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Post subject: Re: AMERICAN SPECIAL STRAT FSR OLYMPIC WHITE
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:27 am
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Is there i difference in the AM Special body and the AM Standard body?
We now have the American Deluxe, American Standard, American Special, and the American Vintage series. There is a sole Telecaster listed as American Standard. Reviewing specs I would suggest that, with the Stratocasters, all these bodies are alder unless a natural finish or something like Sienna Sunburst would dictate ash for the benefit of the grain. I would also expect that, except for the American Vintage series, and this is just speculation mind you, because I would expect the '56 model to be routed for SSS only, they would all be routed HSH for ease of production to accommodate guitars with humbuckers in their circuits. Often, bodies can differ in terms of quality of wood, or numbers of pieces assembled to form the blank from which the final body is cut. I look forward to additional contributions on this questions.

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The American Special Body is Alder and its routed SSH it has no tilt adjustment for neck and its drilled for the made in Taiwan bridge that's on Mexican strats.

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I don't care for the tilt as it sometimes creates a flip up in the 22 fret lip and I have to do a fret job on them. But I have seen an 09 Highway 1 do it without it.
The really nice thing is on a Special I use a Super Vee Blade Runner Tremolo.

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This is probably the greatest stock style tremolo in existence. This with Fender locking tuners and a dab of lithium grease in the nut grooves wow :)

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Post subject: Re: AMERICAN SPECIAL STRAT FSR OLYMPIC WHITE
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2013 8:50 am
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Here is one I did up with those exact mods


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