Things to Consider When Buying a Fender Custom Shop Guitar 

That's what I did to my Vintera Road Worn (poor man's custom shop). I put a Callaham vintage bridge with the narrow spacing. Works great.

Thanks! Is there anything specific you'd like to see? I'm looking forward to sharing more of my gear and thoughts on guitars and amps. Stay tuned!

@@eldoradoguitars6456 nothing specific. I didn't realize these were your first 2 videos. I think what you're doing is great. Keep sharing your insight and wisdom. Share the mistakes you made so we might avoid them. Keep connecting and make one video a week. You'll have an audience in no time. Maybe a video on your love for Marshall amps and how it all started. Looking forward to the stories. All the best tone brother

Thanks! Yes, it is nitrocellulose lacquer with aging, checking, and wear from the Fender Custom Shop. I don't mind the color but I wish it were aged less. It's just a bit too over the top for me. Real vintage guitars don't actually look like this. You'd have to play this guitar every day, for 10 hours a day, in a sweaty club, while leaving it outside in the rain for 50 years to develop this kind of extreme wear. It just doesn't seem genuine to me. But I love the guitar! Best Strat I've ever played.

@@eldoradoguitars6456 Nice playing and you have some great amps to enjoy there!!

I ordered three of the American Vintage II Tele Deluxes and had to return them all. They all played terribly, had major fret out issues, and just sounded like dead guitars. I cannot recommend that series right now at all. I would go Custom Shop all the way.

@@eldoradoguitars6456 nice one. That’s good enough for me

Here some examples max.guitars/nl/reg21-29-60-strat-hrl-rw-olw-r115423 / max.guitars/nl/cs-reg21-37-60-strat-hrl-rw-lpb-art-19892 / max.guitars/nl/cs-1960-stratocaster-3ts-nos

Hey Brett - I had to move recently so everything had to be broken down, packed, moved, and then re-set up. I just got everything up and running tonight so some gear videos are on the horizon!

Thanks! You could be right about the back of the neck. That would make sense. Like I said in the video, I *do* like it. I'm just saying that it's not "natural wear" at all.

I agree. I don't think that's necessarily supposed to approximate the wear pattern so much as purposeful sanding. Most of my friends and I dislike a lot of finish on the neck. So sticky.

Nash guitars aren’t close to Masterbuilt at all. Nash is basically a partscaster and that’s it. They don’t make their own necks or bodies. They source it from places as you would yourself building a guitar like warmoth or all parts then assemble them and apply whatever relic they see fit. That’s why I won’t buy one. Custom shop team build has attention to detail and makes sure the guitar is the best it can be and they build it from scratch and often times hand wound electronics while nash never does that. Masterbuilt is a completely different beast! Super super customized instruments and the attention to detail is ridiculous. I have a John Cruz MB and it is basically flawless. Not to knock your Nash. People have their preferences and if it works for you that’s all that matters. I personally don’t think I’ll Ever buy one ever since I found out it was just an assembly company with custom relics.

Hey man, I totally hear that! I was a teenager in the mid-to-late '90s and the necks those days were far thinner than the vintage models. So by comparison, even the '60s inspired necks feel like baseball bats. I've actually just got an American Ultra HSS Strat recently that has a thin, modern neck profile and I have to admit, I love it! I've been playing it more than my Custom Shops.

My first ever guitar was an 80 Japanese Strat copy. I absolutely loved it. Loaned it to someone and never got it back! I had decided to push the boat out and blow a wad of cash on a good Strat. Looks like I'm gonna get just what I want for a fraction of what I would have paid. Really informative video by the way

@@manaledo Thanks man! Would love a sub if you don't mind, I'm trying to get to 1000 followers so I can do livestreams.

So the EVH 5150 and the VH2 are pretty different sounding amps to me. Honestly, I have yet to meet a 5150 that I really like. The lower gain channel is pretty good but the higher gain channel has so much unusable gain, it's kind of a somewhat useless or one-trick channel. (That's sort of how I felt about the VH4 CH4, too.) Also, I feel like the EVH just has a certain unmusical quality. If you're a Periphery fan or want to do Djent stuff, then it's "the sound," but I have yet to find anything else an EVH really does better than other amps out there. However, they are pretty affordable and you do get a lot of bang for your buck. The VH2 will be much more straightforward than the 5150 and will be much more usable across the full gain sweep on both channels. Although a lot of people think of this as the "Adam Jones Amp" the VH2 is capable of a lot of great hard rock tones including 80's hair metal, 90's grunge, all the way to more modern stuff. It also responds very well to EQs in the loop if you really want to start tinkering with the overall tone of the amp. It's really just a stellar piece of professional-quality gear. If I were you, it'd be a no-brainer to get the VH2.

My Squier bullet is better with ss frets.

No song, I was just jamming on a little Pearl Jam "Yellow Ledbetter" inspired riff.

Different. The Desert Cruiser has hand wound '65 strat pickups and the white strat has hand wound 62/63 strat pickups

@@eldoradoguitars6456 thanks so much!

At the time of this video, yes, everything was running into the Ox Box. Now I have everything going into the Fryette Power Station for in the room and Ox for recording.

Thanks! They're Handwound '65 Strat Relic pickups. The Floor Traveler says, "HW 65 STRAT REL" if that helps. No idea who wound them; I've never taken the pickguard off the guitar. The color is "Super Faded/Aged 3TS Sparkle." I love the color but hate the super heavy relic. I've thought about getting it refinished in black or something but I'm afraid it will change the sound.

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@@eldoradoguitars6456 how much is the output in every single one?

65 Desert Cruiser FCS Pickups Bridge 6.22 Middle 5.85 Neck 5.97 FCS 62/63 LTD Strat (60/63 Pickups) Bridge 6.00 Mid 5.85 Neck 6.84

Agree completely! The American Standard and American Professional guitars are amazing guitars for the money and will get you 90% of the way to the Custom Shop level for 25% of the price.