Fender Custom Shop 1957 Heavy Relic HLE Gold Stratocaster / Farm TV Reviews / themusicfarm.com

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The new Heavy Relic 1957 Stratocaster is an amazing mixture of vintage vibe and feel combined with modern playability. The guitar has been given a heavy Relic treatment and features a lightweight ash body with a thin-skin nitrocellulose lacquer finish and single-ply parchment pickguard, a one-piece tinted and quartersawn maple neck with a 1957 soft V" shape, a 9.5"-radius fingerboard with 6105 frets, a Fat 50s neck pickup, a reverse-wound/reverse-polarity Fat 50s middle pickup, a 1969 Custom Shop bridge pickup, five-way selector switch, vintage hardware and a bone nut.

Reviewed By Josh Snyder of The Josh Snyder Band : http://www.joshsnyderband.com/

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[MichaelBradus]

I'm still not convinced that it makes any sense to buy a pre-fucked up guitar. It's like buying pants with holes already in them (which is also retarded). It sounds good, but not any better than a guitar i could scratch up myself.

[Cache069]

Well guys i wouldn't buy a guitar like this unless i was to put it on the wall for design or something, or if i was a collector.... Personally I do think that it really values when you know where every scratch comes from and what part of your life does it remind you, then it would have the most "home" feel ever....

[BruceJC75]

@pabdiary You don't know shit about my guitars or how I play! I know I take care of them and I don't need a guitar that makes me LOOK like I've been playing for 20 years! I let the playing speak for itself!

[pabdiary]

@BruceJC75 It's because your guitar has a Polyurethane finish. Vintage guitars and Fender Custom shop guitars have a nitrocellulose finish which is much thinner and expensive to apply. They age like this no matter what. If you knew anything about guitars...well, clearly you don't.

[BruceJC75]

That is such crap! I have had my guitars for years and have put ACCIDENTAL scratches and dings in them, but they still don't look anything like that. I think the only way somebody's guitar would look like that would be if they played as hard as SRV or as long as Willie Nelson! Or they just treated their guitar like shit.

[Jmanstk]

@MichaelBradus to each his own man, if someone wants to buy a heavily beat up guitar because they like it or ripped jeans because they like em so what? why should you care? i personally liked relics and not mention they come out of the fender custom shop so its gonna play better than your average american standard strat....

[123adam04wallaoklol]

I don't know what about you, but I won't ever put 6000$ for a strat!

[nikolajhansen15]

@Cache069

its just that newer strats is more solid, and they're therefore very hard to relic by just playin them for years, because of the nitro cellulose finish. I really like the relic look, but i dnt have the money to go and buy and original old strat. Therefore i prefer relic guitars. (:

[DuffCowboy]

the stressed out style really works guys. it's not about the look in the first place but they really have their own sound, and feel just perfect. no sticky glossy paint and a soft neck .

[Glockenator]

@MichaelBradus It's retarded. Just like buying an over priced signature