the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

Re: the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

I've yet to play a bad one- some of the relic jobs are not all that great, though. Seems the original production (late '08/early '09) tend to look better with the Roadworns, but I've played a few and every one was a good player and a couple were really nice. I played one several weeks back that was a better guitar than the $3K relic '59 sitting on the same shelf. The relic looked more fake than the RW, and the RW played better and had a better piece of wood in it. Go figure.

The Teles I've played are a bit more hit and miss on the Relicing and the fretwork, but the strats have been money. There is an O-white one at my local ScamCash that if I were in the market for a new strat would be mine-great tone, put together well, and a good relic job. Can't find a good sized neck, nitro, taller frets, and vintage tuners (all *must*haves for me) on anything else fender makes that isn't over the top expensive.
 
Re: the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

did you play a hwyway 1 yet? pretty similar feel with crappier pickups but also a lower price. Not a 7.25" neck, but I really liked the frets on the hwy1.

I liked the roadworn tele a lot, the one I played was t1ts.
 
Re: the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

I had a HWY1 I borrowed for a time- a GREAT strat, barring a sharp bridge string hole that busted high e's every time I bent more than a step up- I've got a (poorly played) metawl clip on my soundclick still, I think (warning- its NSFW- I throw the F bomb here and there, IIRC)
 
Re: the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

Try and get hold of a TEX MEX Strat. It's the same as the Road Kill with out the wear stickers and it has modern trem and tuners so it stays in tune. They were export only but I think Thomann.de still have some. The retail was £200 less than a Road Kill which is why they discontinued them, there is much more profit in a worn guitar.
 
Re: the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

I have half of one, and it's great!

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(This neck on a '96 American Standard)
 
Re: the more i play and hear the more i like Road Worn Strats!

meh, there's better guitars for the money, like the custom classics & highway 1's
 
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