Ah...my LAST Highway One purchase (coinciding with the demise of the series)....I had to make it a good one...
Upon scoring this Honey Blonde Highway from Best Buy at a ridiculous price ($380.00!!) I decided to put it through 'the treatment' as with all my others.
Yep...I made her into a HSS. I don't believe that this color was available as an HSS.. (I can hear you all screaming out there!!)
I can't recommend the DiMarzio Air Classic enough! This is my 1st exposure to this great pickup and I am so pleased with it!
I welcome her to the stable with open arms!
My 'guitar guy' JOHN from Central Jersey Music in Edison,N.J. did an amazing job on her!!

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AFTER:

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I refuse to have a battle of the wits with an unarmed man!

Couldn't you have kept just ONE of your army of Highways as an SSS model? Would it have been too much to ask?

Nice Job. Changed the bridge as well?

I have the same guitar, same colour etc, but it now has 3 Seymour Duncan Alnico 2 Pro pickups, a hand cut tusque nut and saddles, and a polish up to stabilise that really fragile nitro satin finish.

And I still can't get the G string tuning stabilised with a floating trem! It returns to pitch just fine after a trem workout, but comes back flat after a big string bend - drives me crazy. Locked the bridge down flat on the top and the string bend comes back just fine.. So it's a hard tail at the moment. Still love the guitar though..

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Fender Highway & Classic 60s Strats, Fender Toronado, Telecaster, Gretsch Projet, Charvel 3, PRS SE Soapbar II & Custom 24, Burns Batwing and many others!

I'll be on the hunt. $380 for a US made Fender Strat is like getting a free guitar! Nice score.





Have you tried removing the tree from the G and D strings? I did this on my 93' American Standard and it stays in tune a whole lot better with moderate trem usage.

Thanks!!
No...didn't change the bridge. I just put Graph Tech String Saver saddles and a Guitar Fetish solid Brass block.

My SSS quotient is filled with my 60's Reverse Special and my 1979 Antigua Stratocaster.....so there !!






It took quite a bit of haggling with the pubescent salesperson ....I brought up the fact that the guitar had been sitting there for months. (yes...I had been previously stalking the guitar!! ) And then I brought up the ever so slight nick on the back while waving the cash in front of his face......
I then walked out of the store happily with gig bag in tow....

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I refuse to have a battle of the wits with an unarmed man!

I once had a HSS Strat and it sounded amazing but would you not just keep one of your many Strats as an all single coil Guitar?

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2012 Fender American Standard Stratocaster
2013 Fender Pure Vintage 65 Stratocaster
2003 Gibson ES-355
2015 Gibson Les Paul Traditional
2002 Gretsch Duo Jet
1980 Rickenbacker 360/12 Fireglo
2014 Martin 000X1AE
2014 Fender Blues Junior III