astrozombie
KatyPerryologist
http://www.samash.com/catalog/showi...=Department&GroupCode=&categorysubsearch=true
I dont know about the red cedar...
whaddya think?
I dont know about the red cedar...
whaddya think?
What do you guys think about this strat?
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astrozombie
KatyPerryologist
ErikH
Well-known member
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
No, it clearly states in the description that the body wood is alder.
No, it clearly states in the description that the body wood is alder.
jerryjg
PinkElephantologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
Yes. Thats what i meant. Indian red cedar is alder. Thanks.
Yes. Thats what i meant. Indian red cedar is alder. Thanks.
XSSIVE
OCDologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
you should be banned from this and every other guitar forum for that comment and forced to sell all of your guitar related gear and become a drummer!!
-Mike
you should be banned from this and every other guitar forum for that comment and forced to sell all of your guitar related gear and become a drummer!!
-Mike
NoOnesFang13
New member
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
:laugh2: agreed lol. then again drummers tend to buy things they hardly use...
:laugh2: agreed lol. then again drummers tend to buy things they hardly use...
jerryjg
PinkElephantologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
hee hee.It was ajoke in reference
to his off topic post. I would never commit such heresy.
hee hee.It was ajoke in reference
to his off topic post. I would never commit such heresy.
astrozombie
KatyPerryologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
seriously though, how does the guitar look? lol
seriously though, how does the guitar look? lol
jerryjg
PinkElephantologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
What Fender or whomelse said in the ad; .QUOTE-"BUILT AND BACKED BY FENDER! Dressed in an eye-popping 2-Color sunburst finish, this limited edition Fender-designed Stratocaster guitar has the look and feel of guitars costing 10 times as much."-ENDQUOTE .
That isnt quite true. This guitar will never look or feel like a 1500.00 guitar. It looks like a good guitar to me though .
First thing you wanna plan on doing when you get a chance is having a tech set up the guitar , i guess you know that.
After that youre gonna want to drop in a cpl. of Duncans and maybe upgrade the nut and tremolo-that cheap trem is gonna rob your tone bigtime...possibly the tuners.Should be a decent playing and sounding guitar.
What Fender or whomelse said in the ad; .QUOTE-"BUILT AND BACKED BY FENDER! Dressed in an eye-popping 2-Color sunburst finish, this limited edition Fender-designed Stratocaster guitar has the look and feel of guitars costing 10 times as much."-ENDQUOTE .
That isnt quite true. This guitar will never look or feel like a 1500.00 guitar. It looks like a good guitar to me though .
First thing you wanna plan on doing when you get a chance is having a tech set up the guitar , i guess you know that.
After that youre gonna want to drop in a cpl. of Duncans and maybe upgrade the nut and tremolo-that cheap trem is gonna rob your tone bigtime...possibly the tuners.Should be a decent playing and sounding guitar.
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sosomething
Seymour Duncan Customer Support
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
It's a $140 chinese or indonesian squire. What do YOU think? I can hardly even think "real musical instrument" when I look at that thing.
I know this has been discussed ad naseum on here and myriad other guitar forums as well, but I will never understand why some people insist on buying a roomful of cheap entry-level imports when, with the same investment, they could have afforded one or two actual pro-level instruments.
It's a $140 chinese or indonesian squire. What do YOU think? I can hardly even think "real musical instrument" when I look at that thing.
I know this has been discussed ad naseum on here and myriad other guitar forums as well, but I will never understand why some people insist on buying a roomful of cheap entry-level imports when, with the same investment, they could have afforded one or two actual pro-level instruments.
astrozombie
KatyPerryologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
why do you guys keep refering to it as a whole different strat? the link is to a vintage modified HSS model.
why do you guys keep refering to it as a whole different strat? the link is to a vintage modified HSS model.
sosomething
Seymour Duncan Customer Support
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
This is the link you posted:
This is the link you posted:
astrozombie
KatyPerryologist
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
no, that is the link.
i click the link i posted and it takes me to that.
no, that is the link.
i click the link i posted and it takes me to that.
JB_From_Hell
Jomo's Nimions
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
Spend another $100 and get a nice used MIM or MIJ Strat.
Spend another $100 and get a nice used MIM or MIJ Strat.
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
some of those Deluxe Squiers are nice cheapies.... and i mean for cheapies i like what i see... compared to the plywood junk i used in the 80's when i started out that cost 3 times as much back then they are not bad instruments... my 1987 plywood Kramer Striker cost me around $500 in the summer of 87... i still have the sales slip somewhere... together with a case it set me back around $600 Canadian... and the guitar was junk...
For what they are and what they cost these Squier Deluxes are OK... i like the model that has 3 Duncan Designed hotrails in it...
i own many POS parts axes and i have a few early 2000's era Squier necks on some other bodies and the necks feel great...
i have come close to buying a new Squier a few times... just a junker to mess around with... but in the end i keep grabbing MIM strats and teles...
some of those Deluxe Squiers are nice cheapies.... and i mean for cheapies i like what i see... compared to the plywood junk i used in the 80's when i started out that cost 3 times as much back then they are not bad instruments... my 1987 plywood Kramer Striker cost me around $500 in the summer of 87... i still have the sales slip somewhere... together with a case it set me back around $600 Canadian... and the guitar was junk...
For what they are and what they cost these Squier Deluxes are OK... i like the model that has 3 Duncan Designed hotrails in it...
i own many POS parts axes and i have a few early 2000's era Squier necks on some other bodies and the necks feel great...
i have come close to buying a new Squier a few times... just a junker to mess around with... but in the end i keep grabbing MIM strats and teles...
3'scompany
New member
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
Really hit or miss.
I had a Squire bullet strat (only a bridge humbucker, one volume knob, thats it) with an invader in it and it abso-****ing-lutely slayed as far as tone goes. Really, it sounded as good to my ears as my PRS Cu22 before I put a C5 in it. Not better, just different, but as good. And this is no slight on PRS. The thing just killed for high gain stuff. There was something just magical about that squire.
However, it played like it had rusty nails for frets (read as: the worst neck ever) and the hardware was a joke. Some notes just fretted out no matter how high the action was set. I would have had to put a new bridge, tuners, nut and (realistically) a new neck on it too. I would have spent more on the neck alone than I bought the guitar for and that was kinda hard to swallow and especially because who knows how it would have sounded with better parts. I know that sounds ridiculous, but who knows? Maybe that guitar's magic was how all those parts sounded together.
In short, yes you can luck out and have a great sounding one, but they are few and far between. However, you'll never have a great feeling guitar, IMO. It'll always feel like a cheap piece of crap, much like mine did. I like my guitars to be easy on the ears, eyes and hands.
Really hit or miss.
I had a Squire bullet strat (only a bridge humbucker, one volume knob, thats it) with an invader in it and it abso-****ing-lutely slayed as far as tone goes. Really, it sounded as good to my ears as my PRS Cu22 before I put a C5 in it. Not better, just different, but as good. And this is no slight on PRS. The thing just killed for high gain stuff. There was something just magical about that squire.
However, it played like it had rusty nails for frets (read as: the worst neck ever) and the hardware was a joke. Some notes just fretted out no matter how high the action was set. I would have had to put a new bridge, tuners, nut and (realistically) a new neck on it too. I would have spent more on the neck alone than I bought the guitar for and that was kinda hard to swallow and especially because who knows how it would have sounded with better parts. I know that sounds ridiculous, but who knows? Maybe that guitar's magic was how all those parts sounded together.
In short, yes you can luck out and have a great sounding one, but they are few and far between. However, you'll never have a great feeling guitar, IMO. It'll always feel like a cheap piece of crap, much like mine did. I like my guitars to be easy on the ears, eyes and hands.
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Pink Unicorn Horsey
Megä Pöny Rÿdr
Re: What do you guys think about this strat?
I click the link you posted, and it takes me to this:
Squier
Affinity Strat Special Electric Guitar
(F0603503X)
Different electric. What's the model of the guitar pic you posted? Check your link.
- Keith
no, that is the link.
i click the link i posted and it takes me to that.
I click the link you posted, and it takes me to this:
Squier
Affinity Strat Special Electric Guitar
(F0603503X)
Different electric. What's the model of the guitar pic you posted? Check your link.
- Keith
