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Who plays a Strat? Probably everyone who's ever picked up an electric guitar! Played by musical greats like Eric Claption, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Mark Knopfler, Ronnie Wood, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robbie Robertson, and a million others... the Fender Stratocaster has its name carved into the history of rock and roll. Manufactured in Corona California, the Strat is made from the best woods and crafted by ultra-skilled hands. Each American Series Stratocaster begs to be played. See how the Fender Stratocaster is made!
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How a Fender Stratocaster is made.
Who plays a Strat? Probably everyone who's ever picked up an electric guitar. Played by musical greats like Eric Claption, Jimi Hendrix, Buddy Guy, Mark Knopfler, Ronnie Wood, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Robbie Robertson, and a million others... the Fender Stratocaster has its name carved into the history of rock and roll. Manufactured in Corona California, the Strat is made from the best woods and crafted by ultra-skilled hands. Each American Series Stratocaster begs to be played.
HISTORY
Since its introduction by inventor Leo Fender on May 15, 1954, the basic design has remained unchanged, though it has certainly inspired many variations offered by Fender and other companies.
The Stratocaster was Leo Fender’s third offering in his line of solid-body electric instruments. The Strat followed the Telecaster Guitar and Precision Bass, which were introduced as prototypes in 1951 and brought to market the following year. Both instruments garnered success with musicians and Fender aimed to improve on his original designs as well as to expand his line with new models. He listened to comments from musicians and incorporated their ideas into the new instrument he had on the drawing board, which was to become the Stratocaster.
The name “Stratocaster” came from Fender’s business partner, Don Randall. It was intended to be reminiscent of aircraft technology, and reflect forward thinking and modern design. Indeed, it was - and still is - quite an innovative design!
Key differences between the Stratocaster and Telecaster:
The Stratocaster’s contoured cutaway body style was intended to improve balance and make the instrument more comfortable to play, as well as to allow greater access to the higher registers of the neck. A third (middle position) pickup was added to provide more tonal variations than the Telecaster could offer with only neck and bridge position pickups. But one of the most important new features of the Stratocaster was the tremolo bridge, which allowed players to bend strings in the same way a pedal steel player would.
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The pickups don't turn the vibrations of the strings into sound. They turn the vibrations into electricity. The amp then turns the electricity into sound.
semantics
@@AsDeft Not really: a pickup is not a microphone. The strings interrupt a magnetic field, which is what produces the electrical charge - no "sound" is involved. With a microphone, a sound moves a diaphragm - sound is involved...
@@pdp977 what do you think is in the diaphram? Magic? It has to have some kind of metal moving through a magnetic field to produce energy.
The amps don't turn electricity into sound. They turn electricity into vibrating air molecules. The vibrating air molecules are interpreted as sound by the neural connections between your ear drums and the auditory cortex. But hey, Rock n Roll!
@@darrellrobinson9354 sound = air vibrations. The speaker produces sound. This is fundamental stuff my guy
“The frets are the lines that force the string to bend over that line”
Tony Iommi once played
a left-handed Fender Stratocaster. He played
it until the pickups gave
out
That’s called tech savvy.....
Jack Lynch the second most important lines on the guitar after the strings
Never in my 50 years of playing have I heard a definition of a fret that lame, and not a single mention of the word "metal". People who don’t play would at least say metal. This guy works for Fender? He has to be a relative of someone higher up in the company.
KimKnows EvenMore First off frets are the metal strips imbedded in the neck at a precise measured location. It has nothing to do with a keyboard at all. It does have to do with the particular note you’re trying to get i.e. you have a fret already in the neck for the C#. The next note you will be in search of is a D. Based on the mathematical calculations you will know where the fret will be placed. The fret is put into the fretboard using the correct caul that corresponds with the radius of the fretboard. This process is repeated until all frets are in. New frets are generally longer than needed on the fretboard so you’ll have to go back around and clip the frets even to the edge of the fretboard. Once this is done you’ll have to perform a fret dressing to make sure the frets are in place and the ends of each fret are going to slice your fingers up as you play. There’s more to this process to complete a fret job but I’m tired and don’t feel much like being a professor on this subject. Find a good repair book (StewMac has an excellent book) to use as a guide. As for the pipe, I enjoy cigars with my beers but I cannot have beer any longer. I’m disabled after being electrocuted 7 years ago and I’m still working on learning how to play guitar again. I’ve played for 50 years but now that doesn’t mean a thing. Good luck with your frets. 🤘
My dad' bought a strat way back in the 80's. Before he died, he gave it to me as a keepsake. I still play on it from time to time and it still sounds amazing after 4 decades.
Guitars are built to last
What's the difference between a Mexican strat and an American strat?
About 100 miles...
Lol
Better materials, and better workmanship on the fret detailing. A/B a Mexi-Strat and an American Standard. It's night and day, particularly with the vibrato action.
Thats basically it, I honestly like alot of the Mexican strats better in my opinion.
USA is better quality........oh nvm not this debate...
Indeed. The location of the automated programmed CNC routers.
Pickups are ABSOLUTELY NOT like tiny microphones.
To the layman, they perform the same function in the process of amplifying a sound though.
@@AWHNJ pickups do NOT amplify.,
@@markw9285 and i didn't say they did. 🤔
@@markw9285 As in, picking up the sound to be amplified by an external sound device, e.g. a speaker
@@josephpbrown pick-ups do not do the amplifying tho..
A little help from me to all young strat players: 0:50 if your high e string moves on saddle like this and keep breaking... put a little plastic tube through string all the way down to string ball to cover sharp edges behind saddle. Now your string dont move and your string is up to 7 months with no snap. (You can cut plastic cover tube 1,5 cm long from any soft thin wire... like your old phone charger...) Second spot where your high e string snaps is at tunning peg sharp edge... for that you can wind a few extra layer to tunning peg so your last wind wont lay on any sharp metal but on tight winds of your string.
"Tremolo" is a modulation of volume, "Vibrato" is modulation of pitch. The wiggle stick on a Straddle Casper guitar is for vibrato.
Straddle casper
Yep! The Straddle Casper is the one with 3 pickups. The older model, with just two pickups, is the Tiddle Casper, but a Tiddle Casper ain't got no wiggle stick.
Fender always mixed these two, its called a tremolo though it does vibrato and fender amps have vibratos that do tremolo
@@rainerwinkler1026 Nuts. Words have actual meaning. Correct all the literature.
"It gives that sound, you know, when you zzzzz zzzzz, yeah."
dragosandrei yeah you clearly know the sound bro
the body wood creates the sound? oh heaven help us here we go again.
its insanity
I think at best it can modestly shape the tone, but more than anything affects the resonance.
Indeed xDD this is all marketing ... the guitar is a piece of wood and some electronics (that those electronics are nothing special and you can make your own ....) Guitar for 150 $ and guitar for 2500$ the difference are minimal
come on its just aestetics , everything is on the pickup, amp, and pedal settings
the first thing i thought was, "oo lets go down and see all of the tonewood comments" not dissapointed
Love the way they have "Photoshopped" The Music Man amp badge out on the picture of Leo working on a Musicman Stingray guitar!(4.55.)
7:57 Seventy years later and the Fender people still don't know the difference between tremolo and vibrato. Tremolo is not vibrato. Tremolo is originally a picking technique (as he says) that can also be electronically mimicked by modulating the volume or loudness. Vibrato is a modulation in pitch. These are two completely different things and Fender has mislabeled them from the get go.
BTsMusicChannel
Thank you!!
I believe they originally had to label them incorrectly in marketting because of patents/trademarks and the confusion just caught on. similar story with the telecaster being originally called the "broadcaster" but gretsch already used the name (for drumkits i believe?) so they chopped up the headstocks of the already assembled broadcaster and put the new name on. the headstock shape of the telecaster is still based on the chopped up headstocks.
@@kukelekuu
My Strat owners manual calls it a vibrato arm.
My amp has tremolo.
Confusion.......
@@colehara oh i forgot to mention don't quote me on any of the stuff above 😋 I don't have any proof it's just what I seem to remember. I welcome all tidbits of more factual information
@@kukelekuu
Well... whatever it's called I'm not very good with a guitar but I have fun with it and for me that's what is important.☺
Pickups don't turn the vibration of the strings into sound. They turn it into electric current. This signal is then turned into sound by an amplifier setup
Love my Strat. The feel, the weight, the action, the sound...all fits me perfectly.
Dude, I had one after years of waiting, and they weigh too much.
@@drewgormley6933 I came from a Les Paul, and the Strat was much lighter. Maybe your background is different?
The quality of the instrument is based upon the time spent on it
running out of things to say, fender? 0:10 and 6:00
Thanks for making me jump to the important content.
lol. no mention about david gilmour, who is the best fender player alive.
@@mustyguitar Yeh but gilmour ain't American. Sounds like typical American favouritism
Mustafa Can Kaya ehhhhhhh, don’t know about all that. I’ve played a stray a few times
@chronic 321 right. lemme guess, a fucking robot who can play 50 notes a second.
Love 'em. I own 3 Strats and a Tele. Never found any reason to own anything else.
That guy they keep cutting to sounds like your average guitar center.
"Uh yeah it gives that sound you now when you go like zhuuunng you know yah"
He kind of look the part too.
Lol
@@AsDeft He's probably waiting for his shift to be over lol
The reason I hate going into guitar shops, always got that one guy trying show off.
My first proper genuine brand new name guitar was a second hand Mexican Strat about twenty years ago (!). As soon as I played an A barre chord, I felt at home right there. When a friend tried it, I saw him have the same reaction to the feel of the neck - surprise and amazement - how can this feel so good???? Decades later, the look of the Stratocaster body from all angles is still beautiful and space-aged!
Tremolo is totally something different Vibrato.. Tremolo alters the volume, vibrato the pitch.
I have been trying to tell that to guitarist and luthiers for 50 years. They have no clue about audio terminology.... and call me an idiot and a liar.
@stirange ahahhaha your a fucking fool, and what i mean by that is that your reply to DB Cisco was fucking hilarious. although i know not what both of you are talking about, i just found your comment to be real funny.
He probably got confused about it because of the “tremolo bar” ;)
I always thought tremolo was another word for vibrato until i did research. Leo fender called it a tremolo because the name was more fitting and i guess the wang bar sounded more like a tremolo than a vibrato
I have always loved the Strat, even when I was younger, and it’s such a great opportunity to see how it’s made!
by real mexicans
"There's no substitute for time." Can't argue with logic like that.
07:58 that is insane. nobody at fender knows the difference between "tremolo" and "vibrato"
we learn that tremolo is the natural vibrato effect that we hear in fast flamenco staccato runs- lol
Nope. It was actually a mistake on Leo's part, when he accidentally changed up the tremolo and vibrato effects on his amp
I must admit, Hank Marvin is the reason why I'm persuading my dad to buy me a Strat for Christmas!
@Carl Evans I think it was the first in Europa !
@@gustlpomberger1643 Ooh!
These are precision carved by machine. But, tons of hands on professionally crafted artisan skills create each iconic world class instrument. I want one in each color......
Tremolo like flamenco players? Mmmm, but otherwise a good video. :)
lol yeah this guy didn't know how to explain a few things haha
yes you would expect a spokesperson for the company would understand what he was talking about, it's not even tremolo it's vibrato that the thing does, but still entertaining though :)
Fender has confused tremolo & vibrato from the get go. They don't know the difference.
Probably one of the first "tremolo" effects was manufactured in Fender 50's amps. Tremolo is a slow-fast and/or light-strong shift of guitar signal output amplitude. Has nothing to do with flamenco, nor the whammy bar, which impacts on strings' tension. Check out tremolo pedals!
These guys should know this, but the expression obviously has gone (un)convenient.
One thing is for sure - attention is paid more to productivity then quality, that's probably why so many lemons get past the QC guy at the end of the line, The fit and finish is all over the place!
Watching this makes me feel happy when I hold my fender strat
Watching this makes me happy when I play my custom shop Les Paul R8.
Im happy with my Epiphone, regardless of watching the video or not :)
@@AbsoluteAbsurd im happy with my gibson standard that I got to replace my epiphone
Pfft noobs, I use a Pacifica and it looks and sounds miles better then my friend’s squier
αвѕolυтe αвѕυrd epiphone gang
Solid body tone wood. The jangle definitely doesn’t come from the single coil pick ups.
7:01 "'dis is da switsh an' da tree pigups" - iconic!
🤣
Casual racism, alright! Stay classy, UA-cam.
That Instrument is really a iconic Entertainer and one of the most beautiful toy`S on this Planet it is really cool - as if it smiles _ the cheapest and the most expensives
“The pickups take the vibration of the strings and turns it into sounds.”
Altonex, selling to 9 year olds never seemed so possible.
4:26 "...you know the guitar is something that you can't rush...". Yea, one recognizes the slowness of the process immediately. No one seems rushed, no automatization of any kind...
I could really see the care taken when they were hammering the frets at 2:56
I’m honestly laughing every time he tries to talk about how important wood is to the sound. Dude, rob scallion built a fricken guitar out of a SHOVEL. Don’t talk to me about tonewood
Well you can laugh on Victor Wooten's face for using a 12.000 dollar instrument made with quality woods. Or mark knopfler pensa suhr. I dont think if those guys dont know if the wood afects the sound better than Rob...
Laugh all you want. Wood does make a difference. I have guitars made of maple, and guitars made of mahogany, and poplar. All three have different tones.
That shovel even sounds like a stick with strings and pickups on
Being honest, you should make a fair test between two different guitars with the same pickups. Maybe you change your mind.
Note: not only with lots of distortion, that may mask the results...
Let's be scientific, not believers!
Put Les Paul pickups in a Strat and let me know if it ends up sounding just like a Les Paul. Thanks.
2:35 when you use the word in the definition for the word
"couple of thousands of an inch"
Me: *vomits*
Lol?
I know, imperial really sucks
That made me smile on a quarter of a... centimeter... :D lol, this "halfs" and "qarters" really sound bad and ten times more awful, if you try to apply them for a metric system, it's just makes you understand even better how terrible imperial system is
Archeomax05 Soli driving on the left side of the road sucks.
Dividing inches gets so convoluted, it needs to be described using metrics, like thousands
"Pickups are tiny microphones", this is a great explanation! I couldn't have said it better myself.
Ok
and yet,its wrong and stupid
"The pick up are like tiny microphones." Yeah, right.
Only in the sense that they turn mechanical motion into an electrical signal.
The type of wood effects the sound of the guitar....sure it does, and I'm the Easter Bunny
Dumbaas it sure does, a hh strat doesnt sound like a les paul because of tonewood
Detlef Davis the different scales, pickup placement and actual pickups are the main difference, the type of wood changes nothing, or almost nothing.
Nope, if wood didn't matter then acrylic and synthetic materials would be far cheaper to use...fender themselves put out a video some years back talking about wood selection. Extremely hard and dense woods will give the guitar a twangy sound with a lot of sustain. Soft woods would give it a deep bottom ene sound (perfect for metal) but sustain would be very thin. The secret is somewhere in the middle. Which is why Ash and Alder are popular choices. Fender actually uses a machine to check density of each slab. I've always wanted to make a guitar with a dense center section (bridge width) and cap the ends with extremely light wood like a soft white pine. Just as an experiment. Will attempt when other projects are done.
You must have small ears, that's ok. I can listen and tell you the size of the strings and pick he's playing.
@@mindeloman the cardboard strat they did did sound shallow as well there you have it
Ace Freheley owns
several Gibson Les Pauls.
Really? I had no idea!
Toney, lots of people own several Les Pauls. What's your point? The newer Les Pauls SUCK ...
Just put your phone near the pickup, you can amplify your phone sound through the guitar.
They seem to have left out the fact Leo's entire concept was to build a guitar (s) that the masses could afford...
Yeah but they have now pissed over that concept for the most part so wouldn't sit well.
I do not know anyone who would toss an old fender guitar neck. 7:30
Rory Gallagher did.
he's saying thats how leo designed them, so they could be replaced.
refrets can cost more than the neck is worth sometimes. ymmv
Necks usually are made out of wood. Sometimes they warp, which cannot be repaired.
@Laurence Pinney its cheaper to buy a new neck still than refret, (at many places) but valuable vintage instruments, I could see being worthy of refret
they only want a grand for a new usa neck,why not?
Come on!, if you're gonna mention Clapton and Hendrix, you've GOT TO mention Hank B Marvin, he was the first person to play a Strat in the UK! Not only that, but almost every guitarist that sprung out of the sixties names Hank as being their inspiration! You may be dazzled by the speed freaks, but if you're talking Strat tone, there is only one man to listen to!
Tony Hilsdon
Who!
Sorry not Sorry...I made my first guitar at 17...33 years ago...I must have missed something.
I recently became aware of Dick Dale...I of course heard the classic songs but knew nothing about his huge presence, and influence.
I will check this person out.
Yeah Hendrix.
Tony Hilsdon I agree Hank Marvin popularized the Strat
it was Buddy Holly who's appearance on tv started the Stratocaster craze.. Hank who was a big fan of Holly learned to play guitar after first hearing Holly on the radio and records saw this on tv and upon seeing this strange looking guitar said whats that Holly's playing? I gotta have one! At the time Fender guitars were banned in the UK so he had his Strat smuggled into the country and he made the guitar so popular in the country they had no choice but to lift the ban. Buddy was the first in America and Hank was the first in the UK Hank was a major influence to British stars like Eric Clapton David Gilmour Brian May Tony Iommi Ron Wood Pete Townsend and many more.. He was the British version of Buddy Holly
Yes he made it popular in the UK but it was Buddy Holly who made it famous in the US first then Hank saw Buddy on tv and had bought his Strat and he had it shipped to him in the UK
The guitar is very good and the sound is very smooth to the ear
Jimi Hendrix sold more strats than fender! Hahaha
I have bought Les Paul's in my day but I'm always a strat guy first! I love fender guitars!
i own several of both,they are tools and serve different tonal jobs
The AK-47 of guitars... It never gets old
HerrXenon, yeeeeeah, but i would rather use something with a better body shape. I own a squire classic vibes strat, and although i love it to death, as well as the style and shape, i wish it looked physically different. Red specials are my favorite. Perfect balance of curve and cutaway. If i could get single coils on a red special body, oh boy would i be singing with my guitar.
The center pickup gets in my way when I pick, but ok for everything else. I'll take a good Ibanez anytime, but if I did get a Fender, I would make a special pick plate, add two humbuckers and change the hardware over to 500K. Single coils are noisy and weak, but I did figure out a way to kill that noise. First make sure the pickup works as desired then tape the sides and stick the top with the 6 holes in putty so no liquid escapes then mix up some poly urethane with hardener or even resin mixed with hardener, but mix it slow with a stick so you don't get a lot of air bubbles and if you're so inclined, place the pickups in a vacuum and that will insure all of the windings will get saturated. Let it sit a day or even two longer than the can says because there's a thick amount. Now you have potted pickups. If you're worried, try it on a cheap copy first, but don't forget the cheap copy has cheap hardware that also makes noise. Rock and Roll.
4:55 in and that Leo with. A MusicMan Sting ray II guitar . No strat there lol.
i made my strat body with a drill a a peace of hack saw blade my razor sharp pocket knife to cut in the rough contours from their chisels and files and sand paper a hand rubbed oil finish under a nitro clear coat, the woods i used wer from antique furniture i salvaged an old peace of quilt-flame maple for the top and mahogany back from a vanity made in the pre Victorian era so its good old cut tone wood witch guitar factory's simply cant get a hold of any longer, and its unique its more like a les pauls construction with a great mid range punch! it was worth the work!
Yay for mexican strats
@@chrissimpson6972 I just got a 50s reissue MIM and it sounds incredible
I had a Mexican Tele it was beautiful why Oh why did I let it go.
I agree - but only after you have changed the pickups. That is when you know what chords you are playing.
@@chrissimpson6972 they use the same pickups in most cases yo
@@shoegazeforever8810 nah dude even when the use the other pickups the difrence is minimal and I wouldnt switch to fender pro pickups anyways
Someone explain what is the difference between fender, squire and stratocaster. I have a squier stratocaster, but doesnt that mean its also a fender? Im rlly confused
They're all Fender, Telecaster and Stratocaster are the most popular products. Squire is a also a product of Fender and is also based on the shape of Stratocaster and Telecaster but for lower budget players.
lato 20 ah okay thx, so my squire is a product of fender
Exactly
So machines do most everything. is this why it's so damn expensive?
I plugged in my first electric guitar in and compared it to my newer, 'expensive' one and you can hear and feel the difference instantly. Whether that difference is worth 1-2 (or more) thousand dollars is completely subjective
Fluro Flash Jack White also said that the prize of the guitar doesnt always reflect its potential.
machines make it cheaper
Vince Anthony probably!
Brand name. When somebody sees you with a fender they lose their shit. Same as a Rolex. You want to get a well known real good quality guitar to make you more famous. If you wanted pure performance you would get a PRS. but there's a reason people buy apple $2k apple computers, or Nike running shoes or anything ever.
The simplicity of the Stratocaster's construction is one of the things that makes it so perfect. The luthiers at Fender are very skilled, I'm not denying that, but the design and process produces (IMHO) a far superior product, feel and sound to the products of competitors who stick to more traditional methods with a mark-up of at least twice of an equivalent Stratocaster.
IT IS AMAZING THAT LEO FENDER DID NOT PLAY GUITAR, BUT HE HAD A PLAN TO DO SOMETHING, THANK YOU LEO, MAY YOU R.I.P. THE FENDER GUITAR WILL BE PLAYED AS LONG AS THERE IS ONE LEFT IN THE WORLD, COUSIN FIGEL
Maria, what a legend
HELLO, SOMEONE FORGOT TO MENTION THE NO-CASTER, AND THE BROADCASTER IN THIS VIDEO, THEY CAME BEFORE THE STRAT, THANKS, COUSIN FIGEL
8:08 thanks bud you couldn't explain it any better
If there is that type of inspection, then why do American strats equipped with super high action need setups all the time?
Amen! I've asked this same question to many people and the answer is always the same...they ship em with a higher action so that there is no chance of fret buzz out of a new guitar and any adjustment can introduce it into the playing.
@@jimdemassi8788 yeah, definitely no danger of that lol
@@smokesgtp Hahaha not even if you slap the strings violently. Strings on my last one were 6 miles from the fret board starting at about the 10th fret! LOL
I have a Fedner Startocoaster made in Sri Lanka.
The fret board is cardboard and the frets are printed on paper.
The strings are fishing lines and there is only one real pick up.
The volume and tone knobs are fake too.
One time I plugged it into an amp and the pick up started to smoke.
But, I bet You sounded great..
&Carol Stevens. aah the old Fedner Startocoaster ploy !!🎸
@@hansspa3892
Yeah, it amuses normal people and irritates miserable loners with anger issues.
I had to laugh....
That was a powerful pick-up, capable of sending a jolt of electricity over the amp with electricity generated by a vibration fishing line. What did you do with it, power a small town?
Just gonna forget about SRV?
Very astute. :) Most people think of Jimi Hendrix as the ultimate Strat player, but Jimi owned and played many different guitars. Among other things, he owned and played a Danelectro, a black Gibson Les Paul Custom, a white (3-pickup) Gibson SG Custom, at least two Gibson Flying Vs and a Fender Jaguar ─ all next to his Strats, of course.
Clapton also played just about everything, from Danelectro over several Gibsons ─ SG, several Les Pauls, ES-335, Firebird ─ to Telecasters and then eventually Stratocasters. SRV on the other hand ONLY ever played Strats ─ with .013 strings, tuned down a half-step. ;)
I love the stratocaster guitars... No matter what brand is.
No two guitars are the
same.
its the shape man, its the coolest.
sooo... no mention of SRV? okay...
The didn't cover every Stratocaster player, just the ones who popularized it in the beginning. Eddie Van Halen had a bigger effect on the evolution of the Stratocaster than SRV did, and he wasn't mentioned either. The video is not for fanboys I guess.
@@BTsMusicChannel Eddie Van Halen didn't use fender bodies you dope. He used an old charvel body.
I am quite aware of how EVH created his Frankenstrat -- you can read about it in the first chapter of my PhD dissertation if you like. I never said he used Fender bodies. If your mind is big enough, there are "stratocasters" that are not Fender Stratocasters. I stand by the comment that EVH revolutionized the stratocasters potential (for better or worse) by: (1) putting a PAF humbucker in the bridge, (2) giving it a signature paint scheme so that it becomes iconic of the particular guitarist, and (3) later replacing the whammy bar with a Floyd Rose. Please try to dispute those claims. You cannot deny that EVH changed even Fender's concept of the Stratocaster -- by the late 80s they were already making HM Stratocasters and today they make HSS Stratocasters, regardless that he used originally a Charvel body (because they were cheap and available to him before Van Halen went big) and that Kramer took over in the 1980s. Thank you, and you have a nice day now. P. S. I hope that it makes you feel good to call people names, but I suppose that it might be your only mode of communication when in disagreement.
@Gerald Sergei I am not sure what you mean by "that."
@@BTsMusicChannel If it aint made by fender, i wouldn't call it a strat.
Almost every piece you create yourself.
Very amazing
Just like a microphone? My voice has alot of magnetic energy~
A microphone uses the pressure variations in the air to vibrate a coil wound to a magnet, which then creates the electrical signal. So yes, a pickup works similarly to a microphone
no. that isn't how a microphone works. a microphone uses pressure variances in the air to vibrate a DIAPHRAGM that then moves a magnet inside a coil, which all converts those vibrations in the air to electromagnetic vibrations, which can then be sent to a speaker. tell me: which part of the pickup is the diaphragm? I don't think the fact that magnets and coils are somehow involved means that they're similar. at that rate, pickups also work similarly to loudspeakers, since spekears also have magnets and coils in their construction. and, the last time I checked, the entire pickup is sealed in wax to prevent any of its parts from moving, in order to PREVENT it from acting like a microphone. but, what do I know? pickups are like microphones, I guess. here I thought pickups generate electromagnetic currents from the vibrations of steel/nickel strings inside an electromagnetic field. whoops. I guess I should go back to school to get my money back.
do you want fries with that salt?
The point is that they both use magnetic induction to create an alternating current. That's how they're similar.
But the way they use said current to make sound is very different, and the main reason why "tone wood" in electric guitars is an absolute crock of horseshit. You can make a guitar out of concrete or cardboard and it will sound just like the sweetest ash body you've ever heard. If you want to hear wood, you need an acoustic guitar or a hollowbody.
I Purchased a new Fender Strat Elite less then a ear ago and the pick-ups keep cutting out. I called Fender and they asked me to take it to a shop in my town to have it looked over. They never could find a issue but the problem still exist. I wish someone higher up could agree for me to send the guitar back at my expense and have the wiring checked. Like they say in the video it's the heart of the guitar. I t sucks paying $2000.00 for a guitar and the pick-ups cut out at anytime, you never know when.
So it was instrumental...
HAAAAAA
I OWN George Fender stratocaster guitar FROM 1946 the very first before 1950 Leo fender made his VERSION of the first fender stratocaster guitar!
I own a Billy Fender Stratocaster from 1933.
tô querendo adquirir essa guitarra Fender stratocaster
I need to see how stratocaster guitar BRIDGE is made.
Cheers from Indonesia
the bridge plate is stamped, folded, and plated with an anti-rust alloy. Modern saddles are molded, as the vintage ones are also stamped, folded and plated...
I have an Indonesian made Strat, and it's just as good as anything Fender makes. Amazing guitar for a fraction of the cost. I'm not sure which factory those are coming from, but it's obvious they use highly skilled craftsmen, who take pride in their work.
Ya’ll forgot to mention the god of guitars - Mark Knopfler
I like how they avoided talking about how Leo Fender confused vibrato and tremolo.
Amazing that people who should know better still think the wood and the paint affect a sound generated by the disturbance of a magnetic field.
Thumbs up 100 times. Amazing isn't it how marketing affects the precieved value of the sound as well.
Ty for having a brain
They do. Change the wood to something even denser and the tonality of the string vibration is altered. Put too much paint on it and you affect it in other ways.
Fender makes a beautiful bass guitar as well and one of only a few companies that actually make the everyone model in both left and right handed ( in the bass guitars) I have an ibanez left handed bass but a fender precision bass lefty in the orange made in America is my dream bass.
"This is how we sell you overpriced guitars" With a little help of a cnc machine and some glued together woods.
Isn’t that the true they over price so many of there guitars but it’s just some glue,wood,metal and wires I’ve been trying to find a cheap mustang guitar but there are so expensive like over 1,000 dollars
@@BHayes-jv2rz If you wanna get some cheap guitars but okay quality, there are many brands for that. Harley Benton is one example. I don't know if they have mustang knock off model in production but I've got a les paul knock off for $200 last year and it's really good.
@@fy7589 oh really okay thanks for the info
It was perfected when it got 70's big headstock.
Thanks great video I'm going to go play my favorite, les Paul now .
@Boony Tooty you just keep thinking that !
Mind that headstock!
@Boony Tooty B-But gibson
the sound comes from, strings, fingers, pickups, pick placement, essentially everywhere but the wood. Unless you play it turned off that is
was this the corona or encenada plant?
corona, i don't think they would go all the way to ensenada for a video like this.
Y'all should see the wood my Clapton Strat's neck is made of .. Fucking perfect !
Again, the age old argument about "who" made your Strat or 'yo Daddy's P Bass, or yo' Grand daddy's Broadcaster.
Ugh......... Sigh..........
Fender has always drawn from a MEXICAN AMERICAN workforce.
That's part of the the labor demographic in Southern California and has been for many decades.
By and large, these workers are almost as legendary as Fender himself.
Names such as GOMEZ, LOPEZ, YBARRA, MENDOZA and many other "un murican" names built the great Fender instruments of the past.
Because the Fender process requires that work be signed, opening ANY guitar, even a 2019 instrument will reveal all manner of names, some ending in (horrors!) VOWELS.
GET OVER IT. PLEASE.
Abigail YBARRA ( aint,uh, Irish..) was brought out of retirement to wind reissue Strat pickups as the original "Abby" Strat pickups of the 60s are regarded by many as some of the best sounding Fender ever made.
Watch elsewhere on YT Forrest White's home movie footage of the factory in 1957. You'll see who made these things. THEN.
Do not get hung up on it.
People should be more concerned with the cost of an American Fender guitar and ask themselves if 1700 bucks for a standard guitar made more or less out of the same materials as their earliest creations is justifiable.
Unlike the Auto Industry where the cost of a GM shitbox is governed by $38.00/hr + plus benefits lug nut installers and double digit percentages of retail price going to pay retirerees who outnumber current employees, Fender and Gibson for that matter are not under such constraints.
Fender almost went under in the late 70s as Strat prices crossed a Grand.
The company realized in part that there was a limit to what could be asked for an indifferently made product ( again,by "Mexicans" then..). OMG!!!!!!!!!
Now that Fender and others in the US guitar industry have decided that they are "LIFESTYLE" companies following elements of the Harley-Davidson marketing scheme, buyers will pay whatever to have something from said makers.
Fender( and their dammed bunch of Mexicans) CAN MAKE a Strat that sells for under a grand. In the US of Murica.
Highway One's or whatever they call them lately.
Fine guitars.
P.S. to haters-
The proximity of Fender's US and Mexico plants enable them to shift work back and forth as needed.
Your USA Strat MAY have started it's manufacturing process in Ensenada. ( Spanish for NOT USA...)
Conversely, your kids "MIM" Strat( that you won't touch,uh, MAGA, bla, bla,bla...)
may have started in UH?MURICA and finished in Ain't Murica .
It's all about percentage of content and final assembly that determines the "made in ......." final stamp.
BTW, all those revered Ford Crown Victoria Police Interceptors- by content- largely "Hecho En Mexico".
True dat.
Ok
So true. I love my mim strat as much as my usa tele. Both play great. From a distance only I can tell difference.
Morons on youtube will say anything just like you did.
Dude, calm down... why are you so racist? 🤔
I have strat 1968 excellent guitar
If the guitars are each inspected how does Guitar Center end up with such shit? Are they sent the instruments that failed inspection or do they hand allen wrenches to a bunch of 8 year old children and let them loose on the guitars before putting them on sale?
Haha well, most Fender guitars are just bad quality. Compared to the likes of Suhr, they are like cheap toys.
+DaemoniumCC Wrong
Nope. Compared to Suhr's, they really are like toys. Pick one up and try it, you'll see (and hear) what I mean.
+DaemoniumCC.Suhr are overpriced Fender copies. Not saying they ain't good guitars but the prices are ludicrous (as are some of the US Fender's). The best Fender guitars I have played were made in Japan and faithful to the original blueprints (which the likes of Greco where given during the lawsuit era). Don't even get me started on Gibson.
Suhr are NOT overpriced Fender's. You've obviously never tried one or know how much work and technology goes into making one. They are NOTHING like Fender guitars. Suhr's are expensive for a reason, and those reasons are not cosmetic. It's down to choice of woods and engineering, use of materials, time spent hand finishing, etc etc. The list goes on forever. That's why they are consistent and why Fender definitely isn't.
No it’s the legends that creat sounds
I’ll stick with my evh brand guitar
Idk how to tell you this, but EVH is owned by fender
Oof ^
why?
Really love this video! Really love the Strat!
Tremolo arm description was terrible, and he still has it wrong. That flamenco/classical tremolo picking has nothing to do with pitch vibrato. They even say, "tremolo, to get that vibrato effect." ha ha, funny. Somebody just needs to educate their spokesman. If I did not already know what it did, I still would not after their explanation.
For anyone wondering: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibrato_systems_for_guitar#Origin_of_names
thanks
Why aren't you the spokesman asswipe
Alexander S
Exactly!
Thank you!
Don’t know why but when I see this thumbnail I always click on this video cause I freaking love the story about a fender guitar
Hold my 🍺... Gibson Les Paul.
Gibsons are to busy falling apart!
You didn't mention Doc Kaufman. When Fender started, it was K & F guitars )Kaufman & Fender). Doc was a friend of mine back in the 60's.
I still prefer Gibson,
no matter what.
Toney Isaiah Same, man!
No two guitars are the same.
Tony Iommi started playing with a left handed
Fender Stratocaster.
I saw old photos of
him as a young man
posing with one.
He also played a left handed Gibson Les Paul.
I have a sunburst american standard its a gem
I still don't understand why this thing cost thousands of dollars.
Because they're built in the US and have to comply with US factory laws.
Because they have a good reputation and the strat is essentially seen as the god of guitars. People pay for a good brand name.
Because they can and folks will pay it.
capitalism in a nutshell
Because there are CEOs, who nothing about guitars or amps, that need to get giant bonuses for jacking up the price of a "brand"
The worker at time 8:39 gets a lot of practice, can you imagine playing all day long.
Eric Clapton *bluesman
Jimi hendrix *bluesman
Well actually there's a bit of a debate as to weather jimi hendrix was a rocker or a bluesman
The paint has sunk into the grain on my 2014 white strat.
and the guy telling the story is what? facility janitor?
I'd love to buy a new one, but dad's 63 sunburst just keeps delivering,and I'm getting better now,50 years later,i tune real good now