Highway one stratocaster

I bought this straight out of the box from Bestbuy. It's an '08 Fender Stratocaster. I looked at a lot of strat's: American, American specials and highway 1's. I choose this one mostly for the paint job. They discontinued the honeyblondes, and rumor has it, the HW1's are going away too in favor of the American Specials. The only difference is the flat matte nitrocellulose on the HW1's over the modern urethane. The HW1's have overwound Alnico III pickups, whereas the specials have alnico V's.

Equipment used: Blues Jr. NOS tweed tube amp, Boss RC-2 loopstaition

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[davem04ify]

You mean relic look...I got this same guitar but it's a 60s model with a maple neck. I got it for the same reason, the nitrocellulose finish

[CodyCEngdahl]

@davem04ify Yeah, I love the flat finish too. I might put a maple neck on it some day.

[StratPlayer4Life]

thanks for uploadin the vid! its a nice sounding strat

[CodyCEngdahl]

@StratPlayer4Life Thanks, I really like it.

[CodyCEngdahl]

@RuckusAmsel No worries. I've considered changing the neck actually.

[RuckusAmsel]

@CodyCEngdahl Cool thank. I'll be sure to avoid buying this guitar no matter how good looking it is.

[CodyCEngdahl]

@RuckusAmsel I'm not crazy about them. I have vintage frets on my tele, which I prefer. I don't press hard enough to make them go sharp on the strat, but I do find that I some times inadvertently bend the notes as it is much easier with the big frets. It may also be because I have .09's on the strat instead of the .11 I have my tele.

[RuckusAmsel]

Hey dude, how do you feel about the jumbo frets? Do you find that you're ever unintentionally sharp from pressing too hard?

[CodyCEngdahl]

@ramonlook79 Honestly, they're both kick ass rock n roll guitars. So you should try them both and pick the one that feels right to you. Personally, I like the tele. More rockers play strats, and strats are good for finesse playing. But there's nothing better than the rawness of a telecaster. Simple and basic. Think Joe Strummer from the Clash. Get a tele and put in a four-way switch and you can get a fat humbucker sound out it too.

[ramonlook79]

wich guitar is better for rock n roll... the highway one stratocaster or the highway one telecaster?

Thank you!