i like the look of this roasted pine body. I think for me though, an Ebony fretboard would have made this guitar seriously pop. It's a cool looking guitar though.
I appreciate your insights. I simply thought it looked fantastic until I saw this video. I love the wood grain!! Obviously some some will look better than others depending on your preferences. All in all, I love the aesthetic. It's a nice move forward for Fender. I like that Fender is giving something new. Thanks for the vid!!
If you have not got one yet, I would recommend a try before you buy if possible. I have had a few function, fit and finish issues on this one and the tele pii version.
I’ve read a lot of comments ripping Fender for charging more for a cheaper wood. I think your suggestion that the roasting process may be one reason for the increased cost sounds reasonable. Either way, I love it and ordered the roast pine with rosewood fingerboard (tough choice between that and the maple-I may have to purchase a second stablemate, so either is available, haha.) from American Musical Supply-12-Month, Interest-Free payment plan, so….yay. Never have I ordered an instrument I’ve not touched-wish me luck!-however, every video I’ve watched comments that the fit and finish are excellent, there is a 45 day return policy, and AMS seems to send out winners from the reviews I’ve read. I just pray the wood grain is as pretty as that on the instrument in your video! Thanks for posting. I’m in on the like and sub. ✌🏽🙏🏽💙 from Minnesota, USA
Wow! Thanks for checking-in with me. I adore this instrument. The grains-as I’d aesthetically hoped-are lovely. It is SO light it almost feels like a toy compared to my Lester. As stated in every review I watched, the rolled fretboard is so smooth, the satin neck feels great. I’m just at 57 learning to play the electric gear I’ve collected and chastised myself for not using. Acoustics have been my choice. I play them in a slightly brutish percussive manner, in call-and-response to my voice. This guy wants to have bluesy riffs played, and with a pick, not my fingers. Completely out of my decades long comfort zone, but how much fun! I have a little OCD thing as a consumer. When things like leather boots, belts, coats come in both black and brown, I feel anxious and usually buy both. I struggled with whether I should buy this guitar in Rosewood or Maple fretboard. As People in the videos were impressed that Fender had brought real rosewood back. Thinking that might change again, and the Maple fretboards would always be available, i got the RW. Then, my luxury high-end goods anxiety kicked in, I needed a maple fretboard, too. Found a used, but perfectly mint Music Man Cutlass with the most stunning roasted maple neck I’ve seen on Reverb. Where, I also found a guitar I’d had on radar for years, an Ibanez RT 452 12 string. Kinda like two Strats in one, haha. I bought both. All three are fantastic. The MM has locking tuners, the Fender does not. The Fender has the push-push, to expand pickup options, the MM does not. So, they compliment each other well. The Strat can be more easily played in alternate tunings with more voices, the Cutlass will do what is does best. The 12 string-which the original owner switched original pups for two Seymour Duncan Psyhclone FilterTones and an SD lipstick, will just be as unique and beloved as it is. Funny, with in a month, I received a Mesa amp from Petaluma, a Fender from Corona, and an MM from San Luis Obispo. Maybe I should move to Cali.? Anyway, thanks again for seeing how this gem and I are doing. I plan-if I can slow that bad GAS a bit, to do some traveling. I want to visit in person all the studios and stores whose videos I watch. Even meet some favored creators if possible. Like, I want to buy an Epiphone Casino at Casino guitars in North Carolina. I have never been yet across the big pond, and I very much look forward to visiting y’all at Essex when I finally make the journey. 🙏🏽✌🏽💙 from Minnesota
I agree with your reasoning for using pine bodies. But, you know they are going to add to the price simply because it's not alder. I don't see this guitar as being cheaper in any way. I just checked out my 2023, and it looks like it has a one piece body, for what that's worth. And mine looks incredible with the rosewood fingerboard. I know one of the marketing points on the Pro2 is the rolled fingerboard. But I'm feeling the same degree of roll on my Pro2 as I do on my Pro1 (2018), my American Standard (2015), and my American Deluxe (2006). If you really want to experience a rolled fingerboard, find a 2014 American Vintage '54 Strat. And I enjoyed the video immensely.
Pine is cheap...the grain is too loose and soft....after a few hours in a steam tube , you can bend a 2 x 2 like a banana...seasoned Victorian pine is good for working but is GENUINELY in short supply...I'm waiting for the Norwegian Wood edition...
Pines, especially lodgepole pine, Southern yellow pine, and Douglas fir, are often used in the making of utility poles. Their strength in this application is that they can carry the heavy weight of utility lines without bending or breaking. They also have enough flexibility to maintain their position in heavy winds.
@rocketpoolpki You should learn something before you speak out your ass. THe first Telecasters were Pine, Ron Kirk Barncasters, highly coveted guitars, are made of Pine. When Pine is roasted it loses quite a bit of weight from the sap being cooked out. It also hardens the pine and makes it extremely strong. It also sounds fantastic. You are a moron btw.
I knew from trying out 8 one stood out. I found warm, clean & expressive I even picked a maple neck over wat I prefer rose or ebony
i like the look of this roasted pine body. I think for me though, an Ebony fretboard would have made this guitar seriously pop. It's a cool looking guitar though.
I appreciate your insights. I simply thought it looked fantastic until I saw this video. I love the wood grain!! Obviously some some will look better than others depending on your preferences. All in all, I love the aesthetic. It's a nice move forward for Fender. I like that Fender is giving something new. Thanks for the vid!!
Glad you enjoyed Andy!
They are a lot lighter in weight on average than alder. That's the main reason I want one. I like lightweight strats.
If you have not got one yet, I would recommend a try before you buy if possible. I have had a few function, fit and finish issues on this one and the tele pii version.
great Strat tones
I totally fell in love with it. out of 8 one just spoke to me. as I never liked strats but this one I just had to have 🙌👏
Thanks a lot for the informative video
Glad it was helpful!
That thing is awesome
Cheers Bryan 🍻
I’ve read a lot of comments ripping Fender for charging more for a cheaper wood. I think your suggestion that the roasting process may be one reason for the increased cost sounds reasonable.
Either way, I love it and ordered the roast pine with rosewood fingerboard (tough choice between that and the maple-I may have to purchase a second stablemate, so either is available, haha.) from American Musical Supply-12-Month, Interest-Free payment plan, so….yay. Never have I ordered an instrument I’ve not touched-wish me luck!-however, every video I’ve watched comments that the fit and finish are excellent, there is a 45 day return policy, and AMS seems to send out winners from the reviews I’ve read. I just pray the wood grain is as pretty as that on the instrument in your video!
Thanks for posting. I’m in on the like and sub.
✌🏽🙏🏽💙 from Minnesota, USA
So great to hear. Come back and let us know your impressions after yours arrives!
So, what is your overall impression of the guitar now that you’ve had it for a while? Are you loving the pine body? Tone? Feel?
Wow! Thanks for checking-in with me. I adore this instrument. The grains-as I’d aesthetically hoped-are lovely. It is SO light it almost feels like a toy compared to my Lester. As stated in every review I watched, the rolled fretboard is so smooth, the satin neck feels great. I’m just at 57 learning to play the electric gear I’ve collected and chastised myself for not using. Acoustics have been my choice. I play them in a slightly brutish percussive manner, in call-and-response to my voice.
This guy wants to have bluesy riffs played, and with a pick, not my fingers. Completely out of my decades long comfort zone, but how much fun! I have a little OCD thing as a consumer. When things like leather boots, belts, coats come in both black and brown, I feel anxious and usually buy both.
I struggled with whether I should buy this guitar in Rosewood or Maple fretboard. As People in the videos were impressed that Fender had brought real rosewood back. Thinking that might change again, and the Maple fretboards would always be available, i got the RW. Then, my luxury high-end goods anxiety kicked in, I needed a maple fretboard, too. Found a used, but perfectly mint Music Man Cutlass with the most stunning roasted maple neck I’ve seen on Reverb. Where, I also found a guitar I’d had on radar for years, an Ibanez RT 452 12 string.
Kinda like two Strats in one, haha.
I bought both.
All three are fantastic. The MM has locking tuners, the Fender does not. The Fender has the push-push, to expand pickup options, the MM does not. So, they compliment each other well. The Strat can be more easily played in alternate tunings with more voices, the Cutlass will do what is does best. The 12 string-which the original owner switched original pups for two Seymour Duncan Psyhclone FilterTones and an SD lipstick, will just be as unique and beloved as it is.
Funny, with in a month, I received a Mesa amp from Petaluma, a Fender from Corona, and an MM from San Luis Obispo. Maybe I should move to Cali.?
Anyway, thanks again for seeing how this gem and I are doing.
I plan-if I can slow that bad GAS a bit, to do some traveling. I want to visit in person all the studios and stores whose videos I watch. Even meet some favored creators if possible. Like, I want to buy an Epiphone Casino at Casino guitars in North Carolina. I have never been yet across the big pond, and I very much look forward to visiting y’all at Essex when I finally make the journey.
🙏🏽✌🏽💙 from Minnesota
Beautiful 😻
Totaly desagree on wood being the same cause i have both with same pups & swamp ash, pine & alder & pine sounds different
The wood will sound different but in a song mix it may be hard to tell
The first guitars ever made were pine. Pine is not "cheap" as in sounding.
I agree with your reasoning for using pine bodies. But, you know they are going to add to the price simply because it's not alder. I don't see this guitar as being cheaper in any way. I just checked out my 2023, and it looks like it has a one piece body, for what that's worth. And mine looks incredible with the rosewood fingerboard.
I know one of the marketing points on the Pro2 is the rolled fingerboard. But I'm feeling the same degree of roll on my Pro2 as I do on my Pro1 (2018), my American Standard (2015), and my American Deluxe (2006). If you really want to experience a rolled fingerboard, find a 2014 American Vintage '54 Strat.
And I enjoyed the video immensely.
Cheers thanks Don!
Also, I just don't know enough about wood types to know the reasoning here, but in most cases, it boils down the bottom line, MONEY.
Hermosa!!
4:00 ash trees are being destroyed in the USA by an invasive beetle.
Whoa I dodnt know that. Will have to check the news 👍
Pine is cheap...the grain is too loose and soft....after a few hours in a steam tube , you can bend a 2 x 2 like a banana...seasoned Victorian pine is good for working but is GENUINELY in short supply...I'm waiting for the Norwegian Wood edition...
Pines, especially lodgepole pine, Southern yellow pine, and Douglas fir, are often used in the making of utility poles. Their strength in this application is that they can carry the heavy weight of utility lines without bending or breaking. They also have enough flexibility to maintain their position in heavy winds.
@rocketpoolpki You should learn something before you speak out your ass. THe first Telecasters were Pine, Ron Kirk Barncasters, highly coveted guitars, are made of Pine. When Pine is roasted it loses quite a bit of weight from the sap being cooked out. It also hardens the pine and makes it extremely strong. It also sounds fantastic. You are a moron btw.
1st!!!
Well done my good man
I seen a used 1 at my local music store for 1,299. If it's still there tomorrow when I go over there and all looks fine with it. It's mine😁
Exciting! Good luck dude!
@@EssexRecordingStudios It's mine got it for1,214.94 with case.
@@danielhartman5086how do you like the guitar?