tonymckenziecom | 1 decade ago
PART 3 of my complete Fender Stratocaster custom build video of the famous Strat from Mr Leo Fender. These videos (for the Mark I Strat i.e. this one shown) extend for well over 1.5 hours of instructions and tips on building a Stratocaster.
Part ONE: http://youtu.be/sjrh6mRasjk
Part TWO: http://youtu.be/zU82uu1LBTE
Part THREE: http://youtu.be/VE__TNBhlqw
PLAYED 1: http://youtu.be/FL4TXg3gcXY
PLAYED 2: http://youtu.be/SFvTbnOwCHg
Everything except the body, scratch plate and pickups is genuine Fender FMIC but just the pickups alone are not Fender Licensed... so you could say that this is a FENDER guitar in almost every way... It's just that the pickups are BETTER than the Fender stuff.
Fitted pickups on this Stratocaster are David White pickups from 1994. David sadly died some time ago so there will be no more - but he left a fantastic legacy that no one has really addressed to this day - if ever you see some of these pickups for sale... just buy them!
This Strat turned out to be a real corker of a guitar and whether you play blues, rock or anything else you can be sure that this guitar will hack it. For me, many Stratocaster's I've played simply are not too good... they either just 'feel' wrong or sound shall we say less than you would expect for the price - especially here in the UK.
But the Fender Strat is simply the biggest selling guitar in the world. There are obvious and many reasons. Some less than obvious. Making one in this way is easy to develop, easy to make, easy to customise and easy to be yours compared to some of those prices out there available to you from your local (or not so local) dealer.
This video is the third in a series of THREE plus two video teasers showing this guitar in action (but also in video 3 (this one) you can listen to this Strat with differing musical tastes and styles showing exactly how this guitar sounds rather than the rock and blues stuff played in the teaser videos.
I am also building a MARK II Fender Stratocaster which in fact knocks the socks off this one in a number of ways, but you will have to wait a short while for that one (the bank is complaining) but all I can say is that if you watch video three (this one) somewhere near the middle I do show you a pic of the body and the neck for that guitar in this video.
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