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Hey, this is Josh Smith.
In this video, we're taking a look
at the final rarities offering of 2019, the Fender Rarities
Flame Maple Top Strat HSS Thinline.
We've had a lot of amazing and unique instruments
to check out this year.
And this one is another great addition
to the rarities lineup.
The Fender Rarities is a collection
of instruments that showcases the best of everything Fender
has to offer.
The pickups are either custom made
for each guitar, custom shop pickups, or US pure vintage.
And they feature the best hardware, amazing wood
selections, and colors.
This one, along with all of the rarities,
are made in the Corona, California, factory.
The tone you heard in the beginning
was the guitar plugged into a '68 Custom Deluxe Reverb
with a little reverb, delay, and distortion.
Now let's clean it up and hear the guitar straight in
and then get into the key features.
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Lots of great things to talk about with this one.
The guitar features a semi-hollow mahogany body
with a violin burst flame maple top
and gloss polyurethane finish.
The pickups featured in this guitar
are the custom double-tap humbugging bridge pickup,
and custom shop '69 single-coil Strat, middle and neck pickups.
The double-tap is a really great sounding humbucker,
and with the S1 switch hidden here in the volume knob,
you can go from a warm sounding humbucker
tone to a really nice powerful single-coil tone
without having it sound too thin.
It's own the design of the double-tap pickup.
Let me run through a few different tones.
I'll start with the full humbucker
and then explore some of the single-coil tones
available from the bridge pick up
and then also combine it with the middle pick up
in the second position.
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This guitar features a standard Strat five-way switch,
master volume, tone one for neck and middle
and tone two for bridge, and then
a two-point synchronized tremolo with bent-steel saddles
and a pop-in trim arm.
The guitar has a deep C-shaped solid Rosewood
neck with 22 frets and a 9 and 1/2 inch fingerboard radius.
It's designed to really fit comfortably in your hand
and just feels awesome.
So let's hear some more tunes with the pedals,
and I'll cycle through all the different pickup positions.
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And there you have it.
Thanks for tuning in to check out the Fender Rarities Flame
Maple Top Strat HSS Thinline.
Check this guitar out and more at fender.com.
And we'll see you for more soon.
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