What does a 50s Strat sound like?! | Friday Fretworks 

Why exactly were they throwing the strats away? And wasn't that dangerous for the railroad track?

fascinating

My very first guitar, was a 1954 Stratocaster ... by the time I got it for Christmas of 1963, it was a well-worn, relicked guitar, with chewing gum wrappers in three nut slots, a seriously pitted fingerboard, and a big long green streak on the bass side of the back of the neck. I loved that guitar. It went out the window of my brother's '61 Ford station wagon on a Jacksonville FL expressway, early morning of 25 July 1965. Have grieved for it ever since ...

I always put the seatbelts on my guitars when I drive with them! @@Tonetwisters

@@Tonetwisters wow.....

Shane Gochenouer Thank you so much Shane, that’s incredibly kind of you ☺️

Seriously dude, your solo that you use in the "How to construct a great solo" video, melting the paint off the fkin walls my man, thats some David Gilmour level shit, no lie, sick.

Matt Allen Haha. Cheers Matt!

Exactly, just like a 1500 dollar setup 🤣

Coldacre Thank you! 🙂

Mike PJ10 Thank you Mike 🙂

Thank you Kip! :)

Cheers Mark :)

Yes. Although Chris's playing is of the caliber he can play a shrimp sandwich and make people weep uncontrollably.

Celtic Fury Haha. Cheers man. It was pretty special!

A66omd Thank you man, that’s very kind of you 🙂

@@ChrisBuckGuitar I play guitar cuz of Buddy Holly

christopher suggs Cheers Christopher! Thank you for watching mate 🙂

Kevinpaul Thank you so much ☺️

Thank you man :)

James Addison Cheers James. I’ve actually got something like that planned - I’ll keep you posted! 🙂

andrew broadhead Thank you Andrew. That’s very kind of you mate 🙂

Lets not forget that in the 50s strats had a much warmer tone capacitor .1mfd vs the .047 mfd of today. it makes a very noticeable difference in a strat bridge pickup. I always put a .1mfd wired to the bridge pickup tone pot. and a .047 to the middle and neck tone pot.

@@cawfeedawg your so right, the capacitors do make a difference, I changed my strats to a sprague Black beauty 0.056uF and the sound is so much better. With a clean boost it comes to life now.

I have to agree, heard thousands of Strats, but never sounded this good, this Rock n Roll this . . . . . . . . . . . BUDDY HOLLY 👍

Jon Komatsu Thank you Jon!

hollywoodactress Thank you very much. There’ll be others! 🙂

@@ChrisBuckGuitar 👍 Also when will you put together your guitar rig setup for laptop. I have seen quite a few posts on your videos asking for it.?

Indeed, like you don't call a vintage car "modified" just because it doesn't have its original tyres.

Cheers Joseph :)

Christian Goll Thank you Christian! 🙂 As for the Goldstar, the only Goldstar I’ve ever played was fantastic! 80s Tokais have a great reputation

@@ChrisBuckGuitar Thank you for your answer! And if you ever want to play a few gigs in Germany, I could try to help you. There are a few locations in Ruhr Area that are quite good for bluesy live music. I think I will buy the tokai. It has Kloppmann pick ups. And they have a very good reputation in Germany. So, thank you again

Christian. I've got an '83 TST55. Probably 'worth' about £750, if pristine. Try it... if it's as good as mine, it'll be as good as anything Fender currently sells.

@@somebodyelseuk Hi, I bought that Tokai, and it's gorgeous. I took it to my local music shop to compare it with many "original" Strats, and I'm very happy to have the tokai. So, thank you for your answer. It helped me to make the right decision.

You're welcome. One thing to bear in mind, the "serial number" on 70s/80s Tokais bears no relation to when the guitar was made. Since Fenders varied from guitar to guitar in the days before CNC, their reissues are modelled on an 'average' of many guitars from specific periods/years, whereas when Tokai started doing their replicas in the 70s, they borrowed guitars from a handful of guitarists and 'cloned' specific guitars. They did a model for each year of manufacture between '54 and '65 for the Strat, for example, and the number replicates the style of number that would have appeared on the guitar they were replicating. Mine is a replica of a '58 - borrowed from Gilmour, I believe. I used to have the Tokai catalogue from '83... it was a helluva catalogue. They were just as 'enthusiastic' about Teles, Les Pauls, SGs, 335s, P Basses, J Basses...

Dick van Dahl Danke schoen Dick! 🙂

Buck And Evans, my pleasure...👍

Lynn Mccabe Thank you Erik. So glad you enjoyed it mate 🙂

Lynn Mccabe I have one of those stories too...a late 50s Goldtop Les Paul being sold as "used" in the mid 80s for $800 with the original hsc...I passed, thought they were asking way too much for an "old guitar". I kick myself in the ass every time I think about it!

Miguel Angel Sheriff Gracias, Miguel ☺️

I agree. I want to hear him thrash on it. That strat begs for more. He plays too beautifully soft.

Cheers Jonny. Check this channel; there's a few clips. We're just about to release our first album though so lots of stuff to come in the next few months :)

Great news!

Hiya mate. Worlds apart, playability wise. This one having been recently refretted makes all the difference. It genuinely played like a new guitar! Sounded gorgeous as well, although I'd probably (sacrilegiously!) stick a 5 way switch in there 😜

Buck And Evans so the refret makes a big difference to how it plays so does it also sound very different? At least with a 5 way you could put it back if needed! 👍🤘🎸

Kelster` Von Shredster Cheers Kelster. It’s a ‘57 Bandmaster 🙂

I might get hate for saying this, but I think people are often very influenced by their eyes/information. When doing blindfold tests, I doubt many people can seperate the guitars if the amp is setup right for both of them. The only real difference I can imagine is the feel of the guitar, but we can't judge that from RU-vid videos.

they do, people get confirmation bias because they are told old is gold but really they are collectors items that are only valuable because they are old. My 2014 USA strat has much more defined pickups with bright highs and tighter bass.

Plain and simple? Survivor Bias. The crappy sounding guitars from that periode simply got thrown away by now. So only the *excellent* ones did survive. If you think you could walk into a guitar store in the 50's and automatically would get a sweet sounding guitar you are mistaken.

@@seriseriom8445 Yeah even today there are some bad 50s and 60s strats floating around. But as decades go on and especially before they became "collectors items" people would gradually fix the issues, its the same reason why those 70s strats that where supposedly so bad back in the day can be pretty nice now, because alot of the issues (poor neck fitment, poor electronics work ect) have been fixed in the 30-40 years they have been in circulation

@@therideneverends1697 Oh yes absolutly. There is a very good reason why "original" vintage is a sale category on its own.

Mike From Boston I use plectrums all the time. I just didn’t happen to in this video. Watch any of my other videos and you’ll see I’m constantly going back and forth between the two 🙂

Nicola Perin 😂😂