70s fender are still underrated, which is a good thing as they are still relatively affordable. There’s some real gems I’m not getting into the tedious debate about quality blah blah with people who don’t have a clue 😀
Amazing demo. You guys are good players but I'm so glad that we are back to time where you can have rippers come in and demo these beasts. Love you guys!
I’ve had a 75, but not worked like that... oh that neck .Listen 2 or 3 times ,Aaron the chameleon, ( whose one of the best I’ve ever heard sounds and is tuned just like S.R.V. sitting on his sofa at home...and he knows it. Peace, Rocky
What a beauty. Why doesn't make Fender make these strats anymore and only provide from the Custom Shop? It used to be a regular standard. Now the 'standard' is covered in a thick layer of poly, with 'modern' pickups, ... They had it right from the start.
@@harrygoodchild4563 yeah, I've had quite a few. One that comes to mind is 299969, which is a custom color, black and among the very last of the four bolt stratocasters. 1971. The finish is a few millimeters thick. Like plastic. Yes, it has some lacquer or whatever on top but beneath it's thick fucking plastic. It was played extensively by curtis mayfield and even has a custom ordered (very thin nut). It's very well worn, feather lite and a great guitar but the finish is like armour.
@@jeffmalm9708 well its probably the custom finish in that case there are multiple cases of early 70s fenders ageing like this a good example wood be mike adams 70s p bass that has wear similar to this
The early poly coatings on these guitars is not the same as used today. I have a similar era 4-bolt CBS Stratocaster with wear and even checking. I know that guitar is definitely poly to a certain extent because the use of poly finishes was widespread by 1968. I think there were variations where poly under coats were combined with nitro top coats, so that might explain the difference in wear. Also, the use of nitro only finishes ended quite early on with Fenders. You have sealers, vanishes, lacquers, polyester all used in various stages on the finishing process and different finish colors. Plus each guitars life impacts on the appearance of its finish dramatically. I have a weird 1970s Stratocaster with basically zero play wear which has pretty fine horizontal checking on its body, none on the neck, and once again the same checking pattern on the headstock. That tells me that the combination of different colours and finish types all reacted differently to the environment. Old guitars are all very unique, the more you see the less you believe the myths. The whole poly doesn't wear stuff is kinda nonsense because you get guitars that do wear like crazy and others that don't. Though I do admit modern poly is tough as hell. I have a 2010 mexican strat that gets played and the only thing that would tell you it wasn't brand new is the rust on the bridge.
Late 60s and 70s bodies have a poly undercoat with a nitro top coat. The necks are all poly except for the face of the headstock which is nitro. The wear you're seeing isn't actually all the way down to bare wood, there's still a poly coat on the worn areas on most fender guitars of this era.
Ive never got the whole worn relics thing. I tried an old fender out once, the original p/ups sounded less precise and muffled than the new ones, everything was brittle and yellow, the body felt chalky under the arm, it was just dirty and the parts were all pitted and oxidised, it was just beat up, to me it was a terrible condition guitar for 12 thousand
