Fender American Vintage II Stratocaster - Why I was Wrong About This Guitar
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- Welcome to my review of the Fender American Vintage II Stratocaster in Seafoam Green!
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Video Chapters
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00:00 - About this Guitar & Video
00:18 - Disclaimer (not sponsored)
01:58 - Quick Guitar Overview & Distinctive Features
02:53 - Clean Tones
04:20 - Dirty Tones
06:13 - High Gain Tones
07:00 - Fender American Vintage II Stratocaster Review
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Your American Original has a 9.5 radius fingerboard and these have 7.25 with vintage tall frets.
I saw the same guitar,except in a creamy white color at Southpaw Guitars and it has been haunting me since! I’m going to have to go there and try it out. Great job Shane!😎😎😎🎸🎸🎸🎸
I put a set of the Pure Vintage '57 Pickups in a Japanese made 1958 Strat and it sounds amazing. I highly reccomend them and they are quite affordable compared to other boutique brands.
Guitar sounds great,and all your videos look so professional, great job!!!😊
I have not watched you in a little bit, your lead work and effortlessly nailing notes has really progressed to a pure professional to my ears.
Would love to hear the 61! You're my GOTO, as a lefty... your reviews matter most. Hopefully Jerry's is back up and running soon and you can do some more demos with some fresh guitars. He's in my neck of the woods now, so hoping to get an in person visit there. Thanks!
That skull with lights is so dope its really getting me freaked out. That is some really nice sliding into so riffages as a whole and notes as an element. Dope jam up.
Very nice demonstration, did you notice a big difference in the 7.25 radius compared to your other Strat ?
Impressive tones. Those pickups are really nice.
Great looking and sounding Strat! Delish! I've never played a guitar with that neck profile. Don't need this one tho, I have a Seafoam green with rosewood board, alder body LH. Stole it for about $220 USD, only thing I changed was pups to 3 hot rails, it's killer 😈. Great review Shane
Looks and sounds pretty. I just bought a near new Vintera modified 50s Tele in almost the same colour.
Nice review Shane. I'm on the fence myself. Not sure what I'll end up with at the moment. I like the color and I don't mind a 7.25" radius. Enjoyed your putting it through it's paces. Sounds good.
Nice video! What is the single coil hum/buzz like when using high gain?
I have this exact model and color. I took your advice on your video about your white Strat and how if you have the extra $$$ just get the higher end fender over the pro ii or performer Strat. You were so right. Got sick of budget guitars and fooling around with them and said f it and spend the extra $$$ it’s so worth it. Love it!
That first song gave me chills, Excellent
Shane: have you ever had a Strat or Telecaster that you had the high E string saddle screws keep coming loose or unscrewing? I had this keep happening on
my Squier Tele, finally my local Guitar Center did a setup and all that, and still hadn't fixed this, so I had to bring it back in this week and bring some Loctite thread
cement (!) since they were out of some, for the tech. to apply it to one screw on the high E string saddle screw, and now it appears to be fixed, thus far. It was
driving me mad for a long time. The good thing is now I know how to do it myself. This was only happening on the high E saddle, no others.
Hey Shane, I picked up the American Vintage II 1961 Strat in Olympic White. It’s the best guitar that I own!!!!! Love it!!!🎸🔥🎸🔥🎸
Love Seafoam green. I gotta get one someday.
A huge thanks to Sky Music for the loan of this Fender Stratocaster! If you want to check it out here are the affiliate links. Let me know what you think of the tones. I was very surprised by this one.
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The Seafoam Green and the Sunburst are Alder bodies, and the Vintage Blonde has an Ash body. The guitar sounds great.
I was interested in buying the sunburst with maple board. But they took forever to get here. I ended up buying the Japanese version for more than half the price. Now that they have arrived in Australia, I'm reluctant to go and try one.
what amp and pedals were you using in the jam sesh in the beginning of the video?
Great review Shane! Love the guitar, but the real star has been your playing, especially as of late. Your phrasing and vibrato control is top notch! 👍👊🎯🎵🎶🎵🎶
Thanks so much mate. I have been hitting the practice room for a bit finally. :) Cheers
Pickups sound great. I will stick with my Fender American Performer Arctic white, rosewood board strat. It's the best strat I have ever played /owned with zero QC issues and set up perfectly straight from Corona.
That was juicy!! You need to play slide more! 💯🎸🤟
I've got an America Pure Vintage 59 Stratocaster. It's an exceptional guitar.
But whatever I do, I just can't bond with the 7.25 radius.
It's play great, low action, no choke with bends, the hand slides on the neck like no other guitar I have.
It's also quite chunky..
But that 7.25 has a feel, and even a sound.. I'm sure of that. The notes are snappier with a short decay, and very light sustain.. it does have a singing quality.. but I don't like it.. I cannot put the words why.
So, I've thought, sell the guitar ? No way.. so it will forever be mine.. I've decided I'm gonna ask my luthier to shave the neck, and redo the fretboard to 10 inch radius..
Some might, that's stupid to modify a perfect reincarnation of a 59 Stratocaster 😮.
Well, you know what, what made me make up my mind is an interview of Jeff Beck I read today. I want to share this for you :
He said " I don't like that fat neck on my Signature Stratocaster, it's just too fat. Fender just wanted to redo a 50's spec .. and didn't want to carve it to my personnal preference, medium C shape"
" there's no point for a kid with small hands to fight that neck.. so find your guitar guy to just shave down that thing.."😅
That just made me feel good to just do it.
For your knowledge Jeff Beck keeps swaping necks on his guitars, whatever the year, or vintage models.. what's important is for you to bond with the guitar, not to get stuck with an instrument you fight with..
The guy was an engineer, and for me the best electric guitarist on earth, and the ultimate Stratocaster wizard
So I just follow his advice and will butcher that 59 neck 😅
That Marshall sounds wonderful ! I'm discovering a thing here 🧐
You have loads of confidence now in the lead work dude.
Yeah these are sweet. I couldn't pass up the $999.99 plexis on zzounds, but my next gear purchase will def be this.. olympic white and 61 though.
Looks killer and sounds great, then again I never met a Strat I didn’t like.
Beautiful guitar but it's only slightly different than any other Fender 50's style Stratocaster. I think it would just come down to which guitar plays and sounds the best if I was buying another Stratocaster.
Dear Shane. The Thomann link leads to 73's Strat, not 57...
I’ll fix it in the morning my mistake!
This guitar is terrific!
I take 1500 grit with some water and just graze it to a duller polish on a custom shop or anything laquer like that. Try it if you got the guts. It turns the laquer into a babys butt smooth.
I just don't care for the thick poly coating. I mean Fender cakes it on for these $1200+ guitars. I could live with it on the old MIM Standards at $499. It sounds good though and I assume it had a nice neck profile?
These are nitro, but they do apparently have a poly "undercoat". Couldn't tell you why they do that. Maybe someone in the trusty comment section will know??
@@jordanpratt3821it's my inderstanding that Fender has been putting a poly finish under the nitro for ages
I read that somewhere, and it seemed coming from very knowledgeable people.
The full nitro coating wasn't done for a long time
Bro how to buy this lefhanded guitar from manila Philippines
Maybe contact a local store.
For me this sounds extremely sharp and ice picky. Wasn't this more so than most of your other videos?
Love your videos. these are nice to look at but...with a 7.5 radius it is unplayable by most pro's standards.
I just don't get Fender these days. They either use crappy wood and great necks or visa versa.
IMO, if you are going to use a 7.5 radius for a neck at least make it a compound radius to 9.5 or 10.
Sadly for me, in the last three years or so there has not been one single guitar with a decent radius, Soft V or Mid sixties C neck and alder or ash body in the 1k to 2k category. There has only been one guitar I even considered buying (Fender American Original '50s or 60's Stratocaster) but at $2500.00 new (when it first came out) it was, IMO too costly for what it was. Just my 2 cents worth. Peace.
It's a Strat! \m/
7ender MIA und MIM have soooo many issues in QS and build quality these days; that's insolent.
As a customer you can order over 10 7fender and they all fail(ed). Some are even unsalable as 2nd choice.
Gotta say I have a Fender pro 2 strat and its beautifully built.
@@malcolmhardwick4258 That'sa fine and lucky you, but it's only n=1.
With fender and gibson guitars are hit and miss
You got to try them out before buying.
Iv had a mij strat and the quality was far superior than mim or mia.
Good vid though.
They are all a little different Shane ,Just find a good build ,you can mod it to what you want ,Just like Eric, Eddie and David Gilmore.
They lend you the guitar because you won't be able to give it back lol
I’ve heard that the left handed fenders don’t have USA made necks but use the Mexican made necks, and that the right handed ones are USA made necks.
That neck is nowhere as smooth as the professional ii … it’s a hard no.
Sooo...is this going to be your last fender strat now lol.
Nah, I am not buying one, but it's great.