A Quick Look at the Paranormal Custom Nashville Stratocaster

[@ryandesain5090]

On the fence about getting one of these

[@rustyfenders101]

Amazing guitar. Fender.com has them right now for like 300!

[@ajasondunlap]

I got this guitar to learn on. I love it

[@Ten2More]

Action on an electric always needs to be adjusted. It comes ready to adjust. Get a set of Allen wrenches and adjust on the bridge and truss rod. Unless the nut is too high, it is just turning alllen wrenches. No reason to send one back. Easy to do.

[@hansemannluchter643]

It's a shame Fender abandoned the "Bullet truss-rod" and "Micro-Tilt neck adjustment", the guitars that have it are a breeze to set up. Especially being able to adjust the truss-rod with the neck under tension was good thinking. And I never had issues with the 3-bolt neck, my 72 Strat probably wasn't made on a Monday or Friday, because it IS true that Fender had some Quality Control "challenges" in the 1970's...

[@rustyfenders101]

I love the bullet truss-rod. So much easier to work with. I have a few guitars with heels truss-rods and I dread the day I have to set them up. Thanks for watching!

[@rustyfenders101]

100%.

[@hansemannluchter643]

@@rustyfenders101 It's such a good idea that you'd think Leo Fender himself came up with it!! And maybe he actually did, because part of the sales-agreement was that Leo stayed on as a consultant, and wasn't allowed to use his own NAME!! Same goes for the "Micro-Tilt neck adjustment". What a BRILLIANT idea!! But hey, 4 bolts has to be better than 3, right? Taking off the neck to adjust the truss-rod is better than doing it under string-tension, right?? NO! I whent down the SRV/Malcolm Young-hole back in the 1980's, couldn't get the strings heavy enough.. C'mon man, a .58 low E is "heavy"?? I'm not saying you HAVE to use insanely thick strings AT ALL, but for my playing-style, it made all the difference. Now, 35 years later, I'm paying the price for those heavy strings. But they did sound GREAT back then, and I could beat them as hard as I wanted with my (right) picking-hand... But imagine the set-up nightmare if you go from ".10-.52" to ".14-.64", with a wound G-string, over 3 months? Please note that I am NOT recommending You do this. It WILL cost you down the line!

[@rustyfenders101]

@@hansemannluchter643 Thanks for all the info!!

[@bighardbooks770]

I have a Squire tele that I love 🎸 Thanks for the review.

[@hansemannluchter643]

Best Tele I ever tried was a first-run MIJ one, back when they were marked "Fender" by Squier. It was Candy-apple or Fiesta red, with a nice maple-neck. Still regret not buying it, it was less than half the price of a US-made Tele, but at 16 I didn't have the cash since I'd used all my savings on buying a '72 all-maple Strat a few monthe before.. Those early MIJ Squiers are absolute killer-guitars!!

[@UncleDanBand64]

That is a nice looking guitar.

[@hansemannluchter643]

That's like a "Strat'o'Tele", with the PU-selector placed the right place! I still don't get how Roy Buchanan was able to do those fantastic volume-swells without inverting the controls, or use the tone-control as a wha-pedal for that matter.. And even if inverted, that volume pot is STILL to far away IMO...

[@stannowak5086]

The control plate is reversed , like Bill Kirchens . Is the volume on the neck side ?

[@rustyfenders101]

Yes. The one thing that I found is that most pickup wires can be too short for this setup. So I had to flip the control plate and then switch everything to make it work. Spoiler alert for my next video! Thanks for watching!

[@KennedyIvy]

Why not just lower the action?

[@rustyfenders101]

I did, when I did the setup. In some cases is not just the action you also need to adjust the neck relief. Thanks for watching!

[@1man1guitarletsgo]

I thought Squier production was all Indonesian these days, but that one's from China.

[@rustyfenders101]

Yeah! They keep moving back and forwards. Most of the paranormals I’ve seen are made in china and honestly, they seem to have a better qc