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Hey everyone, this one has got me pretty psyched up, it's a new Fender USA Standard Stratocaster that I'm buying on layby from my local Pro Music shop, here's a pic of the actual guitar so you can see what it looks like:
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This is a genuine Fender USA Stratocaster, body colour is dark maroon, pickups are Fender's Custom Shop Fat 50's, neck is all maple.
looks great Doc. I can't work out the money you spend on these new guitars it would be better spent getting out of the nightmare flats you live in.
It's actually gotten a lot better where I live, a lot of the troublemakers that were hanging around have been gotten rid of, so it's a lot more peaceful, but yeah I should save some money up so I can move out.
ok Doc that's good news. Bet it would be cheaper for you to build the strat yourself, even if you got it professionally painted.
Sure its a cool axe. I love the dark maroon colour.
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
Well I've already got two Strats that I've built myself, the Hot Rod Strat and the Gold Strat remember, I decided that I really wanted to get myself a real deal Fender USA one, besides I figure you only live once in your lifetime, I'll make it a birthday present for myself for this year, that's how I'm going to justify buying it.
I guess I could order a couple of new PBG kits next year, I'll see if I can order that 51 Tele kit next year then, how about that?, and then you could help me out with the build process of the Tele kit if you like mate.
I've already settled on a finish for the 51 Tele, it's going to be TV Yellow, I've already had a yarn with Dingobass about TV Yellow Dingotone, and he reckons he could do it, The neck could be finished in vintage amber so it really looks the part, alright I've slated that project in for next year.
Nice Strat Doc
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Originally Posted by stan
Cheers mate, it sure is a nice Strat, I've actually test-played it at the shop I'm buying it from and everything about it felt really nice, it had a nice sustain to it too, those Custom Shop Fat 50's pickups are real nice and fat sounding, not harsh and trebly like typical Strat pickups, the neck feels nice and comfortable, and the weight of the guitar is nice too, not too heavy at all, I believe the body is made from Alder.
I'll definitely be sure to demo it when I finally get it home from the shop for you guys.
@ Wokka just so you know, I do really appreciate you looking out for me, cheers mate.
that sure is purdy Doc! Nice one!
Nice one Doc you're going to enjoy that axe.
Love the colour scheme Doc. It was the inspiration for my Red J Bass with maple neck & white scratch plate.
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Originally Posted by wazkelly
I quite like it too mate, but to my eyes the body colour looks more like Black rather than a Red, when it's actually a dark Maroon, I blame that on my Red/Green Colourblindness.
Know what you mean Doc as my eldest Son Mitch inherited his colour blindness from my wife's father. Both of them are red/green deficient but in differing degrees to the point where Mitch struggles to tell the difference between Blues & Purples as he cannot see the red component in purple. Greens, Browns & Greys can also tend to blend into one another too.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNomis_44
Must be a mind bender for you doing all the electronic & electrical stuff as lots of that is colour coded and in shades that are not friendly for those with any form of colour blindness.
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Originally Posted by wazkelly
My Colourblindness is actually Red/Green deficient too, but I've got no problems distinguishing different shades of Blue though, I get Browns confused with Reds, and Light Greens confused with Oranges, and yeah some times it can be a bit of a mind bender when it comes to reading the colour-coding on resistors, but I found a good work-around for that, I just measure the resistor with my multimeter, and if it's not the value I need I just keep measuring resistors till I find the one I need, so far that seems to work for me.
My mum had Blue/Green Deficient Colourblindness, she has trouble differentiating between Greens and Blues, I must have inherited it from her, she seems to do alright though, she makes dresses for herself and she's pretty good at it.
Funny you mention that your Mum was colour blind too as it tends to be 1 in 4 for males and around 1 in 20 for females and the gene is passed from Mother's to Son's and quite often skips a generation as my wife is not colour blind at all.
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Originally Posted by wazkelly
It's quite interesting when you look at it, to be honest, my Colourblindness is not really causing me any issues cause I can see well enough to be able to cross a road safely, technically though, I really should be wearing my glasses, but I found that it makes it hard for me to focus my eyes, and that's due to the fact that one of my eyes happens to be the dominant one, add to that being born cross eyed as well as short-sighted, I'm surprised that I'm not legally blind, I had to have an operation on my eye muscles when I was six years old, to straighten them up, otherwise I would see two of anything I looked at.
I just remembered that I've got that Fender super Twin amp head, I bet that Fender USA Strat will sound great, and loud through it.
Good to hear you are seeing straight.
About 20 years ago we took our eldest son to an optometrist who specialised in providing some correction or colour enhancement for colour blindness through using different coloured contact lenses however this was too distressing for a pre-teen child attempting to put a contact lense in that we never found out whether it might have worked. A former workmate had sever dyslexia and wore slightly different coloured lenses in his glasses which corrected that so possibly similar theory that has merit.
For sure, being able to see straight is important because a lot of the things we do in our lives depend on our ability to see well, I'm just thankful that I'm still alive and able to enjoy all the things I like doing.Quote:
Originally Posted by wazkelly
Nice guitar, I had one the same. I think you'll find the correct name for the colour is "Bordeaux Metallic".
Beautiful under lights, a little lost in bad light.
Make sure you're getting a good discount as the American Std has been replaced by the American Pro.
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That sure looks sexy with the faded parchment coloured PUP covers and control knobs.
I've always liked dark colours on Strats with white scratchplates and maple necks, for some reason that colour combination looks really good, of course light body colours, like Sonic Blue, look great too, been getting into Seafoam Green as well.
Me also but check these.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrNomis_44
One on left MIA and 1 year older than MIM on right.
Both spend 99% of their time locked in case, UV not an issue.
Can't figure why, both Fender Seafoam Green, still like them both.
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Dreamy strat Doc
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Originally Posted by Andy40
Once I've got it all paid off it'll mean the fulfillment of one of my life long dreams, to own a genuine Fender USA Stratocaster, I'm going to be making the second layby payment on it tomorrow, and then I'll only have about 5 more payments till it's all paid off.
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Managed to make a second payment on the new Fender USA Stratocaster today, so now I only have 5 more payments to make on it, to keep myself on track with the payments, I drew up a little table on a piece of white A4 printer paper so I could stick it on the door of my kitchen fridge, included in the table is a small square that I can put a tick when I make a payment, there's also columns showing the date of the next payment as well as how much there's left to pay off, see I'm being really organized about it, seems to work for me anyway.
Update:
Made the third payment on the new Fender USA Strat today, now there's only four more payments to go till it's all paid off, I'll have it in my home in another eight weeks.
Update:
Well I've finally got my new Fender USA Standard Stratocaster all paid-off and it is with me at my new flat, been playing it through my Marshall amp and it sounds really good, especially with my Marshall's clean channel and the Boss RE20 Space Echo placed in the amp's FX loop, I can easily nail that Hank Marvin clean tone, here's a few pics of the guitar that I took not long after I got it home from the shop I bought it from:
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Here's a pic of the case that the new Strat came in, complete with all the acessories:
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Here's a closeup pic of the body of my new Strat, I tried to get the camera-angle right so that you can see the colour of the finish, hopefully it came out clear enough:
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good stuff Doc looks great and good news you are in your new flat. Hope life is happier for you !
Wondered where the Doc show has been !
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Originally Posted by wokkaboy
It's definitely heaps better in my new flat, been getting some decent sleep, the flat is in a much nicer neighborhood, I've been a bit sick with the flu this week, but I'm over the worst of it, I've bought some medication for it so I should be fine, had to wait till today to get my internet re-connected at my new place, feels good to be back online again mate.
good stuff Doc, can you please post a close up of the body in sunlight so we can see the colour ? cheers
Can do mate, I'll see if I can set the guitar up on a stand just outside the front door of my new flat, hopefully there's enough sunlight to show-off the colour of the body, which is a deep Burgundy Red, but it's a metallic finish though, if you shine a white Led torch on it at the right angle, you can see the metallic lusture of the finish, anyway, I'll see if I can get that pic done.Quote:
Originally Posted by wokkaboy
I posted the pic with the other pics of the new Strat, as you can see, it's a very deep Burgundy Red, when I first saw it in the shop, I thought it was Black in colour, then I realized that I had forgotten that I'm Red/Green Colourblind.....lol.
Here's some interesting things about my new Fender USA Stratocaster, for a start, it was made at the Fender USA Factory in 2014, so it's only three years old, it has a 5-Way pickup selector switch installed that works as follows:
1, Neck Pickup + Tone 1.
2, Neck + Middle + Tone 1.
3, Middle + Tone 2.
4, Middle + Bridge + Tone 2.
5, Bridge + Tone 2.
Tone 2 also features a detent at the number 10 position on the knob, when this is engaged, the tone-circuit is completely bypassed so that you get the raw, un-filtered tone of the bridge pickup, pretty interesting.
Of course, the three pickups are Fenders Custom Shop Fat 50's single-coil pickups, they are apparently wound like typical 50's Strat pickups, but with a bit more bottom-end to them and less of the harsh midrange, they definitely do sound fat through the clean channel of my Marshall amp, particularly the neck pickup, real bluesy sounding, really good cleans too, at first I thought that the new Strat was going to sound harsh through my Marshall's overdrive channel, but I was pleasantly surprised at how fat it sounded, the guitar has lots of natural sustain too, even with the bridge set up to float, apparently that's because of the Copper-Infused sustain-block underneath the bridge, since I've been wanting to get into using the whammy bar to do Hank Marvin style shimmers, I'm going to leave it well alone.
Welcome back Doc enjoy the Stratty goodness!
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Cheers Andrew, I've definitely been enjoying it heaps.
Update:
New set of Fender Locking Tuners arrived in the post today, I bought them on eBay last fortnight, anyway, they are a drop-in replacement for the Fender Standard Tuners as installed on most Fender guitars made in Mexico and in America, the standard tuners feature two small studs that fit into small holes drilled near the mounting hole on the back of the headstock, the two studs prevent the tuner from moving under string tension so that no mounting screw is needed, Fender Locking tuners the same two studs as well.
I removed the stock Fender Tuners from the headstock of my Fender USA Strat and replaced them all with the new Fender Locking Tuners, and yes indeed, they are a direct drop-in replacement for the stock tuners, requiring practically no mods to the guitar whatsoever in order to install them, they do seem to be helping to keep the guitar in tune better which is good, so I'm happy with them.
Because they are Locking Tuners you don't need to have much of the string winding around the tuner-shaft, you just pull the string taut and tighten the thumbscrew on the back of the tuner and then cut off the excess string and you're done, it then doesn't take much winding to tune each string up to pitch, and best of all, from the front of the headstock, the tuners look completely stock, I'll post a few pics of the new Fender Locking Tuners installed on my Fender USA Strat shortly.
Here we go:
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This is a very easily reversible mod to do to a Fender USA, or Fender Mexican Strat.
Locking tuners are great - everything I've rebuilt/modded has them installed!
Is it an optical illusion or are those staggered string posts, doc? They certainly look plush!!
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Originally Posted by corsair
It's definitely not an optical illusion, those are staggered-height posts, apparently the idea with that is to eliminate the need for a string tree.
I like how Locking Tuners dramatically speed up the process of re-stringing your guitar since you don't need to wind much of the string around the post to bring the string up to pitch.
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Although the stock Fender Custom Shop Fat 50's pickups did sound good, there were a couple of things about them that I decided I didn't like, firstly they are a bit too bright for my tastes, secondly they are hum-prone, so in order to remedy that i decided to swap them out for the three white Kent Armstrong Dual-Blades that were in my Gold Strat, don't worry, I'll buy another three of them for the Gold Strat next year since they're not that expensive, anyway, doing the swap-out definitely made a big difference for sure, no annoying background hum, but more importantly the guitar sounds fatter and works better with my Marshall Amp's overdrive channel, so I'm really digging it, I still get that Strat "Twang" with all the pickup selector-switch settings though, so that's a bonus.
Pretty stoked that the pickup swap-out works really well.