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Not the one pictured, but mine is better in my opinion
By: James
Submitted: 2/29/2020
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Well I didn't get the roadworn Guitar in the picture, but it's ok, because the guitar in the picture looks like it has to much fake wear on the neck. Where the roadworn guitar I got has the same body wear, but far less wear on the neck, which looks more realistic in my opinion. The guitar played well out of the box, with only me having to add 1 extra spring into the term block. Overall I'm happy with guitar.
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Best strat I have ever had. I have had custom. All of them.
By: Greg
Submitted: 2/28/2020
1 person found this review helpful.
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Just amazing workmanship. The paint is amazing. Relic is sick. Plays like buttah out of box. It’s my favorite as of now. I own many guitars. Perfect Strat. MIM Quality Much better than USA.
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Awesome guitar, but needed work.
By: Will Wont
Submitted: 1/20/2020
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Great tone, love the broken in feel. Frets needed leveled and edges needed filed before it was playable. Luckily I have a great luthier. Surprised it left the factory with that crappy set up and fret work.
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Love this guitar
By: Rob in Omaha
Submitted: 11/21/2019
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Wanted one for a while, finally pulled The trigger and got it, It played well enough out of the Box but once I had a good set up on it, it plays awesome, Love the feel of it, The tex-mex pickups sound amazing, I don't think I'm going to change them. The picture actually showed a lot more wear on the fret board and the neck than the one that I actually got ( I really wish AMS would show the actual Guitar you're buying) But I was satisfied With it. I have 9 Guitars including a few American Strats and a custom shop tele And this guitar, after a good setup plays and sounds just as good as any of them. I'm loving it, definitely worth it
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Best strat I’ve owned
By: Tommy
Submitted: 10/6/2019
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Awesome Strat!! Out of the box it played perfect. No issues with choking out on the vintage radius. Neck is smooth and plays amazing! And again, the customer service is second to none. I get all my gear from AMS.
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Buzzing strings out of the box
By: axl_rose
Submitted: 7/20/2019
2 people found this review helpful.
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I've wanted an American Fender for well over a decade and I was pretty stoked to finally buy a Fender, so much in fact I bought two last week - A MiA Tele and a MiM strat. Both of them out of box are have buzzing strings and some dead spots on the fret board where the fretted note won't play.
Honestly, when buying an American Fender, there should be zero issues. At the price they charge, I am unforgiving since my sub-$200 Squier tele didn't need a setup of any kind or having buzzing strings and dead spots on the fret board. I am slightly more forgiving on the MiM strat but at the price tag they are selling it for really, there needs to be better QC.
I gave three stars as this really is a nice sounding guitar...they both are really. However, there are so many other choices out there that these big brands need to wake up and smell guitar polish.
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Energy and Synergy
By: Albert Chua
Submitted: 6/5/2019
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I didn’t know that this was the guitar for me. It’s worn features are exactly what I need.
I’m the type of player that tends to wander off focus when I play. This instrument keeps me grounded and “in the moment.”
Great for beginners and seasoned players!
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High quality product, great guitar
By: Daniel Ocampo
Submitted: 2/24/2019
1 person found this review helpful.
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I’d never owned a roadworn guitar. It was weird at first opening the box of a brand new guitar and seeing all the scratches, dents and dings. But, they really look authentic and it really adds to the character of the guitar. The neck is very comfortable, and the wear actually makes it feel better! And of course, i love the ergonomics of a Stratocaster. And, the tone is amazing. I play it on a Princeton Reverb Amp and i love the sound. The Tex Mex pickups are my favorite strat pickups. Finally, he buying experience from American Musical Supply was as easy as it could be. Their purchase plans make these high quality instruments within my reach and i’m ecstatic! Thanks AMS!!!
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Great vintage style guitar.
By: Little Foot
Submitted: 2/22/2019
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I am happy with the particular guitar i received. It came set-up properly and ready to play. I bought it for the Tex-mex 50's pick-ups, and it has that classic road house sound. The maple neck has a slight rounded old school arch, which isn't overly thick. It has the worn look so the first scratch isn't an issue. It digs right in.
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Well worth the money
By: Johnny
Submitted: 1/12/2019
1 person found this review helpful.
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Love this guitar is now my number one guitar
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Best axe I've ever played!
By: Heath Riley
Submitted: 1/7/2019
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Love it! The worn look is killer and very comfortable to play!
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Worth it
By: Demarcus Cole
Submitted: 12/27/2018
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The guitar played great straight out of the box! Action and intonation was perfect !
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Great Guitar for a Great price!
By: William Crawford
Submitted: 9/5/2018
1 person found this review helpful.
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She came expertly packed in just two days! I was playing within 10 minutes of her arrival! One of Fenders best kept secrets are the Roadworn Series!
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Great
By: Brian k
Submitted: 5/8/2018
0 people found this review helpful.
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Brings back memy
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Feels and sounds awesome
By: Tony S.
Submitted: 5/1/2018
0 people found this review helpful.
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I've been wanting a strat with a nitro lacquer, and this one delivers! Plays great sounds sweet, and u can actually feel the body vibrate! Top notch!! Fender for life!!!!
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Disappointed
By: Aric Frank
Submitted: 11/10/2016
7 people found this review helpful.
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First off, the guitar does not look like the one pictured. Mine was minimally aged and the pickguard was crisp white and brand new. Second, it was unplayable out of the box. It needed a lot of fret work before the high E could be bent above the 12th fret. After putting $200 into it, including an aged pickguard, it's a nice player...
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Good guitar if you are willing to spend some extra money getting it right.
By: Mike
Submitted: 1/15/2015
6 people found this review helpful.
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It is a Mexican Strat. We all know Mexican Strats are basic mid-low quality guitars. It looks pretty cool, I bought it as a living room guitar that I don't mind my kid knocking over. ( leave my Americans in my music room).The frets are really bad and sharp. You need to spend $100 getting the frets smooth and right. Tuners are cheap chinese reprod. The Texas special pups are noisy with no punch. Put aside $179 to buy a tube screamer to get any sound out of them. It sounds like I am trashing this but I am not. It is a $700 guitar... I have $3000 guitars and you get what you pay for. This is much better than a same price Epiphone anything or a cheap Ibanez. I spent $500 getting this guitar right. A set of vintage noisless pups a set of kluson tuners and a Callaham bridge.... It is now a really nice player . The " worn" finish looks a bit fake, but a year of playing this every day will even out the fake worn look. Get a scratch and dent like me and it is worth every penny .
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Poor workmanship
By: Joe
Submitted: 12/2/2014
3 people found this review helpful.
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The first thing I noticed was that the pick guard was bowed by the bridge and when you press on it the pickup moves up and down with it. Secondly after closer inspection the pick guard was bowed in other areas also. The pick guard was considerably thinner than the usual pick guards you see on even the less expensive guitars. For this price you would expect first of all a guitar made in the US (this was made in Mexico), secondly (Form, Fit and Function people, for almost a thousand dollars the finish and fit should be correct. Seriously disappointed.
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Great guitar, factory setup atrocious
By: Michael Henningsen from United States
Submitted: 11/23/2011
Ash body, maple neck and relic's components are true to the original '56 and '57 specs this guitar is modeled after. THat means inherent little issues like the tendency of the single-ply pickguards to bow is present, and the tuners work like the vintage tuners they're standing in for, which is to say "not all that great. THese, too, are easily replaced if one wishes to do so. Overall, the quality of this Mexican build is great ... just as long as the truss rod works like its supposed to. My neck was shipped with a significant twist beginning st the 6th fret, but I was easily able to adjust the rod so that I got the neck bow I want on a Strat. I've heard so e of these guitars shipped with horrific twists and non-working truss rods, so be careful and pay attention to the return policy.
I've only had it for two mo ths, and it's been perfectly reliable in that short period of time. However, I won't be able to give a good answer for a year or so.
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If, like most, you can't afford a true collectible or the high-end relic, this is the Strat for you. If you like your guitars in their new, pristine condition, you shouldn't even consider the Relic or Road Worn series. But if you like guitars that have been "broken in," then I can't recommend the Mexican built Road Worn guitars highly enought ... with a couple of caveats.
It really does feel like a well-played Strat with about 100,000 miles on the odometer. The 50s neck shape is my favorite, and it's been well-replicated here. It feels as ligh as a Strat is supposed to feel: well-balanced and solid. But again, it's unplayable out of the box.
The stock pickups have to potential to get you the sou D's you're after, but doing so requires lots of outboard EG, compression and noise reduction. Once I replaced those pickups with the Rio Grande Triple Calibrated set, sound is a wet dream.
These guitars sport a thin nitrocellulose finish that looks great from a distance. It's when you get up close that you start to notice finish work that could have been completed by a team of chimps. The body relic'img looks terrific, though not beat up enough for my taste. So I simple took some fine grit sandpaper and steel wool, and went to town until I had it looking the way I wanted it to look.,I also used my Leatherman to,add a few strategic dings and scratches. I finished my own relic'ing work by rubbing used wet coffee grounds into the newly exposed wood, and the effect was amazing. The stock fretboard relic job, on the other hand, was a bit overdone. Again, a little sandpaper/steel wool and buffing did the trick.
Action out off the box was atrocious. The guitar was completely unplayable. The floating trim floated about a quarter of an inch rather than the recommended eight, which rendered the trem unseeable. Intonation couldn't have been worse. For an intermittent such as myself, it took several hours to rectify these issues. An expert or someone with an experienced tech could knock this stuff out in an out. But DO NOT even attemp to haul this guitar from box to stage. You won't be playing this guitar without "passing go" a few times. The fret ends also required significant filing and buffing. But those big frets make string bends a pleasure, and they're rather more forgivi ng than the smaller frets used on some Strats.
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vintage rocker
By: mark stassin from hammond ,indiana , usa
Submitted: 1/30/2009
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the quality is right on very well made ,the made in mexico guitars are right up there with the usa made guitars with out the higher price
just recived it and I cant put it down
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I dont like guitars that your scared your going to scratch or ding, I love this worn played to death guitars it shows soul
it feel like a strat should light and mean with killer tones
the pick ups are very vintage fender really nailed the pick ups smooth to nasty with distortion this is a rockin guitar
fantastic the worn look is the way it should look like its been around and played for 40 years
well the action was ok but I like it really close to the neck with so a little adjustment was done