All user reviews for the Fender Stratocaster [1965-1984]

I bought it from a guy, who didn't need it anymore, I got it for very little money, cca. less than 100$.

For the price I've paid I got a LOT of "music"! Maybe I was just lucky to get such a good piece, but this one really "roars". i play funk, rock, blues music with it and it suits forr all of these styles! It rocks!

The only thing I don't like about it that it goes of tune when I use the tremolo. So I usually play without it. It plays perfect then.

It's solid, firm,... if you know Fender or Squier then you know how good they're built!

A great guitar for the money you pay for it. The best choise for beginners, but I recommend it also for more advanced players if they don't like it just to own a expensive guitar to look great. IT ROCKS!!!

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How I came to know the Fender Stratocaster when I was little I always loved guitars. When I first layed eyes on that first Fender I fell in love. Then I got it i found it on clearence for $700.99 and it was a Standerd Fender Stratocaster I loved it and I always will

I like it because it has very juicy sound and very clean sound at that. I like the way it looks and hows it feels to play its a all around great guitar

Theres nothing I dont like.

ITS very simple and very good quality.

I LOVE THIS GUITAR!

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i bought in a strat pack for 300 bucks at a music store about 3months ago.I got it because i needed a guitar because my old guitar broke.

what I like about it is that i force my anger to the guitar.It is fun to distroy it too ( but i cant aford to do that but it's tempting to do so).

Well,this guitar f***ing sucks its s***.The screws come out the f***ing guitar never stays in tuned nobs brake you cant select which pickup(s) you choise without hitting it.

The construction sucks it looks like drunk assholes built it .Quality is alright i guess.

I f***ing hate this damn guitar the strat imatations are better then this. Only good thing on the guitar is the pickups. I suggest dont get any squire that is 300 bucks are bellow it really sucks.My ratting is really -5 but i cant choise so i have to choise 1 but it is really -5.

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I got this guitar in a starter kit that also came with an amp, tuner, a little manual, some picks, and some other random stuff. It was about $200, I think.

This is an exellent guitar for people learning to play. It's very well made for the price, and has all the features that a more expensive guitar would.

It isn't the best guitar in the world, so it does have minor issues. The action isn't the best, it doesn't stay in tune for very long, and the neck on mine is warped, but that might not happen to everyone.

Like I said, it has certain flaws, but they aren't that bad. You'll be able to deal with them.

Again, the perfect beginner's guitar. Inexpensive, and easy to learn on. For the price, it's almost perfect, so I'm giving it a five.

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i am a 13 year old girl and i wanted an electric guitar i didnt have much money only about $300 i went to brothers music
i was looking at squire by fender and i also wanted an amp but even the small ones were about $150. i was going to buy it when i told the sales associate and he showed me a "strat pack" that came in bass and electric it included a fender stratocaster(new) a large practice amp picks a strap amp cord and electric tuner and an instructional video
the best part was it was only $259 it was a GREAT deal considering a stratocaster without all that stuff was about $500

its very pretty all my friends wish they had mine and it has wide frets wich i like
the neck and the finish are also great

its very durable comsidering i have dropped it about 50 times and it has been stepped on

its a great gituar i recommend it to anybody with a small budget but wants a good quality guitar

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I actually inherited this guitar from my grandpa. but i guess he probalbly paid bout 100 buck or so.

Its really a neat guitar and sounds fine when well tuned, and has a really cool sunburst design in the middle. very simple design. It would be a fine starter guitar if it wasnt so hard to tune. when i first got it it sounded awful but after i got the electrics tightend and got it restrung it sounded great.

wow this guitar has some major probs,It doesnt like to stay tuned for more than an hour. Its not very loud. It tends to make this awful tinny loud when u pluck certain strings. the bass strings are impossible to play and make that awful tingggggggggggggg that makes your ears ring. I would definetly not recommend this to someone who wants to rock.

It has horrible construction! the head is misshaped.the bridge needs to be lowerd and widend. it only has one little pickup.
needs replacements strings because the originals are awful sounding and hurt to play.

please dont buy a conrad. its one of the worst made guitars youll ever find. and unless u receive it for free dont bother on paying your precious $ on it.

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I bought this second hand from a friend, i had heard really good reports of this guitar, so i played it and loved it. I payed £300 for it, after it had a plec set up. Ed: This guitar has the Kent Armstrong hot and cool rail pickups built in and a tremolo.

It has so many sounds just by mixing the pick ups with the 5 way selector switch. It also sounds so good with the hot rail at the bridge, it gives you a great crunchy sound. The single coil middle pick up is great for recreating Hendrix sounds and the such like. The Kent Armstrong cool rail at the bridge gives a creamy, smooth vintage sound perfect for blues etc. The solid alder body looks fantasic and sounds great. The scale is perfect as i have quite large fingers.

After using the tremlo arm for a while it put the guitar slightly out of tune, but after a quick waggle of the arm it came back in tune.

It's built really robustly and has held up to many long travels, it has been gigged and there is no dammage at all. It is the best quality guitar i have ever played!

Such a great guitar for the price, unbelievable sound.

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I bought this great guitar from Music & Arts Center and by cash because it was incredibily cheap. Instead of getting the Fender Strat pack when i started, I paid a bit more for a sound five to eight times better.

This guitar is one of the greatest out there and its under $200. But don't let the cheap price fool you. It's sound is incredible, it stay in tune for a long time (at least for an electric guitar). Unless you want to make the $1500 climb to better guitars, this is the guitar for you.

Nothing is bad.

The quality on this unit is amazing. It's a single piece of oak wood that makes the sound quality excellent. The pickboard is a solid piece of plastic that helps beginners not to sratch their guitars.

This stylish, affordable guitar will please the owner whether he or she be a beginner or an expert. This is a guitar that even pros love (Jimi Hendrix's guitar), and you will be sure to love it as well.

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I purchased this black body, white pickguard, Fender Stratocastor as a pawn shop near the edge of town. I was at the time deciding whether or not to purchase a guitar from the many they had strewed about the racks. It shown through the rest more brilliantly and dazzling than the others. I quickly picked up this fender Strat, plug it into the amp, and played a few chords. Aside from having a horrible strings, and a dint here and there, it was perfection. I managed to talk to cashier down to a mere $100. I nearly broke his arm off, paid him the cash and walked out the door.

The look is very nice. The colors complement each other and are classic. The sound is wonderful. Also, the original labeling, and mechanics are still intact.

The occasional glitch in the paint. I would rather it be American made rather than Mexican. It would be nice if the logo were a bit more attractive.

It's constructed, to the best of my knowledge, very well. There are no visuable manufacturing defets.

It's a wondeful guitar purchased at a very reasonble price. I would buy the same again if I had the chance.

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This 1992 U.S.A. Fender Stratocaster was purchased at a garage sale in Salt Lake City, Utah for $400.00.

When I saw this white guitar, I had to play it.



This white Stratocaster has a Fender/ Wilkinson roller nut, a rosewood fingerboard, unused jumbo frets that do not buzz, three Fender-Lace Sensor single coil pickups, and the original bridge. It also came with a black Fender hard shell case and a brand-new smell.

Once I had this nicely balanced guitar in my hands, I knew I had to have it.



I am use to a Floyd Rose bridge and nut that keeps a guitar in tune no matter how intensely it is violated.

The only disadvantage I can see with the original Fender bridge on this Stratocaster is that it is somewhat stiff and prone, when used intensely, to knocking the guitar out of tune. I believe this bridge problem is correctable with a little custom fine tuning which I have not yet mastered.

The body is in wonderful like-new condition, and the neck is fast with low to moderate action. The electronics are in fine working condition with no "pod creakling" what so ever.

I would truly recommend Fender Stratocasters. The tone is amazing, and the craftsmanship is outstanding! Plug it in, and you are ready to go.


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I paid £120 From the argos catalogue,
i bought it as my first guitar. This guitar is made in China.

Umm well it looks ok, its got quite a nice plastic black finish to it. it has 22 frets, 3 single coil pickups (im struggling here) and it was quite reliable. is better than a Hohner.

Where do i start? After a little while the neck started to bow, the frets buzzed, if you strummed the strings too hard the truss rod in the neck would vibrate making a horibble noise, there was next to no varnish on the fret bored, the pickups sound so thin and tinny,
when i opened it up i dicovered random bits of metal stuck to the back of the pick ups, screws coming thru from underneath where the trem had been screwed in, cracking paint and badly fitted joints.

awful, looks nice enough from the outside, open it up and find allsorts of surprizes and surplace bits of metal.
This guitar was put together by some blind one armed chinese 5 year old. (poor kid tried his best, what do you want for 3cents an hour)

if u dont want to spend much money then this is the guitar for you! if you are going to buy a squier please (for your own sake) dont buy a chinese one! there are much better budget guitars around like tanglewood or for a bit more an Epiphone.

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