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Featured review by: prsman
Grammy winner John Mayer has teamed up with Fender for this must-have signature guitar. Its alder body is a wonderland, and the satin urethane-finish maple neck has a slightly larger C-shape topped by a buffed headstock with a Vintage '50s decal. The African rosewood fingerboard has a 9.5" radius and Dunlop 6105 frets. Other features include three new "Big Dipper" single-coil pickups with a special "scooped" mid-range voicing wound to Mayer's exacting specs, an American Vintage synchronized tremolo with five tremolo springs (the uninstalled back plate is in the case), Fender/Gotoh vintage-style tuning keys and a three-ply brown shell pickguard. // 10
Sound: Amazing, there's not alot else that has to be said. Something special was made in the new Big Dipper pickups. They are the most amazing and unique sounding pickups Fender has ever developed. They allow for very powerful bass lines but keep plenty of room for the treble to truly Shine. Obviously you have to be a J. Mayer fan to buy this guitar and I am so I play a lot of his stuff, but I also play plenty of jazz, modern and classic rock, blues and even some country and this guitar take it all in stride with beautiful pure clean tones and full velvety smooth dirty tones.

// 10

Action, Fit & Finish: The is set perfectly for me. Its high to allow for super-bends but low enough to allow for complicated chording. The mix between the rosewood finderbored and jumbo frets feels great. This is easily the best factory set up guitar I have ever played. This finish is gorgeous too. The shoreline gold shines brilliantly and the custon red recing stripe accents it and ties everything together to make it a very apealing and uniquie guitar. // 10

Reliability & Durability: It's a Strat, we all know how durable they are, (i.e. SRV's Number 1) and this one is no exception. The hardware is all solid and ready for a beating. All the nuts and screws are tight and ready to go. I could easily make this guitar my solo guitar and this finish is flawless, and ready to last for many many years. // 10

Impression: The JM Strat truly allows me a lot of versatility and allows me to play vertually any style I want. From blues to country to even classical it'll do the job without any problem (I know classical might be a stretch, but you get my point). I've been playing since 2002, so yes I am relitivly new to guitar in comparison to some people, but in the last couple years I've gained a fair amount of experiance with music and I do know what I'm talking about. Some of my other guitars are an SRV Stratocaster, a PRS McCarty Custom 22, and an American Deluxe Telecaster. I primarily play through a Fender '59 bassman and I record through a Digi002 system. The John Mayer Stratocaster just competes with it all and does it with ease. If it were lost or stolen, heads would roll quite quickly until I got it back. Its a guitar that I would expect to grow with me for the rest of my life. The only thing it really can be compared to is the SRV Artist Series Strat, but the only similarities are the tuners, the frets and the fact that the Big Dipper pickups are variations of Texas Specials but it still truly has its own sound. The John Mayer Artist Series Strat is an all around must have for anyone who wants versatility and that pure and unique J. Mayer sound. // 10

If you ever read an article about Electric Fender Guitar, you must be familiar with the Telecaster Electric Guitar. The Fender Telecaster is a type of a dual-pickup, solid-body electric guitar made by Fender. The Fender Telecaster is informally identified as the Tele,
Leo Fender introduced the Fender Telecaster in 1949. Leo Fender’s Telecaster was the design with the intention of irrevocably leave the solid-body guitar on the record.
The Telecaster is recognized in place of its clear, rich biting tone. One of the secrets to the Telecaster’s sound centers on the bridge pickup, which has more windings than the neck pickup and so has a much elevated output, occasionally having twice the inductance of the neck pickup. A leaning bridge pickup enhances the guitar’s treble tone.
With the solid body, a clean amplified version of the strings’ tone produced by the guitar is allowable. White’s original Telecaster fitted with the B-Bender device is in the possession of country guitarist Marty Stuart who uses the guitar as his most important onstage instrument. Stuart has nicknamed the guitar “Clarence” like its original owner.
When you visit Fender®.com and click the products, you will find several models, including Telecaster. There are actually many models of telecaster, but here is a brief description of the top three best models. The best top three of the Fender Telecaster Electric Guitar Models are: American Deluxe, American Standard, and American Vintage.
American Deluxe has two main models, namely American Deluxe Ash Telecaster® and American Deluxe Telecaster®. American Deluxe Ash Telecaster® is designed for the player who is looking for a hard-working yet aesthetically pleasing guitar that delivers superior craftsmanship as well as tone and versatility. While American Deluxe Telecaster® is designed for the player looking for an alder body with more modern appointments. Both models are top-of-the-line American-made instruments, with special shape and specifications in each models.
American Standard also provides two models: American Standard Telecaster® and American Standard Telecaster® Left Handed. The new American Standard Telecaster (either right handed or left handed) still has the hand-rolled fingerboard edges, alnico V pickups and staggered tuning mac 1000 hines for playability, tone and stability, includes great new features including: a new bridge with improved bent-steel saddles mounted to a stamped-brass bridge plate for increased resonance and sustain; a new neck treatment—tinted for a richer presentation, with the maple or rosewood fingerboard buffed to a high gloss — the back of the neck still has that silky, comfortable satin finish; a thinner finish undercoat that lets the body breathe and improves resonance; a new Fender-exclusive SKB molded case.
American Vintage consits of American Vintage ‘52 Telecaster®, American Vintage ‘52 Telecaster® Left Handed, and American Vintage ‘62 Telecaster® Custom. American Vintage ‘52 Telecaster® is one of the longest-running production models in Fender’s history. American Vintage ‘52 Telecaster® Left Handed is also one of the longest-running production models in Fender’s history. American Vintage ‘62 Telecaster® Custom is the double-bound alder body and multi-ply pickguard.

The Fender Stratocaster is the guitar neck we narrowed it down to. Why, because the neck bolts on and obviously unbolts to come off. What differences can we expect when it comes to mounting a guitar neck? The two methods of preference are, #1. Glued on necks as in most Gibson Guitars and #2. Bolt On necks as in most Fender Guitars.
Is one method of installation better? Other than the ease of exchange and variety of necks for a Strat, most of the preference is personal in terms of what type of guitar you prefer to play.
Bolt on necks are easier to replace and therefore more interesting to talk about. Fender Strats have bolt on necks. Using four bolts to secure the neck into the CNC (computer numerically controlled) or machined by a super accurate computerized tool, and then perfectly bolts to the body with four bolts as mentioned above. That sounds easy enough, that is if you go back with a stock replacement neck.
Simple enough, right? Now we can get dirty deep into Strat neck(ology). You want a custom neck, or something that fits your hands better?.
The array of woods available is surprising and interesting. Both in terms of type of wood and cost. The shapes or curvature of the back of the neck includes six to nine styles, at least for a Stratocaster. Wide and deep for giant hands (SRV had giant hands), check out the boatneck. Or a narrow V-neck such as the Eric Clapton Strat, for for others hand sizes as well. Size and contour has a lot to do with your music style, particularly if you play (farmers chords) which is where you are playing a barre chord, but using your thumb on the low E string.
Then one must deal with fret sizes. Ranging from narrow frets to huge super jumbo frets, which are my preference. Of less importance is the type of fret wire available. I definitely prefer standard wire, which is actually the same material as guitar string wire over the softer stainless steel or gold color fret wire.Nut options should be limited to bone. It provides the best of all worlds.

The beat guitar-resource for explaining the anatomy of a neck, and some of the custom choices available including: the Binding, Conversion Necks, Finishes, Fret-board Extensions, Fret-board Radius, Heel Width & Mounting, Inlay/Custom Inlay, Neck Woods. Peg-head Veneer, Scalloping, Side Adjust Mechanism, Truss Rods and Tuner Holes better than Warmoth Direct.
I'm not telling you to buy from Warmoth, some of these stores may be better places to buy from in terms of pricing and availability from online guitar stores.

Just don't doubt the difference you can make in terms of personalization, playability and comfort, not to mention sound when you get a rare opportunity to change your neck. One nice change is to make is to go to a reverse headstock. It changes the sound and playability since you have reversed the string lengths on a Strat when you do that.

Enjoy, read, and you be the judge.
Note: When looking for a replacement guitar neck, make sure the style of neck you are looking for will fit the guitar body you plan on attaching the neck too. Don't be bashful, do a lot of research by emailing or phoning the company to get the feedback you need to have when replacing your neck.

One of the most popular guitars today and one of the best is the Fender Stratocaster. It has been around for years and has established a well known reputation for having an original sound and been great to play. Many top guitarists of the past and present played Strats - Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughn, John Mayer, Buddy Guy, the list goes on and on. All of these artists have that beautiful tonal sound of a Strat but when you hear each one, you can tell the difference between them, and that's the beautiful thing. The Fender Strat gives you such originality while having that beautiful tonal sound no other guitar has.
The secret to that great sound that the Strats have is in the single coil pickups, the wood of the guitar and the way the body of the guitar is put together (2 sections). The combination of these 3 things put together is one of a kind, that guitarist have come to love right from the beginning of the Strats birth.
Although Strats are centered around a standard setup. There are lots of additional models that slightly differ and in-turn slightly change the sound of the guitar. This is great because it offers guitarists the chance to find that desirable sound that they have always wanted. To go one step further a lot of big name guitarist that play Strats get fender to make them a custom model just for them on specifications that they want so they can come up with the ultimate and perfect sound for them. These guitars are also available to the public to buy and are deemed signature models. If you desire a sound from one of these top quality guitarist than you can have it by buying a signature model which emulates the exact sound that artist has.
If you are thinking of buying a Strat I highly recommend to you that you go and try out as many different models that you can. Most people buy the standard USA Strat but

this may not be for you, you may want something slightly different with a few different changes to the standard. Another thing I wish to point out is that when you try out a Strat, it is important play it through a quality amp, i.e. a fender twin amp. This is because if you try out guitars (great ones and poor ones) though a cheap and poor amp than the guitar will sound bad and disgusting. The rule when buying a guitar or any musical instrument is to try out many different types of that instrument as possible, this is the only way to properly find out what guitar suits you best.