Fender Richie Sambora Fat Stratocaster

While Richie Sambora was never a guitarist I really looked up to, I always liked his strats. It's probably because we're both floyd rose users. I really wish Fender would offer more floyds on their guitars as the rest of their line up is saturated with other bridges. The guitar features an alder body, a maple one-piece neck, 22 frets, star inlays, an original floyd rose, HSS configuration, one volume, two tones and a five way switch.

UTILIZATION

The first thing I looked at was the inlay work. Fender did a pretty good job at the inlays, and I didn't notice too many fillers being used. The bridge is the number one thing about this guitar. It features my absolute favorite Original Floyd Rose bridge, and it feels amazing. You have ultimate tuning stability. One thing about this guitar is that it's a flush mount floyd, so it naturally has a slightly different sound than most other fully recessed floyds. The fretwork on it was decent, but it could have been better. It was used, so it was hard to determine exactly what was from wear and what was from Fender. The rest of the guitar is about what you'd expect from something around this era.

SOUNDS

The guitar had a DiMarzio PAF Pro in the bridge with some DiMarzio Area pickups in the neck and middle. The PAF Pro in the bridge was a cool choice. It's very open, and it excels at hard rock. I find it's a bit linera at times, and there are other times when I wish it were a bit more compressed sounding. It's pretty open, so if you're into that kind of sound, it might work for you. It was a bit underpowered in this, though. Then again, I was mostly playing metal through this thing. The Area pickups were very silent, and they sounded amazing. They're some of my favorite singles out there, and they have an awesome blues tone once you roll down the volume a bit. They respond nicely to both pick attack and other dynamics, and the in between tones were absolutely to die for.

OVERALL OPINION

The guitar is one of the few floyd rose guitars out there, and Fender decided to quit making these. I really wish they'd release something similar in the future, but I don't have many hopes for that. They seem to be stuck on making the same guitar over and over again. Either way, if you can find one of these on eBay and can deal with the inlays, they're pretty cool guitars.

NAME MODEL Richie Sambora Standard Stratocaster
SERIEArtist Series
COLOR (309) Candy Apple Red
CORPSAulne
MANCHEMaple, Modern C Shape, (Satin Polyurethane Finish)
MECANIQUEFender / Ping Standard Cast / Sealed Tuning Machines
TOUCHERosewood, 9.5 Radius (241 mm)
NO. Medium Jumbo Frets OF FRETS21
Dimarzio PAF Pro PICKUPS1 Custom Humbucker (Bridge)

UTILIZATION

We find the well known and of course strato amlior:

Micro Di Marzio Original Floyd Rose tremolo that ANSI II original, providing greater versatility.

Book reinforces Gigbag Fender with all the accessories settings.

SOUNDS

Can be used for all kinds of music (from blues to hard rock!) Because its caonfiguration gives a wide range of possibilities.

OVERALL OPINION

A great guitar that can fill a lot of people, especially amateur amelior strato ....

a signature model so a collector.

the serious Fender is present in this guitar, a test is required.