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Post subject: vintage or highway 1
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:09 pm
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Hey everyone. This is my first time on here and I'm looking to buy a new Fender Strat. I'm just deciding between an American Vintage 70s and a highway one Strat. I am mostly concerned about the pick ups and the feel of the neck. Are the necks very different? Do the pick ups sound a lot different? I love Fender guitars and I don't live in a town with a music shop big enough to try these two out. I am looking to spend a good bit of money so I want to make sure I get the best deal and exactly what I want.


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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:19 pm
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It's just so hard to recommend pups and necks. What one person thinks is amazing another says it sucks. Your best bet is to check the specs on each, find the profile you like and order one from a place with a good return policy. I recommend Sweetwater. Even if there is no store nearby it would be well worth your trouble to take a day and travel to one.

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Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 6:32 pm
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The Vintage 70's probably has a 7.25 radius fretboard with vintage frets. The Highway 1 has a 9.5 radius fretboard with jumbo frets. So there is quite a different feel to them.
The Highway 1 has hotter wound pickups than the Vintage 70's.

I have a "72 RI with the 7.5 radius fretboard and vintage frets, and a Highway 1 with the 9.5 radius fretboard with jumbo frets. I like them both. The pickups in my "72 RI are not stock so I can't really compare them.

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Post subject: the highway one is the better strat.
Posted: Thu May 29, 2008 8:03 pm
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i own a vintage 1970 strat with original 1969 pickups. i also own late upgrade 2006 and 2007's highway ones. i would go with the highway ones (late 2006 upgrade and 2007's) why because the highway one strat does it all from 60's to 70's classic tones to todays modern tones and everything in between. tone/playability/feel the highway one is simply the better strat.now dont get me wrong my 70 strat is a great strat, just the highway one is better.


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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 6:31 am
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It's just so hard to recommend pups and necks. What one person thinks is amazing another says it sucks. Your best bet is to check the specs on each, find the profile you like and order one from a place with a good return policy. I recommend Sweetwater. Even if there is no store nearby it would be well worth your trouble to take a day and travel to one.


Cryingstrat is spot on. Even if you plan ultimately to buy online you have to check this stuff out in the realworld first. Take a trip to the city and perhaps aim to visit several shops and try out many, many guitars to get your eye (and hands) in.

A lot of these things are different in real life and can't be gauged from pictures in catalogues. For instance, the current finish on Highway 1s. You may like it or or you may not, but you ain't going to know what it's really like till you touch it. And that goes many times over for neck shape.

When you make your trying-out tour remember to have the means with you to buy on the spot if you find the very instrument of your desires. Most of our learned colleagues on this forum like to order pristine guitars rather than buy shop-soiled examples. But all of my happiest purchases have been those spur-of-the-moment decisions in store: and invariably not the instrument I went in for. Be prepared. There is such a thing as love at first sight!


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Posted: Fri May 30, 2008 8:06 am
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check also out some online stores, check their business conditions,
if you have money- back guarantee between 14 days for excample, that's a good alternativ when you have shop near you.


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