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Fender Classic '60s Stratocaster

STC-Shaped Guitar from Fender belonging to the Classic series

Kint Kint

«  Excellent guitar »

Published on 01/14/13 at 04:28
It is therefore a Stratocaster made in Mexico which remains very good. It emits a visually good impression of high quality. In purely technical level, I made a copy / paste from home thom ...

Classic series
Alder body
Maple neck
Profile Handle: Soft C
Rosewood
21 frets Medium Jumbo
3 single coil pickups Custom '69 Strat
Vintage style synchronized tremolo (2 points)
3-ply mint green pickguard
Scale: 648mm
Width at Nut: 42mm
Color: 3 Tone Sunburst

A strat, neither more nor less, although I would have liked noiseless pickups but hey, at this price ... I am therefore 8.

UTILIZATION

In strict terms of use, bah this is a strat. A priori everybody knows! The handle is very nice, it has a good grip. The rosewood fingerboard is fairly soft.
The guitar is well balanced, the standard weight (it weighs three tons not like a Les Paul) and access to acute is easy enough.
But be careful because past the 17th fret, the notes tend to be slightly distorted. We need to make slight bends to compensate.

I put so again an 8.

SOUNDS

Again no surprise. It is a strat. The sound is bright and rather thin. I was very surprised because U.S. compared to standard models, it has a very warm, round bass. All for much cheaper! And yes, the Stars and Stripes worth its weight in gold (not always justified).

On the neck pickup, it is clearly bluesy tones, sounds very Hendrix and I love it! Through the microphone excels in funky rhythm, the sound is bright and well coated. The bridge pickup sounds it offers more country, so far without being able to compete with the telecaster. It also sounds very good rock and punk / rock with a slight drive. on the other hand you can forget the big distos, this is not the playground!

I play a lot Laboga alligator who put value in this guitar, I really like all the sounds, heat, brightness, sound hendrix anything. The sound spectrum is really wide open! Metalheads pass your way on this guitar.

I put 9 because for me it refers.

OVERALL OPINION

I use this guitar with great pleasure for 5 years, I still can not find major fault blame him ... After all, when you take a strat, we know what we want and what to expect!

For this particular model, the + are:

-The price!
The mechanical-that add vintage charm
The excellent sound-blues / funk and rock (60's and 70's)
-The pleasure of playing on a real strat!
-The reliability of the instrument (never had any problems with)

And -:

-No noiseless pickups
-The maple fingerboard have been proposed ...

I put that 9! Very good guitar, which has not finished rave!