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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 12:04 pm
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This is my Fat 50's Strat......


Very nice :!: I'd bet the neck really feels like home.


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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 1:26 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
This is my Fat 50's Strat......

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The body is two-piece fifty-year old swamp ash and the neck is a CIJ '57 re-issue. With those pickups and the hardtail configuration, the guitar has sustain for days. And it sounds like frying bacon smells. She tips the scales at 6 lbs, 14 oz.

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Yummy and scrumpdelicious.....

A translucent blond in the Mary Kaye mold...... :?:

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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Sun May 26, 2013 6:05 pm
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I've played an American Standard Strat with FFs and loved the sound. I've also played a CS-65 Strat with '57/'62s and really loved the sound. Now of course I do realize that merely dropping either pup set into a MIM is NOT going to make it sound exactly like what I've already heard, but your experiences tell me that it won't be too far off so I'm inclined to give it a try.

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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Fri May 31, 2013 6:45 pm
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And the winner is .......... surprise ...

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The CS Texas Specials weren't even being considered for the MIM pup swap but a series of random events involving shipping errors and delays gave me time to consider other options.

I'm sure I would have loved the '57/'62s as well as the Fat '50s, and sorry for the hijack but I'm glad I went with the Texas Specials. Hot, sizzling, spanking, and very Stratty!

Maybe for the next pup swap I'll go back to the '57/'62s.

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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 9:49 am
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The TS pickups are great pickups, absolutely, but the Fat 50's have a distinctly different sound with some growl and are also super nice. I like my FF pickups very much. They have a sound that is really beautiful, it's hard to describe. The FF pickups have a different kind of bite, but they bite indeed, are really full sounding, and definitely growl.

I really enjoy playing the FF equipped guitar.

I suspect that a "lot" of dudes are buying the sets to upgrade their strats now that the American Standard comes stock with them. I've had mine for a few years.

I also like whatever the stock pickups in my '08 Fender American Strat are, but maybe more goes into that sound than just the pickups. That is a great guitar; loud, chimey, bright, full, and has it's own type of growl and can be super mellow.

Too bad you didn't get to experience the FF's.

Good luck with the TS pickups.

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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 11:54 am
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1Duffy1 wrote:
The TS pickups are great pickups, absolutely, but the Fat 50's have a distinctly different sound with some growl and are also super nice. I like my FF pickups very much. They have a sound that is really beautiful, it's hard to describe. The FF pickups have a different kind of bite, but they bite indeed, are really full sounding, and definitely growl.

I really enjoy playing the FF equipped guitar.

I suspect that a "lot" of dudes are buying the sets to upgrade their strats now that the American Standard comes stock with them. I've had mine for a few years.

I also like whatever the stock pickups in my '08 Fender American Strat are, but maybe more goes into that sound than just the pickups. That is a great guitar; loud, chimey, bright, full, and has it's own type of growl and can be super mellow.

Too bad you didn't get to experience the FF's.

Good luck with the TS pickups.

Good to hear. I just got a set of FFs that will going into a partscaster I am putting togther soon. I have an SRV strat that I totally dig and am excited to have a strat with a dif flavor of PUP....
The partscaster is from warmoth. A ash body with a sweet ash book matched top. A maple neck with the SRV profile mated with a canary finger board. 6150 frets. I will be finshing the body with a orange/amber tint and a nitro clear coat.


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Post subject: Re: MIM pup swap: CS Fat '50s or '57/'62
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 2:58 pm
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I have the 57/62's in my 2 Squier Standard Strats which I modded. I love them . They definitely have that vintage sound to them and are great for Blues.


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