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American standard doesn't exist anymore, it's now called American Pro.

Beautiful. Simply, simply lovely.

Probably the same set-up as per the Epiphone Les Paul that is made in China, under licence. You only notice a difference in sound if you have the two next to each other. For a relative newbie like me, it’s hard to justify the extra £1k for the American Gibson! Having said that, it is only the price of a mobile phone so what the hell!

MN means Maple neck. This is a real fender strat but it's made in Mexico. Nothing wrong with it at all but you can buy American ones on the used market for this kind of money.

:) I thought so it normally says American Standard on the expensive ones. I have a Meixan Strat love it!

I remember every little thing as if it only happened yesterday. I was barely 17 and I once killed a boy with a Fender guitar...

Clearly a successful post then as following you submitting it, they've sold out.

There was low stock availability when I ordered a few hours ago.

Out of stock

EKO NXT series acoustic guitars are great for the money. I bought one as my regular daily practice guitar so that I won't cry if I knock it about too much. My main acoustic is a Faith Venus acoustic. I'm left handed and to be fair whenever I see a nice guitar I usually buy it so er I'm not sure how many guitars I actually have, I should probably count them as two of them are worth a lot and I should insure them, so yeah I'll er go do that then. ED: I just checked and I have the EKO NXT 018 CW. Which is about £159 or so, so yes unfortunately twice the price of this guitar. A cracking guitar for the price.

Who cares where it was made? They're all mass produced by workers who are paid peanuts, there is no love and care into any of these guitars. Even these £5000 guitars are made in the same places by the same people who couldn't give a crap. It's not like one made in the US was hand crafted by some famous artist and it's a one off...

Ha, very good, but I have one of these guitars myself (a Mexican Strat, that is) and it is genuinely a lovely thing. No doubt the American is better but on a limited budget this is great. Mine cost slightly less than this about 10 years ago. As it happens, I bought it as Frusciante played one too - this video being the reason I bought it (mine is Tobacco Sunburst): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjY1x9RgbdE

Their description definitely suggests MiM -

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Yes. In the same way that Lewis Hamilton drives a Mercedes.

Keeping my eye out for full band kit including drums on Xbox one. Had the Beatles kit for original Wii and is the only time I managed to get the mrs into gaming. Got guitar hero live but feels a bit too complicated when just wanting some fun.

Showing £56.39 for me

Rock band is by far the better game. I have all of them and the fact I could transfer my 300+ tracks from the 360 to the xboxone and have most of the tracks from all the discs. I can have my sisters, my Dad, mum, even my Gran joined in one of the New years we set it all up

​ but guitar hero live uses the token system. I prefer rock band. it's also simpler to setup and play and you get drums

there's some awesome songs! you just gotta have taste and maybe not just love commercial tracks. it plays much better than guitar hero live too. no token rubbish, replay as much as you want. get £50 psn voucher for £43, use it on tracks,get £10 free next month

Worth noting that the fender Mexico and USA factories are a stones throw away from each other (relatively speaking) just 3 hours by car, not like they are being built in China or Indonesia

Sounds like you have a different technique to most :{

I had a Mexican Tele for years, and the build quality was superb! Just a beautiful guitar and amazing sound. Eventually gave it up because it was quite heavy and gigging day after day for hours on end became a ball-ache!

True but to be fair (and in my opinion) there is a lesser chance to get a rubbish MIA one than MIM. MIM were really good in the 90s though so it's always worth to check the aftermarket!

I have a standard, an LPJ (not a junior) and an SG (which were of course Les Paul's when released) the junior gets played more than all of them. Juniors have been around since the 50's so of course it's a Les Paul Also worth noting that often "cheaper" models are structurally identical to more expensive models minus time consuming extras like binding, gloss paint etc

Nice deal! If you do a store check the price seems to be £22.99, so worth heading down to your local Game since it's OOS online :)

I never actually ordered one, silly me.

now showing as £49

This or Guitar Hero Live?

ah shame, would have gone for this - good spot op. shame its now ooo

Until you lose those colour-coded cards...

MIJ Squier every time :D

MIJ Squier, easy!

Deffo mate, don't know how loads of artists over the past few decades have been able to play these hideous CBS Strats! It's not like some of em don't have the money!

Last good strats were made around 1965 before Leo Fender sold the business to CBS. After that they just lived off their name.

But... would you take a MIM Fender over a MIJ Squier? :3

Went and picked it up this afternoon. Lovely. Not a mark on it, no smudges, no finger marks from handling, looks brand new. Smells brand new - you know that urethane(?)&glue smell? The tremolo has never been fitted (they asked me if I wanted it on, I said not now) and they put a new set of strings on, replacing the 9's with 10's, and their luthier gave it a full tune up, which is why I came back to pick it up today rather than take it home yesterday. Deal? I reckon it was. And, thank you for making me think again and look around.. I would never have found it had you not said what you did. Kudos.

Nice. You got a good deal there.

The only thing I don't like imho about this strat is the humbucker at the bridge. Even with coil tap you can never get that unique out of phase sound between the bridge and middle pickup as you do with a single coil at bridge. I've tried over the years with Seymour Duncan e.c.t but have gone back to stock Fender single coils. The Texas specials are good for a thicker sound though, shame not put at bridge as well then that would be good strat. Still voted hot as seems a good orice if made in USA.

So, I took the plunge and got this instead (locally) - shop display one, looks mint, for £750: 2014 Fender American Standard Stratocaster (Bordeaux Metallic, Maple)

Heat cos it's a nice instrument for the money. Looking at the high end Mexican on for myself at the moment.

Plus one for this. Any budget under £200 and you cannot beat Yamaha for value for a decent instrument. I don't own one but teach guitar for a living and have many students with varying guitars but the yamahas stand out for sound, build quality, value for money and playability too. I play PRS electrics and Taylor acoustics so im not a Yamaha fanboy but appreciate a decent range of products that doesn't rip off customers

Thank you. Give me somewhere to start.

If he doesn't have a guitar at present a Yamaha Pacifica 012 would be a great starter. You can get them in beginner packages with a stand and a basic practise amp for that ballpark cost, maybe a little more

Better off with the £99 Yamaha deal posted earlier

aldi has some nice guitar for £35

Price is now £188. Seems it was a very hot deal after all.

Clearly they aren't Cowboys. You shouldn't slate a company for no reason. People work hard to build reputations up. I had a positive experience when dealing with them.

Better get a banjo then.

yes why cowboys? ive placed order with them recently

Why are they Cowboys?

If I was after a starter guitar, I'd definitely get this.

Hi, My husband wants to learn how to play an electric guitar and as his birthday is approaching thought i would but him one.....i know nothing about them so i hope you guys can advise what is a good starter?

Still have an old Squier Fender, a good... 15 years old now and still not a great deal wrong with it. This is a VERY good starter kit for the money (especially if it's not the Chinese built one).

I can confirm these are the Indonesian built model and therefore different to specs as mentioned by retailer and Fender (main differences as per my post above).... nice surprise. BTW...it arrived with European plug (although retailer threw in a UK plug when I checked with them)

...and a guitarist that can play...lol

Out of stock? They are good...

I'd raise the bridge, file down the nut and take the buzz out of the low E.

That's a good way of looking at it. It's a great Fender guitar with all the other modeling/tuning goodies thrown in at a decent price. That said I think it's based on a Mexican rather than a USA Strat - can anyone confirm?. Then again my old Mexican Tele was much nicer to play than my USA Tele so if this is a Mexican Strat then it wouldn't put me off. Thanks for the Steve Stevens video links, some great demos there 8)

you could look at it like a real strat, which it is, but with some modern extras. if you are a versatile musician you can get so much out of one guitar. check out these demos by steve stevens, (it won't make you sound like him though!) demo 1 live demo

Likewise - played a strat and HATED it. Definitely a marmite guitar. But a good price so hot from me.

YouTube Roland Product Video http://youtu.be/G4Wv-bQKHDM

Clickable Links... Black with Maple Sunburst with Rosewood CN1 Power Adapter

They have it for 199 (£158) euros at thomann, just need to to spend another euro to get free uk postage. http://www.thomann.de/gb/fender_cd60_ce_bk.htm They also have the non-cutaway for about £97

Price now gone up to £173 and for preorder, have marked as expired but still seems to be alive :/

+1 for the yamaha F310, it's a better guitar for less money, the samick greg bennet guitars are good beginner's instruments as well. I've owned a few fenders, acoustic and electric and although some were good guitars they were all over priced, the big name builders have become lazy in recent years and with the advent of CNC machining even cheap guitars are very accurately built. That said this is a better price than I've seen for this model so have some heat.

Not really.... An OK Guitar and one of Fenders best selling guitars but would spend a little extra on the Mahogany one as it is very very nice....saw someone gigging with one a few weeks ago and sounded nice. (The Mahogany one) or save yourself some money, if you don't need the pickup (As you'll need a PA/Amp as well to get the best out of it) as the normal one is only around £100 new. And all black guitars are a pain to keep clean.... Personally prefer the Yamaha F310 (We have/tried both) for value which is another alternative if anyone is looking in this price range and a beginner shouldn't be buying sight unseen/untried anyway....

Ideal for a beginner who isn't sure if they'll keep up playing or they'll give up, but if someone is looking for a gift for someone who already plays, they should spend a bit more for something which at least has a solid top.

Fantastic deal. It's a decent amp. HOT.

Oh, and heat!

Don't need another amp. Don't need another amp.

Looks like GAK.co.uk have pricematched it too. Possibly end of line discontinued stock?

some of the Squier stuff can be really good these days, but it can also be very, very hit & miss I suspect your guitar shop found a good one and had it nicely set up for the shop floor ;) I have a MIJ custom Ibanez that plays nicer than anything I've ever had the pleasure of, and trust me, it's worth the money. but I wouldn't hesitate to recommend a cheap one, because they are very well made things these days. 'cheap' is the word there though, 200 odd is cheap imo, 400 and up isn't particularly

China Fenders are really, really good these days though. I recently spent an hour in a guitar shop and tried out some teles: a £150 squire, £400 mexi, £600 baja, £1000 USA and a £2500 custom shop. Best playing and feeling guitar, by some way, was the £150 squire. Madness (best sounding was the custom shop obviously, but thats just electronics and wiring, not craftsmanship). 5 years ago china guitars were bobbins, but these days theres not a lot in it. It's an old school musicians thing that keeps us shelling big cash these days.

to each their own personally, if i'm gonna drop coin on a Fender, it's got to be proper, none of this cheapass outsourcing to China bs :| if i want a cheaply built guitar, i'll buy a cheap guitar

My pawn shop 72 f hole start is a thing of beauty, amazing guitar

maybe because these Pawn Shop gits are all made in China...