Showing posts with label strat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strat. Show all posts
Sunday, June 19, 2011
A custom marriage of a Fender Ash FSR Strat Stratocaster and a 50s Reissue V-shaped neck... Noiseless, too!
I gypsied the bridge pickup, put in a nice treble bleed circuit, put on a dreamy 50s tinted V neck, and voila! with a few upgraded plastics, it's a masterpiece. One of my best pieces yet. All parts but the caps and pickguard are original Fender...
Friday, June 10, 2011
GFS Lil Puncher Humbucking pickup for Telecaster or Stratocaster
This pickup did very nicely. Quiet, 7 kOhms or so, very clear voice. Nice and loud in a vintage sort of way. A great way to do some neat coil-tapping or parallel-voicing in Strat/Tele slots! Not my best pics, but hey, they work!
An EMG SAV Active Stratocaster Pickup Set in a Black Moto Fender Strat Pickguard!
Not a genuine Fender pickguard, but a nice one, plus a real EMG assembly. Very nice! LOVE SAVs. I have another set (much older and in ivory) on one of my happiest strats
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
EMG USA DG-20 Stratocaster assembly on custom pickguard pictures
My custom-made black-and-red Gypsy bridge cut Stratocaster pickguard with a factory complete DG20 EMG USA assembly. Wow. Sounded great!
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
Fender FSR Highway One Stratocaster 2007 USA Strat!
The iconic Fender Stratocaster... it has had many iterations, evolutions, names, and even non-Fender copies. It is one of the most fundamentally-copied guitar shapes and types in the history of electric guitars.
Perhaps it is no surprise, but most of the most-coveted Fender Strats are the USA-made Strats. The American Standard, the American Deluxe, and so many others have plied our ears for a long time. Some years back, Fender released a thin-skinned, nitrocellulose-painted, simple American-made Fender line called "Highway one" (also variants such as "Hwy 1" and so forth).
The Highway One series made USA-made Fenders much lower in cost and much more accessible to more bass and guitar players throughout the world. The Highway One is priced (street) around 60%-75% of the cost of an American Standard.
The unique features make them different and desireable - but rest assured, Fender has NOT scrimped on the SOUND of the Highway One Series. With excellent well-made pickups and electronic parts, the "Greasebucket" circuit, and excellent neck and body woods, the Highway Ones are excellent playing and awesome sounding instruments.
I was lucky enough recently to purchase a new 2007 Highway One Strat - a special one with a maple fretboard (most are rosewood), and SSS (Single-Single-Single coil configuration), and that cool 1970s headstock shape: big and in charge. I'll be writing a review of it on http://theguitarreview.com (new window): but for now, here are some nice pictures of my Strat...
The iconic Fender Stratocaster... it has had many iterations, evolutions, names, and even non-Fender copies. It is one of the most fundamentally-copied guitar shapes and types in the history of electric guitars.
Perhaps it is no surprise, but most of the most-coveted Fender Strats are the USA-made Strats. The American Standard, the American Deluxe, and so many others have plied our ears for a long time. Some years back, Fender released a thin-skinned, nitrocellulose-painted, simple American-made Fender line called "Highway one" (also variants such as "Hwy 1" and so forth).
The Highway One series made USA-made Fenders much lower in cost and much more accessible to more bass and guitar players throughout the world. The Highway One is priced (street) around 60%-75% of the cost of an American Standard.
The unique features make them different and desireable - but rest assured, Fender has NOT scrimped on the SOUND of the Highway One Series. With excellent well-made pickups and electronic parts, the "Greasebucket" circuit, and excellent neck and body woods, the Highway Ones are excellent playing and awesome sounding instruments.
I was lucky enough recently to purchase a new 2007 Highway One Strat - a special one with a maple fretboard (most are rosewood), and SSS (Single-Single-Single coil configuration), and that cool 1970s headstock shape: big and in charge. I'll be writing a review of it on http://theguitarreview.com (new window): but for now, here are some nice pictures of my Strat...
Perhaps it is no surprise, but most of the most-coveted Fender Strats are the USA-made Strats. The American Standard, the American Deluxe, and so many others have plied our ears for a long time. Some years back, Fender released a thin-skinned, nitrocellulose-painted, simple American-made Fender line called "Highway one" (also variants such as "Hwy 1" and so forth).
The Highway One series made USA-made Fenders much lower in cost and much more accessible to more bass and guitar players throughout the world. The Highway One is priced (street) around 60%-75% of the cost of an American Standard.
The unique features make them different and desireable - but rest assured, Fender has NOT scrimped on the SOUND of the Highway One Series. With excellent well-made pickups and electronic parts, the "Greasebucket" circuit, and excellent neck and body woods, the Highway Ones are excellent playing and awesome sounding instruments.
I was lucky enough recently to purchase a new 2007 Highway One Strat - a special one with a maple fretboard (most are rosewood), and SSS (Single-Single-Single coil configuration), and that cool 1970s headstock shape: big and in charge. I'll be writing a review of it on http://theguitarreview.com (new window): but for now, here are some nice pictures of my Strat...
The iconic Fender Stratocaster... it has had many iterations, evolutions, names, and even non-Fender copies. It is one of the most fundamentally-copied guitar shapes and types in the history of electric guitars.
Perhaps it is no surprise, but most of the most-coveted Fender Strats are the USA-made Strats. The American Standard, the American Deluxe, and so many others have plied our ears for a long time. Some years back, Fender released a thin-skinned, nitrocellulose-painted, simple American-made Fender line called "Highway one" (also variants such as "Hwy 1" and so forth).
The Highway One series made USA-made Fenders much lower in cost and much more accessible to more bass and guitar players throughout the world. The Highway One is priced (street) around 60%-75% of the cost of an American Standard.
The unique features make them different and desireable - but rest assured, Fender has NOT scrimped on the SOUND of the Highway One Series. With excellent well-made pickups and electronic parts, the "Greasebucket" circuit, and excellent neck and body woods, the Highway Ones are excellent playing and awesome sounding instruments.
I was lucky enough recently to purchase a new 2007 Highway One Strat - a special one with a maple fretboard (most are rosewood), and SSS (Single-Single-Single coil configuration), and that cool 1970s headstock shape: big and in charge. I'll be writing a review of it on http://theguitarreview.com (new window): but for now, here are some nice pictures of my Strat...
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Fender FSR Straight 6 Stratocaster
I've recently purchased two Fender FSR Straight 6 Strats. One of which I have customized into a tribute to David Gilmour (I'll publish photos of my interpretation of my own "Black Strat" in another post in another time)... The Straight Six makes a nice basis for customized Strats...
These have great necks and frets, excellent body balance, a super-cool nitrocellulose finish (like my Highway 1 Stratcoaster), and that great Fender feel!
Here are some pictures of my second Straight Six, fresh out of the box!
So, let's look at some pictures!
These have great necks and frets, excellent body balance, a super-cool nitrocellulose finish (like my Highway 1 Stratcoaster), and that great Fender feel!
Here are some pictures of my second Straight Six, fresh out of the box!
So, let's look at some pictures!
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