I was able to use my cousin’s Fender Stratocaster for a few months when he let me keep it and his Fender Telecaster. This Fender Strat, like his Telecaster, was made in Japan and was also made around the late 1980’s based on it’s serial number. This Strat has a tobacco sunburst color and white pick guard.
Like most Strats, this one has three single coil pickups, a 5-position pickup selector lever, and three knobs, one for master volume and two for tone control. It has 21 frets and has the vintage Fender tremolo bridge. The pickups give that
nice Fender Strat sound. The neck pickup has a warm tone, very good for blues, and the bridge pickup has a pretty bright tone. I like the out-of-phase pickup combination since it gives out a very funky Fender Strat tone.
The Fender Strat is a very nice guitar. It looks good and it sounds good. I can pretty much get that Jimi Hendrix sound when I play it with an overdrive or distortion pedal. I was able to test it with my friend’s Ibanez TS808 Tube Screamer and it sounded phenomenal. It comes pretty close to Stevie Ray Vaughn’s ...