Love those really dark - almost black - Brazilian Rosewood fretboards. I have a Vintera '60s Strat with a pau ferro board that is really quite lightish brown and just doesn't have that look. Even modern rosewood fingerboards don't seem to have that dark, rich quality.
Awesome to have found your channel, been a fan of your work for some time now. You are a true master! Very cool to see this clean of a strat from my birth year.
Great Video Joe!! I own a few Vintage guitars and I've been playing guitar for well over 50 years, I really Appreciate your love and care of these guitars.. Well done!!
What a privilege to handle a piece of history. It is obvious that you know what you are talking about and what you are doing. Wonderful! Thanks for sharing especially since I'll never be able to own one of these!
I bought one of these in 1965. This one looks fabulous. Congratulations. I've been playing Fenders for 62+ years ... this one looks just scrumptious! I sold mine when I got married for a little extra cash. Enjoy this one, sir!! And these guards were not green new; the white just turned that way. I wish there was a way of posting pictures to these comments; I'd show you my '64! By the way: you can ease that switch into the Notch2 and Notch4 positions, to get the in-between sounds. You got it! Sounds super!
Great breakdown, Joe! I have an almost identical Sept '64 - transition logo, clay dots, and a mix of black and gray bottom pickups. Interesting time in fender history with all the changing parts. Very "glassy" sound. Easy to play.
Bought a bridge for my Jr from Glaser. What a fantastic invention. I didn’t know they sold tools. Heading there now. Great Strat and great playing btw! Subbed!
Beautiful Stratocaster. Spit out my coffee, when you said you always find them no were close to proper setup. That was what I was thinking for the first 7 minutes. I have been shocked that even pros have handed me their guitars with no were near intonation at jams and bit my lip and handed it back and said "nice". Putting the screws in a line and returning a thread to its hole in guitars is a sign of a master. Don't hate me but would have had you leave the selector, so I didn't have to search for 2 because just bridge is something I rarely use and think I would live with that a while and think about it. Amazing that the pots were scratch free even high end get scratches, that thing come out of a time capsule? That is a dreamy Strat man. The Brazilian rosewood is so Chocolatey . Watched this on a Stratuday morning with a 57 in my hands . Thanks.
Great point about intonation. Eddie Van Halens famous "Frankenstein" red stripped super strat has horrible intonation , among many many other's famous guitars. I think thats why a lot of Former players of the legacy brands have switched t PRS.
@@NintenDub Old man. Believe it. No need to tell lies. I was in my workshop at the company I own on a Saturday morning and yes I literally spit coffee all over myself and my 57 Strat I had on my lap. laughing. But you stay sharp kid wouldn't want to get fooled about some old fart spitting coffee on himself.
Recently Slash was asked about “collectors” pricing up vintage guitars and such. Slash said he has (had) 200+ instruments in his “toolbox” but few he wouldn’t play. Slash said guitars are for playing and thus would approve that the owner of this lovely example plans to play this STRAT (R). (If one wants something “pretty” to hang on the wall buy a MIM/MIA reissue and use the $1,000 saved to buy some fine wine & cheese. Last time I priced a STRAT of this vintage and condition on R3v3rb the asking price range was $25-$30k.)
I can just imagine the shop supervisor scalding the keen new paint finisher for wasting paint and time spraying those few inches of unseen oxblood on the sunburst😂
Joe- love the breakdown of this! Doesn’t the shrinking guard crimp against the pickup covers- making raising and lowering the pickups mostly impossible? I have seen that on the green guards- and I have seen that lean of the pickups too- a tell of that shrink- maybe this one wasn’t? Can you mod that discretely as well? Thanks again!
Great video Joe!!!!! The negatives just don't know the type of artist you are! As a proud owner of two Riggio customs to include the 1 of 1 Blue Line...thyey others I have take a backseat. Keep um coming.
Joe, Great to see you on RU-vid. You’ve fixed a couple guitars of mine back in the Guitar Maniacs days. You always came highly recommended and rightfully so. All the best in the future brother
Would love to try that guitar! I have a player grade '62-63 and a '64 so yours looks very familiar. Congrats! The spec on that guitar is very '65 while manufacture dates are '64 right? Grey bottom pickups, non-clay dots, headstock logo etc. all are what Fender call '65 spec these days. I kind of have a similar thing going on with my '62-63 - all dates are essentially '62 but the neck is from the first month into non-slab board so just slightly thinner and curved piece of brazilian rosewood. I'm not sure what year it should be called but for sure it was sold in '63 so I'm calling it a '63. :)
Beautiful guitar and thanks for the information. This isn’t a negative comment at all, but I would personally experiment with mic placement in order to minimize/hide the distracting sound of breaths, swallows, etc that detracts the audiences’ attention from what you’re trying to communicate in steady intervals throughout. I only give the unsolicited suggestion because I know that people don’t hear themselves the same way that others do, so I assumed that you potentially didn’t notice it yourself. Take it or leave it though, your page will be successful if enough people like your personality as well as the material content that you share.
The only way it would be better for me is if it was an Olympic White slab board ‘62. Otherwise known as unobtanium! What a super clean, beautiful example. My God, do those pickups sound good!
Very interested to see no evidence of polishing compound in the crevices of this original . Evidence that the thin thin lacquer was off the gun gloss and not buffed.
I bought a new Fender '62 reissue strat in 2008 for $1,500 dollars. Now the reissue Fender strats sell for $2,300 on Sweetwater. My guitar has never been played. It still has the protective peel back plastic on the pickguard. I have 41 guitars in total now. I must have bought the thing as a collectors item at the time of purchase. Wonderful guitar, only thing I don't like is having to take the neck off to adjust the truss rod.
What does that mean "I must have bought it as a collectors piece at the time"? And why would a guitar that you've never touched, be a problem to adjust the truss rod on. If youve never touched it, you wouldn't need to take the neck off
