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<<Why did you come to the above conclusion? Just because your guitar
may not be good, doesn't mean that all of them from that era were
bad. I think it's universally agreed that Fender quality has been
pretty high once the pre-CBS era began, and that includes Fender's
AmStd models>>
No my Strats fine but there are better ones out there. The original
poster thought his strat was too cheap to hold the heavier strings.
I was trying to point out to him that I have one of fenders low mark
guitars as far as the American Standards go and it can hold the
heavier strings. Like I said before. when I bought this guitar I
read in the "Frontline" magazine that the body was alder. I was kid
at 13 and had been mowing lawns for three summers so I could go out
and buy this Stratocaster. Then I find out a few years later its
probably not alder and it has a veneer cap on it. You keep refering
to the late 70s and early 80s strats. Like I said before I was
talking about the American Standard which was started in the late
80s. It's well known that the early American Standards are not as
good as the newer ones. Fender eventually discontinued the line and
made them look more attractive and gave them a new name.
--- In , "ipongrac" <ipongrac@g...>
wrote:
> --- In , "supertwangreverb"
> <supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
>
> > Yeah, I was talking about the USA strats that they refered to as
> > the "American Standards." Sorry I should have been more to the
> > point. I still think the early 90s were one of the crappiest
years
> > for those standard models. Veneer body and most of them weren't
> > alder as Fender had said, but they were poplar or might have been
> > basswood.
>
> Well, they may not have been as good as many others, but, again,
> trust me, they were much better than late-seventies and early-
> eighties Strats, which were atrocious! There was a reason why
Fender
> was losing money and almost was shut down by CBS before they
decided
> to just sell it.
>
> One of my three Strats is a '89 Strat Plus, which was an 'upgraded'
> American Standard (it had a Wilkenson roller nut, Spertzel locking
> tuners, and Lace Sensor pickups). I bought it new in '90, and this
> has been my main guitar until at least '99, and I continue to play
it
> a LOT. Most of Interstellar Stomp by the Space Cossacks was
recorded
> with that guitar in the original configuration. Two years ago I
had
> my tech change it pretty dramatically to basically vintage specs:
put
> in the '57/'62 reissue pickups, get rid of the Wilkinson nut with a
> regular white fake-bone nut, and replace the two-point AmStd
tremolo
> with a vintage-style Fender tremolo. I LOVE this guitar now. It
> sounds every bit as good and maybe a bit better than my two '62
> reissue Strats, and it plays like a dream.
>
> Why did you come to the above conclusion? Just because your guitar
> may not be good, doesn't mean that all of them from that era were
> bad. I think it's universally agreed that Fender quality has been
> pretty high once the pre-CBS era began, and that includes Fender's
> AmStd models.
>
> Ivan
