I‘m surprised how evenly, up to the highest frets, worn the fretboard is, must have been in the hands of a skilled player! Fender got it right from the beginning, even today an entry level player Strat sounds awesome out of the box! 🤘🏻🔥
The tone we all want. 1950s/60s technology. But NO . Heres a printed circuit board that's kind of close to it. How about you just make the thing the way its intended to be made.You made it before, why cant you just make it again?
Django Reinhardt played a similar model, same headstock, other inlays! There's a brown/white foto on the web showing him with that guitar. I don't know what tops "Royal"...maybe Imperial?
Actally, the Levin that Django was pictured with belonged to Duke Ellingtons guitarist Fred Guy and Django just played it for a short while when the photo was taken. That said, Django played a number of borrowed archtops when he was in US but didn't like them so he eventually had his own Maccaferri sent over. As for Fred Guy's Levin, it has a story: When the Duke Ellington ochestra visited Sweden they were in Gotheborg. Guy and Ellington walked around i the city and passed a misic shop which had the Levin for sale in the window. Guy went in, tried it and liked it and Duke bought it for him. However, the Levin didn't have the volume of the Stromberg Master 400 he had used till then and band members and audiencies complained they cold no longer hear him.
@@richieluckenbill1590 Actually, it is rated for 80 in parallel, the speakers are 8ohms: the point is it was 4ohms for the champ and it will handle anything else too. The difference playing a champ through another set of speakers is astonishing, if you haven't tried it, DO!
@kellygrant3074 If a speaker(s) is too efficient, you wind up with a sterile tone...a speaker is meant to be pushed to an extent at least a little bit. Not necessarily to the point of speaker distortion, but at least enough to add response along with the amps natural tube drive. That's where THE TONE is at.
How are we supposed to know what it REALLY sounds like?! After all, you didn't mic it, and then spend hours processing every ounce of essence out of it until its true tone was completely unrecognizable- ya know, like the "pros" on RU-vid do it. 😑
A question: I own a September 1959 5F6-A. To the best of my knowledge, it has not been "monkeyed" with, apart from my own restoration efforts. The Presence control operates opposite to what most would expect. Turn it clockwise/"up" and there is LESS treble bite. Insomuch as the frequent objective at the time was to get a louder but CLEAN tone, Presence controls could be thought of as intended to provide *more* negative feedback, when needed. So, does that 1958 get *brighter* as the Presence is turned up, or darker? I'd like to know if my amp, and understanding, is correct.
There is nothing even remotely magical about these so called vintage strats. This thing sounds like any random Fender or Squier. There's so much nostalgia among guitarists that affects and blurs their judgement.
No modelers gonna get real tone. Only the sorta kinda sound. They also dont respond to the attack the same either. None ive tried and i checked alot out at namm show in jan.
Greetings from New York! I have just come across your page, I hope to be able to visit your beautiful shop one day. May I ask, what is the three pickup Les Paul encased in glass on the right side at the beginning of the video?
