue that you don't need a guitar with mods to make great music. Hendrix played with a 3-way switch, standard pickups and those very thin vintage frets.
MacintoshMagna 3 years ago
I've tried two of these models, and neither of them had the blend control like shown. Both tones just act like nomral tone controls. I talked to someone else and their HBS-1 was not wired correctly either.
I'm buying one, but need to know how to wire the blend control. Dealer couldn't help much.
Sweet guitars otherwise.
buddastrat 3 years ago
they should have put a 69 headstock on it.
weavzy 3 years ago 7
yeah..
rg2027x 3 years ago
never mind robot guitars. these kind of small details are the future for me, personally :)
Tusen1000Tusen 3 years ago 3
Love the idea sounds pretty good!
Lahn67 3 years ago
the best!!!!!
pabloxica 3 years ago