So that's the wrong guitar ,well it's not the first time Guitar Center have got it
wrong and I was gonna do a video about that but I don't want negativity on the
channel, in the last year and a half I've ordered three products from Guitar
Center and guess how many they got wrong or just didn't work when they turned up
yep three all three so this is the last straw so I canceled the order reordered
the guitar through Detroit guitar through reverb.com so let's try that
again...
so this is my new little beauty it's a 60s player strat in sonic blue with a
rosewood fretboard a nice dark rosewood fretboard which was the one I
particularly wanted, the newer ones I think the Vintera comes with Pau
Ferro and that's a little bit too light for me, it's got a nice C shaped neck
which plays beautifully the action was great and when I received it it was in tune
and I tell you what this is from 2011 but from Detroit guitar this thing is
absolutely mint and I'm over the moon with it.
It's got the vintage-style tuners which i particularly love got the same tuners
on my 50s road worn strat and they work really well i think they're eighteen to
one ratio and they're really really smooth, one of the things that drew me to
the guitar and i saw the pictures on reverb was the headstock it's got a
really nice grain in the headstock i'll show you there it was just a beautiful
grain, it's also got the two-point trem system on my 50s road worn strat it has a
six screw trem so this apparently is a little bit more reliable although i
haven't really noticed the difference to be honest I don't use a trem that much I
just use it for a little bit of vibrato.
When I first received the guitar the bridge was decked and it came with 9
gauge strings on it so I swapped the strings out with ten's which puts a
little bit more tension on the bridge and the bridge started floating so I
screwed the claw in to deck the bridge, yeah it's just how I like it
there was no intonation adjustment necessary it was perfectly intonated and
in fact it was in tune when i got it, it came with a gig bag as well one of those
thick fender padded gig bags and in the gig bag was the original candy pack and
everything from 2011 so a big shout out to Detroit guitar for that.
It's sonic blue with a mint green pickguard and I don't know if you've
seen that pedal show but Mick Taylor's got one and I kept watching the channel
and Mick did a whole vlog on setting up that particular strat and that's when I
first fell in love with it so I was on reverb for the last probably six months
having a look trying to find the best deal and I'll tell you what this thing
2011 60s player strat sonic blue rosewood fretboard mint condition
absolutely over the moon with it it's got 69 custom shop pickups and they give
it that really chimey strat tone in my 50s road worn strat it's got tex-mex
pickups and they sound gritty and probably a little warmer than this but
these have such a clarity to them so they sound fantastic as well
because this guitar was actually designed by the Custom Shop and one of
the things I love about it is the neck plate it has custom shot designed on
there so overall a fantastic guitar especially this color one of my dream
guitars I hope you liked the video subscribe and like if this is your sort
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