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I wrote:
> 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>>
Ooops, it should be clear that I meant to say "once the POST-CBS era
began"....
--- In , "supertwangreverb"
<supertwangreverb@y...> wrote:
> when I bought this guitar I read in the "Frontline" magazine that
> the body was alder. Then I find out a few years later its
> probably not alder and it has a veneer cap on it.
Bill, are you sure about this? What is a veneer cap, anyway? I was
also under the impression that the bodies were alder. I would be
very surprised if they weren't as these guitars were Fender's main
sellers from '87 or something through the mid-'90s. But I'll be
happy to consider the evidence...
> 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.
Sorry, I misunderstood. I thought you said that these AmStd models
were among the worst Strats Fender EVER made. I understand now what
you're saying.
> Fender eventually discontinued the line and
> made them look more attractive and gave them a new name.
Didn't they simply make them look more vintage? Give the body the
same contours as the vintage models, and make the neck more like the
vintage Strats. Oh, and have the body routing underneath the pickup
like the vintage models, too. Though I appreciate all these little
touches, and would prefer them, they really don't affect the sound at
all, do they? It's just cosmetic, for those like most of us here.
(Though it's strange that they would do all these ultimatelly
insignificant things while still keeping the two-post tremolo which
is a major tone-sucker - the vintage tremolos sound quite a bit
better. I can vouch for this since my Strat Plus had a two-post
tremolo that I replaced with a vintage one - huge improvement, at
least for the kind of music we play. Hank Marvin agrees - his early
signature models were outfitted with the two-post trems, but he
eventually switched to vintage trems on all his guitars.)
Ivan
