Looks like Musician's Friend has the $699.00 Road Worn Strats and Teles now:

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/navigation?q=road+worn

American Musical Supply has them at that price, too. Wonder if they're blowing them out for some reason? Maybe a spec change of some kind coming during Winter NAMM?

Cyber Monday sale?

That's a nice one, had my eye on it also. Just tried the coupon code for the heck of it, said I did not have a qualifying item in cart, sure you got the discount?

Well, I'm not sure what she found but my wife bought me some sort of strat on Black Friday. I will let you know when I get it...in 25 stinking days.

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2010 American Standard Strat - Sienna Burst (Big Dippers)
2008 50's Road Worn Strat - 3 Tone
2004 Squire Strat - Gold
2009 72 Deluxe Thinline Telecaster RI - 3 Tone
2008 Taylor 426CE

Better in 25 stinking days than never. I know the wait will be H3LL but, well worth it. REMEMBER..... we'll NEED to see a pictures.

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2008 Fender MIM Stratocaster
2010 Epiphone Masterbilt
2009 Fender Super Champ XD

Just picked up a gorgeous '08 U.S DeLuxe Strat at G.C. from the used rack,.. she's sunburst with a maple fretboard, locking tuners, roller ball-bearing nut, 2 single coil pick-ups and 1 double humbucker, and S1 switching...all for $695.00... well the guitar went for $895.00 but I had an old Ampeg Gemini amp stashed away in my attic for like 15 years, and I brought it in to them and they gave me $200.00 for it off the cost of the guitar... great deal for me as I NEVER played thru the amp, and was glad to get the discount..they'll probably clean it up and sell it for $600.00 but that's fine with me.. the amp had 2 channels,..1 for guitar, and 1 for an accordion..go figure.. even had a foot pedal to switch the reverb on an off..

Oh well, my question is,.. what is better, maple or rosewood fretboard? I wanted rosewood because thats what SRV and Clapton always played on, but this guitar is a beauty, tho' I believe it needs a set-up,.. its real difficult to tune..

I ordered it on sunday when they had 10% off on the phone with MF. I woke up next day (yesterday) and found their 15% off sale. I then called to get a price match. They gave me extra 5% off for a total of 15% off. The guy I talked to never said fender doesn't qualify. So, it worked good for me.

Nice buy mate!

Fender products never qualifies for GuitarCenter and Music123 stores. They´re always on the exclusion lists.

This is all a matter of preference. The rosewood will be a bit darker/warmer and the Maple a bit more clear/bright. Honesty though, with some tone tweaking you shouldn't notice a great deal of difference. I have an American Speical with Maple that I can get some pretty muddy dark tones out of. I own maple and rosewood and love them both.

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2010 American Standard Strat - Sienna Burst (Big Dippers)
2008 50's Road Worn Strat - 3 Tone
2004 Squire Strat - Gold
2009 72 Deluxe Thinline Telecaster RI - 3 Tone
2008 Taylor 426CE

MF has always givin me the discount over the phone on fenders when their add states it doesnt qualify.

and hemiram that link u have to daddys is not for a 60's classic player strat

I scored a three tone sunburst 60's roadworn strat for 699, not really earth shattering, but enough for me...and I totally sold my les paul to get it so that should make a few of you guys happy to hear that lol

I received my FSR american strat with noiseless pickups in Blizzard pearl. Opened it up and found a huge ding in body. And they sent me a rosewood instead of a maple board. Guitar sounds good. But not quite what I expected. Sending it back. dissappointing.

please explain, as I am thinking about getting the ash body

I was mainly disappointed that it came damaged. I wasn't crazy about the color also. It did sound and play good. I would have got the sunburst ash, but I already have a sienna sunburst strat which is similar.