Im with u 100% on the roasted maple neck with rosewood fretboard and 12" radius. My Partscaster Tele has a Fender aftermarket neck with those specs and its incredible. (It the Fender Satin Roasted Maple Telecaster Replacement Neck - Rosewood Fingerboard) i put Fender Staggered Locking Tuners on it, and I ordered a 3 string retainer from Stewmac, then realized i dont need it and preferred the look of the headstock without a string tree. The rolled edges are a nice touch too. By the looks of it, it seems like the same neck thats on the GT11, but MIM. Now i really want to build a Partscaster Strat with the Strat equivalent of the same neck, or save up and get the Fender American Professional II GT11 Stratocaster - Sonic Blue. That guitar checks all the right boxes for me.
This GT11 became my number 1 single coil guitar immediately. I love how it plays and sounds! They’re actually on sale right now, use my link in the description🙂
Strat trems can be pretty persnickety. My fix was to use 5 springs and back the claw attachment screws fairly far out so it's definitely floating. Gives it a little of that smooth warble feel that you get on a (NON-tension bar) Bigsby or Jazzmaster. All that said, there's no reason why you couldn't take a hard-tail Strat, cut out part of the pickguard and mount a B-16. I've not had good luck with B5 and B7-type tension-bar Bigsbys; real stiff.... A B-16 doesn't have the tension-bar so it feels much better, but they're hard to find.
You’re talking my talk. Nothing appeals to more than a strat. Greatest guitar on earth, with the Tele right behind. I find Les Paul’s to be bulky unattractive guitars never got the vibe.
I agree. I've never understood the obsession with les Paul's. And if I ranked just gibsons models it would be near the bottom. I'd rather have an ES, SG, and even a V over an LP.
Yeah I was looking for a hard tail a while ago and couldn’t find what I was looking for. You could always just get the trem version and block it. Basically the same
Im with u 100% on the roasted maple neck with rosewood fretboard and 12" radius. My Partscaster Tele has a Fender aftermarket neck with those specs and its incredible. (It the Fender Satin Roasted Maple Telecaster Replacement Neck - Rosewood Fingerboard) i put Fender Staggered Locking Tuners on it, and I ordered a 3 string retainer from Stewmac, then realized i dont need it and preferred the look of the headstock without a string tree. The rolled edges are a nice touch too. By the looks of it, it seems like the same neck thats on the GT11, but MIM.
Now i really want to build a Partscaster Strat with the Strat equivalent of the same neck, or save up and get the Fender American Professional II GT11 Stratocaster - Sonic Blue. That guitar checks all the right boxes for me.
This GT11 became my number 1 single coil guitar immediately. I love how it plays and sounds! They’re actually on sale right now, use my link in the description🙂
Sold my last Fender after i bought the Vola. I hope they get their QC up to Squier standards one day.
I’ve heard great things about Vola, I’m just not crazy about the styling
I found a left handed avri 2 fiesta red strat but it arrived with the neck pocket cracked. Kind of a bummer.
Oh man that sucks. This guitar is stupid good tho. It’s so close to being perfect
Strat trems can be pretty persnickety. My fix was to use 5 springs and back the claw attachment screws fairly far out so it's definitely floating. Gives it a little of that smooth warble feel that you get on a (NON-tension bar) Bigsby or Jazzmaster. All that said, there's no reason why you couldn't take a hard-tail Strat, cut out part of the pickguard and mount a B-16. I've not had good luck with B5 and B7-type tension-bar Bigsbys; real stiff.... A B-16 doesn't have the tension-bar so it feels much better, but they're hard to find.
On my veritas my bigsby give just a slight warble, definitely not a dive bomber but provides a nice texture. That’s what I want.
You’re talking my talk. Nothing appeals to more than a strat. Greatest guitar on earth, with the Tele right behind. I find Les Paul’s to be bulky unattractive guitars never got the vibe.
I had a Les Paul and never vibed with it. Gotta try an SG still but the strat is just perfection
I agree. I've never understood the obsession with les Paul's. And if I ranked just gibsons models it would be near the bottom. I'd rather have an ES, SG, and even a V over an LP.
lol
Got a different opinion? Share it mate 🙂
@@jonmihail Les Paul bulky? Sure. So are teles. But a Les Paul unattractive, that’s comedy.
prs made my fav git with the s2 vela
What do you like about it?
I think it needs a Bigsby :D
Should I put a bigby on my Strat? Maybe my other American Standard
You sold me on the Fender 🤣
It’s a great guitar! Played it live today and it was amazing
Did you grow up in Australia, man?
Sure did, moved to the USA when I was 22. What’s your podcast about?
You know you can put a bigsby on it rigth?
The video is called fender almost made my perfect guitar, not I can mod this guitar into my perfect guitar. That’s a different video
@@jonmihail ohh greattt then you got tour dream guitar!!!congratsq🥳(i have constant need to clearly say that Im not being sarcastic)
WHY WON'T FENDER JUST DO A PLAYER II HARDTAIL STRAT IN DAPHNE BLUE AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH
Yeah I was looking for a hard tail a while ago and couldn’t find what I was looking for. You could always just get the trem version and block it. Basically the same
@@jonmihail That's what I've done w/ mine 🤣