This guitar is just an American Deluxe Strat with Sperzel tuners and an ugly ass 70's headstock for 3 grand! FUCK THE CUSTOM SHOP! Everything they sell is a fucking rip off! Just get an American deluxe for $1,500.00 less and be done with it! Also, if you're dying for the Sperzels just spend 80 bucks and put them on yourself! This is from the same group of dumbasses who think"Relic"/beating the shit out of it,baking it and burning it impoves it and justifies a price hike. FUCK EM"!
The volume is way too low on this video. Also, a 70's headstock is NOT retro. A 50's or 60's IS. Also the 70's is the fuckin' ugliest Fender offers! FUCK THE 70'S!!! Also, when will Fender get it's head out of it's ass and make stanless steel frets standard on all their guitars along with a zero fret and brass nut at the top? This would be the cheapest upgrade to improve the oveall playability and sound of every guitar produced! You would have killer sustain, tone, tuning and durability!
This mans playing is just fucking pathetic. Not sure how, but this man makes an amazing instrument sound like a goddamn squire!
Stick it through a Hot Rod Deluxe and get a decent player! Just because this assholes high up on the food chain doesn't mean he should be demoing an instrument he clearly can't handle.
fender needs to start putting the full size vintage bridge blocks on the two point bridges. I got rid of the crappy cast metal block out of my 08 american standard and put a callaham %100 cold rolled steal bridge block in it and it improved the tone and sustain so much . really took the blanket off the guitar. plus it holds the whammy bar alot better with no play.
You can hear a huge difference from one strat to another. They do not all sound alike at all. Probably vary more than any other type of guitar. They have such unique personalities.
@Hugh9 sure. i can tell the sound of my highway one strat from an original strat. noiseless from standard pickups, mexican from american, reverse phase from non reverse. really i think only ppl who play on strats can tell each kind of strat apart. i can also easily tell any maple fretboard from a rosewood and usually i can name the pickup position being used as well.
they have one of these used at Guitar Center for 1200 dollars....It really has a FAT C neck for sure i was not that impressed..for a custom shop strat i would think it would play like butter.....price wise not bad and it looks great just very hard to play for me.....must have been the Fat neck.....
Ive seen this guy in all the Fender vids and to be honnest hes banging on about all these "custom features" (wiring etc). all of them can be found on either an American Standard or an American Deluxe. Nothing really "custom" save for much higher build quality and materials. My mates 50th anniversary model has most of them and i'd bet its over a grand cheaper.
These are the features on the Strat Pro not on the other Strats you mentioned:
the beveled heel, LSR locking roller nut, staggered locking Sperzel tuners, '70s headstock, 12-inch neck radius, Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups, pop-in tremolo arm, 6105 frets, and bridge-pickup tone-control. You are hammering on about "all" of these features being available on the american-factory models when in fact not a single one of these features is available on those models. So your dumb.
I like Vintage trem too, but they're trying to reach a broader market so this combination of parts helps. The noisless pickups are good for many styles and a two point trem has mor range for people needing that.
I could see how the noiseless pickups would appeal to some people, but man I can't stand them. The SCN's were an improvement, but they still sound artificial compared to a true (but noisy) single coil.
They look, and feel far better. Yes the tone is subjective to taste, but when you are spending three thousand dollars on a custom shop fender, you should be getting a far more comfortable instrument with a set neck and a beautiful look. I have both though and the Strat is by no means a bad instrument, but it isn't quite as nice as the Gibson.
All these mods can be done your self. I have locking staggard tuners, LSR Roller nut, 22 medium jumbo frets, custom pickups, tone knob wired, big 70s headstock. I did change to a vintage 6-stud bridge, it sounds better due to more contact to the body. Look at a lot of great Strat players, most use 6-stud. What I am saying is this guitar is too high priced...
the neck is stronger, because of the allignment of the grain of the wood. A neck needs to be strong so it won't bend because of the string tension. A body won't bend that easily.
you're true for the neck, in fact I ment one piece bodies in stead of 3 pieces and quatersawn necks would be much better for the resonance of the whole guitar. the quatersawn body would stay better in time, and it is a garanty for god inside vibrations
The quality of the wood matters more than the amount of pieces. If you have one piece bad tonewood that won't sound as good as a 2- or even 3-piece body with good tonewood. The best you can get is ofc a good 1-piece
that sound is awesomely amazing, im looking for those slim body strats and the small head stocks, damn what i only get here are fat ones and those big heads. I have a a bullet squier, with a slim body which imo is very great, just need to change pickups, what pickups are good?
Just my comments from 30 years of playing Gibson and Fender. I bought a white pro same as the guy in the vid, only mine's got rosewood board which I prefer. OK I'll come to the point, this is the best tone I have ever got from a Strat and I've played 60's strats. It has a depth of tone I can't get out of any other strat and keeps in perfect tune. This is an extremely versatile guitar, you'd have a hard job trying to mod a Stantard Strat to beat this.
This guy is rediculous. Everything is "based on one I own". This Guitar is a joke. You can do these mods yourself. It might cost some money but will still be less than you'll pay for this thing. Plus you have the fun of working on your guitar.
Appears that Fender may have stopped making the Strat Pro with the 'Closet' finish - it was replaced with a Relic -only version. Too bad...this guitar hits a sweet spot for looks/features.
It's more than your normal stock Strat. There are a lot of little features that make it more comfortable, it stays in tune a hell of a lot better than a standard, but the SCM pups are lame. I love mine. The fact is with musical instruments, the more you spend the better quality you get (except Gibson!). And to "It's a fuckin Strat" guy, it maybe just a Strat to you, but it's probably because you couldn't tell the difference, in sound, between a Jay Turser Tele and a fart in a cooking pot.
It's a fuckin Strat - that's all! Jesus - what a load of fuckin inarticulate gobshite. "It's really cool" - tells us nothing. The only thing it has that my old Strat hasn't is a slightly different pickup arrangement. Mine's ancient but looks better and sounds better than this anaemic effort. Fender are in a cleft stick - on the one hand they need to maintain sales with 'new' models but are known for their classic guitars so cannot deviate from their winning formula. Better still get a Tele!
What is a Stratocaster Custom Shop Classic Pro one-off? This has a silver imbedded Fender name logo on the headstock. Instead of decal. VERY COOL. No vampires seen at all this past Holloween.
nope just a usa standard strat. still pretty awesome. might buy scns to puts in it. actually this guitar is very similar to the usa deluxe guitars. the cs guitars are over priced. even though my standard strat its a 'mass produced' instrument, it means soooo much to me. u dont need to spend £2000 for it to be special
i have a strat pro, it's the best guitar that i've ever played. i payed $1400 for mine but it was during a 40% off Fender sale at the local music shop. i.got in january 2007 so it's a 2006 model. it doesn't have a skunk stripe on the neck and it's only 21 frets. it's arctic white with maple fretboard just like the one in the video. the reason i got it was for the nitrocellulose finish and all the new mods, which usa std's don't have. i have a usa std and they all have a polyurethane finish : /
I have an original '73 Fender Strat from new... the advent of Youtube has meant I can listen to a thousand Strats (very few or none the same spec as mine tho'). But this is the first to have the tonal characteristics of mine... Cool! But I have recently bought a Chinese copy (with trem) and it has some of these tones too and is highly playable... and was only £46 new! Between the two, I have a good range of tonal colour... So, won't be buying this one Mike - but thanks for the hard sell!
No offense guys, but you could custom build a guitar like this with better pups, a compound radius neck, and prettier woods for a lot less than this costs.
I have this axe on order now , taking me 6 months for them to make it . Its going to be black w white pg . I suppose it will look similar to Gilmour's in live @ Pompeii . This guitar looks really good to me after shopping hard for 6 months , almost went Charvel or Ernie Ball but came back to the Strat .
why do you you have to spend 3k to get a decent gibson. this is an overpriced one a bit but you can get an amazing fender for less than 1k used and american.
this would be the Strat Hendrix would play if he was alive today. LSR nut & trem to do his thing without going out of tune. I wouldn't mind playing one of these..
I find it very amusing that Fender ofers so many guitar 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 can get from point A to B on a bicycle but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like a motorcycle. If Hendrix were alive today he might be playing a Jackson with a Floyd Rose. It's all good. I'm glad we can pick and choose.
you nailed it Dave , I can promise you Hendrix would be playing something like this at the very least but I would bet your right in that he would even be off the reservation playing a Jackson or something comparable . I am an 80s & 90s hard rocker used to the Charvel/BC Rich stuff and this guitar actually perks my interest . Shame they only make it with that knocked around closet finish . WTF is that about , I don't want a 2k axe with dings in it . . .
This gets into the argument that pre-CBS Strats were high quality stuff, Custom Shop material before Fender watered down its product line, if you will. A good player will make most guitars sound great. What is interesting to me is that so many ppl demand a Hendrix tone, or an SRV overwound sound; think about playing a Strat before Hendrix, before you had an idea of what it's "supposed" to sound like. It's cool if you want a certain sound, but remember that it's originality that counts most...
true but the fenders from the 70s, 60s, and 50s were made with MUCH better quality it seems that ever since the 80s marshall, fender, and gibsons quality control has gone down...
The 70's post CBS strats were terrible guitars... the late +0's and 00's ones are far superior. I have a jeff beck strat which is very much like the Pro being demo'd, but with even better, dual coil pickups! Apart from the finger board and maple fingerboard and large headstock theyre the same.
I just got the pro strat (same color and neck as in the vid. Its a great playing guitar!!!
The pickups are great and its such a versatile instrument. The Sperzel locking tunner heads are great I've had no problems with the tuning, and the roller nut is great when using the trem. I can get the action very very low and it does not choke, if you dont have one get one!!!
got one of these too dude. mine actually slips out of tune sometimes. but this IS the BEST strat ive ever played, i dont really like the pickups. i only like that they are noisless, they dont have that vintage sound. im thinking of putting in sheptone AB customs
Very cool guys. Thanks for the Olympic or even more white on this. Bigger headstock from the 70's huh? What's your opinion on 70's strats, btw? They seem to be climing in value even after being snubbed for so many years.
I've tried some of the Fender Mexican made vintage reissue 70's Strats and the Mexican made '70's Strats were better made than the American made ones from the '70's. They play great and it's a good way to get an ash bodied Strat without paying a lot of money for them.
The big problem with the original '70's Strats was the neck pocket q.c. wasn't very good and they creaked while you played them and their electronics were sub par.
With MIM reissues drop in some better pickups and rock it!
Just because someone can't tell the difference, does not mean there isn't any.
For who play these custom shop guitars there is a difference to standard and deluxe.
They play and feel different, most experienced players will tell the difference.
And playing it in a shop or watching a video is not the way to really judge any guitar.
MusicNet01 1 month ago in playlist Liked videos
He says "There's a lot going on with this guitar" on every custom shop guitar video lol.
Deadrops 6 months ago
can anyone find the year of my customshop strat serial number Z8232826
ysporsche 7 months ago
@ysporsche write email to Fender, you can find it on their webside... I did for my strat too :)
sucoblues 7 months ago
@ysporsche "Z" = 2000 "8" = 8, sor the date is 2008
MusicNet01 1 month ago
just a point to make, i have this strat and it is dated 11/06 ? does he actually know when fender made em ?
19501960 7 months ago
@19501960 guessing since it is american, in our ate it would be 06/11, so it was maybe made this year?
cerealboxcar 7 months ago
This guitar is just an American Deluxe Strat with Sperzel tuners and an ugly ass 70's headstock for 3 grand! FUCK THE CUSTOM SHOP! Everything they sell is a fucking rip off! Just get an American deluxe for $1,500.00 less and be done with it! Also, if you're dying for the Sperzels just spend 80 bucks and put them on yourself! This is from the same group of dumbasses who think"Relic"/beating the shit out of it,baking it and burning it impoves it and justifies a price hike. FUCK EM"!
Xcorgi 8 months ago 6
@Xcorgi You need a date dude.
Deadrops 6 months ago
The volume is way too low on this video. Also, a 70's headstock is NOT retro. A 50's or 60's IS. Also the 70's is the fuckin' ugliest Fender offers! FUCK THE 70'S!!! Also, when will Fender get it's head out of it's ass and make stanless steel frets standard on all their guitars along with a zero fret and brass nut at the top? This would be the cheapest upgrade to improve the oveall playability and sound of every guitar produced! You would have killer sustain, tone, tuning and durability!
Xcorgi 8 months ago
Roller nut is a great idea.
esgatch 8 months ago
This mans playing is just fucking pathetic. Not sure how, but this man makes an amazing instrument sound like a goddamn squire!
Stick it through a Hot Rod Deluxe and get a decent player! Just because this assholes high up on the food chain doesn't mean he should be demoing an instrument he clearly can't handle.
Carthsgtr 8 months ago
so, it's basically a Jeff Beck model...
superflea72 11 months ago
@superflea72 basically yeah
annabatarowicz 6 months ago
@annabatarowicz yeah, I had one (a Jeff Beck) a few years ago which is why this seems funny/pointless to me.
great guitar too (the Beck).
superflea72 6 months ago
fender needs to start putting the full size vintage bridge blocks on the two point bridges. I got rid of the crappy cast metal block out of my 08 american standard and put a callaham %100 cold rolled steal bridge block in it and it improved the tone and sustain so much . really took the blanket off the guitar. plus it holds the whammy bar alot better with no play.
PopExpo 1 year ago
All strats sound like strats. It's a very simple design which hasnt changed over 50 years. Can you tell by listening one strat from another?
Hugh9 1 year ago
You can hear a huge difference from one strat to another. They do not all sound alike at all. Probably vary more than any other type of guitar. They have such unique personalities.
stratthead 1 year ago
@Hugh9 sure. i can tell the sound of my highway one strat from an original strat. noiseless from standard pickups, mexican from american, reverse phase from non reverse. really i think only ppl who play on strats can tell each kind of strat apart. i can also easily tell any maple fretboard from a rosewood and usually i can name the pickup position being used as well.
ciano15 1 year ago
Anyone knows if this one is routed for H-S-H config? Thanks.
Juaniguitarra86 1 year ago
Those "features" on a G&L Legacy are STANDARD.
surfco 1 year ago
they have one of these used at Guitar Center for 1200 dollars....It really has a FAT C neck for sure i was not that impressed..for a custom shop strat i would think it would play like butter.....price wise not bad and it looks great just very hard to play for me.....must have been the Fat neck.....
DumpsterDog77 1 year ago
Ive seen this guy in all the Fender vids and to be honnest hes banging on about all these "custom features" (wiring etc). all of them can be found on either an American Standard or an American Deluxe. Nothing really "custom" save for much higher build quality and materials. My mates 50th anniversary model has most of them and i'd bet its over a grand cheaper.
davidrg1550 1 year ago
@davidrg1550
These are the features on the Strat Pro not on the other Strats you mentioned:
the beveled heel, LSR locking roller nut, staggered locking Sperzel tuners, '70s headstock, 12-inch neck radius, Samarium Cobalt Noiseless pickups, pop-in tremolo arm, 6105 frets, and bridge-pickup tone-control. You are hammering on about "all" of these features being available on the american-factory models when in fact not a single one of these features is available on those models. So your dumb.
JamesNiskyMusic 1 year ago
With a push-push tone pot on it to add the neck pickup, and with the middle tone as a master tone on all pickups - this could be perfect!
dirckson 2 years ago
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dirckson 2 years ago
Looks real nice but Id change the bridge pick up then itd be perfect for me.
MrROTD 2 years ago
Sounds like the perfect Strat to me. I need one !!!
Fab13 2 years ago
how can I buy this guitar??
ckitarman 2 years ago
dove posso trovare questa chitarra????
ckitarman 2 years ago
Man, one of these with the vintage trem and different pick ups would be the tits!!
Twistchawa 2 years ago
I like Vintage trem too, but they're trying to reach a broader market so this combination of parts helps. The noisless pickups are good for many styles and a two point trem has mor range for people needing that.
TheMadMusicMan 2 years ago
I could see how the noiseless pickups would appeal to some people, but man I can't stand them. The SCN's were an improvement, but they still sound artificial compared to a true (but noisy) single coil.
Twistchawa 2 years ago
Les Pauls are "different". Not better. You just gave away your age.
ericld11 2 years ago 39
@ericld11
They look, and feel far better. Yes the tone is subjective to taste, but when you are spending three thousand dollars on a custom shop fender, you should be getting a far more comfortable instrument with a set neck and a beautiful look. I have both though and the Strat is by no means a bad instrument, but it isn't quite as nice as the Gibson.
Carthsgtr 1 year ago
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les pauls are better
JamieKB12 2 years ago
3:22
Dude, that was awesome!
EJRocky 2 years ago 3
I just bought one of these one ebay....nicest playing and sounding Strat I've ever had...the Custom shop guitars ARE better!
Mearas1 2 years ago
All of these guitars he's showing are his favourite...
DaanJM 2 years ago
hahaha. hes like,
"And this one is my personall favorite".
guns1rose 2 years ago
Yeah on almost every guitar he's showing in these videos, lol.
DaanJM 2 years ago
1107, when you started making them? haha then why is mine 1106...........
kristofferpence 2 years ago
All these mods can be done your self. I have locking staggard tuners, LSR Roller nut, 22 medium jumbo frets, custom pickups, tone knob wired, big 70s headstock. I did change to a vintage 6-stud bridge, it sounds better due to more contact to the body. Look at a lot of great Strat players, most use 6-stud. What I am saying is this guitar is too high priced...
TheMadMusicMan 2 years ago
this is basically the stratocaster deluxe.
PopExpo 2 years ago
Yes, but you get the nice price of a Custom Shop, lol.
TheMadMusicMan 2 years ago
Yeah you're right, same bridge, same pickups, locking tuners, LSR roller nut (only on the Deluxe HSS though), neck heel cutaway, straplocks...
DaanJM 2 years ago
i don't understand... what model is this??
davidtheguitarman 2 years ago
Strat Pro
Thistlesifter220 2 years ago
when will we have some one piece quatersawned bodies??
CamilleJacob 2 years ago
What's the point of a quartersawn body?
DaanJM 2 years ago
one piece bodies ofer better resonnance, the quality of tone wood as decreased whithin last decades of the fender industry
CamilleJacob 2 years ago
But a quartersawn neck just means that that
DaanJM 2 years ago
the neck is stronger, because of the allignment of the grain of the wood. A neck needs to be strong so it won't bend because of the string tension. A body won't bend that easily.
DaanJM 2 years ago
you're true for the neck, in fact I ment one piece bodies in stead of 3 pieces and quatersawn necks would be much better for the resonance of the whole guitar. the quatersawn body would stay better in time, and it is a garanty for god inside vibrations
CamilleJacob 2 years ago
The quality of the wood matters more than the amount of pieces. If you have one piece bad tonewood that won't sound as good as a 2- or even 3-piece body with good tonewood. The best you can get is ofc a good 1-piece
AlmigthyIsDead 2 years ago
for sure! but as we wish the custom shop to be at the top of electric guitar conception, this last option should be systematic, 3 is too much...
CamilleJacob 2 years ago
what about the wood??
CamilleJacob 2 years ago
Any ideas what amp he's playing through? DRRI?
qazwsxedcrsgbyhnuj 2 years ago
that sound is awesomely amazing, im looking for those slim body strats and the small head stocks, damn what i only get here are fat ones and those big heads. I have a a bullet squier, with a slim body which imo is very great, just need to change pickups, what pickups are good?
amangonecrazy 2 years ago
either look at seymour duncan or Sheptone AB custom set. theres videos of the sheptones and Brian Kahanek here on youtube. theyre fantastic pickups
kristofferpence 2 years ago
I like when he says...now there's a feature right there...modified wiring....
; D
theshyguitarist 2 years ago
It sounds to me that this guitar is almost the same as an american deluxe strat. I like american deluxe strats.
stratsnpauls 2 years ago
Personally I think it's a bit better, and the neck has a more "satin" feel to it.
It's hard to explain, but the custom classics & custom pro models have that something extra.
As always it's personal choice, but they're worth a try if they're in your budget.
MusicNet01 2 years ago
sounds cool, worth giving a try
stratsnpauls 2 years ago
These guitar are great. Modern features with a classic strat sound, and ability to turn up the overdrive/distortion.
Both these and the custom classics are much better than US series.
MusicNet01 2 years ago
Just my comments from 30 years of playing Gibson and Fender. I bought a white pro same as the guy in the vid, only mine's got rosewood board which I prefer. OK I'll come to the point, this is the best tone I have ever got from a Strat and I've played 60's strats. It has a depth of tone I can't get out of any other strat and keeps in perfect tune. This is an extremely versatile guitar, you'd have a hard job trying to mod a Stantard Strat to beat this.
19501960 2 years ago
This guy is rediculous. Everything is "based on one I own". This Guitar is a joke. You can do these mods yourself. It might cost some money but will still be less than you'll pay for this thing. Plus you have the fun of working on your guitar.
TheMadMusicMan 2 years ago
does anyone know of any roller nuts? brandwise i mean
29396 2 years ago
lsr is the brand name of the nut on this guitar
carty1995 2 years ago
Appears that Fender may have stopped making the Strat Pro with the 'Closet' finish - it was replaced with a Relic -only version. Too bad...this guitar hits a sweet spot for looks/features.
RVJRFL 2 years ago
It's more than your normal stock Strat. There are a lot of little features that make it more comfortable, it stays in tune a hell of a lot better than a standard, but the SCM pups are lame. I love mine. The fact is with musical instruments, the more you spend the better quality you get (except Gibson!). And to "It's a fuckin Strat" guy, it maybe just a Strat to you, but it's probably because you couldn't tell the difference, in sound, between a Jay Turser Tele and a fart in a cooking pot.
bradmann11 2 years ago 2
Custom's are still expensive though...
29396 2 years ago
It's a fuckin Strat - that's all! Jesus - what a load of fuckin inarticulate gobshite. "It's really cool" - tells us nothing. The only thing it has that my old Strat hasn't is a slightly different pickup arrangement. Mine's ancient but looks better and sounds better than this anaemic effort. Fender are in a cleft stick - on the one hand they need to maintain sales with 'new' models but are known for their classic guitars so cannot deviate from their winning formula. Better still get a Tele!
zthetha 2 years ago
That's what I was thinking. It's exactly the fucking same! If he was playing the same stuff on a normal Strat it would sound no different.
Michaelfender 2 years ago
i have two save about a year and a half two get one but i will i just cant wait :)
RoosonProductions 2 years ago
Another one of his"personal favourites"...what a shock.
nookie077 2 years ago 9
This is just a Hybrid model
guitarpepper 2 years ago
5:33 no binding at the nuts
houndz11 2 years ago
stratocaster i have one they rock brill no problems ever
pureownrs 3 years ago
just get 1 guitar and learn to play it, maybe buy a better one in 10 years
sourmanofcoal 3 years ago 2
i want one
glennish1972 3 years ago
I hope it doesnt cost me one month of salary...
ctyuang 3 years ago
I'm really digging that roller nut, I'm gonna look into these some more. Very classy looking guitar, vintage tone and killer mods.
TheBlackCrayon77 3 years ago
how much is this? is it sill available in guitar center?
mikostratocaster 3 years ago
What is a Stratocaster Custom Shop Classic Pro one-off? This has a silver imbedded Fender name logo on the headstock. Instead of decal. VERY COOL. No vampires seen at all this past Holloween.
Marseglia12345 3 years ago
Damn that is one GREAT guitar! I love Fenders! I have a Squire, it's okay, but someday I want a real Fender Strat :]
jimihendrixfan2008 3 years ago
i got one!!
tcrangle963 3 years ago
You mean you got a strat pro??? how much you got that?
ctyuang 3 years ago
nope just a usa standard strat. still pretty awesome. might buy scns to puts in it. actually this guitar is very similar to the usa deluxe guitars. the cs guitars are over priced. even though my standard strat its a 'mass produced' instrument, it means soooo much to me. u dont need to spend £2000 for it to be special
tcrangle963 3 years ago
i have a strat pro, it's the best guitar that i've ever played. i payed $1400 for mine but it was during a 40% off Fender sale at the local music shop. i.got in january 2007 so it's a 2006 model. it doesn't have a skunk stripe on the neck and it's only 21 frets. it's arctic white with maple fretboard just like the one in the video. the reason i got it was for the nitrocellulose finish and all the new mods, which usa std's don't have. i have a usa std and they all have a polyurethane finish : /
what519 2 years ago
I have an original '73 Fender Strat from new... the advent of Youtube has meant I can listen to a thousand Strats (very few or none the same spec as mine tho'). But this is the first to have the tonal characteristics of mine... Cool! But I have recently bought a Chinese copy (with trem) and it has some of these tones too and is highly playable... and was only £46 new! Between the two, I have a good range of tonal colour... So, won't be buying this one Mike - but thanks for the hard sell!
snotmale 3 years ago
No offense guys, but you could custom build a guitar like this with better pups, a compound radius neck, and prettier woods for a lot less than this costs.
It's a nice guitar but it's overpriced.
baseballnolie34 3 years ago 2
your right , but it wouldn't be a strat ;)
and in 30 years it really wouldn't be a strat you know , man I love old strats
5ptCALVIN 2 years ago
I have this axe on order now , taking me 6 months for them to make it . Its going to be black w white pg . I suppose it will look similar to Gilmour's in live @ Pompeii . This guitar looks really good to me after shopping hard for 6 months , almost went Charvel or Ernie Ball but came back to the Strat .
5ptCALVIN 3 years ago
i got a black with white too. i dont really like the pickups. but the guitar was recently set up. WOW its fantastic
kristofferpence 2 years ago
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I bought a great faded LP for 700.00 that rocks! Why do you have to spend 2K to get a good Fender?
toddallenhooper 3 years ago
you'll understand one day
5ptCALVIN 3 years ago 11
amen
Sachseguy07 3 years ago
the faded gibsons eighnt that great
lukikrestuki69 3 years ago 6
why do you you have to spend 3k to get a decent gibson. this is an overpriced one a bit but you can get an amazing fender for less than 1k used and american.
skatebueno123 3 years ago
hmm.. its vice versa
TheEmoEmoEmo 3 years ago
It could be a good Strat but
Mike, you talk to much...
blablablablabla
I prefer to hear the Strat more
Folisfol 3 years ago 4
this would be the Strat Hendrix would play if he was alive today. LSR nut & trem to do his thing without going out of tune. I wouldn't mind playing one of these..
rg2027x 3 years ago 2
dude i saw dweezil zappa playing thins guitar but it had a floyd rose
ImThEkOoLeStYeA 3 years ago
I find it very amusing that Fender ofers so many guitar 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 can get from point A to B on a bicycle but that doesn't mean I wouldn't like a motorcycle. If Hendrix were alive today he might be playing a Jackson with a Floyd Rose. It's all good. I'm glad we can pick and choose.
davec629 3 years ago 19
and all God's peoplse said
A M E N !
you nailed it Dave , I can promise you Hendrix would be playing something like this at the very least but I would bet your right in that he would even be off the reservation playing a Jackson or something comparable . I am an 80s & 90s hard rocker used to the Charvel/BC Rich stuff and this guitar actually perks my interest . Shame they only make it with that knocked around closet finish . WTF is that about , I don't want a 2k axe with dings in it . . .
5ptCALVIN 3 years ago
@davec629 The Stratocaster is synonymous with the Hendrix name. You just disgraced him. lol!
MrMutron 9 months ago
This gets into the argument that pre-CBS Strats were high quality stuff, Custom Shop material before Fender watered down its product line, if you will. A good player will make most guitars sound great. What is interesting to me is that so many ppl demand a Hendrix tone, or an SRV overwound sound; think about playing a Strat before Hendrix, before you had an idea of what it's "supposed" to sound like. It's cool if you want a certain sound, but remember that it's originality that counts most...
donostia13 3 years ago 3
true but the fenders from the 70s, 60s, and 50s were made with MUCH better quality it seems that ever since the 80s marshall, fender, and gibsons quality control has gone down...
stratmarshall666 3 years ago
The 70's post CBS strats were terrible guitars... the late +0's and 00's ones are far superior. I have a jeff beck strat which is very much like the Pro being demo'd, but with even better, dual coil pickups! Apart from the finger board and maple fingerboard and large headstock theyre the same.
hafstrat 3 years ago
I just got the pro strat (same color and neck as in the vid. Its a great playing guitar!!!
The pickups are great and its such a versatile instrument. The Sperzel locking tunner heads are great I've had no problems with the tuning, and the roller nut is great when using the trem. I can get the action very very low and it does not choke, if you dont have one get one!!!
queenofspades101 3 years ago
got one of these too dude. mine actually slips out of tune sometimes. but this IS the BEST strat ive ever played, i dont really like the pickups. i only like that they are noisless, they dont have that vintage sound. im thinking of putting in sheptone AB customs
kristofferpence 2 years ago
I`m impressed with the body contours. You can see how deep they are when he turns the strat over. Really neat.
iagobroxado 3 years ago 3
Marshall Plexi is good for getting rid of that twang also
lamschuchart 3 years ago
Yeah, it does sound a bit beefier. Cool. Takes away some of the standard twang that always got on my nerves.
Kevbo4 3 years ago 2
Very cool guys. Thanks for the Olympic or even more white on this. Bigger headstock from the 70's huh? What's your opinion on 70's strats, btw? They seem to be climing in value even after being snubbed for so many years.
Great job FCS!
lchiles 3 years ago
I've tried some of the Fender Mexican made vintage reissue 70's Strats and the Mexican made '70's Strats were better made than the American made ones from the '70's. They play great and it's a good way to get an ash bodied Strat without paying a lot of money for them.
The big problem with the original '70's Strats was the neck pocket q.c. wasn't very good and they creaked while you played them and their electronics were sub par.
With MIM reissues drop in some better pickups and rock it!
eatsandsleeps 3 years ago