Strat Questions

[rawrockkills]

well im looking into buying a nice Fender Standard Startocaster. well i got some questions first... how much would it cost for me to take the guitar to a professional and get a Floyd Rose installed? how long do these things last? how heavy are they? and hows the tone? thanks

[gogogo]

Cost depends of course on who you see...Tone speaks for itself and the are extremely light...and it will last for as long as you take care of it

[Lordathestrings]

Installing a FR trem in a guitar that didn't come with one from the factory involves a lot of cutting & fitting. And they take a lot away from the tone, IMO. If you really want a Floyd Rose trem, get a guitar that has one factory-installed.

[Blues_Man]

They have a mexican standard strat w/ a floyd rose trem

[rawrockkills]

They have a mexican standard strat w/ a floyd rose trem


could you give me a link to somewhere with that guitar? i cant find it :(

[Tele Master]

http://www.fender.com/products/search.php?partno=1134700506

People just don't look hard enough these days....

[Blues_Man]

here it is

http://www.musiciansfriend.com/srs7/g=guitar/s=electric/search/detail/base_pid/511001/

[aschleman]

I picked one of those up at a Pawn Shop last week for 150 dollars... haha. I love Pawn Shops... Its Polar White and it pristine condition. The serial number indicates it to be a 1994 model as well... But yeah, definitely dont cut up a Strat just to put a FR on it... The cost of a true FR is going to be about 150 or so depending on where you get it... you can get cheap imitation ones for around 80. The labor will be in the range of 50-75 prolly.... so I would say spend the 350 and get a Mexican strat with a factory installed one. They play nice and sound pretty good. It doesn't compare to some of my other American Strats tone wise... but its gets a good metal/rock sound.. not the greatest for blues... which is what i'm partial to.

[PonyOne]

reliability wise the things are as good as any other mass-produced guitar. Honestly, a Mexican Standard Strat is a perfectly good, perfectly fine guitar to play. Quality control is generally alright, and they are plenty durable. I have one that serves me quite well, sounds nice, and is just all around awesome.

That said, I will never buy a guitar with a trem again. Okay, well maybe not never, because I like some of the Wilkinsons and Kahlers, and a Bigsby on a Gretsch has a tone all its own. But Floyds sap tone like nothing else, and the "classic" Strat-style trem, while not as bad as a Floyd, removes a perfectly good and toneful chunk of wood from an otherwise great instrument. Bummer.

If you're into metal and whatnot, and are gonig to be playing super-high gain and crazy dives, then yeah, your trem and high-gain pickups are in many respects more important than a resonant body (which is why metal musicians have used crazy shapes and acrylic bodies to great effect).