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Why not just buy a new neck with the frets you want? Cheaper than a fret job, unless you do it yourself which is a pain

Justin Cody Fox is Always kick ass music!

Very tight, kick ass rock and roll sound. Always a pleasure to experience live.

Was it a stainless steel refret or did you nickel silver?

why did u change it to the red 🥲🥲, it looked way cooler before

you mean "I'm getting the frets changed" 😊

Am I crazy for liking it more before

Maybe I missed it but what pickups are the brdge and middle ?

I’ve always dug Medusa Stone Justin and the boys! Killa!’

Thanks for getting rid of that green. That's one of the worst finishes I've seen, and I've seen a lot. I have a '61 and a '64. NFS!

Good Lord this guitar sounds AMAZING!!!!!❤

What a awesome video have a wonderful weekend ❤😊

Awesome!!

So how did the fiesta red finish get on the guitar, and what is the deal with the dirty pick guard and paint chips? Did you do a fresh relic on a 62 Strat?

What a cool story this guitar has. Sounds and looks great too mate

That's a lovely guitar! So nice that you restored that '62 Strat! So glad it has found you!

Fantastic guitar & restoration. Here in the UK, it’s well known that due to the Hank Marvin effect some dealers would refinish Strats with Fiesta red. I’m no expert but the brief shots look like that was the original colour which is great. Interestingly, my first knowledge of Hank & Strats was in the film The Young Ones with Cliff Richard around 1962. Hank is known for playing Fiesta Red with Maple neck but in the film he played a Strat with a Rosewood neck. My young self became obsessed with it. Right now I own a ‘62 AVRI in Olympic White & a ‘61 Vintage 2 in Fiesta Red. Well done for giving that Strat a new working life. 😁

That sounds great and looks awesome. I have a quick question. I am from Jacksonville NC and need to get a guitar stripped down to bare wood and then repainted. Not sure where to go for this and am looking for suggestions. Want someone that has experience and is known for great work. I am willing to travel a bit if necessary for the right person. Thank you for any suggestions.

Wow man! The strat turned out great!

Very cool transformation. Sounds great and cool story to go along with it !

Great playing. I don’t know why so many guitars ship with small frets. I find them unplayable. I saw a channel discussing how vintage frets were superior because you could “feel the fingerboard under your fingers” which is just totally wrong. The woods job is to hold the frets. If you come into contact with the wood it’s in the way. I recently bought a Les Paul with “medium jumbo” frets that are nearly flat and those are going to have to go as soon as I can afford the work.

Yes. Frets are too small. Radius is too 7.25!! Fender is just SO clueless. They had it close with the American Original Series just before this: at least the radius was 9.5. But they still had skinny frets. I mean. They get close to getting it right; then fumble the ball back in the other direction. Gotta wonder who is running that show ... They at least ought to offer these guitars with the option of TWO DIFFERENT NECKS! Hello?

Learn how to level frets and work on your own guitar, it's not that hard and 99.9% of guitars need a fret leveling off the shelf so it'll come in handy. I don't know why companies don't spend more time on the most important part of putting a guitar together.

Did you picked up this guitar from which store? I just bought one new from GC and worried about QC issues

I have the same guitar and was thinking the same before i got it "maybe I'm gonna have to change the frets". Somehow i don't find the frets bad at all, banding is very easy, the frets are polished very good, they are staying for now and i have to say, the guitar is very very good, it resonates and sustains incredible and sounds amazing, mine it also staying for very long time!

So the bigger frets removed some of the "twang" tone of that Strat?

link to backing track?

Man I kinda want to get some jumbos on my AVii 61 with a flatter radius 9.5 Or 12 I love it but I find myself Not playing it as much.

Very clean slide play, well worth more than 6 thumbs up 👍

I have the same model, same colour, & I have zero issues with it. That said, I’m a lot older than you & I like narrow tall frets & 7.25 radius. Mine is one of the first issues. Many people have complained about QC issues, but mine came spot on.

Stop searching! You sound great on anything you play man!

Shep's fretwork is incredible, and that thing sounds great. Do you go for big frets on your Gibsons too, or is that just for Fender stuff?

25.5" scale with short frets is a drag. Jumbo frets really make a strat so much better.

The frets on av ii are as tall as Medium Jumbos from fender, but narrowers. Why would you want a thicker fret?

Nice playing.

SICK!

Came here for some extreme workshop shots of fret slots being sawn out, divoted frets and lots and lots of masking tape. Well, there was none of that but some seriously good pkaying! Very lovely!! The "Strat" I want, The Big F is NEVER going to make, not even at their Mod Shop. So yes, if you need frets they won't give, what are the options? I do incidentally really like the Vintage II '61 and could be tempted with a set of single coils if the price is right! So please don't think of this as saying anything bad! Enjoy your new guitar!

I've never had a guitar Plek'd. Sweetwater offers that service for about $200. Is it worth it and does it turn out great?

Of course, excellent fretwork makes all the difference in how a guitar plays. I would prefer to have a $700 guitar with great fretwork rather than a $5,000 Gibson Les Paul with garbage frets. The process of achieving perfectly done frets has always seemed like a mysterious art, and obviously, the person you went to knew what he was doing. By the way, I think your guitar playing is really phenomenal!

Dude FFS what phrasing! Shades of Beck & Golub! Great playing

I 0layed one of these they are big and heavy the neck is so thick and the entire body is so thick in lacquer it felt like a big fat chick with heavy makeup. The Vinterra felt better if you are looking for a vintage type.

Great playing. I got one of these about 6 months ago and it is just inspiring to play. My only issue is the same problem you had with the high e fretting out in the 15 - 17 range. I've been trying to figure out what I want to do to deal with it - maybe get it plek'd or re-radiused to a 9.5. You found get the jumbo frets and good setup by a luthier solved this problem for you?

I LIKE THOSE! THERE BEEFY AND SOLID. BUT WHO IN THEIR RIGHT MIND WOULD WANT HEEL ADJUST???? JUST SAY NO!!!!! THEY ARE NOT WORTH MORE THAN THE PRO II SERIES THOUGH. ANOTHER HYPE JOB!!!!

I'll start the comment without having watched it, and then I'll edit the comment after I've seen the video. Because I'm going to guess. I have the same guitar, and I'm going to get it new frets because they put these YUGE shoulders on it and robbed both E strings of about half their real estate. My low E doesn't even ring out right, those shoulders are so far onto the fretboard that they're messing up playability. I have the AV2 '51 Tele, and they didn't do the shoulders. Just this one. But I watched this dude play one who has a real 61, he did an A/B but before getting out his 61 he played the AV2 and immediately slipped his high E off the end. So now I'll watch, and if I come back and edit, it's only because I guessed wrong. *edit: oh is that all. LOL I just got used to them I guess, going from my pro2 to the av2 all I noticed was the new 7.25" radius, which I adore by the way.

For me frets are like breasts… the bigger the better to play with 😁 😇

Awesome playing Awesome Tone ❤ 🔥

Beautiful guitar & great playing! Did you keep the 7.25” radius?

Slightly Different tone too, more fret against the string.. Stevie Ray played jumbos if im not mistaken. I play a lot of chords and never been quite as comfortable on jumbos or vintage frets , anything in between seems right.

Once I bought a custom shop 62 strat. After a few months I had to change the fretboard radius and frets. I put 12 radius and medium jumbo frets. It was 100% better. No regrets.

stainless steel?