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work horse
Post subject: highway 1 sss
PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:49 pm
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finally at 50 years old my wife bought me a fender strat highway 1 dont no who i love the most. this is a great guitar what else can i say.
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work horse wrote:
finally at 50 years old my wife bought me a fender strat highway 1 dont no who i love the most. this is a great guitar what else can i say.


Welcome and congrats!

Now don't be a stranger to us, "Over 50 Crowd"!!

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rkreisher
Post subject: Re: highway 1 sss
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Welcome to the Forum and the Highway 1 club. I absolutely love mine.

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work horse wrote:
finally at 50 years old my wife bought me a fender strat highway 1 dont no who i love the most. this is a great guitar what else can i say.


What color?
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Voxman1
Post subject: Re: highway 1 sss
PostPosted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 7:12 pm
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Got an 04 and love it! Changed bridge to hot rails though, and that made huge difference for me!
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HWY1Strat
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Voxman1 wrote:
Got an 04 and love it! Changed bridge to hot rails though, and that made huge difference for me!



Congrats on getting a great guitar!!
Got a whole bunch of Highways and love them all!
Much like Voxman...I changed all the pickups....and now love them even more!!

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Congrats and welcome.

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PostPosted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 7:39 am
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Congrats! I love the way those bodies are finished!

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Congratulations Work Horse,

Welcome to:
    The Forum
    The Highway 1 Strat club
    The 50+ club

They're all good... 8)
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paris
Post subject: Re: highway 1 sss
PostPosted: Mon Nov 21, 2011 11:10 am
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I took my black Hwy1 body and bridge, my EC Strat neck & pickguard and some CS '54 pickups and made myslef a a great looking and sounding 50s style Strat.
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Voxman1
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PostPosted: Tue Nov 22, 2011 5:35 pm
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Correction, I have an 02-03 model made in Corona.Does anyone know if these necks were of higher end compared to the newer highway ones?
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paris
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Voxman1 wrote:
Correction, I have an 02-03 model made in Corona.Does anyone know if these necks were of higher end compared to the newer highway ones?


Other then the headstock shape there should be no difference. I looked up the stats on the older Hwy1 and my own '07 Hwy1 and there doesn't seem to be any difference besides the headstock.
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