All user reviews of 3/5 for the Fender Classic '50s Stratocaster

Made in the Mexican plant of Fender.
Alder body, vintage vibrato, handle larger than the Standards of the time or the American Series. Fairly thin frets.
3 knobs: volume and two tones. A 5-position selector.
With three single coil pickups: short a Stratocaster!

UTILIZATION

This Strat that I owned in the late 90s to early 2000, has a nice finish, finish not ashamed to face than the U.S. models. Surf Green color is successful.
It is, like all Statocaster, light, handy, ergonomic, easy to play, short quite successful.
The technical back for the microphones that are absolutely the same that equip Mexican Standard. If an intermediate position, there is a sound close to U.S. positions that activate only one of the three microphones are not entirely satisfactory. The pickup points a highly acidic character did not like me.
Nevertheless we can still say that this is a great violin detail because this guitar makes it quite reasonable and some change, so that this microphone.

SOUNDS

The sounds are generally good especially as I wrote above, the intermediate positions: microphones handle / middle and middle / bridge. But lower on the other three positions.
Tone selectors do their job but the electronics is not the strong point of this Strat: it "buzzes" a lot. We must practice good insulation cavities mics if you want to use without too much noise positions "micro alone" and a fortiori of distortion pedals.

OVERALL OPINION

I have kept this model shortly despite some changes had improved considerably. I then owned a American Standard, American Texas Special ue, a Deluxe American and Clapton signature. Is it worth noting that the Mexican was well below 4 other Strat?
For lovers of vintage AND handyman.

Mexican
Fender vintage bridge
Channel vintage
For the rest a stratocaster, the only one that can be obtained with a reasonably priced color fiesta.

UTILIZATION

The handle is the quality of this guitar, end, radius of small radius.
Mine is lighter than my other strat, a classic player 50s, which suggests that the body is poplar, alder and not ....
But attention to the spacing of the strings see more next topic

SOUNDS

I play Shadows and instrumental music of the 60s
the sound is consistent with what is expected of a vintage guitar.

OVERALL OPINION

I use it for 3 months now which allows me to compare with the classic player 50s.
- Of the difference in density of wood, microphones, sound is drier, less intimate, more suitable to the music that kind Shadows classic player 50s
- But this guitar suffers from a default, the string spacing of the bridge, 56.4 mm which is much too high E on loan from the edge of the handle, the classic player 50s is 52.4 mm, 4 mm and less is huge and much nicer!!
It involves changing the entire vibrato bridge, and then good luck, because even at Fender they do not know what they are selling and therefore what amounts or does not rise on a specific model.
Most dealers either, one must look abroad to find the right information.
But know, for example, That a vibrato with screws apart to 56.4, with 52.4 strings are not colored gold, or Fender, or among the many accessory manufacturers.
For information on this subject, contact me.

It is the color I wanted, fiesta red, but as to make a choice, for a few dollars more, take a classic player 50s

A small fender that comes from Mexico, if you want to know about these CHARACTERISTICS'll see the top because I do not want to remember what the other said!

UTILIZATION

A round bomb just not suited to shred and trs to mtalleux, plus it contains only a few frets 21, which is not suitable mtalleux and shred.
I like the fender look, then a right, not too heavy, we can make the con playing (roll over, jump, munch strings ... without having to make a physical effort Whereas (cf. lespaul))
on the other hand I do not like the color green a little pd (excuse me the term).
I like the micro serious (it's rare a) there are serious (that's clear!) ...

SOUNDS

Yeah sounds, good rock, surf music, blues, hard rock limited (really limited), to play the jimi, clapton's finally all brol of the 50 '60' is the IDAL .
If you rtro your like me you'll like it sre ...
sounds, it is on that mouai fender There's better, but it's better than dja Mexican Standard Stratocaster ... good bass sound, the sound environment j'laime not much and I think that of acute pte eardrums, but it is to make grunge on the other hand ...
his clear, beautiful, pretty, enjoyable, fender what! (A little sharp at the edges)
its saturated, dirty, not clean trs, ca spit, not for mtalleux ... no no!

OVERALL OPINION

J'lai not long since, I like the sound! his mouth, but it's a fender a little trite, it is called a 50 'but hey I see a fender pourqoui 50'! because it has a color of 50 'and the wood used in 50' ... But the micro reissues (in Mexico) are still the same ...
it's a little con ... quality gonna prices if you buy it in 700 ...
frankly it's a good guitar for men is the IDAL rtro!