You have to hand it to the Yanks they are brilliant at innovation and systematic research to recreate vintage sounds even if Strats are not my favourite guitar. I have a 65 relic from the custom shop however because they are just too damn good not to have one...and you can't get the Knopfler or Gilmour sound on a Les Paul not to mention a sappy funk sound or the spank for an aggressive SRV type blues.
Circular consumerism: Change a few details and present the guitar as if it's substantially new. Next year they'll tell you there's something better implying this one sucks. Buy a Strat and keep it for life.
I wonder if they started with a lacquer or a poly finish. A real '68 would have been poly but that would be harder to relic.
BTW, it's pretty cool how Fender has entered its postmodern phase. Fender now stands fully outside of its own history and can observe it from a distance. Modern Fender instruments are basically a commentary on the old Fender instruments.
i fell for 1 of these 2 yrs ago, it's was candy apple red and felt fantastic in hand, it played better than ANY strat i ever had in my hands...the only down side was it sounded SHIT! i felt sick it sounded so bad, i couldn't get rid of the VERY OVER BRIGHT sound that was so tight sounding!!! i swapped the neck with another 69 c/shop and it made that strat sound shit too!! i was told the truss rod was at fault!! it's still floating around the UK, was at CODA then PEACH, god knows where now.
I just don't get relic-ing.....whats the point....Antique dealers do this so they can sell their stuff for more money....I don't get the point of having something that is made to look old and used like a pair of my old socks....I'll have to tell people that they are relic socks and worth a lot more :)it's all about the looks I guess but where does the huge price difference come in...just because they have beaten it up a little...
@stevoe1000 Because not only does it look like a vintage guitar, it PLAYS like one. The relic process was created to give you the same feel of a vintage guitar.
@Hellad00d I understand it's cool to have a guitar that looks like a relic, but the price I don't get...and it's not a real relic, so for me that looses it's real coolness because it's a fake old guitar....do they use older vintage electronics too..
No relic guitar from Fender, Nash, or anyone else even compares to my relics! I build the lamborghini of relic guitars...My name is Kelton Swade and you can go to my website, just Google my name - find out why Vince Gill, Keith Urban, Johnny Hiland, Robben Ford and others play my guitars over anyone else in the world! Thanks!
@gus23a - Thank you from my heart...I do all the bodies and necks...these are all custom built and NOT made from pre-existing guitars! People have two options...they can either purchase what I have in stock -OR - they can tell me what they want built (tele or strat), the color and they can choose between a 7.25 radius or 9.5 radius neck (maple or rosewood) and two weeks later, voila - you have your instrument....try getting Fender to work that fast! Thanks again for the kind words!
@gus23a - Can you send me your e-mail at keltonswade@comcast.net and we can talk about price - thanks! Also, if you want to talk, I can call you so please include your telephone number as well. Have a great day!
@fendermaxime no, people who can't afford a $3000 guitar whine that it's a rip off. I can't afford one, but to those who can, go nuts. It's all in personal preference.
@DDInDaHouse187 If you don't have 3 grand for a guitar it's not preference it's lack of choice, that's why people get brassed off. The Telecaster was originally designed for the average working musician; to buy a 50s Tele now, you'd have to be pulling in some serious wages....and you probably wouldn't be an ordinary musician. I often wonder what Leo would think about the 'vintage' guitar market.
@mink61 So what? Of course a 50s Telecaster is going to expensive, it's from the 50s and Fender is legendary. It wasn't that expensive when it was released obviously because Fender wasn't the legendary company that it is today. Besides, you make it sound as though you can't walk down to your local guitar dealer and pick up an American Telecaster for $800.00. Are you against the high prices for old vintage cadillacs as well?
Does that git sound good for any other kind of music except that "funk" you're plunkin'(sounds the same in every position the way you're lifting the strings up and snapping them)!Sounds dead to my ear.Maybe needs a good Fender amp(Super Reverb).
most strats i have owned or played were no where near having a quarter sawn neck. thats why you have to get the allen wrench out in the spring and fall.
That sounds SO good strummed! You can hear the string-on-wood sound so clearly, it's not JUST pickup sound, ya know.?. Wow... And the pickup tone is good too, but it seems to really "pick up" well. Note to self: CS '69 pups... and world-class wood work probably doesn't hurt either:P
P.S. - Fender, if you could possibly make guitars that sound good for UNDER six grand, that'd be swell. Just move the decimal to the left for me, wouldja'.?. Thanks;)
out of tune...again. This is a time in the evolution of electronic music in which precision is demanded...so please, install a compensated nut...it won't hurt the feelings of the "'68" status, and it won't affect the 'coveted' tone. Being 'in tune' is a bit more important than being 'in tone.'
If you bought jeans would you buy a pair of dungarees that are raw denim never washed taotally stiff, a pair that's washed but not faded, indigo faded and soft etc... I'm sure ther aren't many out there that prefer the Leave it to Beaver look ... anyway gimme a relic and when I get it I'll take the steel wool to the neck wipe a little gun oil on there and its good to go.
i think spending thousands of dollars on a guitar that looks old when you can buy one for a thousand or way less is retardations. custom shop 69's are nice but i really dont have a problem with my tex mex pickups. the tone comes from the player and a nice tube amp.
getting a guitar to ware in, isn't just getting the paint to ware down, its also getting the frets to ware in right, the wood to settle in, and the mechanical parts to develop the "notch". PAINT ISN'T THE ONLY THING.
i have a strat with a urathane finish on it it wore down pretty nice almost like a nitro finish would. but then again play my guitar everyday.....shows, band practice, jamming, fiddling around before i go to bed. you can wear down any finish you just gotta PLAY IT.
I have a real '66 that's very worn. It spoils me and the closest new guitars that I like are relics. Because of the feel. They have nice neck shapes and little to no finish so that it wears through fast. Even if it's a relic you will put your own marks on it in a short time. A newly finished poly guitar, in 20 years of playing will still not develop the feel that a relic will after about a year of hard playing. Guys that know that feel and bond with that, get the relics.
relics are LAME, do it yourself, by actually playing your own instrument, over like 20 years, be patient and it is going to be so much more rad. peace
I find it LAME when other players are so concerned with what other guitarists are playing. Play your instrument and don't worry what someone else is playing. Some people like old looking guitars but don't have the money to buy vintage instruments. Second of all, new instruments finished in poly are almost bullet proof. You'd have to play that thing until you are dead before it would look even close to a well taken care of nitro strat. The relic haters act like they stopped making shiny strats..
what makes me laugh is people that Love John Mayer but knock people who buy fake relic strats. John's main strat that he played at the Jackson Memorial was actually built and relic'd by Master Builder John Cruz.
So think about that for a minute, not only did he not just buy a pre-relic'd guitar he actually had one made and scuffed up they way he wanted.
Now this is a suppose to be a pro player and he even faked relic'd his main axe. Now you know why a lot of people don't respect him.
Wow, way to be superficial, dude... how does the guitar's look have anything to do with his playing style, note choices, tone, songwriting, singing etc.? I like his records, I don't give a rat's about how he finishes his guitars.
Ericthemidget doll: You should know, but obviously don't, that the "relic" concept was created by Keith RIchards, who had some CS guitars made for a tour but sent them back because they looked "too new... scuff them up a bit!"
That's probably why no one respects Keef.
Relicing is a stage prop, just like choosing clothes or a hiarcut. The reason so many guitar players don't understand this simple fact is because they have never been - and never will be - on stage.
John Mayer doesn't care about the few who "dont respect him", he's the biggest guy playing blues in the world right now. lol I bet he's so worried what a couple guys think because he has his own style Relic Strat....OMG. rofl
The thing i wish FCS would do is build exact copies of certain years of Strats and Teles. Like a 1954 Strat built to exact specs/finish of a 1954 Strat, would be like going back into time and buying a 1954 Strat brand new i think that would be a major hit but they would have to be exact no mods/modern anything.
What you guys dont understand is the old guitars where finished with Nitrocellulose which yellows/shrinks/checks. almost all guitars today are sprayed with PolyUrathane or Polyester which are super durable! so even if you bought a 09 standard and played it live and gigged for 40 years that guitar would still look good, nowhere near as a 40 year old nitro guitar.
People should have whatever they like but for me, buying a factory or custom "reliced" guitar is like is like buying a suitcase at Walmart with stickers on it from places you never visited.
The dings should be from your own travels and memories not faux distress. It's a huge waste of time and money.
I have mixed feelings about the whole relicing or artificially distressing idea. On one hand they aren't your marks, and it seems a little silly. But on the other hand, I'll probably never use my guitar enough to "put that many miles on it." The aged look, IMO, does give the guitar some mojo and a broken in feel. (I suppose a good analogy could be a brand new tight baseball glove vs. a worn in glove that feels just right).
I don't its any more waste of time or money than say flame maple and quilt tops veneers. They really do nothing for the sound of the guitar just the looks. Let people buy what they want. If someone wants to spend 2-3k on a relic instead of 22-33k on a vintage instrument with real history let them. Some people just don't want to spend 20-30 years to get that look, and lets be honest, unless you are a touring musician your guitar will never look that way with todays finishes in 50 years!
I get it. It's just not my thing. If I buy something new I like it to be new. If I buy something old I expect it to look old. I don't even mind if something old looks new but the esthetic choice of paying extra for artificial decrepitude just doesn't strike me as worth my money. But, again, that's just what I like.
He used a lot of different amps, but I would suggest a blue junior, blues deville or 65 deluxe reverb reissue. He also used a ts808 on low gain settings to boost the front end on songs like "Pride and Joy." He used a vox wah, and really heavy strings, like .13s+. And yea texas specials would help too.
i'm glad that even though its called a "heavy relic" that there is still 90% of the paint still on the guitar. all too often people just remove paint and call it a relic. Not every guitar needs to be SRV's #1!
I don't get the whole thing where they strip the paint off and make it look old. I can see one or two models, but these days it is becoming way too common to see them like this. Strats are not a pair of fuckin jeans and I'll be putting a few nicks in the guitar of my own. I don't need to pay $1700 for them to do it for me.
man i want this so fuckin badly haha this and my jcm800 will be badass im saving up for it i hope it stays in the store for a while cuz he says its limited edition
Awesome,The color of wood and the size of the headstock is really beautiful,with little more dirty the pickguard will give a pretty vintage visual.
BeneProductions 1 week ago
You have to hand it to the Yanks they are brilliant at innovation and systematic research to recreate vintage sounds even if Strats are not my favourite guitar. I have a 65 relic from the custom shop however because they are just too damn good not to have one...and you can't get the Knopfler or Gilmour sound on a Les Paul not to mention a sappy funk sound or the spank for an aggressive SRV type blues.
turockandar 1 month ago
im sorry. but that guitar uve got there, sounds like total crap.
skylorz 6 months ago
Are you good at recognising fender strat guitars
ysporsche 7 months ago
@Hugh9 +1
imacoolkid613 8 months ago
Circular consumerism: Change a few details and present the guitar as if it's substantially new. Next year they'll tell you there's something better implying this one sucks. Buy a Strat and keep it for life.
Hugh9 9 months ago
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Hugh9 9 months ago
I wonder if they started with a lacquer or a poly finish. A real '68 would have been poly but that would be harder to relic.
BTW, it's pretty cool how Fender has entered its postmodern phase. Fender now stands fully outside of its own history and can observe it from a distance. Modern Fender instruments are basically a commentary on the old Fender instruments.
1Doz 10 months ago
i fell for 1 of these 2 yrs ago, it's was candy apple red and felt fantastic in hand, it played better than ANY strat i ever had in my hands...the only down side was it sounded SHIT! i felt sick it sounded so bad, i couldn't get rid of the VERY OVER BRIGHT sound that was so tight sounding!!! i swapped the neck with another 69 c/shop and it made that strat sound shit too!! i was told the truss rod was at fault!! it's still floating around the UK, was at CODA then PEACH, god knows where now.
ilovemywah 10 months ago
my squire sounds like that after a new bone nut and 3 texas special pups.
jukeboxhero844 11 months ago 2
I just don't get relic-ing.....whats the point....Antique dealers do this so they can sell their stuff for more money....I don't get the point of having something that is made to look old and used like a pair of my old socks....I'll have to tell people that they are relic socks and worth a lot more :)it's all about the looks I guess but where does the huge price difference come in...just because they have beaten it up a little...
stevoe1000 1 year ago
@stevoe1000 Because not only does it look like a vintage guitar, it PLAYS like one. The relic process was created to give you the same feel of a vintage guitar.
Hellad00d 9 months ago
@Hellad00d I understand it's cool to have a guitar that looks like a relic, but the price I don't get...and it's not a real relic, so for me that looses it's real coolness because it's a fake old guitar....do they use older vintage electronics too..
stevoe1000 9 months ago
Personally I think it's fucking ridiculous that a fender channel can't even set up the audio on their videos.
Carthsgtr 1 year ago
Heavy relic my ass!
FreddyFrenchToneFX 1 year ago
Prolly should google this kelton fella first
Johndorianband 1 year ago
No relic guitar from Fender, Nash, or anyone else even compares to my relics! I build the lamborghini of relic guitars...My name is Kelton Swade and you can go to my website, just Google my name - find out why Vince Gill, Keith Urban, Johnny Hiland, Robben Ford and others play my guitars over anyone else in the world! Thanks!
KeltonSwade 1 year ago
@KeltonSwade
i visited your homepage. that is a very good job you did on this guitars.
do you get guitars from customers who want them to be reliced, or do they tell how they want them and you buy the guitar and relic it?
gus23a 1 year ago
@gus23a - Thank you from my heart...I do all the bodies and necks...these are all custom built and NOT made from pre-existing guitars! People have two options...they can either purchase what I have in stock -OR - they can tell me what they want built (tele or strat), the color and they can choose between a 7.25 radius or 9.5 radius neck (maple or rosewood) and two weeks later, voila - you have your instrument....try getting Fender to work that fast! Thanks again for the kind words!
KeltonSwade 1 year ago
@KeltonSwade
how much do you want for a 1954 two-color sunburst strat with a 7,25 neck?
gus23a 1 year ago
@gus23a - Can you send me your e-mail at keltonswade@comcast.net and we can talk about price - thanks! Also, if you want to talk, I can call you so please include your telephone number as well. Have a great day!
KeltonSwade 1 year ago
@KeltonSwade
ok, thank you.
gus23a 1 year ago
The fender custom shop cheats people. 3 000 bucks for a guitar come on !!!!
fendermaxime 1 year ago
@fendermaxime no, people who can't afford a $3000 guitar whine that it's a rip off. I can't afford one, but to those who can, go nuts. It's all in personal preference.
DDInDaHouse187 10 months ago
@DDInDaHouse187 If you don't have 3 grand for a guitar it's not preference it's lack of choice, that's why people get brassed off. The Telecaster was originally designed for the average working musician; to buy a 50s Tele now, you'd have to be pulling in some serious wages....and you probably wouldn't be an ordinary musician. I often wonder what Leo would think about the 'vintage' guitar market.
mink61 9 months ago
@mink61 So what? Of course a 50s Telecaster is going to expensive, it's from the 50s and Fender is legendary. It wasn't that expensive when it was released obviously because Fender wasn't the legendary company that it is today. Besides, you make it sound as though you can't walk down to your local guitar dealer and pick up an American Telecaster for $800.00. Are you against the high prices for old vintage cadillacs as well?
1con0clast 9 months ago
Why are 69 pickups on a 68 Strat...
Carthsgtr 1 year ago
@Carthsgtr because the specs of the pickups didn't change from 1968-70
YogiSizzle 1 year ago
Does that git sound good for any other kind of music except that "funk" you're plunkin'(sounds the same in every position the way you're lifting the strings up and snapping them)!Sounds dead to my ear.Maybe needs a good Fender amp(Super Reverb).
matt1284508 1 year ago
I bet it's a fine guitar from how he described it, but his demonstrations are poor so it doesn't come thru
flowerdrop1 1 year ago
most strats i have owned or played were no where near having a quarter sawn neck. thats why you have to get the allen wrench out in the spring and fall.
telecasterbear 1 year ago
That sounds SO good strummed! You can hear the string-on-wood sound so clearly, it's not JUST pickup sound, ya know.?. Wow... And the pickup tone is good too, but it seems to really "pick up" well. Note to self: CS '69 pups... and world-class wood work probably doesn't hurt either:P
P.S. - Fender, if you could possibly make guitars that sound good for UNDER six grand, that'd be swell. Just move the decimal to the left for me, wouldja'.?. Thanks;)
yobhsiFehT 1 year ago
The job of my dreams :'(
lecobra13 1 year ago 5
This guy has the best job ever, is that the reason he looks always happy.
ricardobijos 1 year ago
Its always a Great Demo Mike!Can you also Please do a Demo on Fender Stratocaster
Custom Shop Heavy Relic 62.Thank You in advance.
relicsun 1 year ago
awesome tone
tdcollector 1 year ago
You know you would think a huge company like fender could afford a decent mic...
birdmankustomz666 1 year ago
@birdmankustomz666 i think it was the mixing, it sounded like the mic on the amp and the mike's mic were out of phase
spanishmikealverez 1 year ago
out of tune...again. This is a time in the evolution of electronic music in which precision is demanded...so please, install a compensated nut...it won't hurt the feelings of the "'68" status, and it won't affect the 'coveted' tone. Being 'in tune' is a bit more important than being 'in tone.'
bradnotreally 1 year ago
amazing tone
JoninFlaco 2 years ago
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gypsysunerainbow 2 years ago
stereo vid?
kalimoncho51 2 years ago
the best guitar ever
alextzam 2 years ago
"its not better, its not worst, its just different" i like the way he put it, and this guitar sounds sweet
SilverSkyline92 2 years ago
3:59 "here's the back and the middle puzzy"
kdjfnvjvd 2 years ago
LOL
beaverzz4 2 years ago
That does not sound like strat - there is no string buzz on low-e-string..
Now that is the classic strat sound.
lol
archicad6 2 years ago
If you bought jeans would you buy a pair of dungarees that are raw denim never washed taotally stiff, a pair that's washed but not faded, indigo faded and soft etc... I'm sure ther aren't many out there that prefer the Leave it to Beaver look ... anyway gimme a relic and when I get it I'll take the steel wool to the neck wipe a little gun oil on there and its good to go.
jondanet 2 years ago
I agree...
gajaorange 2 years ago
yah i have to agree , all fenders are over priced , get yourself a warmoth or a japan made strat and you are better of.
TheSAJ11 2 years ago
mexicans are better than japanese
arsenalfanforlife 2 years ago
Mexican women maybe , but guitars no , I had all 3 , American , japan , and mexican . Personally mexican strats are the worst . .
TheSAJ11 2 years ago
haha u speak the truth
kdjfnvjvd 2 years ago
nice piece of ASS LOL
TheSAJ11 2 years ago
Anybody else getting annoyed with the odd panning on this video?
RoguesAndEvolution 2 years ago
Don't let fender's flashy advertising brain wash you.
PopExpo 2 years ago 2
i think spending thousands of dollars on a guitar that looks old when you can buy one for a thousand or way less is retardations. custom shop 69's are nice but i really dont have a problem with my tex mex pickups. the tone comes from the player and a nice tube amp.
TMMSfanCLUB 2 years ago 4
retardations??
kdjfnvjvd 2 years ago
@kdjfnvjvd yeah man, it's a borat reference.
TMMSfanCLUB 2 years ago
getting a guitar to ware in, isn't just getting the paint to ware down, its also getting the frets to ware in right, the wood to settle in, and the mechanical parts to develop the "notch". PAINT ISN'T THE ONLY THING.
PopExpo 2 years ago
i have a strat with a urathane finish on it it wore down pretty nice almost like a nitro finish would. but then again play my guitar everyday.....shows, band practice, jamming, fiddling around before i go to bed. you can wear down any finish you just gotta PLAY IT.
PopExpo 2 years ago
I have a real '66 that's very worn. It spoils me and the closest new guitars that I like are relics. Because of the feel. They have nice neck shapes and little to no finish so that it wears through fast. Even if it's a relic you will put your own marks on it in a short time. A newly finished poly guitar, in 20 years of playing will still not develop the feel that a relic will after about a year of hard playing. Guys that know that feel and bond with that, get the relics.
stratthead 2 years ago
I have some "ORIGINAL" reliced baseball cards for sale. Very rare and valueable!
ech77066 2 years ago
relics are LAME, do it yourself, by actually playing your own instrument, over like 20 years, be patient and it is going to be so much more rad. peace
WillBrawnmusic 2 years ago
I find it LAME when other players are so concerned with what other guitarists are playing. Play your instrument and don't worry what someone else is playing. Some people like old looking guitars but don't have the money to buy vintage instruments. Second of all, new instruments finished in poly are almost bullet proof. You'd have to play that thing until you are dead before it would look even close to a well taken care of nitro strat. The relic haters act like they stopped making shiny strats..
YogiSizzle 2 years ago 16
THANK! YOU! =)
danitz56 2 years ago
hehehe my poly strat slipped out of my bag when i was hauling ass for the bus and now the body looks reliced
arsenalfanforlife 2 years ago
what makes me laugh is people that Love John Mayer but knock people who buy fake relic strats. John's main strat that he played at the Jackson Memorial was actually built and relic'd by Master Builder John Cruz.
So think about that for a minute, not only did he not just buy a pre-relic'd guitar he actually had one made and scuffed up they way he wanted.
Now this is a suppose to be a pro player and he even faked relic'd his main axe. Now you know why a lot of people don't respect him.
ericthemidgetdoll 2 years ago
Wow, way to be superficial, dude... how does the guitar's look have anything to do with his playing style, note choices, tone, songwriting, singing etc.? I like his records, I don't give a rat's about how he finishes his guitars.
Ice7String 2 years ago 2
Ericthemidget doll: You should know, but obviously don't, that the "relic" concept was created by Keith RIchards, who had some CS guitars made for a tour but sent them back because they looked "too new... scuff them up a bit!"
That's probably why no one respects Keef.
Relicing is a stage prop, just like choosing clothes or a hiarcut. The reason so many guitar players don't understand this simple fact is because they have never been - and never will be - on stage.
GravityJim 2 years ago
John Mayer doesn't care about the few who "dont respect him", he's the biggest guy playing blues in the world right now. lol I bet he's so worried what a couple guys think because he has his own style Relic Strat....OMG. rofl
DystopianAwakening 2 years ago
The thing i wish FCS would do is build exact copies of certain years of Strats and Teles. Like a 1954 Strat built to exact specs/finish of a 1954 Strat, would be like going back into time and buying a 1954 Strat brand new i think that would be a major hit but they would have to be exact no mods/modern anything.
BallBuster5150 2 years ago
What you guys dont understand is the old guitars where finished with Nitrocellulose which yellows/shrinks/checks. almost all guitars today are sprayed with PolyUrathane or Polyester which are super durable! so even if you bought a 09 standard and played it live and gigged for 40 years that guitar would still look good, nowhere near as a 40 year old nitro guitar.
BallBuster5150 2 years ago
People should have whatever they like but for me, buying a factory or custom "reliced" guitar is like is like buying a suitcase at Walmart with stickers on it from places you never visited.
The dings should be from your own travels and memories not faux distress. It's a huge waste of time and money.
vogt48 2 years ago 2
I have mixed feelings about the whole relicing or artificially distressing idea. On one hand they aren't your marks, and it seems a little silly. But on the other hand, I'll probably never use my guitar enough to "put that many miles on it." The aged look, IMO, does give the guitar some mojo and a broken in feel. (I suppose a good analogy could be a brand new tight baseball glove vs. a worn in glove that feels just right).
tehorix789 2 years ago
It's more like a brand new glove someone has intentionally dripped crap on in a factory. It's fine. It's just not my thing.
vogt48 2 years ago
I don't its any more waste of time or money than say flame maple and quilt tops veneers. They really do nothing for the sound of the guitar just the looks. Let people buy what they want. If someone wants to spend 2-3k on a relic instead of 22-33k on a vintage instrument with real history let them. Some people just don't want to spend 20-30 years to get that look, and lets be honest, unless you are a touring musician your guitar will never look that way with todays finishes in 50 years!
YogiSizzle 2 years ago
I get it. It's just not my thing. If I buy something new I like it to be new. If I buy something old I expect it to look old. I don't even mind if something old looks new but the esthetic choice of paying extra for artificial decrepitude just doesn't strike me as worth my money. But, again, that's just what I like.
vogt48 2 years ago
buy a fender classic player 60's and you will have the same fantastic sounds
the cp 60's has a little price!
phenixreturns 2 years ago
stratocaster1959, if you can afford it, I would get the fender 57 deluxe reissue amp. It has the perfect vintage blues, srv tone in my opinion.
musicman69123 2 years ago
AV Hot Rod '57 is still preferred.
joekkl 2 years ago
does any one have any sugestions to get that srv tone ( other then with texas specials)
stratocaster1959 2 years ago
He used a lot of different amps, but I would suggest a blue junior, blues deville or 65 deluxe reverb reissue. He also used a ts808 on low gain settings to boost the front end on songs like "Pride and Joy." He used a vox wah, and really heavy strings, like .13s+. And yea texas specials would help too.
Cheers
favre4ever1995 2 years ago
funny, '69 pickups in a '68 guitar ^^
anybody sees the irony too?
I'd like to have 2010 pickups now too ^^
alexdldude 2 years ago 3
and it has the large 70's headstock
MattSnyder1994 2 years ago
haha indeed!
alexdldude 2 years ago
Well the large "70's" Headstock actually started in late '65 not the 70's
YogiSizzle 2 years ago 2
i agree with futuramaparis the pickguard is too clean for the relic
MountainDew231767 2 years ago 2
ACDCKissLuki, I prefer the AV '57 out of those choices. However, ny personal favorite strat is the CS '69 closest classic.
Samuel3236 2 years ago
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this guy needs to practice
gargano3000 2 years ago
Which one you prefer: American Vintage '57, AV 70's or AV Hot Rod '57.
Thanks :D
PS: Very good video and cool guitar.
ACDCKissLuki 2 years ago
i wonder how much master builders make
ledhead923 2 years ago 7
i think it's a great guitar but the pickguard is too clean for a relic guitar
futuramaparis 2 years ago
I have one in Red Sparkle! FANTASTIC guitar!
thesjkexperience 2 years ago
Man I really love that " Big peg" head. specially on a three colour sunburst strat. Love it!
murrayisthebest 2 years ago
Okay that just turned me on. I wish I could buy one. =/
rizwantakkhar 2 years ago
what the name of the amplifier?
olegariel 2 years ago
I love the CBS headstock and the big, late 60s decal. Looks better than the 50s headstock or whatnot.
sooperkula 3 years ago
my dream guitar
glennish1972 3 years ago
well if THAT's a heavy relic, mine's an Extreme Heavy Relic. heh.
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Tune your guitar and learn how to play...Stevie Ray Vaughan your NOT.....
522drwagon 3 years ago
i'm glad that even though its called a "heavy relic" that there is still 90% of the paint still on the guitar. all too often people just remove paint and call it a relic. Not every guitar needs to be SRV's #1!
crowdermusic 3 years ago 2
I like this guitar. It's sexy.
meetmeattheshipment 3 years ago 3
wow i would kill for this guitar
mark052092 3 years ago 16
@mark052092 i would die for it :)
magixas 1 year ago
Nice guitar! Out of the 67 guitars I own, I don't own this one! Well, I will have to go get one! Just joking.....:)
EddieVanHelen 3 years ago
I don't get the whole thing where they strip the paint off and make it look old. I can see one or two models, but these days it is becoming way too common to see them like this. Strats are not a pair of fuckin jeans and I'll be putting a few nicks in the guitar of my own. I don't need to pay $1700 for them to do it for me.
pantoum 3 years ago 3
I think this is the best sounding strat out of these CS videos. Nice and full, but still got that strat thing.
buddastrat 3 years ago
man i want this so fuckin badly haha this and my jcm800 will be badass im saving up for it i hope it stays in the store for a while cuz he says its limited edition
stratmarshall666 3 years ago
Every guitar is his favorite one :)
zile15 3 years ago 50
And they all have lots of going on
nanathenai 3 years ago 3
I've played with Custom Shop 69 Pickups and think they are great. I like to know how the Lace Senors Hot Golds sound.
tazzboy77 3 years ago
its up to what sound u want buddy guy uses the golds to get a heavier tone. the lace sensors sound almost as thick as humbuckers
both are excellent pups
stratmarshall666 3 years ago
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lol strats suck
buttsexftw 3 years ago
fuck you
stratmarshall666 3 years ago 3
What's wrong with getting a hard on looking at this guitar? It's guitar porn after all.
scrumpymanjack 3 years ago 6
this guitar is giving me an erection...does that make me weird?
weavzy 3 years ago 11
Yes.
moomoocajoo 3 years ago 11
i have one too. maybe you're weird, moomoofuckenwhatever...
cuntreek 3 years ago 3
No I am weird, but I just don't get a hard on for a strat D:
moomoocajoo 3 years ago
If you don't get hard for that stratocaster, you are not from this earth.
TastyMetal 3 years ago 7