Fender Custom Shop American Classic Stratocaster

I absolutely love the sound of that good Fender Stratocaster with a nice Marshall amplifier or some sort of standard cleaning amplifier with a post. This guitar has been one of the greatest instruments that music is ever known. It has the perfect balance and solid feel and everything in between. The neck is very competent and it's very easy play and sounds good in almost any situation. These are fantastic guitars that are extremely versatile and can play in pretty much any style of music that you put it in. They don't do very well in the new metal modern metal settings that use a lot of dropped tunings or alternate tunings but anything that's in standard to a step below will sound really good.

UTILIZATION

Features

Custom detailing
Classic Fender contours
Legendary Strat tone
Thin nitrocellulose finished ash body
Lightly figured maple neck
Rosewood fingerboard
22 medium-jumbo frets
Deluxe cast/sealed machine heads
3 Modern Classic single-coil pickups with the Hot Classic in the bridge position
3-ply parchment pickguard
Aged white plastic parts
Custom Classic 2-point synchronized tremolo with milled solid-stainless saddles, solid steel spring block, and pop-in arm
Includes hardshell case



SOUNDS

I really like Fender Stratocaster with the humbucker installed in the bridge position. I like it to be a fatter sound with the humbucker combined with a slick clean sound of the single coil pickups. When you use this guitar with a good Marshall amplifier and a nice delay this padel such as an Ibanez tube screamer or a boss SD 1 padel you can get some great hard rock tones. This guitar will give you everything you want and what ever music that you put it, it will compliment you back. There really isn't anything that this guitar can do as far as music styles for me personally. That's why really this guitar is more versatile than any other instrument because of its ability to adapt to any version of music that you play.

OVERALL OPINION

These guitars usually float right around $1000 or so. You can find them in the used section of many classifieds as well. This is one of the most prominently used guitars out there so finding one isn't too hard. However there has been some variations in neck profile size so I suggest trying out a few at the shop locally to find out which one do you prefer best or overall that is great for gigging and recording.

The Custom Shop Strats that Fender makes happen to be some of my absolute favorite strats. They're expensive, but they're worth it -- up to a point. They have this amazing feel to them that's much more personal than the cookie-cutter strats that Fender cranks out day after day. The guitar features an alder body with a maple neck, a rosewood fretboard, 22 frets, dot inlays, a vintage tremolo, three single coils, one volume, two tones and a five way switch.

UTILIZATION

The fretwork on this was superb, and you don't really see that from the regular production line models. The ends were properly beveled, and the tops were crowned nicely. On top of that, they were perfectly level. While I couldn't really get the perfect action I wanted due to the natural radius of the fretboard, I was able to get close. The guitar had a great weight at roughly 7 or so lbs. The rosewood looked very nice and had some cool looking streaks in it that some of the lower end models don't tend to have. It gave it some character, I thought. The vintage trem on this is the standard one you always see, so there's no change there. One nice thing about this was that the nut was properly cut, and it was a bone nut. This helped in both tuning stability and tone.

SOUNDS

The guitar had some lower to medium output single coils, and it was blues tone for days. I first tried this through a Fender Blackface, and it put out some crazy fat sounding clean tones. Slap on a bit of reverb, and you have a clean tone that would rival any guitar out there. I plugged this through a Marshall JCM800, and that's where it really came together. I was able to get a singing lead tone kind of like Eric Johnson once I hit it with a pedal and got some delay going. I was also able to get a nice hard rock tone with this. The overall guitar was extremely resonant, and you could really tell it through these amps. If you plan on playing metal, you might want to look into replacing the pickups in this, but I have a feeling most won't play metal with this guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

If you can afford one of these Custom Shop guitars, I highly recommend it. However, you really have to weigh your options of having a Fender or getting something even more amazing like a Suhr or Anderson. Fender's Custom Shop prices are getting so high lately that it's pretty ridiculous. It's almost getting to Gibson prices at certain times. If you find the guitar speaks to you, buy it. However, if you're wavering wether to get this or another guitar, you might want to check out your other options.

Fender Custom Classic Stratocaster C-Neck <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Made in the USA of course:</span>

Custom detailing, "Color Cobalt Blue"

Ash body color Cobalt blue (option to 300 euros ...)

Classic Fender contours, legendary Start tone

Thin, lacquer-finished alder body

Channel Profile C'tout maple with a beautiful flame effect (including key ...)
Polished on the back of the neck for comfort

22 medium-jumbo frets

Motorsports Fender Deluxe

3 Modern Classic single-coil pickups with Hot Classic in the bridge position

3-ply parchment pickguard

The microphones were aged

Basically, just happiness ... top equipment, quality copy. and a marvel of beauty.

UTILIZATION

1 The handle is it nice?
The handle is smooth behind a marvel. After 3 minutes, you feel that this guitar has always been yours!

2 Access to acute (last string) Is it easy?
Access to acute ... Ben's a Start ... but with 22 frets!

3 The ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)?
RAS is a Start

4 Do you get easily a good sound ...?
LOL ... ben just know how to play because she does not forgive anything!
Anyway, I really rediscovered the Stratocaster. I had two American, but never did any of them sounded like this Custom Shop!
Its level, the micro HOT easel is revolutionary and never heard ... very punchy!
The neck pickup is also fabulous, clear sound in both saturated or crunches!
I never used this much since that micro Strato.
Usually, I use only positions 2 and 4 in clean, now I am using the neck pickup alone also

SOUNDS

1 Are they suitable for your style of music?
I do a bit of everything from funky jazz to pop and rock hard, she knows everything, and it is far from ridiculous big sound thanks to the bridge pickup really terrible HOT!

2 With what (s) amplifier (s) or effect (s) do you play?
I use it on my VETTA II in concert, on the POD X3 Pro in my home studio, and over the entire range of amps available at the studio (Fender Twin, Marshall JCM 2000, JCM 800, Mesa correct, and many others ...)

3 What types of sounds you get and with what settings ("crystalline", "fat ",....)?
Enough fat neck pickup, position 2,3 and 4 very crystalline and chattering.
The bridge pickup is very, very sharp and is ideal for big sound in a good rhythm or solos to Pink Floyd

4 What are the sounds you prefer, you hate?
It's a joke?? It's a bomb that can do everything ... okay?

OVERALL OPINION

1 How long have you using it?
I've had it three weeks.

2 What thing do you like most/least about it?
She is beautiful, comfortable, fun to play, the body vibrates at the head, SAR ...

3 Did you try many other models before getting this one?
Strata's, I had 2 high end, and I tried a bunch ... NOTHING TO SEE! we play at all in the same court!

4 How would you rate the quality / price?
I got a good deal above taking advantage of the decline of the dollar, so in my case, I put on 10/10 ... deep financial crisis!

5 Knowing what you know now, would you make the same choice? ...
Rather than 2 times, and even I am now convinced that the Custom Shop models are far superior to the models said Standards!
So, I repeat all my guitars for custom shop (Tele and Les Paul)