Fender 60's Reissue Stratocaster

Well you should no by now. Also mine is the 3-tone sunburst which means Alder body not the other cheapo wood they use.

This guitar suits my music style perfectly because I play blues and this axe does blues hands down. When I first got it I loved the stock pickups.. but in my quest for the holy SRV sound i put in some texas specials. Well that was a mistake, I think, because I really did love those stock pickups. So I put them in my old beater squier II strat. Now I have two kick ass axes, and I not going to ever give up my squier now!!! not even for a million bucks! Anyway the texas specials give the reissue a good improvement but really over do the mid's.

When I first got it I found the action to be way to high!! Anyway I sent it to a tech to have 11's put on it and the tremlo blocked. In my honest opinion you should definatly put on bigger guage strings if you want tone!! Just going from 10's to 11's makes one hell of a difference. Although it is really hard to play but if you tune down a half step it makes it better. Moving on to the fret-work, this is one area that could use a big improvment. The stock frets are way small, but after a while you will get used to them, but it makes playing hard especially bar chords. I give it a nine because a simple setup will make it way better.

Uh I guess this guitar is will with stand the tourtures of giging. I have actually done some at home test, by way of beating the hell out if it and it still plays just as good.

I dunno?

Well I havn't been playing for verey long about a year or so, but I have done lots of research as well as comparing with many other high price customs and american made fenders and found that the MIM reissue was the best for its price range, it offered the same as all the other strats and better than some. So overall I give it a 10.

Made in Mexico 60'reissue Strat, three tone sunburst, so it has the alder body. Rest of the features should be known right now.

It took me a long time to decide which guitar to buy. I only knew it had to be a Strat. So, I went to the nearest guitar store, tried al the Strats I could find, without looking at prices, colours, features or whatever. This one came out the best sounding. Looking in my Fender catalogue, found out I had been playing a Mexican 60's Strat. (Which
wasn't that much of a surprise, cause thats the one which seemed the pest choice after reading all of the Fender reviews on this site :)

It's hard to describe sounds, but this guitar has what I see as "the" Fender sound: A very rich, deep sound, sparkling highs and a nice, distant, mid-range "bite" to it. It's very easy to achieve a Hendrix / Vaughan sort of sound. The second position (neck/middle)is almost Tin Pan Alley. Only minor flaw: pickups are a bit weak.

In short: this is what a vintage 60's reissue should sound like

I play this guitar mostly through a Fender Deluxe 112 Plus, which is an ideal partner for this guitar (on the clean channel). For overdrive I use a TS 10 Tubescreamer.

I give this guitar an 9, with the right pickups it might be a 10.

I'm usually not interested in this one, but this guitar feels really well built. Better than one would expect of a Mexican built guitar. Perhaps the American made reissue is better than this, but not $ 1000 better...

The action is good, even a little to low for me, as I'm used to playing crappy guitars sofar.

Have owned it for three months now (bought it new), and I'm extremely carefull whith this thing, so can't really tell.

Never had to deal whith, yet.

I've been playing for ten years now, all cheap Strat-imitations till now. I think it sound almost perfect. So if it were stolen, I would buy a new one the same day.

I compared it to a lot of other strats, and especially to a friend's
American standard. This guitar is almost as solidly built as the Am St. But, as one might have guessed, I bought this guitar because of the sound.

This is a MIJ strat from the late nineties before moving the production to Mexico. Its has the standard features of a 60's strat.
21 frets, vintage style tuners and a vintage style bridge. 3 passive alnico single coil pickups. The neck is a really nice c shape maple one, and the body seems to be a three wood alder with a sunburst finish. I think its alder because this guitar it more heavy then the poplar(MIM)and basswood(MIJ)strats i've tried.

I play everything, pop rock and blues and this guitar is really versatile. I use a cheap zoom 2020 board for fx and a marshall blues driver for overdrive. My amp is a 30 watts class A laney lc30. The guitar has pretty much sustain but mine has also got the tremolo blocked. The stock pickups was wery thin sounding. Upper mids was just too ear piercing and i had to turn the mids and treble down but then the sound lacked presence. Fortunately I had some pickups from a navigator strat (ESP guitar from Japan)which i bought from a friend who changes them to some active ones.
With these pickups the guitar sounds good. Still got the classical strat tone (not the honky texas specials tone) but not thin sounding.

The guitar was really set up good. Its was set up by the shop i bought the guitar at. Mine was used but looked brand new.

this guitar seems very sturdy and will withstand many years of playing. the frets would probably get changed after a couple off years and the bridge saddles as well but for the price of the guitar i can complain.

I never needed to contact fender

I am 25 and have been playing for 10 years, and i am really pleased with this guitar. But i am replacing the bridge pickup with a seymour duncan little 59 because i need one axe to do it all but i love the single coil sound also the ones from position 2 and 4. Pos 4 is really good for clean pop and with the 59 i can get more hard rock tones out of this guitar for the 70' and 80' rock lead. Dont bye a high output dark sounding brigde pickup (hot rail) because they will not scream and will lack sonic personality. I own a Hohner rtx guitar and the humbucker played clean was dark and useless, it could handle distortion but sounded sterile.

I own a 60's stratocaster. A japan model. 5-way selector with vintage pickgaurd and cosmetics. Vintage tremelo as well. The neck is the 60's style C-shape. The frets how ever i think are too small. I go for srv tone and its hard to get sustain(I use 12's so it really digs on the frets) or a good feel with such small frets. The neck is fat and has a big feel which i do like.

I havent researched all the woods in this model. The neck is maple with a rose wood fretboard. U definitely get that vintage style growl that stevie had. I dont know if its the wood in the body or the pickups but i love the tone from this guitar.

Its black so it abviously looks cool. It had the puke green vintage pickguard and yellow staind pickup covers but i switched them out with my american std. Good action but once again the frets are way to small.

Its a fender!

I bought it use so there is no warranty but i do have one on my '98 american std and fender is always cool to deal with.

I have been playin 4 years and play professional in a band. I mostly dont like the frets. I have jumbos on my american std and love them. But i dont get a real gutsy feel with the ones on this strat. But the fat neck was a big plus and it was in good shape. I wasnt going to argue at $350.

Made in Japan, 1988. Surf Green finish (gotta love the colour) with white pickguard. Body is probably basswood. Maple neck with rosewood fingerboard. Standard strat hardware and electronics (5-w switch)...
Came with a hard case.

Everything you would expect from a Strat. Fancier bodywood might be nice, but I'm not sure if it's basswood anyway.

Forget about the basswood... the thing rings and resonates so beautifully that I don't really care what's underneath the nitro finish. Plugged in ... well, the MIJ electronics could be better, but they are easily upradable. Through VOX AC30 this thing sounded heavenly (but what wouldn't :). This strat made also my friends Marshall stack come alive.

The overall construction is better than my friends MIA strat. There really are no construction flaws. The trem makes the guitar out of tune.

This is an expectionally good strat, and with the price (about 400USD) I just had to buy it. Originally I was going to the shop to buy an used 80's Tokai Strat copy but this one beat it hands down. Now I play it more than my Warwick basses and my bandmates are getting mad.

Made in Japan, 1996, color is Surf Green (I guess). 3 single coils,
21 frets, volume & 2 x tone (for neck and middle pickups), Rosewood fingerboard. It has all I need, and looks and sounds good.

Sounds really good, I play it with Vox Cambridge 30 Reverb (the Korean reissue model) and occasionally with DanElectro CoolCat chorus, and DanElectro French Toast fuzz. The pickups aren't noisy at all for single coils. Usually I use the neck pickup, or positions 2 & 4 in the switch (neck/middle as humbucker, middle/bridge pickups as humbucker). Very versatile, sounds good acoustically too.

The factory set-up was good, and the finish is fine.

My guitar hasn't gone through extreme condititions really, but it seems like a 'from father to son' model. I think it will last.

Haven't had any need for customer support.

I just love the feel of this guitar, it's easy to play but challenging ;) For the money, it's great.

- 3 Tone Sunburst
- Alder Body
- Rosewood Neck
- Made in Mexico (I don't care where the guitar is made as long as it sounds and feels good and this one sounds/ feels great)
- Vintage Style Harware (which is really not bad at all !!)
- 3 Vintage Single Coils (very noisy); 5 way pickup selection
- Mintgreen (Vintage white) pickguard, pickup covers & tone/volume

This is a great looking guitar.It looks very vintage and I love the color!

The pickups sound pretty good but I have to say that they are too noisy. I pulled out the neck and bridge pickup and replaced them with DiMarzio YJM (neck) and HS-3 (bridge) pickups. MAN....no noise what so ever and GREAT sound. Now with my new pickups I give it a 10, but because of the noise I give them a "6". I play different styles of music and I wanted a guitar with a warm tone yet powerful. This guitar is all that an more. It is great for Rock, Metal, Jazz. I wouldn't use it for Blues and Funk (I have a Fender SRV signature model for that)

The acction is great however I'm currently having problems with the high e-string. Somehow when I bend the string at the 14th fret over one whole step the tone disappears. I think I will have to re-adjust the action or the neck. But no big deal.

The finish is great and the guitar stays in tune.

Hasn't broken yet.

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BUY THIS GUITAR!!! I've been playing now 15 yrs and own a Fender SRV signature model, Ibanez RG 560 (with DiMarzio Tone Zone & HS-3 pickups), Hamer Archtop in Aztec Gold (with Seymour Duncan 59 & JB zebra look, looks just like Carlos Santana's PRS), Ovation Accoustic/ Electic and this Fender 60s Classic Reissue. This guitar is one of my favorites. I play this guitar through a Furman Power Conditioner -> Korg DT1 Rack Tuner -> Digitech Harmonizer -> Alesis Midiverb III -> ADA MP1 Pre-amp -> ADA Microtube 100 Poweramp. It just sounds great. Once it is time to re-fret the guitar I will go with Jumbo Frets.

I had bought originally the 70s reissue which SUCKS big time. The tuners are very weak. When I returned it and got this one instead. I love it. If this guitar was stolen I would save up some money and get the same guitar again. It is a great guitar for the price you are paying!

MIM,21 fret,beautiful 3 tone sunburst(no not lake placid blue..hehe) with rosewood(very john frusciante'ish)vintage hardware,3 single coils.This guitar is beautiful,ive played atleast a hundred american strats and several vintage...ive played an all origonal 55 and the neck felt so comfortable as if you were stroking a *&#%$*#@!anyway i would definitly compare the 60's reissue's more to the vintage than the american standards..personal preference i guess.mexican made or not its just not a cheap guitar...it feels vintage...now im not saying go out and buy a mexican standard...those are very cheaply made i once smashed one out of anger because the intonation was fucked the bridge was weak the neck felt like crap,the pickups came ungrounded from the factory!...its like they just dont care...but 60's reissue are nicely made..very good guitar

a strat can suit virtually any musical style.fits mine perfect though...im into funk,blues,rock,jazz,classical,hard rock,rap shit you name it...pretty much anything besides limp bizket or slipknot sounding bands..i dont like the metal.My favorite guitarist and biggest influence is john frusciante(everyone go buy "to record only water for 10 days" its his new solo album its GREAT)john has a 55 strat 3 tone with rosewood.This guitar reminds me alot of it even though its a 55 and this is a 60's reissue they werent changed THAT much.In the studio i use a 69 blackface super reverb,75 silverface twin,55 tweed champ,a 59 showman,a 59 bassman a mesa boogie simul-class,and a mesa heartbreaker.guitar sounds GREAT through all of those.live i use marshall jcm900 with 2 4x12 cabs for lead and crunch tones..and a vox ac30 for clean tones.sounds great through those also...my 60's reissue is one of three guitars i use on stage...a use a les paul standard,a american standard tele,and my strat...its my favorite to use though.Its not noisy...sounds great bridge pickup is very bright..neck is very warm..the guitar can make twangy percussive funk tones with ease...with my vintage pro co rat and my marshall the thing can cause crunch tones that would give hetfield a run for his money with EMG's...im pretty confident in the thing

it was set up allright from the factory...it came with .009's i set it up for 11's tweaked the neck.adjusted the intonation.The pickups were grounded right the pickup height was perfect...no flaws at all..the finish is beautiful...i sometimes find myself just staring at it on my wall sometimes

fender guitars,wether mexican made japanese or american ARE TOUGH...i once smashed a mexican standard cause it pissed me off...and it didnt come apart easy...i slammed it three times before the neck came apart from the body...pretty impressive beings how i smashed a les paul in one try..and those are suppose to be nice!

good guys at fender...ive delt with them alot...not with this strat but with previous fenders ive owned...they once helped me date a old musicmaster that had been refinished and painted over the headstock(and serial number) free of charge..real nice guys.The gods of fine american luthiery

ive been playing guitar for 11 years...im a total guitar junky listing all my stuff would be a waste of time noone wants to read it...ni would definitly buy another one of these..i love everything about it...dont really hate anything bout it..but it would be allitle nicer if it were american made with the same spec's.my favorite feater is the the neck.

I have two of these guitars and they are wonderful items for a musician (bed-room or professional) that wants the vintage vibe and feel but doesn't want to pay the outstanding prices for PRE-CBS Strats. One of mine is an early 90's Japanese with a Lake Placid Blue Finish. The other is a 98 Mexican with a Burgandy Misy finish. I love the feel of a big fat-ass "C" chaped neck, and I think these are a little more chunky than the American R.I.'s... The only problem I had was the factory set-up which was fixed in a matter of minutes.

I mainly play blues, rock, folk, etc.. I use a lot of toys and I'm still adding things to the list but as of right now I'm using A Roger Mayer Octavia, Fulltone '69, Fulltone Clyde Wah, Klon Centaur, Fulltone Fulldrive 2, Fulltone Supa-Trem, Fulltone Deja-Vibe, Electro-Harmonix Deluxe Memory Man, Line 6 Delay Modulator annd connected with George L's and running through a Vox AC-15 and a Hot Rod Deluxe (This is to hold me over until I can get a Super Reverb). Now back to the guitar's, The saddles and pick-up's are horrible... The saddles do nothing but break strings without fail. The pick-up's are thin, lifeless, and low out-put. In the Burgandy Mist I put a set of Fender Fat 50's and it's got a great vintage sound that's full and creamy... It's got a sound that is similiar to SRV's version of "Leave My Little Girl Alone" on the Austin City Limit's tape.. The Lake Placid Blue Strat, I decided on Texas Specials, and I like the mid-range honk it gives and they distort quite nicely.. As with all of my Strat's, they have Graphite Saddles which I highly recommend. The rating I'm giving for this category is with the pick-up's being replaced, otherwise it would get a 3.

Factory Set-up was shitty, period. The finish is great on the guitar's... Neck's are wonderful even though I do like a little beefier fret wire... All of these "problems" can be easily fixed in a matter of minutes. The only reason I'm ratting this section high is because of the neck, weight and finish of the guitar.

I would drop them down a flight of stairs without a worry in the world... Might need to tune it afterwards but that's about it. . I like beat up things anyways.. =] I use strap lock's because I've had it slip before on stage... It's not that I'm worried about the guitar, it just makes you look like an idiot.. =]

Fender has their moments....

I've only been playing guitar for about 4 years but I can't stop.. It's worse than drugs.. What other gear?! Oh man... I have a 50's Mex. RI Tele in Blonde, 50's Jap. RI Strat in Sunburst, 60's Jap. RI Strat in Copper with a LH 70's RW Neck, '79 USA Strat in Trans. Red with a RW Neck, '58 Harmony Strat-O-Tone in Sunburst (Hollow-Body, with Falt-Wounds), '64 Gibson SG Jr. in Heritage Cherry, '38 Gibson L-50 Archtop Acoustic in Sunburst, '78 Mustand Bass in Trans. Red, and a Mid-60's Airline Parlor Acoustic in Sunburst.

I'd recommend this type of guitar to anyone that like's vintage style Strat's.. I've compared it to the newer models and the american vintage series and I liked it over both of them.

I wish it had the Ashtray, I don't know why but I like them for some reason...

Guitar purchased new in December 2000. I wanted a guitar built this century! Lake Placed Blue with mint pickguard and aged plasteic parts, rosewood board, maple neck is finished in a honey laquer that faithfully reproduces the look of an older Fender. (The 'yellowing' is less dramatic than my '71 Telecaster.) The guitar is equipped with a five position switch, I was happy to see this as that would have been an essential mod. for me. I am a die-hard Strataholic, this one is number five. I've owned two others that were sold in hard times. These five stay! The tuners are very nice reproductions of the old pre-F style slotted machines. I use no others. Can't get used to anything without the slot. The fretwire is the old style skinny stuff. My '71 Tele sports jumbo wire.

I play guitar in a church Praise and Worship group. Before you laugh, realize that we do much contemporary music and this entails all the rock, blues, and pop guitar sounds used foir the past thirty years. This '60's reissue came with the vinatge type pickups that are sweet and clean, but do not want to drive any distortion unit in my arsenal. As the volume control is lowered from the full up 10, the output drops to the point where the sound cleans up. I run all my guitars through my Fender Hot Rod DeVille (soon to be replaced by a Deluxe, as it is too much amp for the room) with the controls set Main 4, treb 8, mid 6, bass 8. I use a Blues Driver distortion rather than the hot channel as I can't bring the master up past 2 and not injure innocent congregants. For nasty distortion, I'll use my 70's reissue with three Texas Specials installed. But I digress. The thing about this guitar that I love are the two and four pickup positions. These yield the traditional duckier sound, but with alot of character. Good for real world, not just interesting sound effects. The guiatr has single coil hum worse than my other Strats -- it will soon be shielded. My greatest fault lies in the output. It is traditional, so I can't fault Fender. This guitar delivers exactly what it says it will -- vintage sound and feel

The set-up was excellent, though I personally can't stomach 9's -- I prefer the tactile 'fight' of tens. Also, nines sound thinner and 'rubber band'-like. Pickups were adjusted not to my taste. The finish was flawless, unlike my other Mexican Strat which had a few unsightly blems in the neck finish -- obvious dings that were laquered and smoother. This guitar is beautiful. I like the Mexican Strats more than some of the Americans I've owned.

This guitar is obviously new, so I can't say how well it will stand up. My other Mexicam Strats have withstood all the abuse playing three services a week (about an hour per service) at my ham-fisted input. My Tele I've owned for almost thirty years and I've refretted it twice (jumbo wire for maximum numbers of grinds). I foresee similar service. My other Mexican-built Fenders have stood up wonderfully. You can fight your way out of a third world revolution swinging a Strat and still be in tune for the next set.

Strap buttons were replaced immediately with Dunlop lockers. I've had too many accidents.

I sue this guitar with a backup since I need a good distorting guitar for about thirty per cent of our material. Aside from that, the tone is awesomeand I'd use it constantly

Fender has always been very user-friendly to me though I've never had to deal with them for a warranty problem. I've owned Fenders for thirty years and have never had anything but wear-related issues, which isn't their fault!

I've been playing guitar for thirty-two years and I've owned just about everything. I loved Fenders -- the feel, the tone, the reliability, etc. since I first played one. I own a '58 Les Paul for those moods when a dark, lush sound is needed, but the thing is to fragile (and $$$$) these days to use much out. If this guitar were stolen (the Strat) I'd sulk and pout for a month and try to find another one just like it. The only thing I hate about this guitar is the perception that other guitarists have regarding the Mexican built Fenders. Those that own them don't have this problem, only those who haven't played one. These detractors might have something against Mexicans in general, or they merely perceive the price as a gauge of quality. If people wouldn't equate the price with my ability, I wouldn't have any issues.