Fender Standard Stratocaster Left-Handed Electric Guitar. Black Rosewood Fingerboard Research Blog

May 6th, 2010 | Author: electric_guitar

It is difficult to provide accurate Fender Standard Stratocaster Left-Handed Electric Guitar. Black Rosewood Fingerboard information, but we have gone through the rigor of putting together as much Fender Standard Stratocaster Left-Handed Electric Guitar. Black Rosewood Fingerboard related information as possible.

Let me begin by saying, as a kid of 11 years of age, I was trained for four years in classical guitar by one of the best. His name was George Yeatman and he was a disciple of Aaron Shearer (The father of modern classical guitar training). I took highly disciplined classical lessons until the first time I heard Jimi Hendrix in the mid 70′s. Right then and there I decided to set down my 1954 Gibson classical guitar and never touch it again! Although that bit of personal nostalgia is still in my possession.

After many moons of life without the rhythm of a guitar strumming, it was about 3 years ago when I decided to take guitar lessons again with a critically acclaimed guitarist and teacher, Richard Mac. He truly is a world class player and excellent teacher for playing any genre of music although I am studying the blues. Presently, I’m playing the electric guitar and in the whole scheme of things, I probably not as good as some people say or even my teach Richard Mac, has said I am. I enjoy hearing nice things about my playing like everyone else, but widespread approval is hard to come by in this day and age.

The story about how I came upon my first Stratocaster began when my guitar teacher Richard came across a Black Eric Clapton Artist Series Strat at a pawn shop for a really good price, and for some strange reason, he appeared unusually interested about this particular guitar. Actually I have never seen Richard move that fast again (except for his fingers), I knew what was going to happen. He bought the guitar. Surprise!
So that is how I came across this great Fender Stratocaster guitar.

My resistance was low and Fender Standard Stratocaster Left-Handed Electric Guitar. Black Rosewood Fingerboard I had to buy a new Fender Eric Clapton Custom Artist Series Stratocaster for myself. I immediately got on the internet and went to the website and bought it from Musicians Friend, which was a great experience. That was my first online guitar purchase and I’ll never waste gas and time again fighting traffic to buy a guitar from a music store.

Most local music stores are small and they rarely have what you want anyway! I took advantage of the Musician’s Friend free shipping, the no interest for one year M.F. credit card and the 45 day satisfaction guarantee. It doesn’t get any easier or better than that when you are looking to buy a guitar.

I’ll start with the first thing that struck me, when choosing this beautiful axe. It has the perfect soft V shaped solid maple neck that feels like someone made it especially for me, and the V shape is a narrow neck and a bit deeper than the stock neck which makes it a dream to play. It has 22 Vintage Style Frets and a perfect 9.5″ Radius (241mm). I can play my weird Jimi Hendrix chords much easier and better on this guitar and by the way I use really light weight DR brand Pure Blues Strings. These strings last a really long time, have pure tone and are easy to bend.

Fender has several different neck shapes and that is particularly cool of Fender to try to make a guitar neck size that will fit for every shape of hand. For example, Stevie Ray Vaughn (who had huge hands) had a special shaped neck called a Boat Neck while rocker, Eddie Van Halen, used the Wolfgang shaped neck. Without a doubt, there is a Strat neck available that can fit your hand. Jimi Hendrix used anything he had at the time, but he was a VoodooChild and had outer space guitar playing ability with perfect freaky and big, long fingers . He was left handed player and he played a right handed guitar upside down.

The guitars body is Alder-wood and that is a relatively light weight wood and has great tonal qualities. It is a mystery to me, but this guitar has a great feeling of balance to it as well. It is Fender color is Olympic White and it’s a polyurethane paint which means it is durable and will last a long time. In fact I have played this guitar every day for a few hours a day or more and in over two and a half years, there is not a single wear mark on the fret side of the neck.

Personally, I like white guitars although I recommend getting the color you like. The head of the guitar or top of the neck where you would tune your guitar has genuine Fender/Gotoh Vintage Style Tuning Machines.

There are 3 knobs as most Strats do. However these are not the regular strat controls. That’s right, the top one is the same as all Strats and that is a volume control. Although the 2 other tone controls are different, one is a special active 25dB midrange boost tone control to give this guitar the extra meat which by the way, is something you might expect from a Humbucker pickup. In addition, the second tone knob functions as a unique to Fender TBX master tone control, which can smoothly go from bright and glossy to dark and smoky by rolling off the highs! The name of the TBX tone control comes from the first two letters of Treble and Bass. X is the same as the word Cut in Fender-speak).

A conventional tone control only cuts the high end of your guitar’s signal.

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