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When Fender first built the Stratocaster 60+ someone years ago a pretty much broke the mold. This is such an iconic in classic looking guitar that is being the influence of many modern boutique builders and other guitar manufactures throughout the years. It is been a platform and a framework to boutique builder such as Anderson Charvel or Suhr guitars Lewis compounded up on this design to build their superstrat guitars. You can see the influences from many of these boutique guitar builders all over their designs that stem from this Fender Stratocaster guitar.

The tone of this guitar is an exceptional town and what I like about is when you put it in the neck position pick up you get some great bluesy tones and really highlight the characteristics of the body shape and natural tone of this guitar. This guitar has a great voicing and a great tone for clean and blues to medium rock playing. Even some metal players and hard rock players and use this guitar for their Maine. Ask because it has just a great feeling great tone even know it has single coil pickup's.

UTILIZATION

Body Alder
Neck Maple, Modern “C” Shape,
(Satin Polyurethane Finish)
Fingerboard Rosewood (p/n 011-7430) or Maple (p/n 011-7432), 9.5” Radius (241 mm)
No. of Frets 22 Medium Jumbo Frets
Pickups 3 American Strat® Single-Coil Pickups
Controls Master Volume,
Tone 1. (Neck Pickup),
Tone 2. New Delta Tone™
(“Delta Tone” system includes high output bridge pickup and special No-Load tone control for Middle and Bridge Pickups)
Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade:
Position 1. Bridge Pickup
Position 2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
Position 3. Middle Pickup
Position 4. Middle and Neck Pickup
Position 5. Neck Pickup

SOUNDS


I love the way this guitar sounds with a good sender hot rod deluxe amplifier. There's something that naturally happens when you put this guitar with a fender hot Rod guitar amp with its natural dark tones and smooth and warm harmonics I just think this guitar very well. Uses guitar with the good overdrive pedal and delay pedal if you can get some solid rock tones and some great Lee Jones. I turf for this guitar with an analog delay because it doesn't really give the delays a stark distinction between the the notes but the analog delay gives it a good voicing and flavor change that is great for lead playing and just really fills in those gaps very well.

Since you have single coil pickup you can hear the notes separate very clearly and distinctly to the analog delay pedal will fill in those gaps very nicely and help add to your overall tone and feel of your guitar rig. It was a good high gain amplifier fire such as a marshal or a Mesa boogie or Bogner amplifier you can get some great big juicy distorted tones that fit really well with the hard rock band or style of music.

OVERALL OPINION


I highly recommend this guitar do any guitar player out there because it is such a great guitar and a classic iconic guitar. It has a great tone and a great field and the overall balance of it is very exceptional. You can find these on the use market for very inexpensive prices and I've seen them as lowest $6-$700 used. They're all are the classified section you can find them pretty easy on eBay with just a click of the mouse. This is a great guitar to add to any collection if you are a collector this probably isn't the guitar for you but if you're at regular gigging musician or you need a good guitar for recording and this is a great guitar to have.