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this guitar is better than the first version .. i think

I just pulled the trigger yesterday. Videos I’ve watched are so crossed between “poor quality” and “looks great and plays well out of the box”… initially it was the cosmetics that caught my eyes. It truly is a beautiful corral red imo. Anyways, cool review! I am considering dropping some ‘61 pickups in mine

Find Charlie Christian records - the beginning of electric (jazz) guitar- enjoy.

If you arenear, goto Princeton Record Exchange. They frequently have inexpensive Jazz and a good selection of Pablo records. Guitar - try playing with Miles' electric band, Mahavishnu orchestra or Return to forever.

If you can, go to Princeton Record Exchange - they frequently have bins of goddess to excellent jazz, including Pablo records. Find Miles Davis - his electric band - try playing with the guitarist.

Fantastic overview and congrats on the new Strat. Just picked up my own last week in the 3 color burst HSS and it’s incredible.. had a well-respected tech do the setup (and specifically for 10’s as well) and it’s so great. I am considering locking tuners as my MIM thinline tele deluxe has them and I’ve gotten spoiled, but I like the aesthetic of the Classic Gears more I may just have to give them a shot. I also noticed the guitar is a lot quieter than my Telecaster (in regards to both guitars single coils, and the tele’s being Noiseless at that). Seems to be a lot less 60cycle hum for me. Plays great, no complaints so far besides having to adjust my picking hands position to adjust to the bridge/volume knob being RIGHT THERE. Amazing video brother, highly recommended just as you articulated! Take care!

I bought a Squier CV 50 Classic Vibe Tele about a year ago, great guitar. The Strats are as well.

Thank you for your opinion. I might buy one soon. I just have some doubts about the vibrato - Do the strings stay in tune?

How bout fretboard experience? Dry and rough bending and vibratos like in the previous series or butter effect finally, like it should be?

I like your picking. You are greatly appreciated by me.😊

what do you play on yours? Mine came with 9's....I always play on Elixir nanoweb 10's, I set it up with new Exlixir 10's after wearing out the 9's that came with it and it really negatively changed the guitar feel. I expected that to a degree but the amount of adjustment to the spring tension to put on the 10's really stiffened up the FR more than I wanted so I will probably put on some Elixir 9's and just keep 9's on it.

I always wanted one of these back in the 80's when they first came out, I finally got one in desert yellow. Back then i couldnt afford one you must have well off parents, altho the cocaine i was putting in my nose didnt help in me getting one lol

@Stephen Michaels What do you think of the volume? I feel like it goes from 0 to 10 with little movement of the potentiometer. i have the green birch one.

Congrats Steve! And yes the Nut is always made for 009’s. I might need to grab one

That bound 60s spec CV SB is absolutely one of the best teles for the sub 500 mark for over 10 years now. I have a 2015 3 tone SB 60s CV and its insane ...the rosewood fretboard is the thin cut like the 60s spec and is also extremely rolled edges. I couldnt believe it. I got mine second hand so the previous owner may have done that but i am not so sure. Anyway the alder body also makes it a steal for a vintage spec. I put loaded player series stock pickguard in mine and its been killer. I would like to find a older 2015 or older stock pickups for it. I think those were amazing. Mine had been swapped to cloth wired Mighty Mite ceramics. They sound amazing but i wanted to get it vintage closer. Ill eventually replace them.

nice color

I can't justify the price of good Fender Stratocasters these days, I played a GL Fullerton deluxe recently and was blown away with it, and the price is not as high as Fender. If you don't want to change the string trees to keep it authentic, you can spray the bottom of them with PTFE, they then become much slicker, team it uo with a Graphtech nut and you are off to the races! You can also mask off the saddles and lightly spray the string slots also.

The day of $500 MIM guitars are over. Price went up 100% in five years.

Ahhh,love that Bonnie Raitt song.You are a great player sir.Those new player 2s look great.I need to check one out for myself.After many years of playing and partocasting I have come to the conclusion that I prefer single trussrod necks.Neck and body has to work together but most of the tonal character comes from the neck imo.Neck,bridge and pickups is my order of Stratocaster tonal bliss :).

Cool guitar.Great design from Ibanez.I miss the 80s,fun times.

Racer x-Second heat is one of my fav Shrapnel records together with Tony Macalpine-Edge of insanity and Vinnie Moore-Mind’s eye.1987 is a killer album but my fav Whitsnake album is Slide it in.Early 1984 i read an article in a Swedish hardrock magazine about Yngwie Malmsteen or Yngve Malmsten as we swedes call him :).I first heard him on the radio in late 84.The song was Kree Nakoorie and to my 13 year old ears it sounded weird,like arabic metal or something til I heard the guitar solo.Had never heard anything like it.Those early Malmsteen albums are still sensational to me.Tones is a crossroad album to me as I call it.It opened up my ears to something outside hardrock.I first heard Eric Johnson on a guitar player sound page(cliffs of Dover).Some of the best guitarplaying I have ever heard.

My fav and most influential records since age 4(1975)when i started gettin into music…Abba-Abba,Kiss-Love gun,Bob Marley-Uprising,Van Halen-Women and children first&1984,Dio-Holy Diver,Ozzy-Diary of a madman,MSG-Assault Attack,Yngwie Malmsteen’s rising force,Dokken-Under lock and key,Gary Moore-Victims of the future,Black Sabbath-Sabbath bloody Sabbath&Sabotage,Jimi Hendrix-Electric Ladyland,Allan Holdsworth-Metal fatigue,Uli Jon Roth-Beyond the astral skies,TNT-KOTNT&Tell no tales,The Who-Who’s next,Prince-Around the world in a day,Hughes and Thrall,Pink Floyd-Dark side of the moon,Carlos Santana-Blues for Salvador,Eric Johnson-Tones,King’s X-Ear Candy,Opeth-Deliverance,Yes-Going for the one,Joni Mitchell-Night ride home,SRV-Couldn’t stand the weather,Frank Zappa-Joe’s garage,Freak Kitchen-Spanking hour,The soundtrack of our life-Behind the music,Loudness-Thunder in the east,Focus-Moving waves,Scorpions-Virgin killer,Jimmy page-Outrider,Kraftwerk-Man machine,Midnight oil-Diesel and dust,Peter Gabriel-So,Thin Lizzy-Fighting,Saga-Silent knight,Sting-Nothing like the sun,Steve Hillage-L,Jan Johansson-Jazz på Svenska,Shotgun Messiah-Shotgun Messiah…I have to mention the first singles I bought in 1980…Buggles-Video killed the radio star and Pink Floyd-Another brick in the wall

The addition of vintage tuners is nice . Other than that, it’s the same guitar with slightly rolled finger board.

Have you checked how thick the bridge block is? I need to know if it's gonna need replacement or if it's good out of the box. Great video man!

Really dig the review! With all the refinements, would this be a better choice than the Am Pro II?

I have a 2020 original Player "Plus Top Aged Cherry" HSS strat with a maple fretboard. I like the guitar, but will be replacing the neck with a Player II rosewood fretboard when they become available. I put locking tuners and a graphtec nut on the neck and will probably do the same on the new neck.

If you are a Fender fanboy and purchased the guitar because you instantly loved it... how can it be unbiased? :)

Do you immediately change the strings when you buy a Fender? I must say that I always restring a Fender with Ernie Ball strings.

Beautiful playing , love the color.

I love 80's rock and always wanted one, I got a 2017 used San Dimas, I liked it because it was like a Stratocaster (Super Strat, I know) but I sold it, I never got used to the neck, that 12"-16" fretboard and the very flat back of the neck I never liked. I also didn't care for the oiled neck but I took care of that spraying poly to make it feel like a Strat neck. Oh, and don't even get me started on the Floyd Rose... I might still get one shredder guitar in the future, I've seen some older Made in Japan Charvels and neck looks better, but the truss rod adjustment requires to remove the neck 🙄

my first....Reliable Music Charlotte NC....1987 Ibanez PRO540R...still have it and play it...they had two sitting in the front, a blue burst and a red burst. I bought the red burst for 800 bucks. All still original except for one of the pick up selector switches....it could use a fret job....

You surprised me when you said that 40th Anniversary was light. I tried one out that was the exact same model that you have. I picked it up off the rack and I was shocked by the heavy weight of it. It was definitely the deal breaker for me and I didn't notice the quality of the pickups but my mind was made up by the heavy weight that I wasn't going to buy that guitar.

Totally love my Squier C.V 60`s Tele, never put it down, a fantastically good quality guitar for the money.

Amazing record, seeing them later today in Vegas

Great video, I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's always nice to hear a musians point of view 😊

Have a blonde 40th only changed to brass bridge. No mud, add a treble bleed Use your volume add tone and a real fender amp (real 65 Deluxe) no mud to be found! Also have 50s model, same but different neck different output. Also have a real fender esquire with neck pickup added , enough said ,any song, any style, anywhere.

I've has 3 Charvels. None of them made it a week. The So-Cal, which was the last one I tried, didn't make it past an hour. How do you forget to put shims under the locking nut? 🤦‍♂️ No more Charvels for me, unless they're under $500, which should be their starting price.

I have bought 6 different charvel guitars recently. A lot of your concerns are warranted. For the price the quality control is 👎. And sadly I think that’s the 5 way super switch out of the fender elite. So there’s that.

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The first two Boston albums did it for me. I grew up not too far away from you. Westfield and Fanwood NJ/ Union county. My favorite Van Halen song is "Take Your Whiskey Home." Love all your picks. Ty Tabor is so grossly underrated as a guitarist.

Band did a Friday-Saturday at a small club. Friday was rocking with new bass player. New bass player is jazzed so he gets jacked and stays up all night & shows up strung out and hung over for Saturday. New bass player does not know what planet he is on and plays right through every song. Other guitar player was a hard man and takes the new bass player home, throws the new bass player and his gear in the front yard. He is not the new bass player any more and the guitar player tells him that he just got thrown out of the best band he was ever going to be in. Guitar player leaves before he ends the bass player. Bass player jumps up, goes wild, runs around the front yard until in a moment of inspiration he lights the garbage cans in the street on fire. Bass player sets the overhanging tree on fire as well & all hell is breaking loose at 2am. Everyone survives except the garbage cans and the tree. Bass player goes to rehab the next week and actually showed up at one of our gigs & tells us the experience changed his life and he was detoxed and clean.

I did lights for a cover band in the '80's. They were a ZZ top tribute band with beards , shades the whole shtick . The drum riser was a trike that did wheelies . Sometimes they would get the band I was in to open . We did all originals but were developing a very small following . I remember we were at a gig sitting in our van and the guitar player was beside me with a groupie on his lap fooling around . His wife shows up ! Just before she was in sight of him he threw the girl on my lap and told her to kiss me . I had no idea what was happening because it was so fast. His wife later that evening pulls me aside and said she was worried about me . I could get a much better woman then that girl . Smh .

Cool stuff Steve😎

I'll never understand buying instruments without playing them first. Especially if I'm spending thousands of dollars. I would never order/buy a guitar I haven't played first. 🤷‍♂

I have a Charvel with a whammy bar. It is a pain in the ass. I live in Sheffield , UK.

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What I’ve experienced is at home from my high schooler sons as they are uniques as they both play an instrument as their friends both boys and girls don’t play. I think then kids in my era, guitar players were a dime a dozen. These days I think you’ll find 1 or 2 among the same group of 10 may play. 🤓for a variety of reasons; nuclear family change, School music programs, money for music lessons is a luxury in Most homes 🤮blah hadda 💨

It didn't take long to figure out that NYC was not the great place to jump off a new band in the early 90's.The " pay to play" and cut of the door assured that it wasn't profitable, and the same 5 crappy cover acts locally, and national tours got all the good spots.I remember the Flaming Lips,- who were boring AH,- and Blues Traveler becoming popular , - go figure.Pre Grunge, the bands that were popular were just abysmal.Cop Shoot Cop was the band that I wanted spots with, but they were still struggling themselves at that point.The Swans and Sonic Youth were the must see live gigs,- but that was just NYC, not national.The only person I knew that "made it" was Moby, who I had nothing in common with, except part of my first band were stolen from his first band.When I left the area, he had resorted to the DJ thing. Not a good time to be coming up, but then, it almost never is in the music business.Even the guys that got contracts later got screwed over and shelved, ending up in debt.Lots of drugs, drugs, drugs, everwhere.Cop Shoot Cop ending up screwed over and imploding. NYC only got worse, and really ground me down; started having a lot of trouble holding the key members together, eventually just giving up and starting a new project, with all different guys, a year later.That one never made it out of the rehearsal studio. Financial backing is/was just key in a city like NYC, and I had zero, outside a couple girls that would feed me; you could observe that a lot of the people that hung in had parental support, while I was working construction and club security gigs, always struggling . So it goes,- I quit and just did the chef thing with a permanent GF for about 12 years before picking it up again.Still at it, even after struggling with some health issues.

Combination and Chiquita are awesome.... took me ages to work out Chiquita....

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