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Musician's Friend has the Fender Player Stratocaster HSS Plus Top Limited-Edition Electric Guitar in Blue Burst for $599.99, with free shipping and 8% Musician's Friend rewards.
This is slightly higher than a previous deal from 9 weeks ago, but these are new not open box. (At least they're supposed to be. This is Musician's Friend we're talking about.)
Great option for a really attractive Strat with more versatility thanks to the bridge humbucker. The lower tone control also applies to the bridge pickup.
Finally, this is a Player Strat, not a Player Plus. The "Plus" goes with "Top".
Body- Body shape: Double cutaway
- Body type: Solidbody
- Body material: Solid wood
- Top wood: Flame Maple
- Body wood: Alder
- Body finish: Gloss
- Orientation: Right handed
Neck- Neck shape: C modern
- Neck wood: Maple
- Joint: Bolt-on
- Scale length: 25.5"
- Truss rod: Dual-action
- Neck finish: Gloss
Fingerboard- Material: Maple
- Radius: 9.5"
- Fret size: Medium-jumbo
- Number of frets: 2
- Inlays: Dot
- Nut width/material 1.69" (43 mm) Synthetic Bone
Pickups- Configuration: HSS
- Neck: Player Series Stratocaster single coil
- Middle: Player Series Stratocaster single coil
- Bridge: Player Series Stratocaster humbucker
- Brand: Fender
- Active or passive pickups: Passive
- Series or parallel: Parallel
- Piezo: No
- Active EQ: No
Controls- Control layout: Master volume, tone 1, tone 2
- Pickup switch: 5-way
- Coil tap or split:
- Kill switch: No
Hardware- Bridge type: Tremolo/Vibrato
- Bridge design: 2-point Fulcrum tremolo bent steel saddles
- Tailpiece: Not applicable
- Tuning machines: Die-cast sealed
- Color: Chrome
Other- Number of strings: 6 string
Special features:- Case: Sold separately
- Accessories:
- Country of origin: Mexico
Guitar Center has it at the same price. [guitarcenter.com]
https://www.musiciansfriend.com/g...ric-guitar
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WTF staff, why remove basic facts?
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Sorry, I meant former Standard MiM model.
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Those stacked pickups sound different than the regular humbucker does though.
To be fair, HSS (even if it's effectively HHH) looks better than actual HHH does. HHH looks funky. Some people may like that. I'm not sure lol. I think HH is cool.
What would be truly short bus special is putting the humbucker on a HSS crooked like they do when they put a regular pickup in the bridge position.
Honorable mention: The G&L split pickups.
Black
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But no one has even posted those alternatives as deals in their own right.