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jollylama
New member
Bought a mexi strat for $45 at a pawn shop, plays bueno.
jimistone
long standing member
"I guess my "arguement" that American-made guitars are better is simply this:
Just about every guitar player in the world wants one!"
when i bought my mex strat I was fully intending to get an american strat. I played every strat in the store (some for 15 minutes...some just played one lick and moved on). The mex strat played better than any of the americans...and the other mexicans. I was TRYING to buy an american strat but I damn sure wasn't going to pay more for a guitar that dosen't play as well.
600 bucks more for an american and the custom shop pickup sets are $129...i don't see it. so, i guess im saying that i don't really want one.
Just about every guitar player in the world wants one!"
when i bought my mex strat I was fully intending to get an american strat. I played every strat in the store (some for 15 minutes...some just played one lick and moved on). The mex strat played better than any of the americans...and the other mexicans. I was TRYING to buy an american strat but I damn sure wasn't going to pay more for a guitar that dosen't play as well.
600 bucks more for an american and the custom shop pickup sets are $129...i don't see it. so, i guess im saying that i don't really want one.
monty
Banned
Perhaps that Mexi was just set up better than the others, for your particular style. When I was looking at Mexi’s I noticed a lot of them had dirty gritty strings and the action wasn’t set, where as the higher priced models seemed to have clean smooth strings and were better set up. I wouldn’t doubt that the music stores do a little hanky panky to make it seem like some guitars are better than others. When I brought that Mexi home last week, my fingers were covered with metallic grime. The more I played it and cleaned it, the better it got, but unfortunately it didn’t play as good as some of the clean well set up Americans I played. On the other hand maybe it has something to do with playing styles. My style is a bastardly take off from my bass playing days, using mostly my fingers as opposed to picks. Picks seem hard to hold onto and it seems like I can do things with my two right hand fingers that I can’t do with a pick. Then there are things I need a pick for, and my left index finger had a bullet go though it many years ago which further bastardizes my style. I’m sort of the Frankenstein’s monster of guitar playing I guess, so for me I think the American is well suited.
Hard2Hear
New member
this thread is long, I dont have the kind of attention span to read it all.
my 2 cents.
The mexican made upgrade strats, like the Powerhouse, Deluxe Super Strat, Deluxe Double Fat Strat, and others, are a great value, and I think are an upgrade over a plain American made Standard Strat. I don't care for a Mexi standard OR an American Standard. But I own a Powerhouse that is great. At NAMM last summer, I was playing a Strat off the wall and I loved it, it happened to be the powerhouse. You look at them different when there are no price tags to tell you what they are.
Thats all,
H2H
my 2 cents.
The mexican made upgrade strats, like the Powerhouse, Deluxe Super Strat, Deluxe Double Fat Strat, and others, are a great value, and I think are an upgrade over a plain American made Standard Strat. I don't care for a Mexi standard OR an American Standard. But I own a Powerhouse that is great. At NAMM last summer, I was playing a Strat off the wall and I loved it, it happened to be the powerhouse. You look at them different when there are no price tags to tell you what they are.
Thats all,
H2H
monty
Banned
I didn't care for the 'standards' either, but the 'American Strat' is better to my touch than the 'standards'. They have definite improvements over the 'standards' since about 2 years ago.
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jollylama
New member
there was some info about different types of wood used in the making of guitars and the necks, does anyone recall?
monty
Banned
I think this may be the wrong forum to ask such questions. This is the political forum now.
guhlenn
Oh REALLY????
allow me one quick political coloured reply to c7; capitalism created this situation... and the us of a are still capitalistic (spelling?) move to Cuba and you will be praised !
oh and it's siEg heil, although you're the one sounding like a nazi... guess what Hitler wanted? right a state that was totally selfsufficient ... everything people bought was german...
there ya go!
and uhm... i really like a squier as long as it stays in tune!
Guhlenn
oh and it's siEg heil, although you're the one sounding like a nazi... guess what Hitler wanted? right a state that was totally selfsufficient ... everything people bought was german...
there ya go!
and uhm... i really like a squier as long as it stays in tune!
Guhlenn
