« Fender American Deluxe Stratocaster »

I bought this guitar at piano's and stuff in Pittsburgh, Pa for around $1000 dollars tax included. I purchased this guitar because I needed a quality guitar and I was tired of playing anything less that the best.

There's really nothing not to like, This guitar has locking tuners, comes with schaller locking strap locks and never goes out of tune. The intonation is also the best I've yet to play. Also you can get absolutly any sound out of this thing. Given the right pedals and some basic guitar knowledge and creativity, you can do anything with it. I almost forgot, The finish on the american deluxe is as close to custom shop as your going tho get, and it also has abalone inlays which adds to its high quality appeal.

I really have no complaints about anything on this guitar. The only thing I wish I would have done different though, is that I wish I would have bought the american deluxe fat strat. That humbucker is freakin awesome.

The construction is anything that you'd expect from a high quality instrument. It never goes out of tune, its almost wierd. Other than that I have yet to have any problems.

Bottom line: I looked for a new guitar for about 6 months. I played everything from gibson LPs to Prs's to a whole bunch of off brand expensive stuff not worth mentioning. The problem with les pauls and prs guitars are that they are one trick ponies and their tonal qualities don't even compare to this guitar. This is easily the best guitar for the money and then some. I'm not knocking LP's( I currently bought a gibson standard) but this strat's intonation is better, it stays in tune longer, and in my opinion, is the greatest damn guitar ever. Thank you

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