The fender classic player 50s stratocaster
I noticed there wasn't much information about these guitars from actual owners, so i thought i would create a blogg about the specs,design and how it all works together to make it what it is.I will also be posting regularly about my other guitars as i have a few good ones and a couple of rare ones that you don't see very often.
Here are my thoughts on the Fender 50s classic player stratocaster

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I play mostly bluesy
rock, like Pink Floyd and Gary Moore and Mark knopfler. I also like to play
some funky Robert Cray. It really does
give you some very Straty sounds, as you'd expect from a custom shop design. I play
it through a peavey valve king 212 and it sounds really decent. It's not
noisy which I was pleasantly shocked at, expecting it to have a
single coil noisiness but it is all good. It gives a nice, bright sound on the
bridge pickup, and a deep deep mellow creamy sound on the neck pickup. The middle
pickup positions sounds nice as well but
position 4 is my favorite. Quite versatile, but although it can handle
distortion very well i wouldn't want to
do any heavy metal on it, it wasn't built for that in the first place but if you want
to then you will need a lot of gain. plug it into a decent fuzz pedal like a
big muff and you will fall in love with it.

This guitar definitely
does withstand Live playing. The only reason for having a back up would be if
you broke a string. I've had this guitar for a few years now and everything
seems as if it is built to last. You get your standard year's warranty as with
all fender products so if it breaks they will fix it but don't expect them to give
you a new one unless it just falls to bits, I can vouch for it and say that
will never happen. I use it at a gigs but I do have a backup because like I
said before" if I broke a string" it would have to be replaced fast and the show
must go on. The finish will last a lifetime.
My overall impression of this guitar is that it is so good I
will not buy another American standard because I have one already and in comparison
to the 50s classic player the American standard is way over priced. I would be
gutted if my 50s classic player was stolen, I would buy another one but if my
American standard was stolen I don't think I would bother that much that i
would go and get another one. Maybe a second hand one if the price was right.

I
would say there is only one down side to it and it has nothing to do with the
guitar itself, but the fact it only comes with a gig bag rather than a hard
shell case. You can buy a hard case for £50 though so i didn't mind
spending £600 on the guitar and another £50 on a case for it.
I hope you enjoyed my
review of this guitar. Feel free to leave any comments or ask any questions and
ill answer them. My next review will be on the boss ME-50. i use mine all the
time and ill explain how it works and what settings i use to get the tones I'm
after.
Thanks for reading
Steven
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