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Hey, everybody.
It's Lincoln Brewster here.
And we are here at Fender to talk
about my brand new signature model Fender Stratocaster.
And so without further ado, let's dive in.
Everything on the guitar is world class.
We cut no corners.
I've played Fender guitar since I was a little kid.
Started playing guitar at nine.
This is a dream come true for me.
As you can tell, this is definitely
based off of a '57 Strat.
A lot of them are kind of stealth mods.
We'll get into the details here in a minute.
I'm joining a short list of people who get this privilege,
and to be a part of not just an amazing company like Fender,
but really a piece of American history.
As far as the color goes, I bought a used Strat.
I'd never seen one before, but it looked just like this.
It was that combination of Aztec gold, maple neck,
parchment pick guard.
I've kind of stuck with it.
And then I guess just over the years kind
of became known as the gold Strat guy.
These pickups are Dimarzio virtual vintage pickups.
So these are currently in the bridge is called an Area 61.
It's not a hot pickup, but it's hotter than the middle
and neck, which are Area 58s.
It's a stacked volume pot.
I just reached down with the tip of my finger.
Live, this adds 10 dB of completely flat boost.
There's no character to it.
It uses a whole different section
of the pot When you turn it off, it's completely bypassed
as if the guitar doesn't even have the circuit in it.
And then we changed the usage of the middle tone pot
to an incredible mid-boost.
It's 10 dB of boost that you can get from it.
The rear tone pot is wired directly to the bridge pickup.
And so if you just roll this back to 6 or 7,
and kick this in with 7 or 8 on the mid-boost,
it's a humbucker.
It sounds just absolutely rock n' roll.
As my friend said when he tried it,
this Strat does things that no Strat has any business doing.
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It has a pretty cool profile to it, both on the front
and on the back.
So it's a compound radius, 9 1/2 at the nut up to 14 at the last
fret.
Most vintage Strats have 21 frets.
I snuck an extra one in there because I like 22 frets.
The back of the neck has a soft V, very, very
comfortable in the hands.
Having the 9 1/2 inch radius on the fretboard and that soft V,
you get a little chunkiness for chording.
It feels a little more stable to me.
And then as you get up to the top, it flattens out.
You can bend for days without it fretting out, which is nice.
One thing, again, you don't notice
from looking at the guitar head on is that guy.
So that lets you-- this neck heel
will let you get up just a little bit higher,
a little easier without that digging into your palm.
Locking vintage style tuning pegs-- so,
again, you look at these.
They don't look locking.
But they do lock.
Helps it stays in tune much better.
One of my favorite things about the neck,
there is a truss rod adjustment up here in the top just
right there where that piece of rosewood is.
The truss rod is the most under celebrated thing on a guitar.
Really, you can do so much with a small adjustment.
It has a vintage style trim arm, same diameter,
has the plastic tip on it.
If you look on the back side here,
there's even an Allen key where you can adjust how tight it
is in there.
So if you like it a little floppier,
you can loosen it there, or I like it nice and tight where
I can really feel the response.
And the nice thing is, again, it has
all the same sound characteristics
of the vintage ones with those bent steel saddles.
But you still get that high performance effect.
Although it's a signature model guitar,
I really believe this is a guitar for everybody.
As a matter of fact, even when it
came to the signature placement on the guitar,
you can see I put it back here.
And the specific reason I did that was so that you could
actually swap the neck plate if you
wanted to, really to make it feel like it's more your own.
Because really, if it's your guitar,
my signature shouldn't be on it.
It should be yours.
I think every guitar player ends up
forming a unique connection with whatever their guitar is.
I hope just like this guitar has become part of my story
it'll become part of somebody else's story as well.
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