All user reviews of 4/5 for the Fender Classic '50s Stratocaster

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UTILIZATION

His most is the handle (nice hyper).
The less weight (it's a big Stratocaster)

After it is a strat comfort maximun game!

SOUNDS

I play with a Vox AC 15 I mounted the guitar ac wholesale tie (rajoue 2 springs on my vibrato His Hyper-vintage!.
I play mostly blues and rock, is also suitable for Funk, Afrobeat and Jazz.
The original pickups agree a time ... but it is only an imitation of his Fender Stratocaster. This attack and it's pretty crazy Finnesse missing!
I was changed from Fat 50's and it's something else. Classic series 5O's and 50's Fat one can doubt its going to sound but the point is !!! this is crazy! Here we go on the true sound Strat (Jimi Hendrix, straite say ...). Ac bridge pickup is happening even on rockabilie / Surf very super cool vintage limits its telecaster (very very sparkling treble).

Keeping score is top notch.

OVERALL OPINION

It'm 6 years old, I changed the pickups it two months ago and I rediscovered!
I change the white pickguard for a 3-layer pickguard Turtel and it's completely finished.
The refinement of origin are pretty poor, you have changed many things, primarily the pickguard is the badgamme home badgamme (one layer). And effect, Vintage / Antique microphone is super cheep ac this white pickguard ...
However the mechanics are superb. and the handle is really amazing!
I've always been attached to this color and this guitar!

There I a skyscraper of berserk! it is perfect! I have tried several (telecaster, strat Southwestern standard, even strat US) but lack of face to that price level ... Now she has the face and sound this guitar but you have changed a lot of things ! the final ca make a guitar in your 900 euros but after a Fender at the top of the top!

Manufacturing Mexico - Classic Series - Body poplar or alder (for sunburst) - Handle Saddle - Saddle key 21 boxes - Vintage Frets - Fender Alnico V pickups 3 (neck, middle, bridge) - 3 buttons controlled the (1 volume, neck pickup Tone, Tone micro central) - Slecteur 5 positions - Vintage Synchronized Tremolo Tremolo - Chrome hardware

UTILIZATION

The handle is certainly not the fastest but is nevertheless comfortable. Key stocky, not everyone likes forcment. I found a trs enjoyable: the sound is pretty slamming and incisive. CHAC is most acute for simple (even for those with small fingers, which is not my case ...). In terms of form, it is a Start then the comfort is outstanding and it is not heavy trs. His little weakness is in the pickups hum (but it's a default that I love) and for pnibles with a jack Rapco, we arrive attnuer the snoring. So we trs sound that is not correct and the sound of everyone.

SOUNDS

To play the Buckley is awfully good! Red for hot, Ben Harper, Hendrix, Clapton, it's great! I play with a Marshall MG100DFX. For those who love reggae and ska, you'll be happy with the bridge pickup. In distortion, with the neck pickup or central (and with the serious tone), you will have a well rock. If you or your mtal fan of Hard Rock, this guitar is not for you, but if you like blues or rock, you'll have fun. For my part, I love the micro central: just playing the Tone I get to review many styles totally DIFFERENT. Obviously cettte guitar should not be versatile enough for some, but I have several guitars prfre which are excellent in their fields plutt one that is not on top of everywhere, but this is notice that all staff and questionable.

OVERALL OPINION

I've had a little over 3 months and I rflchi almost 1 year before you buy! This guitar has a really me, not as MODEL standard (for example, I had tried before acqurir it) and it really makes one with me and it Rasht if I had to make another choice. I hsit with several MODELS with single coil pickups (guitar with 2 doubles Pipelines Limited for later) The price may be a little lev (700) for some, the qualitprix report it may be the best and is certainly not versatile enough for some of you but it's even a good guitar trs (and is guaranteed for 5 years like all models Fender)
Last point: change the strings right away because these backgrounds are not a good sound trs.

Everything is said ...

UTILIZATION

The handle is it fun?
Sensational for my small hands.

Access to acute (recent freight) is it easy?
It's a fender ...

Ergonomics is it good (in terms of shape, weight ...)?
Correct weight, good balance, the shape is very ergonomic.

Do you get a good sound easy?
Yes with the original pickups but can do better, be said at this price it can not have everything a great ... The microphone base is not really acceptable but tops. We say that it is honorable.

I mounted the Fender 57/62 Vintage and there ... Vindiou the beautiful church! It sounds, it's round, it's hot. One can obtain various sounds but never leaves indifferent. This is the first time I change the pickups on the original one of my guitars, well, I regret it.
With these pickups, I think, it has little to envy the US version. I invite you to do the same.

SOUNDS

They agree with your style of music?
Ba vi, otherwise I would have bought something else ... What a question!
Style: Beatles, Pink Floyd, Blues, Rock ...

With what (s) amplifier (s) or effect (s) do you play?
I play on Fender Hot Rod Deluxe. Foot! In effect: Blues Driver, Compression, Chorus, Digital Delay and Reverb. What a sound!

What kind of sound you get and with what settings ("crystalline", "bold ",....)?
Clearly this lens in crunch ... that's where I'm having as a kid.

OVERALL OPINION

How long have you use it?
I've had a short week, and it never leaves my hands. Start the USD is on the shelf for a while.

What is so special that you like most and least?
+: Color but also its handle!
-: The original pickups ...

Have you tried many other models before buying it?
Vi! It is not my only guitar since I have 8 in all price ranges in wide enough.

How would you rate the quality / price?
Unbeatable Fender (489 € chez Thomann!)

With experience, you do again this choice?
A yes and definitely is a killer this skyscraper, I younger than 20 years (at least)!

Mine came set great, no buzz. Top! I can only commit yourself to at least try it.

Model Name: Classic Series '50s Stratocaster ®
Made in Mexico

Color: Surf Green
Body: Alder
Profile of the handle: Form "Soft V"
Frets: 21 Vintage type
INLAYS inlaid: Overlay INLAYS black point type.
Radius key: 7.25 "(18.41 cm)
Fingerboard: Maple
Handle Material: Maple neck
Finishing the race: Gloss Urethane
Nut width: 1.650 "(42 mm)
Length of the pitch: 25.5 "(648 mm)
Mounting plate of the handle: Vintage Style, 4 screws.
Electronics
Configuration of microphones: S / S / S - 3 X Micro Start ® single-coil vintage style
Selection of microphones: 5 way switch: Position 1: Bridge pickup. Position 2: bridge and middle pickup microphones. Position 3: micro center. Position 4: middle and neck pickups. Position 5: Neck pickup.
Controls: Master Volume, Tone 1. (Neck pickup), Tone 2. (Micro Central)
Hardware
Accessories: Chrome
Vibrato + Stem: Vintage synchronized type
Tuners: vintage style.
Nut: synthetic bone nut
Bonton selector: selector button Aged White
Pickguard: 1 ply white (8 holes)

Key setting for the height of the bridges: hex key (Allen) .050 "
Unique Features: Aged Knobs and Switch Tip, Vintage Styling, Synthetic Bone Nut
Accessories

Included Accessories: Deluxe Gig Bag


Note: 1-ply Pickguard is a soft knock plastoc max! Was it well at the time? The three folds are much more class and there were also provided with a (White Perloid More kitsch ... you die!) I installed!
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UTILIZATION

The handle is all that makes the value of this model. It is historic, beautiful, soft, silky, well done, easy!

the guitar is light, the ergonomics, it's a standard!

The vibrato and mechanical are completely correct for the style of use allowed!
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SOUNDS

No way suited to my style of music ... METAAAALLLLLL ! ! ! But that is not his calling! This is the guitar of Shadows, the Rock'n Roll, ballads.

Tested on a Marshall Lead 150, it excels at clean sounds. The sound achieved by the arrangement of three microphones is consistent with what we can expect. Low, mid, Treble! Quality is at the appointment, it is hot, slap it, it's brilliant, crystalline, and all very clean! Sound wickedly vintage (Buddy Holly, Buddy Guy, Eric Clapton)!

Addition 09/09/11: After 3 months of use, it is clear that the simple side bridge does not break bricks, any sound to say the "ugly"! But against the other two: a pure delight even better than my Telecaster made in United States! Straw!
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In distortion is not really that according to my purely metallic. But it can do (and quite well) for how the Blues Buddy Guy and Eric Clapton (as against that snoring is bad if not in contact with the strings!).
That said, nothing replaces the distortion humbuckers, dual coils that have made a much more emotional and who have no fault "hum" inherent in single coils.
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OVERALL OPINION

After 3 months of daily use, a marvel question its absolutely amazing (except for that of the bridge) and reliable!
I love it! ! !
Bought second hand but as new € 365 (€ 400 for) after negotiation, I think it's not a bad deal considering the quality of its finish, comfort and beauty of the handle, the sound of its microphones its authentic side (although made in Mexico).

Designed in the '50s (when the so-called popular music dominated by the Jazz turned into Rock'n Roll), it is in fact totally unsuitable for my style of music. It was not until the 70's and the changes it will undergo changes for the instrument and find a more compliant with the birth of the Metal initiated by guitarists such as Jimi Hendrix and Ritchie Blackmoore and transcended by Yngwie Malmsteen, before n 'marks appear dedicated, inspiring them (Jackson Charvel, Kramer, ESP and BC Rich), which will delight its supremacy in this field.

To conclude, it is a guitar curiosity. Far from the current standards in terms of technology (ancient) and sound (not an ounce of versatility), very typical of an era of music, however it has a charm, the charm of retro items, antiques!

So it will join my TELECASTER Anniversary to play anything else than metal or, in perspective, not much for now ...
Will still be nice to him and continue to fascinate me and charm me ...
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- My story: Preview in my thrift store Saturday, 18/06/11 at the bottom of my street, it was purchased by pure chance. With no specific need (having everything I need to satisfy my passion) is first the logo and model FENDER Strato who have questioned. Exposed next to a Lite Ash was retro modern side by side.
Having owned one of the 60 TELECASTER the handle similar to the finish, varnished blond / honey, but have never owned a STARTOCASTER, the temptation to solve this sacrilege emerged immediately. Not very sensitive to large heads of the 70 (Hendrix, Blackmoore), both carried the ideal design for my taste!

After testing, so I looked for the Classic 50 for the reasons mentioned above.

Returning to the store on Monday to finish up my mind, I would have taken two (complementary) the Lite Ash had been sold shortly before my arrival ... Damned and the better it is without regret! -
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Addition on 23/06/11. The omnipresent buzz of being simple unbearable, I was able to significantly reduce this default by isolating the electronic parts. After searching the net I cobbled something but it works: I lined the cavities with foil, wrapped the mic with Teflon tape and then aluminum foil and electrical tape and covered the inside of the aluminum pickguard adhesive. Desperate times call for great ways ... !
Result: Clearly this buzz and almost no distortion is much better! Against by the sound of microphones emerges changed: more powerful, more flashy!
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One thing that was prominent about the old school Fenders is that they had a bit of a V neck. These V necks can be very much love/hate, so be sure you know what you're in for when buying one. The guitar features an alder body, a maple neck with a maple fretboard (one piece with a skunk stripe), 21 frets, dot inlays, vintage tremolo, three single coil pickups, one volume, two tones and a five way switch.

UTILIZATION

The guitar is put together decently. It's about on par for what comes out of Fender these days. The frets themselves, while level, could use a bit more of a crowning on them. I found them to be a touch flat. The ends themselves were nice, and they didn't slice your hand every time you moved up and down the neck. The nut was cut properly, although it could probably use some lube -- either nut sauce or graphite. The neck joint on this was nice and tight with only a very small gap that is most likely not hindering any tonal aspects of the guitar.

SOUNDS

The pickups in this were a bit too vintage for me. I'm all for vintage gear, but I have trouble playing it sometimes since I'm used to higher gain and higher output pickups. The bridge pickup had a great clean sound, and the in between position was to die for. I plugged this into a nice Fender Bassman, and it was just tone for days. The neck and split positions with the neck were also tonal bliss, but I still found myself wanting some more output for those heavier lead lines. I'm more of a legato player, so these pickups make me work.

OVERALL OPINION

The guitar is pretty good, but be sure you like the V neck that's on this. It's a very love or hate type of neck. If you've never played a V neck before, hit up your local Fender dealer and a try a few. Some people really love them, and I think they're pretty cool, but it's not something I want every instrument to have.

This is a Mexican made Stratocaster from Fender with the following specs:

- Alder body

- Maple neck (gloss finished)

- Maple fretboard

- Twenty one vintage style frets

- Three vintage style single coil pickups

- Controls: Volume, Neck Tone, Middle Tone and five way pickup selector

- Vintage style tremolo arm

UTILIZATION

I find this guitar quite nice to play although it's not amazing for my taste. I find the neck slightly too thick for my liking, it works great for open chords but my hand aches from playing barre chords after a while. The gloss finnish on the neck was surprisingly not sticky to play which I have found to be a problem on some other guitars but it's been well played before I ever laid my hands on it so that may be why.

I'm not a huge fan of Stratocaster wiring as lack of bridge tone control seems stupid to me but regardless its easy to get a good range of quality sounds out of this guitar.

SOUNDS

This guitar does sound really good, in most positions. The tone of the neck pick up when using a fuzz pedal is great. The combination of Marshall JCM900 Mkiii, Big Muff and this guitar make an amazing thick tone close to that of Siamese Dream by The Smashing Pumpkins.

One thing I dislike about this guitar is the lack of tone control for the bridge pickup as sometimes it can be quite harsh in the bridge position.

OVERALL OPINION

I really like the sound of this guitar but the neck is too thick for my liking so it wouldn't be a guitar that I would buy myself. I really love the finishes that this guitar come in, but the aged white knobs on it make it look cheap to me.

I'd recommend giving it a go if you like the look of it as I know lots of people will like the feel of this guitar.