Round the back the vibrato cavity cover is the easy-access type, with one large slit instead of six oblong holes. In fact, this is in direct contrast to last year's similarly priced Road Worns - have we become bored so quickly with faded green, rusty nickel and distressing?
Chrome hardware and a three-ply white plastic scratchplate with matching knobs and switches look great against the glossy sunburst body. The bridge is Fender's 56-year-old vibrato design, which still looks great, is practical and stable and, well, a Fender Stratocaster really doesn't look right without one. That's a fatuous remark, of course, but we wonder why use these and not the more traditional 'butterfly' string tree and 'F' stamped Kluson-type tuners that would be more appropriate to this headstock style? Again, it's a minor point that's more to do with dyed-in-the-wool preconceptions than anything else - indeed both work exceptionally well, so perhaps we should just get over it!
#2007 fender highway one stratocaster natural full
One gets the feeling that Fender has a room full of the screwless Schaller-style tuners and Free-Flyte string trees that have appeared on various models since the mid-eighties, and every so often it brings out a new model just to get rid of a few more. The headstock face might have looked a little more special had it been buffed to a gloss, but that's a minor detail and a matter for personal taste. "It plays like a dream and literally stunned us with its musicality." Adjustment for the two-way Bi-Flex truss rod is from the headstock end, which is much easier than the vintage-style body end location. The Special Strat comes with a satin-finished, all-maple neck and late sixties-style large headstock. And remember, most original sixties Fenders were made this way - and few complained about it then. Our Strat's body is a three-piece affair, but Fender's done a good job of matching these 'sets' so that the join doesn't scream at you from several feet away.
This and the Strat's inherent sensuality make playing or even just holding the guitar a most tactile experience. But this medium gives just the right level of lustre and can be sprayed thinly enough so as not to stifle the wood, as gloopy coatings of seventies-style polyester were said to do. Ask as many questions as you like but the auction will not be ended early.Urethane finishes are easier to apply and a lot less labour intensive to complete than the nitro-cellulose of higher end instruments, which requires more coats, more sanding between applications and is generally trickier overall. All electrics are working fine and, surprisingly, it comes with a high quality Fender case (Highways were sold with gigbags) worth a hundred quid! They discontinued these guitars in 2011, replacing them with the similar spec but more expensive Special series, so this is a bargain. There is also mild buckle rash but not nearly as much as my guitars usually have and that's because this guitar has been mostly forgotten since I started using Yamaha MSGs (apart from one rehearsal) and has been left sitting in its case at home. There is a small amount of fretwear, mostly on the G and B strings around frets 2 and 3 as you would expect. It has a five way selector and greasebucket tone circuitry. The thin finish gives it a chiming, more open sound, which I like, whilst the humbucker adds a bit of extra grunt for rock, punk pop or metal (if you must -D). It has a C shape maple neck (not as thin as some other USA Strats I've owned) with rosewood fretboard and big frets, parchment scratchplate and trem cover, black plastic parts, large headstock and thin nitro finish which is just starting to buff up nicely around the edges.
This is an auction for my 2007 Highway One Strat in wine red with bridge humbucker.
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