All user reviews for the Fender FSR Standard Stratocaster HH

I have this fender stratocaster that`s mexican made.I got it for christmas a year ago.I bought it from MUSIKHAUS THOMANN,Germany and I paid something around 330 bucks(actually I live in finland and here it`s somethin` like 380 euros).I think it was quite cheap `cause if I had bought it from the local music shops it would`ve cost at least 50 bucks more,so for a "not so fabulous and great musician like me" it was just great priced.

I like it`s great clean and bright sound a lot.Before this one I had a guitar that had 3 humbuckers and it was a little too "grimm" for me.It`s also good for many kinds of music;jazz,blues or maybe the good ol` rock`n`roll or almost anything (except black metal and that kind of music).One other thing I like about this guitar is that you can upgrade it quite much.

If you play a little heavier music and are looking for that strong,heavy sound,this might not be the guitar you are looking for.There`s not much to complain about in this guitar.Altough everyone can have their own opinions.

The quality of this guitar is great!The materials are carefully chosen(i think) and that vintage tremolo thing rocks!

Well,I don`t have much to add to this.After all it`s a great instrument for beginners and improved players too.It`s cheap,it`s good.I mean what more can you ask for?

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I got this guitar for about $320 on the internet. I was looking for a good quality and versatile instrument.

I love nearly everthing about this guitar. I can use it for country, rock, and blues sometimes. Three pickups make for a wide variety of sounds. Good construction.

The guitar is sturdy and well built, but has what I can best describe as a cheap feel. But I can get over it.

Pretty good quality; see above.

A great deal on a legend. A great rythm guitar and a decent lead one.

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I began plying guitar back when i was about seven years old but gave it up due to living in the country and no time for lessons and now 35 yrs later the desire was still there so i finally purchased a Fender stratocaster at Muncie Music shop for $375 and have been enjoying it ever since

The fender strat is just excellent all around the craftsmanship the individual components are superb the sound is very comparable to the legendary strats of the 50's and 60's and the overall feel of the guitar is something that you can't get in any other guitar

well i can't think of anything I don't like about the unit other than everyone wants to barrow it and thats a NO

I've explained the construction and how I feel about it but one thing that I did not mention is its beauty the inlays the deep enamal paint is a work of art something to be proud of for years to come

when you purchase a guitar you want something that feels good in your hands there are cheaper guitars on the market but they are the ones that are stored under beds people that buy those are not as proud of them, The Fender strats are art they are out displayed and played

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I Recived the guitar as a gift because people knew that I wanted one but i didnt have the money to buy one. They paid $199.99


I think it sounds great. Stays in tune. Adding any effects to the sytem is great. It has a great tone for such a low end guitar. People say that they have mistaken my sound from a mexican guitar. I SUGGEST YOU LOOK INTO IT! It could save big money!

My only complant with the guitar is the pickups the sound of the picking is very noticeable on recordings.

THE THING IS UNBREAKABLE. It has dropped a few times(oops!)NO SCRATCHES. It stays like new for a long time.

I think this is a great guitar for anyone. It handles traveling well and sounds good.
And most of all it SAVES money.

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Guitar Center (Foothill) for $199.99. It seemed like a nice starter guitar.

The pickups sound great. Nice strat sound. My friend has a Fender Strat and they sound very similar. The neck feels great. Good guiatr to start out with, if you are beginning to play.

The only problem that I've had is that the tone selector switch is constantly getting dirt in it, which cuts out the sound sometime. Other than that, there is nothing that I dislike about this product.

The consruction/quality of this guitar is good. I have not found anything wrong with this guitar, and I have had it for a little over a year. It sounds just like it did when I first purchased it.

This is a great guitar to begin with. I will probably continue to play it until it doesn't work any more. Great quality and everything, especially for the price.

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I purchased the guitar at a local music store for $379.99 Canadaian (thats about four dollars American)

Firstly, the axe is very affordable. Second, the Strat sounds awesome - I paid less than a third what people pay for American-made Fender Strats and, although its not quite the same, the Squier sounds pretty fucking close for the price. It looks awesome, is built tough, and sounds clean. Also, the neck is extremely smooth fast, something very important to most guitarists.

The guitar is on the lighter side of most other axes, and if you like a heavier guitar, then that may be a problem for you. Despite its weight, though, it is perfectly balanced and feels comfortable. Other than that, I havent run into any problems

The construction is solid through-out - neck, body, frets feel solid, no buzzing or shifting noises. A quality made guitar.

For the money you can't go wrong with this guitar. I hate when people try to cpmpare it to Gibson Les Pauls or other $2000 guitars, but this axe will hold its own against any similarly priced guitar. Overall, a kick ass choice for the beginner.

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I was just starting to get into guitar and I got sick of only being able to play my friend's insturments so I finally decided to head down to Axe's Music and pick up one for myself. I didn't know to much but I saw this sunburst Fender Strat. sitting there on the wall and I fell in love with it. I picked it up and just played the intro riff to Enter Sandman (the only song I knew at the time =D) and fell in love a second time. Sure I dished out all the money I had, about 400 bucks for the guitar, an amp, and a tuner, but it was well worth it.

This guitar is a great guitar period, but it is especially good if you are just starting out at playing and don't want to spend a ton of money right off the bat. It isn't the best guitar you can get but it's a damn good one. This thing can go hard and heavy, or if it's more your style, soft and mellow. So if your like me and are into a wide array of music styles this is a good piece of wood to pick up.

Not to many dislikes here. I have heard better sounding guitars but this one still sounds great.

3 single coil pickups, Rosewood fretboard, and comfort contoured body (whatever that means, I heard it somewhere) make this a great looking and feeling guitar. It was in excellent condition when I bought it and has remained that way 'cause I take good care of my guitar.

Bottem Line; buy this instrument. If your just starting out it's a great beginner guitar. If you've been playing for awhile you can still find a lot of great things to do with this thing, weither your into Mettalica, Creed, or both.

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purchased at a local guitar center for 199bucks,(original price was $332.99) i got it on a special smashed prices sales weekened where they also through in an amp for free(cheap 75$ champ 15 amp). I purchased this guitar because it seemed like a bang for your buck electric guitar(my first electric, but my third guitar).

well it comes in my favoite color for a strat(3 tone sunburst)-looks awsome by the way, althought the 3 tone costs 20$ more but its well worth it. according to musicians friend it also comes in sherwood green metallic, shoreline gold,candy apple red, and black metallic finish. The coolest thing about this guitar has to be its awsome headstock!it features a late 60's big headstock which is rougly 1 1/3 size of the regular head stock.

well i haven't played to many electrics but it seems like the low e string gets out of tune once in a while. also after only about 2 weeks of playing the g-string broke, so i had to replace it. The guitar when hooked up to the amp on high starts to hum pretty loud even without me strumming it(maybe its my cheap free amp?)

the body is pretty sturdy, no dents or scratches yet. comes with a rosewood fret or maple fret.

for 199$ this is a guareenteed bang for your buck strat. comes with 3 pickups, 5 settings, adjustable volume knob, and 2 tune knobs. looks awsome especially the head stock!solid build, chrome tuners. for those that want a great quality strat but can't afford the 799$ fender model this is a perfect purchase.

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I boought this unit for about 175.00 at Musicians friend. I bought thi modle cause it was in my price range.

I like the fell of the neck, it is fast. The pckups are very good for the price. This would be a grate guitar for starters.

The only things I dont like is how the neck feels a littel weak and it seems to go out of tune more then a regualr Fender strat.


This isa qulity unit and is more then perfect for a youger player or a begginer.
It is great to learn on because of it low ation and its playability.

If your are loking for a starter guitar and do not want to pay a lot of money this is agreat guitar for you.

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I purchased this guitar at Guitar Center, Eugene, OR for just under $200 (like a penny under but still under :P ) Right after signing up for a group instruction class at the local Community College, the pickups on my fake Telecaster went out on me. Since it was a fake, I was not able to find compatible pickups ANYwhere on short notice so I opted for a new axe (never a bad idea, right?) This was the perfect excuse to get a Strat, which I've always wanted, but I was on a limited budget so I opted for the Squier Indonesian model instead of a Mexican Fender. The salesman (his name is Rusty) was very helpful, and both my father and I spoke with him quite a bit over the phone for a couple of days before we went in to make the purchase. We told him what we were looking for and what we could afford, and he agreed that the Squier Strat would be just what I was looking for. He spent a while playing with all the ones they had at the store and finally picked out a nice metallic purple one with a rosewood fretboard that he thought felt the nicest to play, and set it aside. I came in the next day, and after looking at all the rest decided that I liked his choice the best, as well. We bought it that day and I've loved it ever since.

Great value. Spent a hundred dollars less than the "real" Fender, and that hundred dollars would have paid for "about an hour's worth of work on the fretboard" according to Rusty. Hey, for a hundred bucks, *I* can spend an hour filing frets, right?

After I got it, and had been playing for a couple of days, I noticed that once in a while the sound would cut out and be replaced by a loud buzzing/humming sound, no matter what the volume was set at on the guitar, and also one of the tone controls seemed to have an effect only intermittently. This turned out to be from poor soldering of the connections inside the unit, but luckily my father the electrician was able to fix that and touch up a couple of other suspicious connections, so now it works fine.

The wiring inside the guitar was horrible. Almost all of the connections had not nearly enough solder on them, and some of them were even completely disconnected (that's why the tone and volume controls were acting up, they weren't connected and only worked when the wires happened to be touching the posts.) When I opened it up, the cavities inside were quite a mess, with uneven paint all over and what looked like sawdust under the paint, but aside from the wiring there was nothing that would affect its performance. The neck is straight and the strings keep their tune from one day to the next.

A very good deal for the money. Small problems at most, that can be fixed with a couple of hours time put into it in your garage. I would recommend it to anyone wanting a Strat but doesn't want to shell out for an American Standard Double Deluxe Super-Duper Eddie Bauer Edition with double-pearl inlay and...you get the point. Good basic starter strat.

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I bought it offof musicians friend's catalouge for $220.00

Due to its cheap price, the Squier Standard Stratocaster is a swet deal. providing fat licks and riffs, this axe is the perfect guitar for begginners and intermediates. What is so great is the high tone sound it wails out on distortion or the mellow sweet chords produced in standard sound modes. This should be everyones first Guitar!

The only Drawback of this unit is the lack of color selection! But, im sure there will be a color to suit just about anyone.

Built by very strict Fender/Squier standards, the Standard Stratocaster is a great piece of craftmanship for the low price point. Featuring a solid mahogany body and rosewood or maple fingerbaords, it is a bauty. All of the colors and paint jobs avalable make it a site to behold. It is a quite beautiful piece of jamming equipment, like all of Fenders products.

The Squier Standard Stratocaster is without any doubt the best peice of begginner equipment out there. andone who plays knows the great deal of craft and work that goes into the amking of this product, and how taht makes it a true musical equipment Gem. A must-have for all begginers!

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This was my first guitar and I am very pleased with it. I paid $150 in US dollars for it. (a real steal!) I believe the retail price was $200 and change but I got it on sale.



What I like about the unit is the clear clean tone and the twangy sound.



There are a few things I dislike about this unit. It does not have the rich sounds of an Ibanez or PRS. Sometimes it sounds rather dry.



The contruction is standard of any other Fender/Squier guitar. it has a maple fretboard that feels alittle weak

In summary, this is a good guitar if your just starting off. If you can afford it get a better one.



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Fender has always been known for their heavy usage of single coil pickups. Not everybody likes this, and to help appease those, they make HSS and HH guitars. This is the HH version. 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, two humbucker pickups, one volume, two tones and a three way switch.

UTILIZATION

The guitar's biggest flaw was that the nut needed to be refiled slightly. The nut was binding and causing some odd vibrations on the G string. This can be cured in about 5 to 10 minutes with some high quality nut files, so it's not a huge deal. The frets themselves were fairly standard for the Fender Standard series. They were decent, but they're nowhere near the high end guitars like Anderson, Suhr, etc. The neck pocket was nice and tight without any major gaps in it, so no issues there. All in all, fairly solid.

SOUNDS

Every time I picked this up, I couldn't help but think that it was missing something. It lacked that Fender sound due to the lack of singles, and it was almost like it wanted to be more like a Jackson or Charvel guitar. The humbucker in the bridge was average, but it lacked the clarity and punch that I normally go for. The neck was much the same in that it was a bit uninspiring. If I were to install pickups in this, I'd probably look at something in the Seymour Duncan or DiMarzio line up. Both of those companies offer very solid replacements.

OVERALL OPINION

The guitar isn't really a strat, and I'm not sure how I feel about that. If this were a Charvel, I could understand, but it just seems odd for Fender to release a guitar with two humbuckers, in my opinion. I also am a huge fan of singles in the neck and bridge, so that's another thing I'm iffy on. The guitar itself is decent, and some of these blow away the American ones. Be sure to play a ton before buying.

fender is probably the biggest music company in the world when it comes to amp and guitars. They have been played all over the world from beginner learning guitar players to the best professionals in the world. Any guitar who has ever been playing the guitar longer than a few year most likely have picked up owned a Fender Stratocaster at some point.

My very first guitar was Fender Strat but with the standard three single coil operation. I have always wanted Fender Deluxe American made but it seems those are a little too hard to find. And forget about getting one with a Floyd Rose Tremelo in it unless you live in Japan. Fender if you are listening, bring us some American made 2 humbucker Strats over here please. Until that time then I'll just get a Charvel Custom or two.

UTILIZATION

Product Details:

* 014-0011-300
* 2010 FSR Std Strat MN MET 3TSB
* Alder body
* Maple, modern "C" Shape neck, (Tinted Satin Urethane Finish)
* Maple fingerboard,9.5" Radius (241 mm)
* 21 medium Jumbo frets
* 2 Humbuckers
* 1 Volume, 2 Tones
* 5 Position Switch
* Vintage Style Synchronized Tremolo bridge
* Fender/Ping Standard Cast/Sealed Tuning Machines
* Chrome hardware
* 3-Ply Black Pickguard
* 25.5" (648 mm) scale length neck
* 1.650" (42 mm) width at nut
* Vintage Styling
* Black Plastic Parts
* Standard Gig Bag included

SOUNDS

My two favorite wood combos are the Alder with Maple and the Alder with Maple and Ebony fret board. This fortunately has the first which is the best wood combination out there. I understand the need and desire for exotic woods and the allure for how beautiful they are, but when it just to straight players guitars needing to rock then there really isn't anything more simple and better than an Alder body and a Maple neck....perhaps a one piece alder body.

The tone from this guitar is very good. It can get beefy with the humbuckers and lighten it up for some single coil action. This is an extremely versatile guitar with the 5 way selector and humbucking and single coil operation.

OVERALL OPINION

I am not a fan of Mexican made products. Japan made is great since the Fender builder over there have to go to luthier school. So this guitar is going to feel a little cheaper made than an American made one will feel like. However, this guitar is going to be about half the price too.

I would recommend this guitar to anyone who doesn't want to spend $1200 on an American fender Deluxe guitar. At new these guitars come in at a round $500. not a bad price for a starter guitar.