Having played Strats for getting on 40 years now, I pretty much automatically check that the tone controls are on 10 and then ignore them. Maybe sometimes roll off the neck one a bit, but that's about it.
So imagine my surprise when, after two days with this new one, I discover that the bottom tone control *IS FOR THE BRIDGE PICKUP*!
Mind = blown
The white one is waaaaay less hot than my black 1990-91 Mexican Strat.The Mexican's pickups must have soooo many more winds 🤷♂️
Does it have one of those “push/pull” lead boost thingies?! 🤔🤷🏻♂️🤓
Nope. It's supposedly a 1961 reissue sorta thing, and I just assumed it had the essentially useless system of tone controls for only the neck and middle pickups that I'm used to.
This, however, is a revelation because I like rolling off a bit of tone on Telecasters to tame the plinkiness of it all, and now I can do it on this too. It's a good improvement 👍
Beautiful... I want the white one. (My buddy has an actual 61 -- that looks exactly like yours;-- that I'll been drooling over for years...)
Too popular that it became unpopular.
I could understand the hate back in the 80s, but I reckon we should all go into every music store and play it to the grumpy music store teen who gives attitude.
@DyDave I have a 93 Mexican strat (my first guitar), they tended to have ceramic magnets in the pickups and be very hot compared to an American strat. Unfortunately one of those pickups shorted out, and I ended up replacing the whole thing with fender Yosemite pickups.
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I love my old Mexican one. The neck and middle pickups do what they all do, but the bridge one is hot enough to drive tings a bit. Great value guitar.
@DyDave yeah probably one of the best feeling necks on a guitar I have.
Yep. Chunky but not.
I’ve learned that the 1961-62 Fender necks are the ones I like.
A friend of mine sends his 61 Tele to me for a setup every time he’s about to go on tour and I always feel so lucky to work with it.
Been A/B ing with the PartsCaster I made years ago to be like a 1962, and I gotta admit the new American Vintage white one is pretty cool.
My old one has Seymour Duncan Antiquity pickups in the neck and middle but a Fender Custom Shop 'Fat 50s' in the bridge.
The advertised '1961' ones in the white guitar are simultaneously kinda open when clean and a bit dirtier on the gain channel. The Duncans are more defined, so you can hear all the strings in every chord to my ears 🤷♂️
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