70's Reissue Strat

One of the sweetest Stratocasters I've ever played - a 70's reissue with an ash body, maple fingerboard and sweet, clean underwound alnico pickups (I think... If I'm wrong please let me know). Definitely not for sale. Unfortunately I did this demo with my Frontman instead of my Vibrolux. And yes, I realize that I said "bridge" instead of "neck" while talking about the neck pickup, thank you. Oops.

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Music

Tags:

• Fender
• 70's
• Strat
• Stratocaster
• Ash
• MIM
• Frontman
• Ben
• Mathews

[seanchristiandavid]

What bridge pieces did you put on ?

[bgmathews]

The bridge saddles are from Stewart MacDonald, standard Strat-style saddles.

[RivasGuitar]

too much "steel" sound here, metalic a lot, sometimes 'muff' a lot 2. Maybe needs some warm voice to get that "human voice" sound in your playin'. How about a really honest tube amp?

[bgmathews]

Thanks for the comment, this demo was recorded on a really awful Fender practice amp. It's solid state (obviously), super bright with the weirdest speaker ever. The webcam also sucked a lot of tone out, unfortunately. My main amp is a Fender Vibrolux. What do you play through? Would you upload a demo so we can hear your tone? I hear Egnator and 65 Amps have are the best sounding amps around.

[MatiBtodo14]

could someone please tell me the main differences between this strat and the john mayer strat? I dont know which to get

[bgmathews]

@MatiBtodo14 According to Fender's website the 70's strat has a U-shaped neck, "vintage" (aka small) frets, vintage-style pickups, a 7.25" fretboard radius, tone controls wired to the neck and middle pickups only, and an ash body. The John Mayer strat has a C-shaped neck, narrow jumbo frets, "Big Dipper" pickups, a 9.5" fretboard radius, tone controls wired to all pickups, and an alder body.

[EuthanizeReligion]

Holy shit Roy Orbisons long lost son.

[Guitarvirtuoso666]

I like it more when the bridge pickup is wired to a tone pot, it's the brightest pickup, and thus the one that often will need a little roll off. It also allows you to dial in some fatter humbucker like tones when using a little dirt

[SmeagolTheBeagle]

Your guitar playing is absolute on the mark! and i love your Jazz, good demonstration, might be getting one of these for christmas :D good demonstration mate

[SCRIBESCREEN]

can I have it please I will accept it free on behalf of your great nature as a human ....thankyou...lol..

[RivasGuitar]

Hi Matt my words wasn't cool before (rs) , nd you're absolutly right u never can hear on PC a real soundin of the gear, but congratulationsI like your playing and about u asked me I got one cheap 1999 Fender HRD (very cheap when u think about one fender Vibrolux), a '87 Stratocaster nd a amazing TS 808 from 1979 reppairs. Thanks for answer me, nd keep on rockin!

[rtfan13]

although these guitars are for rock/blues kind of stuff the pickups through a high gain amp usually give you a great metal tone.

[SunnyCool]

I noticed the same thing with your reissue as I have with the one of mine, there's a slight string buzz (especially lower strings)..... I tried raising/lowering action, fixed the bridge, truss rod adjustments, everything... never got rid of it. I'm just thinking it's part of the 70ies reissue's personality... Or our neck boards.