Fender Custom Shop 69 Strat
Posted: Thu Jan 29, 2009 6:01 pm
I went into the local Sam Ash and was just looking around as usual, trying this and that, talking shop with the guys and then I saw her.....and froze in my tracks. You never see custom shop 69 strats at stores atleast around here. It was a used closet classic in white with maple neck. It was beautiful. One of the most beautiful strats I ever laid eyes on. Thing was only going for $1449. "Can I play it?" "Sure"..........giddy like a school girl.......
Big Ol' U shaped neck, maple capped, vintage frets, big headstock, dark black fender stratocaster logo, 3 way switch.
And.........it sounded like a strat..........meh.......... haha. I was not thoroughly impressed by its sound. It was a bit noisy. I played it through a fender vibrolux (no thankyou), a vintage fender twin reverb and a reissue one (decent) and a jtm45 reissue through a 4x12 (much bigger and better).
It lacked warmth and power until I put it into the jtm45. It was really a different beast all together this guitar. The bridge pickup was about useless as it was the most tiny thin sound I ever heard a bridge have. Neck was really the best spot. The vintage style 6 screw bridge was really crucial to its character. Picking closer to it getting those woody nasaly tones was real cool and I could get a total Band of Gypsys "who knows" opening tone happening, which I didnt try until like 20 minutes of messing on it, and then I heard that and got a big smile on my face, and was like "what can I sell to get this?"
The longer I played it the more I warmed up to this guitar, until the point of where I just didn't want to put it down. The U neck took some getting used to and was a tiny bit fatiguing after a while. I dont have small hands, I'm just used to the medium C on my american standard.
What a shame it was to watch it get put back up on the wall. We had a good time while it lasted honey!
When are you going to see a used one for $1449 again? never 
Thats ok this one didn't take me on a magic carpet ride exactly, but it sure would find a lot of use in my collection. I will say that the custom shop 69 pickups I just put in my american standard sound a lot warmer and bigger, even in the bridge. But oh what a beauty that guitar was......Dreaming on.....
Big Ol' U shaped neck, maple capped, vintage frets, big headstock, dark black fender stratocaster logo, 3 way switch.
And.........it sounded like a strat..........meh.......... haha. I was not thoroughly impressed by its sound. It was a bit noisy. I played it through a fender vibrolux (no thankyou), a vintage fender twin reverb and a reissue one (decent) and a jtm45 reissue through a 4x12 (much bigger and better).
It lacked warmth and power until I put it into the jtm45. It was really a different beast all together this guitar. The bridge pickup was about useless as it was the most tiny thin sound I ever heard a bridge have. Neck was really the best spot. The vintage style 6 screw bridge was really crucial to its character. Picking closer to it getting those woody nasaly tones was real cool and I could get a total Band of Gypsys "who knows" opening tone happening, which I didnt try until like 20 minutes of messing on it, and then I heard that and got a big smile on my face, and was like "what can I sell to get this?"
The longer I played it the more I warmed up to this guitar, until the point of where I just didn't want to put it down. The U neck took some getting used to and was a tiny bit fatiguing after a while. I dont have small hands, I'm just used to the medium C on my american standard.
What a shame it was to watch it get put back up on the wall. We had a good time while it lasted honey!
When are you going to see a used one for $1449 again? never Thats ok this one didn't take me on a magic carpet ride exactly, but it sure would find a lot of use in my collection. I will say that the custom shop 69 pickups I just put in my american standard sound a lot warmer and bigger, even in the bridge. But oh what a beauty that guitar was......Dreaming on.....
