Fender Road Worn Guitars

[deathonics]

fender found a excuse for having shitty guitars...

[tothatextent]

It has been almost a year since I bought the Road Worn 50's Strat. I have since changed the neck on the guitar ad now it plays well. There must have been a problem with the neck. The neck that I now have on the guitar is a vintage Tokai "Springy Sound" neck. And it plays better than any guitar I have ever played. I would also like to say that I hav learned to like the pickups now. Like freeagentsxm said: "they are not humbuckers". Which they are not. Sinle coils have a different sound.

[freeagentxms]

I love the "pickups are weak" argument here. Dude, these aren't humbuckers, and they're not meant to be. Many people actually prefer very low output pickups like the custom shop 69's, but the tex mex are actually a pretty high output set. If your expecting a metal guitar, you should probably look elsewhere, but these aren't really marketed as such, so i don't know what your complaining about. It sounds like the only thing your guitar needed was a setup.

[asgerms]

Bought a strat today, brought it home, hooked it up...taking it back to the store tomorrow. It has high string action, it frets out even on moderate bending above 12th fret, the tremolo has huge dead-spot around neutral (ie. no precision), the pickups have weak output, it pick's up alot of noise (no pedals, straight into the amp) and it absolutely will not stay in tune (only subtle use of tremolo on open chords). It's pure B.S. Totally agree with "tothatextent".

[gmlasam]

I don't know what some of you are hearing, but I have played through several roadworns, and the pickups are hot and sounds great. I do agree that a few need some pro setups, high E would fret out from the 10 fret all the way to the 20th fret, could be the traditional 7.25 fingerboard radius, and the action set too low for that radius, but once it is setup properly, this roadworn plays damn great. I like the bare wood feel on the neck.

[tothatextent]

These guitars are not good. The pickups are weak and the tremolo is especially bad. I have never owned a guitar with so many dead-spots on it. The thing will not stay in tune. It is basically junk,

[YogiSizzle]

are you sure, maybe you got a dud, but tex mex pickups are a hotter single coil, and the tremelo is the American vintage trem and Jimmie Vauhgn trem.

[tothatextent]

I have raised the strings as high as they can go and it frets outlike crazy above the 12 th fret. I do think that from the open position to the 10th fret it does play well, probably the best feeling guitar I have ever owned. But those higher frets are a nightmare.

[YogiSizzle]

I have the same Frets on my John Mayer strat and it plays fine, again I think you got a dud, b/c all the ones I have played have been really nice

[peten01v]

Guitars look great but they should have used some better pickups in the guitar though. Quality en versatillity of the pickups is a bit medium (my opinion :P)

[jashobbsie]

awesome guitars, got one on order just today!

[oreospace]

That's a good explanation.