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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 8:43 am
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from your experience how many pieces of wood are the highway one strats made of and what is the wood quality? also what color h1 do you have (pics would be cool) and what's you favorite h1 color?


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Near as I can remember mine is one piece. And as you can tell my favorite color is of course Black.


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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:14 am
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I would say 3 piece min on a solid body and then two pieces for the neck so my total is 5 pieces minimum. Alder, Maple, and Rosewood are the woods I think.


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chris63 wrote:
I would say 3 piece min on a solid body and then two pieces for the neck so my total is 5 pieces minimum. Alder, Maple, and Rosewood are the woods I think.


What about the fingerboard?


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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:26 pm
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On a Highway One you can see through the paint, because it's the thin nitrocellulose. I got one that's wine transparent. Chet's right and the body is one piece, made in U.S.A., just like an American Standard and other Fenders made here. The neck is also made in the USA, smooth, and it's a couple of pieces of course with the rosewood fretboard, the maple neck and then the other wood where the truss rod goes in.

Plenty of great guitars are several pieces of wood, like maple flame tops and the Koas etc. I liked the American body and neck on the Highway One because of the way it sounded and played, not just because it's one piece. What does Fender think of the Highway One? It says Fender Stratocaster on the headstock, made in the U.S.A. What's important is it plays well.

Even in the pictures in the Highway One site, you can see through the paint. It's one piece. Check it out.

If you've got a big budget, maybe skip the standard Am and go for Am Dx, a Beck or a Custom Pro. Fender makes better guitars than a Highway One, of course . . . or you can get there one piece at a time and upgrade it over time to customize.


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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 1:29 pm
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Highway Ones aren't one piece.


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Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:06 pm
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I'm not going to dispute with people who know more about how guitars are made, and especially not with Fender which was posted somewhere around here as usually three pieces of wood. I can't see it. I mean, I can see through the paint to a substantial extent and I don't see any joints, and so they did a nice job joining the wood pieces. I was told it was one piece at the time I bought it buy a guy at GC who is pretty knowledgeable, but he was wrong then, and so were my own eyes. Here's where the confusion comes from. MIM standard guitars, and probably my old Squier, reportedly are made from relatively small bits of wood that are joined, shaped and painted. So, there is a difference between the many pieces in a MIM standard and the few pieces in a Highway One.


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As to the debate about the wood. Fender doesn't make too many one piece bodys. I believe that most of the them are two or three pieces of wood.

Back in the '80s and part of the '90 they would use a vanere of I believe maple (prettier grain) over nasty looking wood for sunbursts. This was due to a shortage of good looking Alder.

As to color: I own a black one with maple neck. I noticed that mine shined up a bit where my arm rubbed against the body. I then buffed the rest of the body out to a slight shine and it looks awesome. It reminds me of older Strats of yesteryear.

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One piece solid maple neck and minimum of three pc bodies...or so I was told. :?:

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Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 4:00 pm
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strat58cat wrote:
I mean, I can see through the paint to a substantial extent and I don't see any joints, and so they did a nice job joining the wood pieces.


The reason you can't see any joints where the wood was joined, is because what your looking at is a veneer. They use a veneer for the front and back, although I'm not too sure how many pieces they put together in the middle. Mexican bodies are the same way, except they use more pieces, usually around 4 to 5. My guess is, those americans use about 3 pieces, plus 2 veneers for the front and back.

Here's a pic of a mexican body, you can see the pieces in the middle of the veneers. Americans are done the same way except not as many pieces are used in the middle. I'm pretty sure the only way your gonna get a one piece body is if you buy a custom or an american vintage or something similar.

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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:20 am
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That shot of MIM body blanks has got to be pretty old.

As I understand it, Fender stopped using veneers years ago, right about the same time they stopped using 5-7 piece poplar blanks and went to 3 piece alder blanks for MIM guitars. Even back then, the only MIM guitar that got the veneer were the bursts.

They used a light veneer on the poplar bodies because poplar usually has big nasty grain patterns with streaks of green through it. A joined body is visible a mile away. Alder has a very tight and light grain, and can be joined and sanded so that frequently no joint can be seen.

To the best of my knowledge, all current American and MIM bodies are cut from 3 piece alder blanks (unless ash is specified), and none of them are veneered.


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Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 12:00 pm
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Well yeah, that pic is a few years old. I think it might have been taken around around 2000 to 2001. My mexican is a 2000 model and I've changed the finish a few times, so when I sanded the original finish off, the body was exactly like the one in the pic. Mine was originally the artic white finish and they still used the veneers. When I sanded it down and saw they used a veneer, I decided to do a burst.

For all I know they probably did change their build methods, but it was definetly like that pic in the early 2000's.


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