Fender American Stratocaster [2000-2007]

I got this guitar from "The guitar shop" in Mississauga, ONT. I got it for around 1100 bucks canadian and that is a sick deal.

I love this guitar! It's amazing! It is so clear and the tone is right on! The neck is so fast and the finish is awesome! (Chrome Red)The pickups handle every note and the rods in the pickups are placed perfectly.

It doesnt come in lots of colors but oh well, who really cares.

Solid. Although the body is made of Alder wood, it is light and easy to play. Tuning keys hold stay in tune through some tough bends.

Sick guitar.... buy it now

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I bought this beauty from a near by Guitar Center. I was searching around for a fender strat, american if i had the money, but if i didnt id start looking at the standard. After trying a few other stores,it looked like i didnt really have the $ for an american. I tried the last place in town (guitarcenter),and asked what they had. They came back, and i soiled myself. A 2003 Fender American Stratocaster. Sunburst, rosewood neck, singlecoils, beauty. I basicly stole it from them for a mere $700, (they usually go for $850-$1200)plus it came with a sweet case, and let me say... Best Buy Of My Life!!!

Where can I say. She's a beauty.The wood (alder) is unbelieveably beautiful, the sunburst color is breathtaking,..everything about it is beautiful. Other than the looks, it plays like a dream. The rolled fretboards are so easy to play on, the 3-singlecoil pickups have a supurb sound that gives me the treble i need to play my heart out.The 5way switch gives me the flexablity to play any kind of music. This is something you must get an american edition to have. The tremlo is great, the keys never go out of tune, what can i say. Everything about it is great.

Ya, right.

Other than amazing, fenominal! It is the toughest and most hardcore guitar available. Let me say right now, i am a cluts, and always accidentaly hit my fender on random crap, but do you see any battle scars, wounds, chips, none at all!
The quality of the wood and painjob is amazing. There is nothing better than this.

AMAZING,PHENOMINAL,BEAUTIFUL,OUTSTANDING, BREATHTAKING. I LOVE MY FENDER!!!

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I bought my 2003 USA Fender Standard Stratocaster at the Guitar Center here in Sacramento, California for roughly $700.00 (including hardshell tweed case).

I am, unabashedly, a Strat man; always have been, always will be. My Strat is black/white/blonde and the paint finish is so smooth it looks almost poured on; just gorgeous. The neck and headstock, as well as the low heel at the neck joint, all make me think these are patterned after the '57 model specs. Balance, weight, feel are to perfection---it is a comfortable balance that will let you march all night and fight all day without the lower back grip that a heavier and less balanced axe will guarantee you. Completely standard, the model from which all other Stratocaster configurations are based on. Pure, quacky Strat tone that turns to a growl even with a little dirt in your signal chain.

There is nothing about this guitar that I don't like.

As mentioned above, construction, components, care and attention to detail are inargueable; a class act start to finish.

A little bit of Strat history: as Stratocaster sales began to slip once Buddy Holly was gone, Fender seriously considered cutting the Strat from its line-up altogether. It seems that, at the last possible moment, everybody got their jaws dropped by some new guy named Hendrix and the Strat was safe. Clapton "built" his "Blackie" Strat from the components of 3 Strats to make one good one (and by the way, "Blackie" was originally a three-tone sunburist [see Derek and the Dominoes cover]) that was later re-sprayed black. Clapton was hooked and the Strat has been his main axe ever since.
In the late 1960's Fender went "underground" when it began to advertise the Strat in a (then) little known, quad-fold newsprint we all call Rolling Stone magazine today. It (at least once) bought the center-spread advertising space that showed a white Strat with the hook "How to Purchase a Guitar". Want to slightly increase your Strat's "quacky" voice? Simply lower the middle pick-up just a hair and voila!, there it is!

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