Fender Super Strat (Rosewood, With Gig Bag)

One-piece Maple neck with medium jumbo frets. Factory installed after-market modifications. Vintage style hardware. 3-ply pickguards. Guitar pictured is Honey Blonde with a Maple fingerboard. Item featured is Black with a Rosewood fingerboard.

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The Deluxe Players Stratocaster is a revised version of the former Super Strat. Upgraded with American-made Vintage Noiseless pickups, this guitar not only sounds great but with a 12 in. neck radius and medium jumbo frets it's a workhorse of a guitar. And, don't forget about the push button switch that gives the player seven different pickup combinations! Learn More...

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* * * * * * * * * * 10 out of 10

"A very well made guitar for any money."

I purchased this guitar about a year ago and I must say that I was quite suprised with the craftsmanship and tone that this guitar offers. I love the extra two pickup settings which give you and 3 pickups combined (a more out of phase type of sound) and the neck and bridge pickup only for a Tele like tone although it has a sound that is very unique(sweet and twangy).The honey blonde finish and gold hardware is quite pretty on my model.The individual pickups are very good indeed. The neck pickup is warm and clear, a good sounding middle pickup, and a very crisp sounding bridge pickup.The only little flaw with my guitar is a little paint run on the bolt on area of the body that meets the neck, otherwise the over all finish is beautiful.

Submitted: 1/16/2002

Style of Music: Rock, Country

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* * * * * * * * * * 5 out of 10

"Good price on guitar made from quality, toneful wood."

Feature:
Eh? Gold-plated hardware? Goldplated imported hardware this thing's got. Some goon is going to rip this guitar off someday thinking it's worth about four times what I paid for it. Ha ha! The honey blond finish shows the woodgrain- and the seperate slabs of wood are matched very well on mine. That finish looks pretty classy with the brown- red bevelled pickguard.

Quality:
I did worry about the bridge saddles a little bit, but if you keep the saddles buffed and oiled, they're fine. I have an old Squier for backup if a string breaks or something- which they do, but my picking can get out of hand sometimes. It's funny, though, the old Squier has better quality stock tuners on it than this guitar.

Value:
They could have shaved off a little overhead by nixing the gold-plated hardware. I mean- gold plated screws? Come on. But the thing is solidly built. I think I made a good purchase on at least a body and neck and some nice pickups. Compared to Gibson's overpriced garbage, this is by far the better deal on a guitar.

Desirability:
It's a sophistocated looking guitar. The hardware is flashy and the finish invites you to look close at it. I wear it with a black leather strap with a Sherrif badge on it. The ladies love it!

Sound:
I settled on one of these after alot of shopping for an ash guitar. The American Standard is made from alder, typically, which doesn't quite have the ring of the ash tree woods. This Mexican Strat seems well put together, as far as the milling and standard Fender assembly line joinery, and the solder joints seem solid enough. The pickups in this thing are really swell! I have regular gigs these days. We do just about any genre of 'rebellious' music from the 50's and 60's-from surf, to beebop, to country and western. So I pretty much need twang and warmth and a wammy bar. This Strat's got it. And the 7- way switching gets some nice tones if you have the pickups lined up just right. The out-of-phase tones you get when you push the little button (a cool feature on so many levels for playing live) seem more full and musical to me than the typical between- settings on a 5-way Strat. But you've got those too on this little Mexican job! I love the sound and feel of it more and more every night... but you know how Fenders are. You have to break 'em in, but they're pretty much built to be used. I did raise the action quite a bit right out of the box and put heavier strings on it. Strats are happier that way, especially for playing slide. The light strings and low action they set em' up with these days so kids can play Metallica or whatever, aren't what I prefer.

Support:
Never dealt with Fender.

Overall:
I say 5, because once I put new tuners on and string saver bridges, it will be perfect. I least like the soft intonation screws, but i realize that prevents stripping the bridge rather than just a little screw. I most like the sound of the guitar in general.

Style of Music: Jazz, Surf, Country, Rock, Latin

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Description
Beautifully adorned and classically contoured, the Deluxe Super Strat features an Ash body, lightly tinted Maple neck, gold-plated vintage style hardware, brown shell pickguard, and newly designed "Super Fat-Super Strat" single-coil pickups. Deluxe "Super Switching" gives you 7 pickup combinations to choose from. Deluxe Fender gig bag included.

Features
Body: Ash

Neck: One-Piece Maple

Fingerboard: Rosewood

Machine Heads: Gold Vintage Style

Pickups: 3 New Super Fat "Super" Strat Single Coil Pickups

Controls: Volume, Tone, Tone

Pickguard: Tortoise Shell

Bridge: Gold Vintage Style Tremolo

Unique Features: Gold Hardware and Push/Push Bridge Pickup Activator Switch

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Technical Info

Body: Ash

Neck: One-piece Maple

Fingerboard: Rosewood (9.5 in. Radius/241 mm)

Scale Length: 25.5 in. (648 mm)

No. of Frets: 21 Medium Jumbo Frets

Width @ Nut: 1-11/16 (43 mm)

Machine Heads: Gold Vintage Style

Pickups: 3 New Super Fat "Super" Strat Single Coil Pickups

Pickup Switching:
5-Position Blade Switch and Push/Push Bridge Pickup Activator Switch
1. Bridge Pickup
2. Bridge and Middle Pickup
3. Middle Pickup
4. Middle and Neck Pickups (Plus Bridge Pickup when switch is activated)
5. Neck Pickup (Plus Bridge Pickup when switch is activated)

Controls: Volume, Tone, Tone

Pickguard: Tortoise Shell

Bridge: Gold Vintage Style Tremolo

Unique Features: Gold Hardware and Push/Push Bridge Pickup Activator Switch

Strings: Fender Super Bullet 3250L's (.009 to .042) Nickel Plated Steel pn#073-3250-003

Accessories: Deluxe Gig Bag
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