I just ordered my new stratocaster USA
I have a squier strat which is a indonesian one and to be honest its a bloody good bit of kit!! it lacks balls on the pickups and slightly looses tuning if you bend strings like crazy man! so a pickup replacement and some sperzel machine heads would fix this up nicely for around £100 and it would be a great guitar – its ideal for a strummer!!
Any way i wanted a real USA job so went into promenade music my local music shop and got them to look into the 70’s classic for me .. now this fender has a big headstock based on the70’s look and is around £1000 and has the nice big 70’s headstock! but i noticed it has the U shaped neck as it did in the seventies like! well gary said for a bass player im fussy when it comes to guitar neck shapes ha ha! but i dont want no fat guitar neck i want C shaped ! nicer profile… any way rossi said what about highway one strat 70’s re issue?..
Any way you can get a fender usa stratocaster highway one 70’s style with big headstock in sunburst with a c shaped neck for just under £500!!! no case like it comes with a gig bag but has jumbo frets etc! grease bucket electronics and life time guarantee on electronics! so i ordered one of those. The finish on the highway one isnt like a normal usa it is designed to wear faster so after a year of abuse of me it will have that retro look im after awsome – I only have to wait a week to get this axe plugged in!
All it requires now is a S1 scratch plate pickups and electronics and a graph tech nut and sperzel tuners and its then a top notch axe which will only set me back around another £250n and will void my warranty on the lifetime electronics 🙁
