After putting this puppy through some paces and deciding to keep it here it is. It has replaced my loved but quite in another league Am Std.

61 Reissue FSR (similar to the 62 Vintage Hot Rod) with the following diffs:

CS FAT50s pickups RW/RP middle
8 hole mint pick guard
wonderful beefy C shaped nitro finished shiny neck (not sticky to my surprise)
Dunlop 6105 frets with 9.5 radius
Tone 1 neck and middle
Tone 2 bridge pickup

Mighty schweet......that body almost looks like mahogany.

Fat '50s are one of my favorite pickup sets.

Rawk on!

Arjay

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Pretty baby-good choice.

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I've been looking at 57/62s, but leaning toward cs69s. What is your opinion of them?

I think they're both fine sets too -- the 57/62's are a skosh more "spanky" while the CS 69's seem "smoother". I have both sets in various guitars and they do a fine job for me. I do love the Fat '50s in my ash-bodied Mary Kaye hardtail though......they're a perfect sonic fit with a tube-powered Fender combo with a 15-inch speaker.

HTH

Arjay

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That is one yummy looking guit. Good on you.

Ahhhh you guys are so nice. She is actually an ugly "duck" the 3 pieces of wood clearly show, should have been painted solid. On the other hand she plays so nice and it is light. I have compared the now departed AM Std to many guitars in the past, as a reference and was always proud to have one of the best guitars possible at that level. Now this 61 RI is better on so many levels in how she sounds and plays above the Am Std.

Story behind this and review:

That day when I bought this one I was actually going to by CS 62 closet classic which I auditioned a day earlier. So while I was waiting for a sales guy to finish with another client and bring down the CS, I took this one for a strum. That was it, needles to say looks aside this one felt like it was made just for me. After the two weeks she is my new #1, I am even more happy now that I gave her a good bath and a setup the "new" way I like.

Now FAT50 pickups are beast on their own. They deliver all the tones that I need but richer and fuller than Am Std, however I had to tweak eq and volume quite a bit to accomplish this. It is interesting that Tone 1 (top) was connected to the middle pickup and tone 2 (bottom) to the bridge and if I leave the tone 1 on 10 and tone 2 on 4-5 and pickup selector
in the position 2 (bridge mid) it results in Jazz box smooth tone and no quack and I was used to hear all quack on the Std. Bridge pickup on its own is amazing clean and driven and I never liked the bridge only on the Am Std (even with the delta tone).

Thanks for reading

Sweet-looking axe, Dan. Good choice!

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Nice Dan!! I'm a fan of the CS Fat 50's myself!!

got to love it! that's what a strat should look like

All hail the queen! Very nice fiddle.

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