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@@StreetPreacherrwalnut is definitely a popular furniture wood, but certain walnut grains can look incredible on guitar. Walnut burls for example, or even just a nice piece with good grain. This piece definitely has the furniture vibe though
The perfect guitar does not have to have a popular brand name. The perfect guitar does not have to be manufactured in any particular country. The perfect guitar does not have to have been manufactured in any specific decade. The perfect guitar does not have to cost an arm and a leg. The perfect guitar is one that pefectly suits the player of that guitar. My mid 1980's MIJ Fender '57 Reissue Stratocaster is the perfect guitar .... for me! Keep them coming Trogly. Cheers from the Land Down Under.
If you look at the headstock at 1:49 and again at 3:42 notice that the shape is completely wrong. This was when Fender first shrunk the headstock back to its original size, but for some reason they forgot the original shape. The curve on the decal side of the headstock is even to the curve on the tuner side. Whereas the original/common shape has the decal side curve much more pronounced than the tuner side curve.
If you take the S1 switch knob off you should find that the shaft of the switch has a flat side. When you tighten the grub screw up make sure it engages the flat side that should stop it from turning. Turning the switch clockwise turns the switch off, anti clockwise gives you the extra four pickup combinations.
I bought one of these in candy apple red on gold with a rosewood fingerboard. I loved it's style and sound but sold it to buy something more suitable for the band I was in. I was 19 or 20 at the time and couldn't afford to buy another guitar. One of life's biggest regrets was selling it. The case it came in wasn't a tweed case like this but a molded black case with the huge Fender logo on the top and bottom.
i know the feeling....in 1980 i sold a black/gold Gibson Les Paul Custom......it was a late 60s early 70s model...and weight a ton...but still......i'm still struggling when i think of it today....when i can afford to buy what i want....
Trog, when looking at a single coil route, you have frequently mentioned that it needs to be routed further if one wants to install humbuckers. That is true if one wants to install traditional humbuckers, but Seymour Duncan does make numerous humbuckers that fit in single coil routes for Stratocasters.
I've had a 1989 Fender USA H.M.Strat that I bought used in '94.. it's a 25.1" scale. 24 frets. And has a Kahler Spyder trem. It was RIGHT after Fender USA bought Fender back from C.B.S. Japan
I bought one of those off of a friend about 15 years ago. It was candy apple red. I never could get along with that spyder trem though so I sold it a few years later.
So glad you brought that one out again. I bought a hardtail version of that bridge. I'm told Fender sold them separately during the day. Used it to build a partscaster called the Brasscaster.
I loved these guys when they came out. I was working in a guitar shop n selling them but could never afford one myself, I got a couple of the knobs n put em on my '76 with brass nut, bridge n saddles; it still is a beautiful little guitar ..... but no 'Strat' 😢
I used a 'The Strat' in the studio around 1984. It was in the Lake Placid color and incredibly heavy. Recorded some clean tracks and one solo track with it. The brass HW and heavy tonewood gave it a lot of sustain and a firm sound. It was nice for that session, but I wouldn't have considered to buy one of these.
I had one of these in candy apple red with a maple fingerboard. Played it a lot but never really bonded with it. I traded it for some gear for my recording studio after several years. Didn't have a clue that it was special or collectable at the time. It was just a heavy, blinged out Strat. I was pretty clueless about guitar specs/stuff. I just bought guitars and played them and sold them to buy different guitars. Turns out I owned a shit ton of cool gear that would become collectable in the future. Kinda wish I had most of it now. I guess that's a lesson: don't sell anything. Let your kids sort it out when you're dead. LOL.
You NEED to cover one of those Stratocaster Elite's not only do they have a button system instead of a switch they also have a trem I've never seen anywhere else!
Looks like a nice strat, but that high E string is basically on the edge of the fretboard, the Low E string is just the opposite, hovering more over the fretboard. The neck pocket needs some tweaking to fix the string spacing. Other than that, I like the walnut and great history with this piece.
I noticed that as well. A rarely told aspect of the three versus four "bolt" attachments is that the four "bolts" were wood screws and the three "bolts" were two screws and an actual bolt. Bolts require better alignment in production and assembly. And, geometrically speaking, there's nothing inherently less stable about a triangle than a rectangle. Leo Fender stuck with the triangle configuration and micro tilt (as well as the bullet truss rod) at both Music Man in the 1970's (now called "pre Ernie Ball") and G&L in the 1990's; so we can't really blame that on CBS . My guess is that the micro tilt cost more to produce and therefore was eventually jettisoned by bean counters.
@@gr500music6 Leo must've been keenly aware of the sloppy neck pocket cuts on many CBS-era three-point guitars because his subsequent projects, the Music Man instruments and G&L after that, were substantially tightened up (literally and figuratively) in that regard. I had two very early G&L F-100s at different times and the neck pockets were laser tight. Same with a Music Man Stingray or Sabre that I once considered purchasing years ago. The necks on my G&Ls would not budge. Done right, the three-point arrangement with micro-tilt works great.
Thanks for the reply! My '74 Strat, bought circa 1979, has never had an issue and remains the best I have ever heard or played. Production-wise, it seems that, if you set the bolt first and then swing the neck into the pocket and fix it in place with the two screws, little can go wrong in terms of string alignment, assuming you're paying attention to that. Quality control (not quality, per se) on 70's Fender anything (guitars, basses and amps (I sold them for five years from '76 to '81 at Manny's in Manhattan) was non-existent. My issue is with those who seem to think there was a concerted corporate effort to cheapen the product (eg by saving the cost of a fourth "bolt?") Clearly, Leo liked his 70's designs in theory if not implementation. Compared to vintage or modern Strats, both Music Man and G&L's seem to be a great buy right now.
@@PopeyeFPV No, it bugs me plenty. I just think it's unrelated to general criteria such as the era the guitar was built. Sold lots of anniversary Strat's - they were popular - and had two friends who bought them. Don't remember any like that. Then as now, setup out of the box could be very hit or miss. Love the look of the walnut but I would have had that neck re-aligned.
My holy grail of Stratocasters - just stunning to look at! Our local guitar shop had one back in the day and we'd all stand outside, looking thru the window and drool! 😄
@@JokersWild70 - Thank you, mate! 😊👍 Yeah, I'm actually quite comfortable with my current age most of the time, too! Until I have to climb up a tall flight of stairs! 😅
You guys are not old yet! Ha ha. I've been playing longer than you have been alive. I still love to play and record. The first real strat I could ever afford was my 1994 anniversary model. Basically just a AMERICAN standard, but to this day it's never needed any repairs an has served me faithfully all these years. My old hands actually do better with a tele now, but I still love the strat for recording an occasional live performance. In 1994 I had a rare bit of money that I could actually splurge with on myself, so I went to the premiere store in Detroit where all the big names would go if needed an cut a deal price wise for a strat an little 4 track. They then left me in a room filled with strats to choose from an had tons of amps to plug into. I could have picked a much more expensive one for the same deal but I just loved the basic one the best. To this day it is one of the best "classic fender tone" producing strats I've ever heard live, or recorded.
Apparently the tiny headstock was because Fender used a super worn down jig to cut them lol also I seem to recall this being a guitar that had a ton of finish issues. Guitars were getting recalled because the finish was cracking off. The example you posted at 3:41 reinforces that to me, that is some HEAVY checking and wear that doesn’t look particularly natural. More looks like some garbage finish that is peeling up.
I wanted an LPB model when they released but settled for an Electra as my local dealer wouldn’t stock them (or the Gibson Victory MVX). I have to say that the walnut with the gold hardware is strikingly beautiful.
I've always thought it'd be cool to do something like this, with the high-gloss walnut, but do all the hardware in blued or case hardened steel with traditional engraving, so it'd look like one of those high-end traditional sporting shotguns, a Holland & Holland or Westley Richards or something.
In the late 70s wood was everywhere. Interior design. Furniture. Paneling. The after effects of the hippie and environmental awaking era. Gold was also a huge, major theme because with high inflation the price of gold skyrocketed and gold became an obsession for a few years. This guitar reflects the times.
Ha ha. I have the 1980 Strat in "Lake Placid Blue" and like the picture you show (1:37), it has turned green over the years. I did a scratch test on the back (Sorry, purists.) and under the greenish color is a blue much like this emoji >>> 🛥 . Since mine is an '80, I don't have the gold tuners. Mine also has a plastic pickup selector switch tip and a silver whammy bar--not gold. My third knob S1 switch does not spin endlessly so the one in this video must have been broken. When you do engage the S1 switch, the tone knob seems to become a kind of bass cut switch so you can dial in the amount of roundness for the job.
Aged c.19yrs, I bought a 1980 The Strat In candy apple red over gold, rosewood board in c’83 for £350. Weighed plenty, sounded thin in all positions. Pretty sure the 3rd switch was only a two-way. Also, the two dots at the 12th fret were wonky. Perhaps not a great example, but back then, I wasn’t a good player.
I own a first year candy apple red strat. Like all of them the finish has the orange peel effect , but it’s still in nice shape. In the beginning the switch tip was just white , like all other strats.
Bought one of these early 2023 in candy apple red with rosewood fretboard. Really cool but someone had put a Floyd Rose tremolo in the 90’s. Sold it and got an 82 vintage reissue telecaster neck earlier this year, and it’s honestly so much better. If you could check out a Fullerton reissue I’d think you love it Trogly. Real vintage feel for less then CBS money 🎸
It sounds Great ! You know it’s Beautiful ! Walnut is hard to get. I have a tree and know where a Supply is. Young man has a one man lumber mill. He cuts up special pieces. Beautiful stuff. !
Not to be a downer but actual luxury watches are not gold plated but solid 18k gold. All the way through. I love these natural looking Strats though, there is a 2017 limited edition for sale "American Vintage '59 Pine Stratocaster" with a birdseye neck for sale here in Sweden and it is absolutely gorgeous. I want to pick it up but I already have a strat...
My 1980 strat is 10.5 lbs the 80 also has a different headstock with a vineer rosewood board and the rotory switch on myn only switches to the three setting and not all the way around
So many great details. Fender is really good at that sometimes. Love all the branded parts. Would love to see more of these come back and become more prevelant
Other than this model, 1982 strats are outstanding. Not 1981, not 1983. 1982. That''s they year Dan Smith was hired to come in and straighten out the factory and he had them cut production dramatically and introduced the so-called Dan Smith Strat with a lot of vintage specs but some modern elements. It's the origin of the American Standard that came later in the 80s. I've owned two, they are awesome and the first I had was the best strat I ever owned (and I've had several, including custom shop). In 1983 the CBS beancounters forced him to mess it all up again (the two knob strats with the input jack on the pickguard). Get youself a 1982 strat.
The standard has the s1 bridge pu and Dan said his only regret was having to use the crap tuners and one piece cast trem cause they had so many in the parts bin
The Walnut strat is special ... don't normally like gold, that worked. Great info on the plating thickness... I started on a squire strat thinking some day I'd have an SG or Les Paul... playing others now, I'm comfortable with the strat neck and body feel so I'm a strat guy I guess... I inherited my brothers b-bender tele and the neck is noticeably thicker and I don't like the feel of it. prefer tremolo to one string bending.. it's sweet, but one string...
Walnut is much softer than hard maple and especially rosewood or ebony therefore as you see in the video it tends to get a lot of fingernail marks and wear. I’m sure it plays fine though other than that though.
@@cataclysmicconverter there is no poly on this fretboard 11:10. Also the Janka hardness rating of black walnut is 1010 and the Janka rating of rosewood is 2440. That’s more than twice the hardness rating. Hard maple has a rating of 1450 and most of the time they lacquer maple necks for extra durability. I had a buddy that had a PRS with a separate maple fretboard on a maple neck and the fretboard was not lacquered. It also seemed like an exceptionally soft piece of maple. Long story short with my slightly long fingernails and aggressive vibrato and bending style I gouged the hell out of his fingerboard in just one jam session. Needless to say he was pretty pissed at me. I have never had any other guitar do that to me and I have necks with more than a thousand hours of playing on them. That said the wear level on that walnut neck won’t affect playability and would all be sanded out anyway during a fret replacement.
@@cataclysmicconverter no problem. I hate to be that know it all guy but I just happened to do a deep dive into fretboard wood hardness today because I was watching a video about some of the new alternative woods they are starting to use. Also that experience of gouging my friends un lacquered maple fret board left a lasting “impression” on me ( pun intended) 😁
When I am watching I feel like I am experiencing a "collective" look with others. I could view a look at "individual parts and specs", rather than an "individual look." Sorry, just finished grading research papers ;-)
Gorgeous walnut STRAT! But complex stock switching never seems to survive long term. Locally in Canada there's a discount on a natural SG Supra but it has a few unusual switching complexities that aren't easy to repair with Gibson parts now unavailable and with no after market parts that suffice (looking at you Tog-Pot). Balanced against I am to lazy to collect/trade and will only buy to play.
The only thing I know for sure about guitar manufacturers is that there isn't one single wood worker amongst them... Guitars made by guitarists fr sure!
I have a giant black walnut tree with a 104 inch circumference at the trunk, I will trade you for that guitar. About 480 board feet of Very usable trunk lumber.😁 you ship..
I bought one in 1989 and still have it. Mine has an ebony fretboard which I love and a Floyd Rose made by Kahler which I didn't really need but Eddie Van Halen played so I thought I needed it too.
for a kit type guiutar like a strat, i think they have always been too expensive even today if you buy an american strat. i have an original 1959 strat and it both looks and plays beautiful but very expensive. its for sale at gruhns guitars in nashville. i have a 50s reissue that i play and its nice to play. now a days fender branded strats are made everywhere. the classic vibe 50s is probably the best buy for the buck in squire model. the rest are what they are over priced kit guitars that you can change or modify anyway you want at a price.
That's absolutely the FINEST walnut 3 piece on the planet! The figuring suggests ash/alder/maple, but with the fine "dots" of mahogany..but the KNOTS are unique to very, VERY, rare slabs of walnut my friend. I'm guessing weight is 9.5 lbs+ (9.8 !)--(*but fine strats are 7k straight across....) Any slab guys please comment yay or nay. Do NOT sell it. Let it ride my brother. This one is particular with the body/neck/hardware 'base,' and electronics can be *personalized. My point: In a collection it dies; this one is ALIVE. Consignment we get it. It is what it is. Cheers! ---- ps My first was a '61 bought in '71 Huh?--> I've been there
Walnut Strats are pretty cool - but don't forget they made these out of "regular" woods and have more traditional colors and necks too!
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clever guy which does not touch that crap vibrato..😄
Happy new years.
You have to document an old Schecter guitar from the Tom Anderson era !
Great to see a Fender once in a while, that real gold plating is crazy.😃
Never been a big fan of natural walnut guitars. For some reason they look like 'coffee table' guitars, more so than other types of wood...
@@StreetPreacherrwalnut is definitely a popular furniture wood, but certain walnut grains can look incredible on guitar. Walnut burls for example, or even just a nice piece with good grain. This piece definitely has the furniture vibe though
The perfect guitar does not have to have a popular brand name.
The perfect guitar does not have to be manufactured in any particular country.
The perfect guitar does not have to have been manufactured in any specific decade.
The perfect guitar does not have to cost an arm and a leg.
The perfect guitar is one that pefectly suits the player of that guitar.
My mid 1980's MIJ Fender '57 Reissue Stratocaster is the perfect guitar .... for me!
Keep them coming Trogly.
Cheers from the Land Down Under.
The grain on that black walnut is truly slappin'!
If you look at the headstock at 1:49 and again at 3:42 notice that the shape is completely wrong. This was when Fender first shrunk the headstock back to its original size, but for some reason they forgot the original shape. The curve on the decal side of the headstock is even to the curve on the tuner side. Whereas the original/common shape has the decal side curve much more pronounced than the tuner side curve.
My dream strat when I was a teenager. I used to see this exact model in the guitar mags and wish I had one. 🤘🤘
So cool! I remember seeing that silver anniversary Strat back in '79 or '80, and wishing I could afford it.
Same here!
If you take the S1 switch knob off you should find that the shaft of the switch has a flat side. When you tighten the grub screw up make sure it engages the flat side that should stop it from turning. Turning the switch clockwise turns the switch off, anti clockwise gives you the extra four pickup combinations.
I'm a huge Strat guy, so whenever you do a Strat video I have to watch. I would love to own this.
Thank you for reviewing a Fender!! I know your a Gibson guy, but Fender's are pretty special as well. BTW, beautiful Strat❤
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Could it be? A NON-GIBSON TROGLY UPLOAD! I know this channel is Gibson focused, but the non-Gibson uploads are always a treat ❤
Thanks for the video. A friend of mine bought one of these brand new and it looks almost exactly like your sample. He still owns and plays the guitar.
I bought one of these in candy apple red on gold with a rosewood fingerboard. I loved it's style and sound but sold it to buy something more suitable for the band I was in. I was 19 or 20 at the time and couldn't afford to buy another guitar. One of life's biggest regrets was selling it. The case it came in wasn't a tweed case like this but a molded black case with the huge Fender logo on the top and bottom.
i know the feeling....in 1980 i sold a black/gold Gibson Les Paul Custom......it was a late 60s early 70s model...and weight a ton...but still......i'm still struggling when i think of it today....when i can afford to buy what i want....
Trog, when looking at a single coil route, you have frequently mentioned that it needs to be routed further if one wants to install humbuckers. That is true if one wants to install traditional humbuckers, but Seymour Duncan does make numerous humbuckers that fit in single coil routes for Stratocasters.
Seymour Duncan 'hot rails'
yup a stacked humbucker should fit just fine.
A truly beautiful and unique Strat with crazy gold hardware that sounds really good 👍
Finally another rare Fender episode from Trogly.
I've had a 1989 Fender USA H.M.Strat that I bought used in '94.. it's a 25.1" scale. 24 frets. And has a Kahler Spyder trem. It was RIGHT after Fender USA bought Fender back from C.B.S. Japan
I bought one of those off of a friend about 15 years ago. It was candy apple red. I never could get along with that spyder trem though so I sold it a few years later.
So glad you brought that one out again. I bought a hardtail version of that bridge. I'm told Fender sold them separately during the day. Used it to build a partscaster called the Brasscaster.
Quite chunky but still better than the ones on the elite, etc. Thank god found their way again in the late 80s.
I loved these guys when they came out. I was working in a guitar shop n selling them but could never afford one myself, I got a couple of the knobs n put em on my '76 with brass nut, bridge n saddles; it still is a beautiful little guitar ..... but no 'Strat' 😢
I had a white one. Loved the bridge. The S1 on mine didn't turn continuously.
kinda reminds me of the gibson "the paul" and its ilk, with the whole natural walnut body, black pickguard and even the shortened name.
“The Paul” didn’t really catch on as a nickname LOL
@@ae3898 Yes, it was a-Pauling.
I used a 'The Strat' in the studio around 1984. It was in the Lake Placid color and incredibly heavy. Recorded some clean tracks and one solo track with it. The brass HW and heavy tonewood gave it a lot of sustain and a firm sound. It was nice for that session, but I wouldn't have considered to buy one of these.
tone doesnt come from the wood
I had one of these in candy apple red with a maple fingerboard. Played it a lot but never really bonded with it. I traded it for some gear for my recording studio after several years. Didn't have a clue that it was special or collectable at the time. It was just a heavy, blinged out Strat. I was pretty clueless about guitar specs/stuff. I just bought guitars and played them and sold them to buy different guitars. Turns out I owned a shit ton of cool gear that would become collectable in the future. Kinda wish I had most of it now. I guess that's a lesson: don't sell anything. Let your kids sort it out when you're dead. LOL.
You NEED to cover one of those Stratocaster Elite's not only do they have a button system instead of a switch they also have a trem I've never seen anywhere else!
Wohooo finally a Fender again. 😍 Keep on Rocking and a happy new year! 🎉
Looks like a nice strat, but that high E string is basically on the edge of the fretboard, the Low E string is just the opposite, hovering more over the fretboard. The neck pocket needs some tweaking to fix the string spacing. Other than that, I like the walnut and great history with this piece.
I noticed that as well. A rarely told aspect of the three versus four "bolt" attachments is that the four "bolts" were wood screws and the three "bolts" were two screws and an actual bolt. Bolts require better alignment in production and assembly. And, geometrically speaking, there's nothing inherently less stable about a triangle than a rectangle. Leo Fender stuck with the triangle configuration and micro tilt (as well as the bullet truss rod) at both Music Man in the 1970's (now called "pre Ernie Ball") and G&L in the 1990's; so we can't really blame that on CBS . My guess is that the micro tilt cost more to produce and therefore was eventually jettisoned by bean counters.
@@gr500music6 Leo must've been keenly aware of the sloppy neck pocket cuts on many CBS-era three-point guitars because his subsequent projects, the Music Man instruments and G&L after that, were substantially tightened up (literally and figuratively) in that regard. I had two very early G&L F-100s at different times and the neck pockets were laser tight. Same with a Music Man Stingray or Sabre that I once considered purchasing years ago. The necks on my G&Ls would not budge. Done right, the three-point arrangement with micro-tilt works great.
Thanks for the reply! My '74 Strat, bought circa 1979, has never had an issue and remains the best I have ever heard or played. Production-wise, it seems that, if you set the bolt first and then swing the neck into the pocket and fix it in place with the two screws, little can go wrong in terms of string alignment, assuming you're paying attention to that. Quality control (not quality, per se) on 70's Fender anything (guitars, basses and amps (I sold them for five years from '76 to '81 at Manny's in Manhattan) was non-existent. My issue is with those who seem to think there was a concerted corporate effort to cheapen the product (eg by saving the cost of a fourth "bolt?") Clearly, Leo liked his 70's designs in theory if not implementation. Compared to vintage or modern Strats, both Music Man and G&L's seem to be a great buy right now.
@@gr500music6 Im confused…so the high E string hovering basically on the edge of the fretboard is of no concern to you?
@@PopeyeFPV No, it bugs me plenty. I just think it's unrelated to general criteria such as the era the guitar was built. Sold lots of anniversary Strat's - they were popular - and had two friends who bought them. Don't remember any like that. Then as now, setup out of the box could be very hit or miss. Love the look of the walnut but I would have had that neck re-aligned.
Nice to see a Fender video!
My holy grail of Stratocasters - just stunning to look at!
Our local guitar shop had one back in the day and we'd all stand outside, looking thru the window and drool! 😄
I am so happy that this episode is not a Gibson gravity maker. Please do a Gretsch 6120 absolute awesome guitar.
I had the Walnut Elite Telecaster . Crazy heavy and a very thick finish. But it sounded excellent and was really well made.
If you can find the early 80s Made in Japan Fenders. Those are the ones to get!!! The build quality is amazing!
I bought an arctic white ‘The Strat’ in 1982 and still play it today. Mine is 8.5 lbs so they weren’t all boat anchors back then.
I went with a Lake Placid Blue version with rosewood board. Sadly, long gone.
I'd like to think about it as Fender's answer to both The Paul, THE Les Paul, the KM and the XR series all in the same guitar XD
Gosh, I feel old now! 😅 I remember seeing photos, ads and reading reviews of The Strat in music magazines in '83, when I was only 13! 😊
Don't feel old! I'm the same age, 53, and I don't feel old...most of the time, lol
@@JokersWild70 - Thank you, mate! 😊👍 Yeah, I'm actually quite comfortable with my current age most of the time, too! Until I have to climb up a tall flight of stairs! 😅
You guys are not old yet! Ha ha. I've been playing longer than you have been alive. I still love to play and record. The first real strat I could ever afford was my 1994 anniversary model. Basically just a AMERICAN standard, but to this day it's never needed any repairs an has served me faithfully all these years. My old hands actually do better with a tele now, but I still love the strat for recording an occasional live performance. In 1994 I had a rare bit of money that I could actually splurge with on myself, so I went to the premiere store in Detroit where all the big names would go if needed an cut a deal price wise for a strat an little 4 track. They then left me in a room filled with strats to choose from an had tons of amps to plug into. I could have picked a much more expensive one for the same deal but I just loved the basic one the best. To this day it is one of the best "classic fender tone" producing strats I've ever heard live, or recorded.
Apparently the tiny headstock was because Fender used a super worn down jig to cut them lol also I seem to recall this being a guitar that had a ton of finish issues. Guitars were getting recalled because the finish was cracking off. The example you posted at 3:41 reinforces that to me, that is some HEAVY checking and wear that doesn’t look particularly natural. More looks like some garbage finish that is peeling up.
It's not only the size of the Headstock. The whole shape is wrong.
those pickups are awesome. wish we knew a bit more. beautiful guitar overall too.
I wanted an LPB model when they released but settled for an Electra as my local dealer wouldn’t stock them (or the Gibson Victory MVX). I have to say that the walnut with the gold hardware is strikingly beautiful.
I've always thought it'd be cool to do something like this, with the high-gloss walnut, but do all the hardware in blued or case hardened steel with traditional engraving, so it'd look like one of those high-end traditional sporting shotguns, a Holland & Holland or Westley Richards or something.
Beautiful guitar! We need another trade Tuesday series!! Happy New year!
Check out the CS strat I got, it’s kinda cooler than this one. Rosewood, baby!!
The transparent red one, 😍
one of my dream guitars
Was sitting around waiting for the upload.
In the late 70s wood was everywhere. Interior design. Furniture. Paneling. The after effects of the hippie and environmental awaking era. Gold was also a huge, major theme because with high inflation the price of gold skyrocketed and gold became an obsession for a few years. This guitar reflects the times.
I had one of these, same year. I loved the tones, but it was 13 pounds!! I played one gig with it and that was it. I sold it for too little though.
As a Fender guy I approve this video.
As another Fender guy, me too 👍
I bought a new one in Munich in 1981. Regular CAR "The Strat" with maple neck, which was somewhat narrower than regular stratocaster. A fine guitar.
I have an early 80's MIJ Fender Strat and its one of my favorite guitars.
Ha ha. I have the 1980 Strat in "Lake Placid Blue" and like the picture you show (1:37), it has turned green over the years. I did a scratch test on the back (Sorry, purists.) and under the greenish color is a blue much like this emoji >>> 🛥 . Since mine is an '80, I don't have the gold tuners. Mine also has a plastic pickup selector switch tip and a silver whammy bar--not gold. My third knob S1 switch does not spin endlessly so the one in this video must have been broken. When you do engage the S1 switch, the tone knob seems to become a kind of bass cut switch so you can dial in the amount of roundness for the job.
Aged c.19yrs, I bought a 1980 The Strat In candy apple red over gold, rosewood board in c’83 for £350. Weighed plenty, sounded thin in all positions. Pretty sure the 3rd switch was only a two-way. Also, the two dots at the 12th fret were wonky. Perhaps not a great example, but back then, I wasn’t a good player.
In the early 80's Leo Fender was making good strats, they said G&L on the headstock. I have one made in 1981, it's a F-100 with double humbuckers.
I replaced one of these switches. It is a 2 way switch, and that one is screwed up. Otherwise, that guitar is beautiful.
That’s such a beautiful strat, I love the wood grain with black pickguard
Those anniversary Strats are boat anchors.
those were good sounding and good playing strats .
That is the first Strat I have ever seen that I would love to own. That color and that tone are amazing!!!!!
This one is available! troglysguitarshow.com/product/fender-the-strat-walnut/
I own a first year candy apple red strat. Like all of them the finish has the orange peel effect , but it’s still in nice shape. In the beginning the switch tip was just white , like all other strats.
🎉My guitar teacher had a model called "strat" with two humbuckers in the mid nineties.
Bought one of these early 2023 in candy apple red with rosewood fretboard. Really cool but someone had put a Floyd Rose tremolo in the 90’s. Sold it and got an 82 vintage reissue telecaster neck earlier this year, and it’s honestly so much better. If you could check out a Fullerton reissue I’d think you love it Trogly. Real vintage feel for less then CBS money 🎸
It sounds Great ! You know it’s Beautiful ! Walnut is hard to get. I have a tree and know where a Supply is. Young man has a one man lumber mill. He cuts up special pieces. Beautiful stuff. !
Got a 1978 Fender Stratocaster this summer and it’s the best guitar I’ve ever had!
Candy apple had either gold or silver basecoat.
Not to be a downer but actual luxury watches are not gold plated but solid 18k gold. All the way through. I love these natural looking Strats though, there is a 2017 limited edition for sale "American Vintage '59 Pine Stratocaster" with a birdseye neck for sale here in Sweden and it is absolutely gorgeous. I want to pick it up but I already have a strat...
Beautiful Strat. Very warm tones! Thanks for showing it. (Your playing is sounding even better Trogly, thank you for sharing, man.)
I named my cat after that guitar "Stratacat"
My 1980 strat is 10.5 lbs the 80 also has a different headstock with a vineer rosewood board and the rotory switch on myn only switches to the three setting and not all the way around
So many great details.
Fender is really good at that sometimes.
Love all the branded parts.
Would love to see more of these come back and become more prevelant
Sounds pretty good! Put a cream pearloid pickguard and cream pickup covers on it and it would be pretty too
Other than this model, 1982 strats are outstanding. Not 1981, not 1983. 1982. That''s they year Dan Smith was hired to come in and straighten out the factory and he had them cut production dramatically and introduced the so-called Dan Smith Strat with a lot of vintage specs but some modern elements. It's the origin of the American Standard that came later in the 80s. I've owned two, they are awesome and the first I had was the best strat I ever owned (and I've had several, including custom shop). In 1983 the CBS beancounters forced him to mess it all up again (the two knob strats with the input jack on the pickguard). Get youself a 1982 strat.
You know it!
Very interesting piece of info.
The standard has the s1 bridge pu and Dan said his only regret was having to use the crap tuners and one piece cast trem cause they had so many in the parts bin
The Walnut strat is special ... don't normally like gold, that worked. Great info on the plating thickness...
I started on a squire strat thinking some day I'd have an SG or Les Paul... playing others now, I'm comfortable with the strat neck and body feel so I'm a strat guy I guess... I inherited my brothers b-bender tele and the neck is noticeably thicker and I don't like the feel of it. prefer tremolo to one string bending.. it's sweet, but one string...
V shape necks are the best. Thin D is a very comfortable shape, as well. It just depends on your style and preference.
cool guitar - and your playing is getting better! nice showing off all those tones
This is the fender equivalent of a gibson les paul custom black beauty... it's gorgeus!
More fender!
How about the Strat Plus and Strat Plus Deluxe?
Walnut fretboard? I've never seen that. How does walnut play? It's certainly a beautiful guitar in any case.
Walnut is much softer than hard maple and especially rosewood or ebony therefore as you see in the video it tends to get a lot of fingernail marks and wear. I’m sure it plays fine though other than that though.
@@cataclysmicconverter there is no poly on this fretboard 11:10. Also the Janka hardness rating of black walnut is 1010 and the Janka rating of rosewood is 2440. That’s more than twice the hardness rating. Hard maple has a rating of 1450 and most of the time they lacquer maple necks for extra durability. I had a buddy that had a PRS with a separate maple fretboard on a maple neck and the fretboard was not lacquered. It also seemed like an exceptionally soft piece of maple. Long story short with my slightly long fingernails and aggressive vibrato and bending style I gouged the hell out of his fingerboard in just one jam session. Needless to say he was pretty pissed at me. I have never had any other guitar do that to me and I have necks with more than a thousand hours of playing on them. That said the wear level on that walnut neck won’t affect playability and would all be sanded out anyway during a fret replacement.
@@cataclysmicconverter no problem. I hate to be that know it all guy but I just happened to do a deep dive into fretboard wood hardness today because I was watching a video about some of the new alternative woods they are starting to use. Also that experience of gouging my friends un lacquered maple fret board left a lasting “impression” on me ( pun intended) 😁
Love it!!
10:05 That looks nothing like a regular Stratocaster bridge. What the fuck are you even talking about?
That's a great sounding strat
I'm not a strat fan but if I was I would search out and find one of these models in a more traditional tone wood variation.
What's an "individual" look?
When I am watching I feel like I am experiencing a "collective" look with others. I could view a look at "individual parts and specs", rather than an "individual look." Sorry, just finished grading research papers ;-)
nice strat man! really sweet ! i got the 79 anniversary
That's a beautiful Strat
Gorgeous walnut STRAT! But complex stock switching never seems to survive long term. Locally in Canada there's a discount on a natural SG Supra but it has a few unusual switching complexities that aren't easy to repair with Gibson parts now unavailable and with no after market parts that suffice (looking at you Tog-Pot). Balanced against I am to lazy to collect/trade and will only buy to play.
The only thing I know for sure about guitar manufacturers is that there isn't one single wood worker amongst them... Guitars made by guitarists fr sure!
I love watching you go through the details on the workbench. You know your trade, man.
What a beautiful instrument.
I have a giant black walnut tree with a 104 inch circumference at the trunk, I will trade you for that guitar. About 480 board feet of Very usable trunk lumber.😁 you ship..
Wish I would have kept all those "junk" 80's guitars I used to own
I believe that the wiring diagram for “The Strat” was designed by Dan Armstrong
I remember seeing a nos one on reverb 5 or 6 years ago.. wasn't cheap lol
The main guitarist of tears for fears used this model of strat it can be seen in the shout music video
Note: I called the hardware ' Gold ' , though it is brass , it is going to be alright , take a breath , take a sip of water...
@trog I owned a 82' black version of this with matching headstock and gold plating. Could of been a custom order I suppose?
Wow, looks and sounds great! Wonder what the price might be...
$4,250 according to his website.
weird marks look like fingerprints under the lacquer
Do the hm strat
Don’t those have a Floyd Rose? Austin stays away from those.
@@chrishansen-crowley3287 true. They have the tbx tone thing too
I bought one in 1989 and still have it. Mine has an ebony fretboard which I love and a Floyd Rose made by Kahler which I didn't really need but Eddie Van Halen played so I thought I needed it too.
@@acatwiththreenames3658 mine was pink.
for a kit type guiutar like a strat, i think they have always been too expensive even today if you buy an american strat. i have an original 1959 strat and it both looks and plays beautiful but very expensive. its for sale at gruhns guitars in nashville. i have a 50s reissue that i play and its nice to play. now a days fender branded strats are made everywhere. the classic vibe 50s is probably the best buy for the buck in squire model. the rest are what they are over priced kit guitars that you can change or modify anyway you want at a price.
Beautiful sounding strat. That 5th position is awesome!
That's absolutely the FINEST walnut 3 piece on the planet! The figuring suggests ash/alder/maple, but with the fine "dots" of mahogany..but the KNOTS are unique to very, VERY, rare slabs of walnut my friend. I'm guessing weight is 9.5 lbs+ (9.8 !)--(*but fine strats are 7k straight across....)
Any slab guys please comment yay or nay.
Do NOT sell it. Let it ride my brother. This one is particular with the body/neck/hardware 'base,' and electronics can be *personalized.
My point: In a collection it dies; this one is ALIVE. Consignment we get it. It is what it is.
Cheers!
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ps My first was a '61 bought in '71
Huh?--> I've been there
Absolutely gorgeous…love that walnut👍
i like the larger headstock stratocasters.