Road Worn 60's strat

[thiswaythatway]

Anyone play these? I played one for a few minutes at Sam Ash and I was surprised that I liked the neck so much. I like the raw feel and the 1 5/8th nut always feels good to me. I played a standard American and liked the Road Worn better, imagine that. For $599 at Sam Ash they seem like a no brainer, I just have to get past the mental block I have about buying a Mexican made guitar. But then again, the American one's are Made In America by Mexicans right? But overall, the decent quality of these really makes me think twice about dropping 2k on another Suhr or Anderson. With a pickup swap and some tweaks these inexpensive Fenders really hold them own don't they.

I like the American Special Strats as well.

 

[Gainfreak]

Anyone play these? I played one for a few minutes at Sam Ash and I was surprised that I liked the neck so much. I like the raw feel and the 1 5/8th nut always feels good to me. I played a standard American and liked the Road Worn better, imagine that. For $599 at Sam Ash they seem like a no brainer, I just have to get past the mental block I have about buying a Mexican made guitar. But then again, the American one's are Made In America by Mexicans right? But overall, the decent quality of these really makes me think twice about dropping 2k on another Suhr or Anderson. With a pickup swap and some tweaks these inexpensive Fenders really hold them own don't they.

I like the American Special Strats as well.

I have a MIM strat that rivals any of my $2000 and up customs tone wise. The only thing I don't like about it is the neck, it flat out feels cheap, so if you like the Guitar then Id get it

I'll be replacing the neck on my MIM and id be willing to bet it will become one of my main guitars. I could give a fuckall where it was built

 

[thiswaythatway]

Ralph don't ever say a Fender, yet alone a Mexican, strat can rival a Suhr on TGP. I said if you look hard enough you could find a cheap Fender that can rival any Suhr tonewise and I got PM's and even emails from a few guys that were seriously bent out of shape. They went as far to look up my sound clips and call me a hack etc etc. I politely invited them to jam on some of the backing tracks I had to hear their playing, and no surprise I didn't get any responses.

Probably just 1 or 2 jackasses who just spent 4k hoping a guitar would make him play like Pete Thorn. 10lbs of makeup on fat chick and she's still fat.

 

[Chris6870]

10lbs of makeup on fat chick and she's still fat.

And a beat up guitar is kind of like a fat chick in that you don't have to worry about someone stealing either from you.

 

[ratter]

I played a Road Worn Tele to test drive an amp. It wasn't bad at all. I liked the feel. Sounded fine. With a good setup it would have been great. Call me shallow but the black plastic truss rod plug totally kills the whole thing for me. Not that I'm in the market but if I was, that would be a deal breaker. It just looks so cheap. And FWIW, I don't know for sure but I'd bet dollars to doughnuts that at least the neck is made in a far east sweat shop. That plug is the clue. It may be assembled in Mexico...so at that point, why not just by a Classic Vibe for $399 or whatever it is? I guess my point is if you can run the racks and find a couple good ones I don't see much point in "upgrading" to MIM over the ones that are even cheaper...

Edit - maybe the one I played wasn't a Road Worn? I'm looking online and the Road Worns don't seem to have the black plastic plug like your pic up above? Just goes to show you wtf I know...

 

[skoora]

I thought the 60's roadworn would have rosewood fretboards. The 50's ones I've seen have a much more worn maple fretboard and different decal than that pic. Is that definitely a 60's roadwork? FWIW the roadworn's I've played in the past were pretty nice and just needed different pickups IMO.


Ok, just went on Fender's site and the pic you showed is a roadworn player series...

 

[Meathead]

Don't let MIM scare you.
Best strat I've ever played is an early 90's MIM. It's Olympic white with a rosewood fret board....paid $300 for it used a few years ago, would love to find another.
I've owned the roadworn 60's strat with rosewood fretboard and I didn't bond with it for some reason. I did bond with a roadworn 50's tele and still have that one.

 

[Chubtone]

I played a guitar exactly like the one danyeo pictured at a Sam Ash the other night. They were blowing them out for $599 because they are discontinued. It felt great and I spent a little time thinking about it when I really had no reason to.

 

[bigdaddyd]

Nothing wrong with MIM Fender's. Get rid of the hardware and pickups and they are great. My Esquire rules. I used Callaham parts and a Dimarzio and it certainly plays as well as and sounds better than my old Andersons. Kage can attest to how awesome it is. I built it from MIM second parts as well. Not even the good stuff...lol....used off of Craigslist. It simply is awesome. Don't be afraid of a new one or NOS one. Even a US or Custom Shop will have you replacing pickups and hardware anyway if you are anal. Might as well experiment.

 

[Zap]

Many Fenders sound very good to my ears after a decent setup. I've always found useable tones with stock pickups too. I love the threads where people post something like "Went to Guitar Center and played a Fender with a bowed neck and buzzing strings. Not impressed with quality control". No shit, dumb ass. Everyone and their grandmother has picked it up, fucked with it, and knocked it around. I'll put any of my American Fenders that were personally set up against any other guitar. Just don't ask me to play them.

 

[jcm800x4]

Many Fenders sound very good to my ears after a decent setup. I've always found useable tones with stock pickups too. I love the threads where people post something like "Went to Guitar Center and played a Fender with a bowed neck and buzzing strings. Not impressed with quality control". No shit, dumb ass. Everyone and their grandmother has picked it up, fucked with it, and knocked it around. I'll put any of my American Fenders that were personally set up against any other guitar. Just don't ask me to play them.

Agreed....Not sure how anyone could work for the evil empire that is guitar center. 10 minutes of every amp in the place turned up to 11, guitars out of tune and 14 diferent kids trying to play death metal with thier feet and i would have to kill somebody. those guys that work for GC must be medicated.

 

[Zap]

Many Fenders sound very good to my ears after a decent setup. I've always found useable tones with stock pickups too. I love the threads where people post something like "Went to Guitar Center and played a Fender with a bowed neck and buzzing strings. Not impressed with quality control". No shit, dumb ass. Everyone and their grandmother has picked it up, fucked with it, and knocked it around. I'll put any of my American Fenders that were personally set up against any other guitar. Just don't ask me to play them.

Agreed....Not sure how anyone could work for the evil empire that is guitar center. 10 minutes of every amp in the place turned up to 11, guitars out of tune and 14 diferent kids trying to play death metal with thier feet and i would have to kill somebody. those guys that work for GC must be medicated.

Actually, I went to one a couple of weeks ago. Before I patched a Tele into a 65 Twin RI I told the guy I wouldn't be too loud. Some douche came in with his girlfriend and starting playing a Gretsch through something that was deafening. It had to be 100 watts dimed. The manager came over and told him to knock it off and the guy got annoyed. He had to explain to him that were other people in the store like it was kindergarten.

 

[Mr. Willy]

I played one a while back and loved the way it felt and played. I think the MIM Fenders have ceramic pups, but with a nice set of alnicos, it would've been an awesome fiddle for the money.

 

[electrophonic.tonic]

Agreed....Not sure how anyone could work for the evil empire that is guitar center. 10 minutes of every amp in the place turned up to 11, guitars out of tune and 14 diferent kids trying to play death metal with thier feet and i would have to kill somebody. those guys that work for GC must be medicated.

That made me laugh