What's inside this 1970 Stratocaster?
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
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1959 Sunburst Stratocaster
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I'm blown away at your talent how long you been playing and the tone so 69 -70 amazing just amazing
Been playing about 14 years
would love to see this refinished in Olympic white!
Definitely. Sand that poly off the back of the neck, get the pickups in order, re-fret and go!
@@sneifert1968 now you're speaking my language!!
i thought black would look really nice, considering hes got that whiteish mary kaye
Me too, with all the nicks and dings filled and sanded smooth. I am not a huge fan of relics, and I despise "relic'ed" instruments, so I would love to see a full restoration of the body and neck.
How sacrilegious! Get the poly off the back off the neck, refret the neck and leave the rest as it is! 🙂
I have never seen a set of frets so completely worn out. That's amazing!
Matthew, your correct the date of your neck plate, is between July 69 to Nov 70 for sure. The Peg head would only have one string tree, the neck would be a veneer rosewood on maple. The pick guard would be pearloid as you rightly said. Im looking at a photo of a 69 and dont see a cap sitting on the tone control, which i find a bit strange. Im sure there would be one somewhere.
Typically I never really like natural finish Strats but oddly the finish on this guitar is my favorite thing about it. It just works. That finish and all of that heavy wear just work perfectly together. The guitar is "period-perfect". It would be a shame to change any of that. Good luck!
The way you talk about the custom shop Olympic White; I would take it back. You are very responsible in my eyes to history and it was a beautiful white. Just my opinion. You really have helped me get a love and appreciation for these older Fender guitars.
If you ever come across one of them old fenders that you don't want I would love to buy it. I don't know how you find them I look but you are really good at it. There's probably a lot of people that say this but I really would like to buy one if you're not going to keep it. But I think you like keeping them instead of getting rid of them
I just found a 66, beauty of a strat. Will be for sale
Olympic white!! My favorite Strat color. Would look awesome white.
It’s really interesting to see these oldies getting popped open
love natural strats. When I saw Ira Kaplan from Yo La Tengo play his, I was immediately in love with the look! I say don't refinish it! But definitely do the upgrades that would make it play its best! Would love to see how you go about taking the poly off the neck!
Any guitar that's been played THAT much has got to be great, awesome get!
I love the look of that guitar. She is well loved and if only it could talk the stories it could tell.
Crazy awesome playing at the end! Wow😍🔥
Keep the videos comin and i love Nick's channel too! Cant wait to hear it
You find the coolest stuff! Thanks for sharing!
I miss your 71... I threw together a partscaster with a 72 neck and a 75 body. Shame I couldn’t afford a four bolt but still love her
Your guitar playing is so inspirational love it keep it up love your vids man absolutely amazing 😉
Loving the channel matt keep up the good work
Wow fantastic, energetic playing ...
Dang, son! I just really enjoy your tones!
I want to hear you play the crappiest sguier you can find. I would be interested to hear what it sounds like in your hands.
GUITAR OCD - lol.. ya.. lets give him a Silvertone...
Matthew's pretty impressive.
GUITAR OCD - Ya. Its refreshing to see young players with chops and a passion for electric blues.
I'm pretty sure it sounds similar to every other Jimi Hendrix and Stevie Ray Vaughan imitator. But with a lower quality guitar feel and sound.
Steve - Where's your channel, Steve? I'll bet you play just like Boy George.. or.. George Michael.. on the skin flute.. fucking asshole..
Please don't refin it, it looks beautifull. I believe Mac Demarco has the same strat, makes me really jealous lol
I have one also.I have a chuckle when it is called vintage.Bought mine new.Mine is in better condition tho'.Didn't use it as a hammer.
Hey, bro'.
Gorgeous piece. She's a player for sure. Would look great in relic white, man...
Thanks for another cool vid.
Cheers
wow that guitar has been played a bunch according to the wear in the fretboard, not to mention the frets, definitely a keeper!
That is absolutely beautiful man, It would look wonderful with a wooden pickguard
Best vids! A true guitar guy making videos for guitar guys! Always informative & full of great playing and insight! Keep them coming Mathew 🎸
Love your playing dude!
Brilliant Matthew and thanks for the great close ups of the pups and wiring 😀
Man you are legend 🎸
Peace.
Very interesting man! Can't wait to see/hear the refret!😍
Great looking Strat love the big head stock ⚡
6:56 Why is it so beaten up under the scratchplate??
some drunk guy whit a screw driver did this for sure
@@theguymaxqc Probably the same screwdriver he removed the paint with..
Yes I bet they scraped the poly off with cave man tools.
@@MatthewScottmusic Sticks 'n stones I bet, but sick guitar bro! (Secretly thinking of buying one myself)
Definitely refinish it. It deserves to be Olympic white again. Then play the hell out of it! 😎
Awesome playing as ever bro.
I’m all about the natural Swamp Ash. Got my dream Strat in 2020 and upgraded the pups with Radioshop ID63GTs from Radioshop. It’s glorious.
Another plus is the 4-bolt neck plate! That is some awesome playing at the end!
Look forward to hearing. Enjoy your vids, man. Keep it up! 👍🏻
Matthew, your channel gets better and better, love it. Please please please consider having this one refinished in Olympic white with an accurate and sympathetic relic job. It would be so cool. You know you want to! 😈
Love these videos 👍
Good stuff man love your work,
Life long love of strats myself. Love this strat as well, super cool.
Awesome vid as usual Matt, love when you let us look under the hood! I still say refin but in Olympic White now! Peace
Nice find! When are we gonna see some more videos of your band?
Ugh. Working on that. Tough to find a good gig
Mamamiaaa this SOUND 😍😍😍😍😍
Your best guitare stratocaster sound for me.
lOVE the look the sound
Hendrix sound 🔥🔥🔥
Check out MJT Aged Finishes in Missouri, Olympic heavy yellowing would be sweet Matthew
Thanks Matthew,
Keep them coming.
Bob
That fret board looks wavy as hell.
THAT RIGHT THERE, my dream guitar
Nice strat, just needs to be refretted again, (big marks !), my '71 had also an inside perloïd pickguard, but with the shield sheet metal that covers all, you know things were not regulary made in that period, it may be different from one to another, even if made the same day.
My neck is stamped 22AUG71B, body is original black, except for the colour, they just look the same ! My serial starts at 30XXXX. so yes, your strat is a '70, as the pots tells us. Refin it in olympic white !
Thank you for sharing that
Thank you for another great video. Afraid to take my guitar apart. I had enough problems when I tried to adjust the action. I leave the tear downs to the experts like you now. Fun to watch though.
Matthew proves “All Strats Matter”. Save em all bro
I'm still lovin the natural look!👍😎🎸🎶
Matthew I feel you're the best blues guy on RUclips I don't watch anyone else I've seen. I do like Chris "Kingfish" but I like you better. If I had a dream band I'd have you on lead and vocals. Thank you because you've helped me through tough times. PEACE.
Thank you for saying that. You help me keep going.
Great find, I love it... Couldn’t of found a better home.. However, I can see it in your eyes, this needs to go back to Olympic White, you should get your guy to respray in aged Olympic White. Great channel by the way...
wow, that's amazing.... fantastic instrument, can't wait to see it re-fretted, I wonder if the sound will change.... (????)
About this same time I bought my first new fender Stratocaster from my local music store ( carol music) in Miami it was very similar to this one but more blonde but came out of the factory with a natural finish!
Love your enthusiasm, you gonna be the new JB? Player collector dealer lol have fun that what it’s all about!
I'll let jb be jb😎
GOD DAMN!! THAT HEADSTOCK IS HUGE!!
thank you.
fantastic !!!
Matt, would you recommend keeping the graphtech saddles on the 70s strat or replace with original saddles for more authentic tone?
sounds great
Color of this wood is too beautiful to paint over it, leave it be. It looks great!
Fender did not do clear coat finish on alder
another interesting thread man!
Really like it the way it is, it has a cool vibe but... Olympic white would be sweet!!!
might a light refinish to original colour with the natural coming through be an option - ie as the 'first' original hendrix-mary kaye? :)
Could be done but that damn 4 piece body...
@@MatthewScottmusic ok but ....... "as it is and as it was" ....... to honestly present it ....... is behind my idea and that would mean it's alright being 4 pieces, 2 colours, worn, but given new life
...... "as it is and as it was" gotta be a bluesy title 😏
My favourite era, I have a 1974 which apart from the 3 bolt and bullet truss rod, is a pretty similar spec to a late sixties strat
I think that olympic white would be awesome.
from the way the fretboard looks you can tell it's been played to death so it must sound great
Always loved the late-60s and early 70s Strats. Actually prefered them to every pre CBS I've ever played. Don't ask me why.
Now I think You need to have a relic Oly White finish done! Just a cool guitar, even though I dislike the large headstocks!
I follow the story from the unboxing hehe, and I am with you man, the natural look is not so cool, I would recommend a finish called “old barrel” for the front, and the back leave it as it is with all those blows and scrapes to keep looking old, and with a matt lacquer work, it will look amazing, it's a great guitar, from a fan of the strat to another 8)
That would be awesome!
Man, I've been very interest about listen ur opinion of the different a between maple and rosewood fretboard
Not liking the maple unless tele
Matt, I been watching your vids and Instagram page for a few months now. Just wanted to say thanks!!! Your stuff is top notch! And I have to say I enjoy watching you explore the mechanics of vintage guitar stuff. You come off knowledgeable, yet your honest take on luthiery is never snobby like some other people in the biz. I have learned quite a bit by watching. As a player and a hobby guitar "tweaker," I just wanted to pass on my appreciation. Keep it up. Peace!
I'd like to say thank you man. Very much.
Olympic white with stainless steel frets ohhhh yea baby
The ironic thing about the most hated things about Seventies Fenders is that all of them came from Leo Fender himself.
- He got word from players complaining that taking the neck off to adjust the trussrod was a hassle. So he changed it, so it could be adjusted from the headstock, pop a little Alan key in there and presto.
- He also got complaints about having to take the neck off for shimming the neck was a hassle. So what to do? In Leo's case he came up with a three bolt neck system where the lowest bolt was a machine bolt which would fit into a machined piece of metal in the back of the neck, next to it was an Allan bolt. You loosened the machine bolt, pop an Alan key into the Alan bolt, adjust neck height to your liking and fasten the machine bolt and done.
- And he got complaints from players about the finishes of their guitars flaking, since thin skin nitrocellulose isn't all that durable. The solution, dip the bodies and necks into Polyester, there's NO WAY that was going to flake anytime soon.
So what happened, why did those changes get so reviled? Well as you mentioned, the fact that there were cuts made, the guitars were shoddily built, neck pockets were routed way too wide, making the necks shift in their pockets.
But the fact that Music man and G&L guitars had the same three bolt necks and Poly finishes for years and nobody complained about those, shows that Leo did have a point here, it was only after his death that those features were dropped.
What would you have told Leo Fender if you had to explain why thin skin Nitro and shimming and having to take the neck off to adjust the trussrod besides all of the inconveniences has become the accepted norm for strats?
Rad guitar. Keep’em coming.
I like to see this because its educational on the fender strat history
Dude that’s some wildin out riffage
Hey Matthew... such a cool Strat. Fabien's question about "why is the body so beat under the pickguard, is a good one. That seems really odd to me. I ca't really come up with a reason for it go be tha way. it means the body would had to have been apart with the guard off when it happened? Weird.
They scraped it I bet
Yeah, I'm thinking that yellowed olympic white color (Yngvie style). Maybe thin coat with a few dings in it.
That fretboard is insane, man. Looks like dude played slide with a wood rasp...
*The 67 thru 70 Stratocaster's are my favorite. Refinish it white. Not Olympic white but notebook paper white. Wax pot the pickups and put Dunlop 6105 tall jumbo frets on the fretboard, after all that keep it, sell it, or 🎁 gift it to me 👍😀. Nice haul Matthew ✌❤&🎶*
You read my mind
@@MatthewScottmusic L😂L!
Beautiful guitar, I wonder where you can get those by submit a bid?
That’s a nice looking guitar despite not being a pre-CBS one... fretboard looks amazing, almost as dark as an ebony one! That rosewood might have been darkened intentionally or it just the color balance in the video and on my screen :)
Olympic white would look great on this guitar!
All right, time to go back to listening to mirrors now!
Holy crap that sounds just like my 2006 highway one. I'd leave it. It's got the same mojo all over. And natural finish was the thing back then. It's a player. Sweet playing btw
Olympic white with the dings and dents would be cool .
i have to say I'm a sucker for a natural finish guitar, with a matching or slighly darker scratch plate and p covers would give that thing some ol world character all of its own.
Don't know if you'll see this but could you please do a video on how you hook your Leslie up
Other than the obvious ones (hendrix, srv) who are some of your favorite players? Love your songs and your playing. Also cool videos man
Marc ford, Rich Robinson, Allen Collins, toy caldwell
That fret board has been gouged! That's a lot of hard service put in, right there!
I was born in 73' & I've always thought it would be so cool to have a guitar made around the year I was born...I dunno, maybe that's just odd, but I've always thought that
finish it in olympic white for sure
How is the contour in the front .. I use to have a 79 ( 25th anniv ) and hardly had any contour ... just wondering if all the cbs era have that type of body ... thanks
I dig this kind of video
I think the national finish looks sick
I didn't dare to comment anything on the first video of this guitar (the one in which this guitar is unboxed).
A guitar may be an investment (so, I understood the decision to leave as many original parts as posible [inclluding the original frets] although I didn't agree with it).
I like this video because, on the one hand, it is good to have a vintage instrument and to keep as many original parts as possible (somehow, it is like a witness of a certain sort of guitar history in a very specific period of time, and depending on its conditions, it may be resold for a higher price) but, on the other hand, if you usually behave more as a musician than as an investor, in the end, it will be more important for you to have an instrument that can be played, although, to achieve it, you have to remove the original parts that don't work anymore and can not be repaired.
So, good decision to have it refretted with jumbo frets, the instrument will have a much stronger sound, and considering that that guitar has a rosewood fretboard, it won't have to be refinished as much as if it were a maple fretboard.
(I love Fenders, but their frets, with passage of time, always end up out of level and with marks of the strings so, often, they need to be refretted [even, Hendrix Woodstock white Stratocaster had to be refretted]).
I hear that old familiar high-pitched buzzing noise coming from the amp when the selector switch is in the back position, i have an 89 Strat does the same thing ?
Yes just certain frequency buzz
What do you feel about the nut width? I had a 68 and 72 years ago. The string a would often slip off the edge of the fingerboard which ultimately made me reconsider picking up guitars from this era, especially with larger frets.
It feels pretty wide I dig it
put it back to olympic White and then scrub it up a bit .. the Fret Board put it back natural . with jumbo frets .
Dakota red would look killer!
Keep that original finish it looks killerrrr