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Fender Player Stratocaster HSS Plus Top Electric Guitar (Blue Burst)
$600
$730
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Musician's Friend has Fender Player Stratocaster HSS Plus Top Electric Guitar (Blue Burst) for $599.99. Shipping is free.
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Features:
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Features:
- 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
- Special electronics:
- 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
Editor's Notes
Written by Corwin | Staff- About this Deal:
- This price is $130 lower (18% savings) than the list price of $729.99.
- Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.
- About this Product:
- Rating of 4.7 stars overall from 46 customer reviews.
- Additional Note:
- Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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Musician's Friend has Fender Player Stratocaster HSS Plus Top Electric Guitar (Blue Burst) for $599.99. Shipping is free.
Thanks to Community Member GeekPriest for finding this deal.
Features:
Thanks to Community Member GeekPriest for finding this deal.
Features:
- 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
- Special electronics:
- 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
Editor's Notes
Written by Corwin | Staff- About this Deal:
- This price is $130 lower (18% savings) than the list price of $729.99.
- Get 1%-5% cash back on deals like this with a cash back credit card. Compare the available cash back credit cards here.
- About this Product:
- Rating of 4.7 stars overall from 46 customer reviews.
- Additional Note:
- Please see the original post for additional details and give the WIKI and forum comments a read for helpful discussion.
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WTF staff, why remove basic facts?
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WTF staff, why remove basic facts?
At this price point, or even on sale, I think you can get a better buy with a different brand. Paint is notoriously horrible on these too, so expect some chipping and scratching, even if you just look at it.
At this price point, or even on sale, I think you can get a better buy with a different brand. Paint is notoriously horrible on these too, so expect some chipping and scratching, even if you just look at it.
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At this price point, or even on sale, I think you can get a better buy with a different brand. Paint is notoriously horrible on these too, so expect some chipping and scratching, even if you just look at it.
I totally understand that not every guitar is a good choice for every player. Indeed, I don't think a Stratocaster is a good choice for a new player at all. (It's difficult to get good sounds from a Strat when you're starting out, IMHO, and the switching options can be confusing for a new player. Better to try a Telecaster or LP type guitar as a first electric.)
https://slickdeals.net/f/17382519-fender-player-stratocaster-roasted-maple-fingerboard-with-fat-50s-pickups-limited-edition-electric-guitar-fiesta-red-for-650-shipping-is-free
There's nothing wrong with the guitar in this OP or the SSS model. Pick whichever you'd like.
Where I disagree is that one should buy a guitar EXPECTING to replace/upgrade significant components. Some people just love doing that, and that's fine. For myself, I don't really want the hassle of buying a new guitar, buying a new pickguard (cut for a humbucker in the bridge position), finding and buying a decent sounding humbucker with mounting screws compatible with the new pickguard, and then the subsequent expense or effort of unmounting, unsoldering, soldering, re-mounting, re-installing, while making sure you keep polarity and windings straight, get the tone control the way you want, etc. If you pay for this work, it's going to be a good $200 plus the pickup with anyone you'd trust to do it, less whatever you could sell a Fat 50's bridge pickup for by itself. A friend had his $2k Kiesel utterly ruined by a local guitar store technician who was changing a pickup.
The Player series pickups are perfectly usable mainstream pickups. I've heard what good players get out of them. Are the Fat 50's pickups better? Very possibly, but much of their sound is going to depend on the player.
At this price point, or even on sale, I think you can get a better buy with a different brand. Paint is notoriously horrible on these too, so expect some chipping and scratching, even if you just look at it.
edit: i guess most people think of a super strat with at least 1 humbucker and a fully floating tremolo. Oh well
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Where I disagree is that one should buy a guitar EXPECTING to replace/upgrade significant components. Some people just love doing that, and that's fine. For myself, I don't really want the hassle of buying a new guitar, buying a new pickguard (cut for a humbucker in the bridge position), finding and buying a decent sounding humbucker with mounting screws compatible with the new pickguard, and then the subsequent expense or effort of unmounting, unsoldering, soldering, re-mounting, re-installing, while making sure you keep polarity and windings straight, get the tone control the way you want, etc. If you pay for this work, it's going to be a good $200 plus the pickup with anyone you'd trust to do it, less whatever you could sell a Fat 50's bridge pickup for by itself. A friend had his $2k Kiesel utterly ruined by a local guitar store technician who was changing a pickup.
The Player series pickups are perfectly usable mainstream pickups. I've heard what good players get out of them. Are the Fat 50's pickups better? Very possibly, but much of their sound is going to depend on the player.
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