Fender American Vintage '59 Stratocaster

[piotrek]

Hello everyone,

I was browsing the Fender range the other day and I came across a relatively new model called the American Vintage 59' Stratocaster. From what Fender say, one might expect the model to be a pretty good guitar for early Shadows numbers. Being significantly less expensive than the legendary 56 NOS, it appears to be something of a bargain, providing it delivers to the expectations. Sadly, it's not available in Fiesta Red.

Here's how it looks:
www.fender.com/en-PL/guitars/stratocaster/american-vintage-59-stratocaster-maple-fingerboard-3-color-sunburst/

And here's how it sounds:

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What do you guys make of it?

regards,
piotrek

[rogerbayliss]

Interesting as Fender tend to make these vintage guitars to the specs of the day. I have no doubt it would be a great Shadows Guitar. Fender say the PU's are wound to 59 specs so that should be capable of getting close to the original sound. 34346 was a different guitar though and had gold parts Birds eye Maple neck and so on. The player also is the big factor on the sound. Nice guitar though .

[keithinalps]

I have a C/S custom order 59 NOS, F/red, Abby wound 59 pups, Gold h/w, b-eye flame low profile neck, I bought it as i could not get used to the 56 nos boat profile neck, not cheap but a fantastic guitar

[shadowtonio]

hello piotrek,
very nice guitar, it all looks gooed to me, nice demos but
the sound of the guitar is difficult to track because of the amps used on the demos, so thats not sounding very vintage to me.

thanks, tonio