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Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2008 11:48 pm
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hi everyone i'm about to buy a fender highway one stratocaster (upgrade), but i have read some reviews of it in other pages and they say it has a thick and uncomfortable neck, can someone please tell me if this is true???? and how about the sound?? do you think it's good for metal if use effects like distortion pedals on it?


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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 12:11 am
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I bet there are a lot of guys that would be real interested if the Highway Ones DID have thick necks.

They don't.

Still, you might want to visit some local music stores and try out some Strats and compare their necks.

You can play anything you want with it, metal included, with the right distortion pedal and amp.

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Posted: Sat Jan 19, 2008 2:38 pm
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I've got to amend what I said about upgrading to SCN noiseless. I went down to the guitar store and seriously played a set of the SCN noiseless pickups through a Blues Junior like I have at home. The amp was trashed from being knocked around in the store with a wicked vibration out of the tubes - and so that may have impacted the sound. For what I like - a fat blues tone, my Highway One pickups are better, with a sweet fat tone in the neck mid and a sharp fat tone in the bridge mid. Fender can't stand to design a bad set of pickups and they poured a lot of know how into these Highway One pickups. They're hot pickups. The SCN noiseless in comparison were subdued because noiseless and a touch that would sound a note would produce nada from them, which is good in that you'll play cleaner. It's all a yin-yang tradeoff. The other thing about the SCN noiseless is that I could hear just a little bit of a wicked, crazy tone starting to pour out of them when I upped the treble and gain, but that guitar really needed an amp that wasn't F'd up and I couldn't stay there all day.

My conclusion is that I never want to give up that pure single-coil hot Highway One tone. The different Fender Strats are really very different instruments, each unique and good in its own way. The only solution is to buy another guitar - an American Deluxe or a Custom Pro - and I'll have to wait a while for that. Fender, how about some HOT SCN Noiseless that amp up the crazy vibe?


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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 12:07 pm
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So i finaly got my new bridge. Man, i LOVE this tone! :D


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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:50 pm
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CAFeathers wrote:
The Highway 1 is a very playable guitar stock. Get a good setup done on it and play it. Don't worry about any mods.
Amen... When I first played a higway one strat, the upgraded one, at my local guitar center, I was very pleased. It played and sound so good off the rack, and I ended up purchasing it after a few hours of playing it in the store. That was almost a year ago, and the highway one is still completely stock. The pickups are awsome, never thought I would like alnico III pickups.

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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 1:52 pm
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So i finaly got my new bridge. Man, i LOVE this tone! :D
Did you install a 62 vintage bridge? I heard those fit nicely, just drop in, with the highway ones.

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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 4:35 pm
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cu_jarrett wrote:
Strings are a personal thing that everyone has to figure out for themselves whats right for them. He may love the bullets that came on his guitar. Until a string breaks, strings become rusted, or will not hold a tone; I would not change them.


Good advise! Although, I must admit that this is perhaps the simplest, most cost effective, easiest and least drastic "mod" of the lot. (other than clamping a C-clamp to you headstock) 8)


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Awesome guitar stock, but I needed more brightness on the neck.
So I installed a American Vintage neck pickup, which sounds great.

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I got a black accossory kit for my classic player 60s, I love it
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Posted: Wed Feb 13, 2008 8:47 pm
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i wouldn't do much to it until you've played for a while and developed preferences. you may find it doesn't need changing!

congrats on the guitar. hw1s are nice guitars!


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Love the Daphney Blue - one of my fav colors!


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Love the Daphne Blue - one of my fav colors!


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RokasLTU wrote:
So i finaly got my new bridge. Man, i LOVE this tone! :D
Did you install a 62 vintage bridge? I heard those fit nicely, just drop in, with the highway ones.


No, not this. A Callaher one. It's installed very easily too.


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I've got an older Hwy 1(2002) that I bought in 2002. Played it as is until now. Great guitar. Now that I have been playing it for so long I have a much better understanding of where I want to go with it.

Shes in the shop right now having a set of Texas Specials put in and a Tortise shell pickguard put on. I cant wait to get it back. Next will a soft v neck...if I can find one for a decent price.

I agree with what Cryingstrat said, these guitars are great templates to take them exactly where you want to go. When I get done with her she will be the perfect "custom"strat for me. I have a 65 Custom Shop to play with for now, but I have a feeling when the Hwy 1 comes back she will easily still be my number.

p.s. Mines a honey blonde that has "relic-ed" over the last 6 years on its own. With a maple neck. That tortise shell is gonna look great on there.


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I've got an older Hwy 1(2002) that I bought in 2002. Played it as is until now. Great guitar. Now that I have been playing it for so long I have a much better understanding of where I want to go with it.

Shes in the shop right now having a set of Texas Specials put in and a Tortise shell pickguard put on. I cant wait to get it back. Next will a soft v neck...if I can find one for a decent price.

I agree with what Cryingstrat said, these guitars are great templates to take them exactly where you want to go. When I get done with her she will be the perfect "custom"strat for me. I have a 65 Custom Shop to play with for now, but I have a feeling when the Hwy 1 comes back she will easily still be my number.

p.s. Mines a honey blonde that has "relic-ed" over the last 6 years on its own. With a maple neck. That tortise shell is gonna look great on there.




Post a pic when you get her back.

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