Pauly does this mean your back on the strats? I do love the sound what alternative cheap pickups sound like these Pauly? any thing in the tonerider range maybe?

It's better

Just bought a Masterbuilt Blackie by Todd Krause - 1st day with it - it's soooo perfect in every way - appearance, feel, tone - everything. I owned a EC Strat years ago and sold it - this one will never go anywhere. :)

anything played on an es-335 makes you wanna pick your cheap ass squier strat and play it . LOVING THIS SERIES BTW!

count me in looks a nice little solution :-)

I forgot to say...use 000000 steel wool on the back of the neck...its better than standing and leaves the neck feeling super smooth taking all the stickiness out.

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Fantastic 👍

I own a pretty 2009. The only con I found is its noisy, even positions 2 and 4 cant cancell the hum. The jack chamber is not shielded and its cables are not shielded. I shielded and grounded the chamber and it improved a lot. Now there is no hum in positions 2 and 4. I wasnt able to change the cables and maybe thats why it still makes noise with volume over 7. Position 2 and 4 are impressive as well as the greasebucket circuit. I think its the first Strato to have a dedicated tone control for the bridge but definitely was the first to have the greasebucket circuit. I love the big headstock and the nitro.

COUNT ME IN. Great lesson. Interested in having more a look at these NUX pedals. Your other reviews on them sound great.

Count me in. Love your videos. your the reason I'm now a proud owner if a T59 Eastman. keep up the great videos

Count me in fella 👍

Great song and great lesson... oh yes!.. Count Me In.

Count Me In! I’m intrigued by the NUX amp core as I’m looking for an amp sim to free up some dsp on my hx stomp. I know what you mean about apps and stuff, but I figure once I’ve got it set up with some good IR’s I can just forget about that stuff and keep it on the board 🙂 Great lesson by the way. It’s a nice melodic song and sounded great on the Eastman.

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Since you asked, I’d like to see a comparison between the T59 and SB59 for two reasons - to me the T59 sounds much better than the T64. Also, my dealer has those two in stock. I’m looking at the T59 even though i have a ES335 type semi hollow that i love. Wondering how much different two HB semi hollows can be. Don’t have a “Casino”, but that T59 just sounds stellar in your videos. Enjoying your channel. New subscriber.

So is it good or not?

Great guitar and video buddy! I had one just like this in red for about a year and a half but traded it in along with a Sterling (by Music Man) Cutlass for an SE Silver Sky. I definitely don’t regret that decision whatsoever, but I will say that I do miss this one a bit. Phenomenal guitar for the price point. Pickups are great, the PTB feature is really cool and unique and it’s overall a great strat alternative that I’d recommend to anybody. I would definitely buy this guitar again if I were to come across a used one at a good price.

That quality of workmanship and laquer finish a Gibson would be 7 or 8 grand , im afraid Gibson cannot compete with Eastman . I would take a high end Eastman over a Murphy’s lab Gibson no contest

that looks sick

Tones are nice but they're noisy. Perhaps due to pickups?

Great video. That’s the reason I have stayed away from nitro finishes because they get sticky.

Working on a strat right now, this video just convinced me to go 57/62 in the neck and middle and the SD ssl-5 in the bridge. The highs on the 57-62 in the neck just seem a tad bit more tame and not bell like.

Very cool.Thanks.

Vintage makes you realise how much big brands like Gibson and Fender rip people off. Vintage guitars are the same if not better quality than the big brands at a fraction of the price. You are literally only paying for the name on the head stock.

Excellent video. I have those 57/62s in an AVRI '62. They are very very ... Straty. :)

Grand Reward Chinese are the best ever made, drove 600 km to pick one up with a small ding on the lower bout, just sound and plays like the real deal mine is 2012 as well.

Mike Oldfield Tubular bells

Nice video man, love the reverb tone. For me these are so expensive. I like the look of it and it sounds like a strat, but that price tag... You know I am a fan of a second hand guitar. USA Fender made Highway One strats from 90s early 00s in excellent condition are like £800. They are in beautiful nitro and will have natural wear being the age they are. I know where I'd spend my money , and have plenty of change for the entire Pearl Jam back catalogue 🤣 It is a nice guitar tho.

It would be nice if Fender offered a MIM nitro finished vintage spec NOS but I guess that would compromise their US made vintage 2 strats. TBH all these solid body bolt on neck MIM and US Fenders are grossly overpriced but I guess they reflect what the market will support.

Those relics.... You can do them yourself 😊

That neck sounds like the one on my Robert Cray Strat, also made in Mexico, don't know if the new ones are the same, mine one of the older ones and the neck is my favourite fender neck by far, and i've had quite a few through my hands as i buy and flip. Also the tuners are same spec and hold tunes as good as any tuner i've used apart from locking ones

With regards to weight and how it looks, if i were to buy a brand new guitar (which i don't anymore) i'd be buying from somewhere like Peach Guitars who weigh each guitar and you can actually see the guitar you are buying, i think a lot of retailers need to take note of this, especially when people are splashing out good money. PS, i have no connection to Peach, just like how they do business.

Lol, the knob was a different color because that is the way Mike McCready's Strat is.

The concept of relic and paying through the nose for it as well as obsessing over it is beyond me. This idea feels like mass hypnosis from marketing.

Extremely astute review

that road worn looks like it was done on microsoft paintbrush.

.....false economy....false bargain. And I'm not convinced about the sound of these "Mexican made" Mike McCready 60s Single-Coil Stratocaster pickups. Best "Mexican" made Stratocasters I've ever owned. The old Deluxe Roadhouse series (I have one with a very dark rosewood slab fingerboard, 3-tone sunburst, with USA Texas special pickups, and came with Fender vintage locking tuners). Quality control was excellent top to bottom. Fretwork immaculate. Light as a feather alder body. For the princely sum of..........395 quid

Jeff beck strat is far superior

The giveaway (for me) close up is it all looks like the paint fell off 5 minutes ago. Pristine clean wood underneath, no grime darkening to be seen. It wouldnt take a minute for them to rub some dirt or Montys relic wax (glorified dirt!) over exposed virgin wood to at least make it look like old wear. But anyway, I guess soon nobody will be able to afford import guitars 😂

Hi Paul, great video. I bought mine when they first came out as I'm a huge fan. I have #142, Curious what number yours is? I had one weird mistake on my guitar, they forgot to drill the holes for the backing plate. Other than that I love the guitar, great playing and sounding strat.

Great video mate, lovely playing too. I'm really into this guitar for obvious reasons but the poor relic and price has always put me off.

Picked up a Mike McCready strat just before Christmas and whilst I'm really happy with the looks and the tones the set up was terrible, I had to re-dress the frets and I replaced the bridge with a blade runner trem I had spare to shift the high E over from the edge of the fret board. But with them negatives out the way it's now a great guitar.

Great honest video, well done. Do you know where that extra weight is coming from (or has gone) ? Seems a big discrepancy. The only thing I like about distressed guitar finishes is seeing the mess people get in when trying to spell the past participle of relic...re...licked...liced (loused) lic'd. Enough to cause someone to panic 😀!

i agree , those new standards are afwul and they feel like a "gimmick " to me , but i guess fender is aiming for beginners who know nothing about guitars but do want the "right " brandname on there guitar , offcourse you can upgreade / mod them but then you might as well buy a new mim player 1 , i still see a lot of them on the web for discount prices ever since the 2 series came out , but yeah , then again you have to be aware of this , and a beginner is probably not into all the series that fender offers , it just feels wrong to me , these tricks that fender plays with people who are not aware of the fact that there beeing fooled by fender

2022….it’s not out of the realm of possibility that the guy who cuts the nuts died of Covid. Then they got a new guy in.

Aka the Noel gallicher supersonic epiphone guitar 😂

the Tele has more sustain. I assume a big reason is the bridge design on a strat

I bought the dy guitars Rory Gallagher tribute guitar it's brilliant and the more expensive eternal guitars one vox ac30 an Rory Gallagher pedal made by flynn amps of Glasgow its the Hawk a replica of the ringmaster made with permission from Rorys brother

which is more suitable for heavy playing