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Fender Player Plus Stratocaster Maple Fingerboard Electric Guitar 3-Color Sunburst and more - $824.99 and Free Shipping

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Musician's Friend has the Fender Player Plus Stratocaster in 3-tone sunburst for $849.99 (25% off or $275 from $1,099.99) when you sign in and add to cart. Members also earn 8% rewards or $65.99 in credit towards future purchases. Additional models on sale listed below.

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Features:
  • Gloss-finished alder body
  • 22 medium-jumbo frets, satin finished 12 inch radius modern C profile neck, maple fingerboard, 1.685 inch nut width
  • 4th-generation Noiseless pickups, push/pull pot for the second tone control to add the neck pickup to any switch position
  • 2-point fulcrum vibrato with high-mass steel-block saddles, locking tuners
  • includes gig bag
  • Made in Mexico

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Fender Player Plus Stratocaster Maple Fingerboard Electric Guitar 3-Color Sunburst and more - $824.99 and Free Shipping
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dsixfiddy
01-07-2022 at 10:52 AM.
01-07-2022 at 10:52 AM.
Quote from quard :
Well, I bit on the Nashville Deluxe Tele. Hoping defect free. Thanks OP!
Congrats. I just can't bring myself to do it. I've got too many guitars as is.......or is there such a thing as too many guitars?
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specialistgraner
01-08-2022 at 09:24 AM.
01-08-2022 at 09:24 AM.
When I visted my local guitar center recently, the used inventory prices were crazy for imported guitars from Asia. Keep in mind, Guitar Center bases their used prices off ebay listings. I remember an American Stratocaster being $1100 20 years ago. Now imported Asian guitars (Non-Japanese) can sell for $1000+ new. You can buy an American made guitar used for less or not much more than an imported guitar used.

This seems a little silly to me considering how many used guitars there are out there. Does every guitar player own 15 guitars and they are just hoarding guitars? (I own seven at the moment with another one on the way). Thing is nowadays all the quality is incredibly consistent due to all guitars being cnc'd, only difference is really where they're assembled and parts.

I used to work at a guitar luthier and the opinion of the luthiers there was there wasn't much difference between Squier, Mexican Fender and American Fender besides the hardware on the guitars. If you sanded off the logos and "made in" designation on the headstock and changed the hardware out, the luthiers told me they wouldn't be able to tell any difference between Asian, Mexican and American guitars.
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Last edited by specialistgraner January 8, 2022 at 09:28 AM.
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EfficientPolice6161
01-08-2022 at 02:46 PM.
01-08-2022 at 02:46 PM.
Generally true except for strats.

MIM used ceramic pickups for the longest time and never had the tone control hooked up to the bridge.

Squier pickups are super generic. All models use the same ones. Plus bodies are thinner.

But 2018 really solved all of the strat mim vs american issues.
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quard
01-11-2022 at 07:07 PM.
01-11-2022 at 07:07 PM.
Got the Nashville Deluxe Tele. Gave it a practice go and for some reason the middle strat pickup has 50% less output. Having a luthier check it out. Tried an exchange but MF says they have none and thinks they won't ever get any more. They offered me some cash to keep it…we'll see what the diagnosis is. If it's a cheap fix, I'm happy, it not, headed back and a return to watching for other tele deals.
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Grege
01-13-2022 at 05:02 PM.
01-13-2022 at 05:02 PM.
My guitar center in lake Forest has a couple player plus stratocasters for 699. You may want to check your local guitar center before you pull the trigger
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quard
01-13-2022 at 05:25 PM.
01-13-2022 at 05:25 PM.
Quote from Grege :
My guitar center in lake Forest has a couple player plus stratocasters for 699. You may want to check your local guitar center before you pull the trigger

Were they new?

*scratch that, I see they even have some new on their website
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Last edited by quard January 13, 2022 at 07:03 PM.
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Manak1n
01-15-2022 at 08:33 PM.
01-15-2022 at 08:33 PM.
Quote from quard :
Were they new?

*scratch that, I see they even have some new on their website
Watch out; the "plus top" strats are not Player Plus models. They're just a Player with a fancier design on the body.
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Colin0
01-18-2022 at 01:36 PM.
01-18-2022 at 01:36 PM.
Bit on the player plus strat, it's the same price/less than some of the same model they're selling used. $824 versus $1099 is as good as it's gonna get for… well maybe forever? At this point the lowest end "standard" mexi strat and teles both retail for $850. I remember when these were all $350-$400 for the longest time. I'm old.

I've got a player plus tele in the green I've been happy with. Couldn't resist since I've been hemming and hawing over if I should finally get a strat.

Thanks op.
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