Fender Road Worn '60s Strat / Farm TV Product Reviews / themusicfarm.com

[MrTheCircle]

@blooperjohn they are tex-mex pickups. (mexican version of texas specials in other words) idk if the body is mexican but the pickups are

[skylorz]

how does this compare to a fender total blues cs strat?

[ZepIV]

1:40 - Electric Gypsy. Nice tunes, great playing, I LOVE THIS GUITAR. Too bad I'm not in the market for another instrument (yet)

[humbucker101]

For me the most important part of a strat is the neck. I got the road worn 60s..the neck as a 7.25 radius with jumbo frets so no fret out at all. Its like the old fenders had. You cant get this neck on a american standard or Delux. You would have to go up to an Artist series to get anything close plus pay twice as much. The pickups arnt stock either..there over round hot tex mex which sound better than Texas Specials. If your a SRV fan add a black pickguard and save a 1000.00 bucks.

[that1stupidkid613]

@skylorz don't pay attention to the "made in mexico" thing. just go in and play it for yourself. personally i think this guitar is better than all the american line, aside from the custom shops. most of the americans have a really wimpy sound while these have a "just right" between fat and thin, but ultimately it comes down to taste.

[beeeastmaster]

playing some duarte ... nice

[skylorz]

is it a big deal that the truss rod is at the lower end of the neck? and wht do u think about the tex mex pickups? should i replace m with texas specials? i saw tht it was mexican made, the american special is the same price. wich one should i buy?

[Redmar85]

Nice style man... at 1:17 you've been amazing!!!

[MrJessejames202]

andy timmons....nice!

[telecasterbear]

all guitars will play differently at the store. factory setups are done by lots of workers. the big fun is taking the guitar home and settign it up as you like. i would never expect to buy something off the showroom floor and play it as it is. do not fear the screwdriver and the allen wrench!

[henkiewessel]

what is the first song you are playing?

[dfsk96]

hey guys, would you say this guitar is for professional guitarists even though they are mex made?

[MrGuitarboy97]

what songs are he playing!?!?!?

[1704Slash]

@MrGuitarboy97 i think he doesn't play songs, he's just improvising

[sohamorrohit]

I really like your playing style. I was actually looking at your playing rather than checking out the guitar.

[78jag]

no offense but that is nowhere close to what id call good tone.. sounds thin to me ..sorry just my opinion.. ive seen someone on hear with a vibrolux and a squire sound a lot more warm and crisp..

[geoff1121]

the problem with mim is the qc. I have tried a couple of the rw60s and they all play drastically different, the worst one had terrible neck pocketing, the best one played better than my 60s custom shop, no joke(both with 7.25 radius, 6105 frets). If you get your hands on a good one, get it and swap out the pups/electronics and you get an amazing strat for very little money that can very easily blow mia standards away.

[iAigels]

Great Video! I have this guitar at home...it is really great!! But I have a question: when I play for example a barre chord (C#M) on the 8 fret distorted it sounds very mushy and dirty. Is that normal?

[Mattydilly]

do you think either this one or the 50s strat really sound different

[09kitty23]

OK THATS IT!!! IM BUYING ONE!!!

[SavantSvant]

That one sounds mean! I've been looking for a strat for a while and i dig this one, how much is it and what colours does it come in?

[daschr1]

the frets are so different on these strats, they are taller instead of low and fat like the MIM standard. I love the nitro finish and the neck is just right for me, totally inspired by this guitar :]

[vodkapower1986]

Nahhh... I don't think that it is a value.. With tex mex?? C'mon put TS or '69 and that cheap tremolo/bridge nahhh, still prefer my 100000 times better modified HW1!!! The rust and the scracthes are just a personal taste..and offcorse a personal..."story".. Fender sould think to creat something different or to get the prices lower.. (IMO)

[verylowiq]

is there a big diffrence between mexican and american strats ?

[AwesomerAbe]

This "road worn" crap has got to stop. You can't buy authenticity.

[rocknwill003]

@AwesomerAbe actually... they feel really great.. play one first.

[ADOPTmeBITCH]

@AwesomerAbe agreed also they should bring back the nitro finish

[koshiaru]

Electric Gypsy by Andy Timmons at 1:41.

[Fruscification]

well this is the most beutiful tone that i see in almost 100 demos that i saw xD

[AHMADF93]

Electric Gypsy

[EuphoriaMusicSession]

god i wish i could play guitar like that.

[yusei85]

2:27 is that supposed to be a tap harmonic?

[SturmAKS74U]

Chris Duarte for the win!!!! Great sounding Strat....Made In Mexico eh.....Wow, amazing sounding.

[Jordo1900]

beautiful

[waxcoatedbanjo]

i don't understand why you would get it with a distressed look like that for an extra £200

[fredericiscool]

Well it also has different Pickups and a Nitro finish. Plus it will also cost extra to create the distressed look.

I don't think it's too overpriced. :)

[IK1963]

@waxcoatedbanjo go and buy a vintage L series and see how much change you get out of $15K? :)

[Uz2Brockstar]

Had mine about 1 month and i LOVE it! I put a dimarzio high output in the bridge and this thing wails. You would have paid 2500 for these things a few years ago, excellent wood and playability. Be sure to play a few and pick out a good one, I played 4 they were night and day different.

[apessk8s88]

what finish did yoyu get it in?

[sorryloginfailed]

The distortion doesn't sound like the strings are scrapping against an old man's face, but rather like the tides up against the rocks.

[AlexanderHatholt]

Its made in Mexico, but of workers taken from the custom shop in USA.

- I got one myself, and i think its a great guitar, and better then my brothers "normal" Mex Strat.

- Beside it got some other cool details.

Such as the Custom Shops pickups.

And the whole Guitar os just so "completed".

[Kristianeb]

with the word normal, do you mean standard ?

[Kristianeb]

is this good for playing blues, hendrix, pink floyd and stuff like that, maybe mark knopfler

[Pastafield]

I just bought one, and yes. It is great for all of those things.

[IanKusekSoloArtist]

@Pastafield which would be better for like ska, bob marley, beatles, surf kinda 60's music? the worn tele or strat?

[rishino]

In this case, i think a 60s strat fits well.

[IanKusekSoloArtist]

@rishino sweet thanks

[rishino]

Though, Bob Marley and George Harrison (Beatles) played a Gibson Les Paul...

[IanKusekSoloArtist]

@rishino yeah, well i dont want a gibson, they are too overrated in my opinion, but yea w/e

[EuphoriaMusicSession]

a lot of great guitarists played different guitars. like Clapton and Frusciante both played Strats. Harrison and Beck both played LP's. BB King and DeLonge both played an ES. there's alot of great guitars to chose from, but it's all about taste! :D

[acdcrocker]

@Kristianeb

Yes, very much so. Slap some 12's on, tune to half step and put the pick up knob to the 4th* position with reverb on 7.

[IBZ93GRG250P]

Andy Timmons!!!

[GibsonSGlenn]

are they made in the usa or mexico??

[narbengewebe]

mexico...

[turtleboyattacks]

they need. my main point of interest was actually not the 10% that may be better but the higher % that are on par with the u.s. models(if the mims pickups get upgraded of course)

[Streggetta]

Man it's such a versitle guitar I'm buying one near christmas

[alsgh422]

well, there are some MIM strats that sounds better than the American strats, but that's only about 10% of the MIM strats.

[turtleboyattacks]

is that only the newer mim strats that you're referring to? i used to have a mim strat but it was like a '98 and people never said much good about them, i ordered the 09 hss fat strat after watching and reading many reviews(and of course playing one)

[alsgh422]

only about 10% of MIMs...there's gotta be at least some MIMs that are USA quality among the Mexico production. and why does people's opinions matter anyway; if you like the tone, than it's the right guitar for you, not for others. don't ever buy a guitar just because people suggested it or something. it's stupid.

[turtleboyattacks]

opinions werent the issue, my older mim strat had good tone, but not that true strat tone, i showed up to jam(fill) with some friends for the first time in a while and a guy there had a mim strat, i thought it was an american til it was brought up a week later. i researched and read and a lot of reviews say they up'd the quality(and pirice) of mims big time around 06 and a lot of people were saying they gig with the mim and keep the u.s. at home(to preserve it) because the mim has all the tone

[alsgh422]

so you're assuming that more than 10% of MIMs are USA quality, just because you played one of the MIM that sounded good to you? just because yours sounded good doesn't imply that most of them are like that. think about the real statistics rather than your personal opinion. you're only believing some tens of people online who agrees with you, while the other hundreds of thousands of people's opinions are ignored by you

[turtleboyattacks]

i think you completely missed my point, my older model mim was not near par but was good enough for me. my point is its a known fact now that fender up'd the mim quality and not just 10s of people are taking notice, nothing to get hostile over, i was asking what 10% u were referring to originally(since there is a difference in pre and post 07 mim strats) and i wasnt saying mims were better than u.s., just that many people prefer to gig with them now because the tone is xlnt and they dont have to

[turtleboyattacks]

worry about damaging their expensive u.s. model strats. i dont know where you got most of ur response from.

[alsgh422]

wait..I'm missing the point? My point was that only about 10% are like that, but you answered by saying that people use MIM for gigging?... what is this nonsense; it's like asking "how many fruits are there?", and you say "fruits are eaten in various ways". this is a pointless argument; If I answer back, you'll try to think of a way to outword my statement or something.

[turtleboyattacks]

i think you missed a lot of things in that and your analogy doesnt apply, oh wait did i just think of a way to outword your statement? to make it clear for you i asked which 10% pre or post 07, and your response was not to buy a guitar because of what someone says "thats stupid" i dont know wat youre so defensive about and now that i think of it that little analogy you made really applies to you, scroll down for proof

[alsgh422]

you said "is that only the newer mim strats that you're referring to? i used to have a mim strat but it was like a '98 and people never said much good about them, i ordered the 09 hss fat strat after watching and reading many reviews"; just tell me how a question about production percentage relate to reviews about MIM. it doesn't. I still answered you by saying "only about 10%" and then made a comment about how you depend on others' reviews,

[alsgh422]

but you said "opinions weren't the issue" kept talking about what you felt and how the reviews were. and it's stupid to categorize MIM production by new and old; whether it's new or old, it had the same production assembly in Mexico by some random person, since MIMs are only assembled, not actually crafted by luthiers. so bottom line you were asking whether if the 10% of USA-quality MIMs were made by the old or the younger Mexicans. talk about analogy huh

[turtleboyattacks]

obviously you know nothing, go read, though you have no reading comprehension, read about the difference in quality of pre and post 07 mim strats, and you got the word analogy right, but your analysis was wrong. key point, the 10%, re read everything then go read about new vs old mims and keep in mind the new price hike which comes with higher quality instruments. cheers boy genius

[Greatmk]

Great tone !

[cotton207]

isnt the body a little smaller than the standard strats

[ToXin88]

I totally fell in love with this tone...

[GV889]

Those Mex Fenders sound real good! Are the American Fenders really worth the extra money?

[insaneguitaristt]

in my opinion, the americans are worth it if you want to keep the value but the mexican 60s strats really sound close and i would say definately a better buy for the price

[tubeusuario]

Some are. Most not.

[1ThoughtTheives]

NO! ha

[mattpowers2]

That supersonic sounds awesome

[Doud92]

Does the most part of the job, guess the strat is not that good

[Epiphonefan]

hmm, one of the fender series I don't like. I mean, you should relic the guitar yourself by years of playing!

[turtleboyattacks]

thats what i thought til i found out that the finish is different and the wear on the guitar improves the tone, before that i thought they were completely lame

[mlackemann1993]

whats the name of the song at the end

[methidmannj1]

In 2 Deep.

[benny181818]

hey guys, does anyone remember what's the name of the song that he's playing from 1.17 to 1.41? I cant get it out of my head

[gmproductions12]

@benny181818 It's an improv bro

[FretBrad]

Hi, can anyone help?...i wish to buy my first fender soon, i like 50's fenders, what is the difference between the fender strat 50's style, and the road wirn 50's strat...apart from the relic effect? as i have found the normal fender 50's for £380, and the road worn for £659!, thanks for any help =D

[worstjazzer]

i bigger price tag and a beat up body. go for the normal one.

[YogiSizzle]

The Regular Fender 50's has a pretty thick poly finish, where as the Road worn is finished in Nitrocellulose Lacquer, which the original Fenders in the 50's were finished with. The Road Worn has taller modern frets, which help with fretting bends. The regular one has tiny vintage frets which "Fret out". The Road worns have Tex Mex pickups which are hotter, There is a big difference between the two

[GnrSlashLDB]

I looked at four of these at guitar center, and every single one there had really sharp fret ends. From what ive seen, definitely overpriced.

[cioubichs]

a worn/damaged/aged looking guitar has to be earned! buying a pre-worn guitar is on of the faker things you can do. a person shouldnt claim to have done somthing they havnt done

[kustomcougar]

your gay

[The59LesPaulGuy]

no youre a towel

[worstjazzer]

agreed. why would anyone want to pay more for a beat up guitar anyway?

[lotr589]

its not just for the relic-ing.

The road worns are period-correct specs wise, so it's more of paying for the vintage specs like the 7.25" fretboard radius, 1 ply pickguard/etc.

[ahhotdogg]

all reissues are you fag

[lotr589]

And your point is? They ARE all reissues, I never contested that fact.

[lotr589]

I just re-read your comment. NOT ALL REISSUES ARE PERIOD CORRECT.

Do your home work and you'll find that several Gibson re-issues vary slightly from the original specs.

Take for example Fender's 72' Deluxe telecasters, they come with 250k pots whereas the originals came with 1meg pots.

How is that period correct?

[samfrombelgium]

what's the diffence between this one? and the 50' one?

[TheMusicFarm]

The main differences are the necks. The 60s has a maple neck with rosewood fretboard, and the 50s has an ALL maple neck (with a soft "V" shape). The pickups in both guitars are the same. We have these guitars available. Let me know if you would like to purchase one.. Price is $949 with free shipping

thanks!

Todd - The Music Farm

330-682-5595

[ACDCKissLuki]

Which one would you prefer: a Fender Strat Road Worn 60's or a Fender American Standard?

[TheMusicFarm]

I'm a fan a maple necks, so I would have to go with the 50's!

[sr1129]

ELECTRIC GYPSY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[rafauleciaelcarpio]

Great guitar!!!

But I prefear the 50s one

[yakkheng]

it's Andy Timmons' electric gypsy

[tubingforever]

I can't remember what the song from 1:42 to 1:54 is called. Anyone that remembers?