buying guitars off Craigslist at 2am; MIJ fender content

[D/FW XJ'er]

Yeah boy!! Scored an E series Fender Strat in Olympic White w/ rosewood board last night at 2 am. This will be hard to explain to my wife

 

[badger71]

I have an '88 MIJ and it kicks ass. What year is the E series?

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

I have an '88 MIJ and it kicks ass. What year is the E series?

84 - 87. I'm going to have to research to find the exact year.

 

[TX6Strings]

I've seen several MIJ strats on craigslist lately. Are they really that good?

 

[hail and kill]

They are pretty nice guitars if you ask me, I have an '87 MIJ strat. Sadly im not a strat guy really. I really love my tele Heres some pics if anyone is interested. PM with an offer.

erik.

 

[Telephant]

I've seen several MIJ strats on craigslist lately. Are they really that good?

They are hit or miss IMO. Some of them are really heavy and stiff feeling. Others feel like really well made Strats. Just kinda depends on what year I guess.

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

I've seen several MIJ strats on craigslist lately. Are they really that good?

They are hit or miss IMO. Some of them are really heavy and stiff feeling. Others feel like really well made Strats. Just kinda depends on what year I guess.

This is one of the old MIJ's and it smokes

I'll give it a full beating later and post a review/pics

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

yeah, its more like they're damn good for the money

Not necessarily the best Strats, period. Of course I like my Stratskind of skanky and hard to play so.... This one ain't a super strat LOL

 

[bunghole]

rosewood fretboard on olympic white?

maple board is the only way to go with an olympic white strat

 

[Telephant]

rosewood fretboard on olympic white?

maple board is the only way to go with an olympic white strat

I heard that.

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

rosewood fretboard on olympic white?

maple board is the only way to go with an olympic white strat

Newp, sorry. I only buy rosewood boarded Strats

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

Wow, the previous owner had this thing setup like shit, and the stock pickups suck cock.

However, a gentle truss rod adjustment, a real quick tremolo adjustment, and about 10 minutes fine tuning the intonation results in a WONDERFUL guitar. Acoustically loud, has imperfections, doesn't play like a million bucks (you gotta dig with this one), and you can hear the "spank" even unplugged.

Now all of this went away when I kicked on my TS9. Pickups are shrill, trebly, and somehow muddy when you introduce gain along the way to the amp I mean, really terrible. For cleans they're nice, but the guitar just resonates like a mofo.

Now it's time to start shopping for pickups....

 

[trey85stang]

I've seen several MIJ strats on craigslist lately. Are they really that good?

story is back in the day they were better quailty then the americans...

 

[trey85stang]

ohh yeah... rosewood fingerboards on a strat suck. maple all the way

 

[TX6Strings]

I've seen several MIJ strats on craigslist lately. Are they really that good?

story is back in the day they were better quailty then the americans...

Yeah I did some research and some say that Fender quit production of MIJ models because of this. <shurgs> Who knows

 

[D/FW XJ'er]

ohh yeah... rosewood fingerboards on a strat suck. maple all the way

I'll bring it with me when I stop by to demo your SLO clone and you can hear the goodness

 

[bill]

I have an old MIJ Pinl Paisley Strat. Bone stock and a great player. Also has increased in value due to the paint job I quess. Maple board and single-coils. Real country looking.

 

[trey85stang]

ohh yeah... rosewood fingerboards on a strat suck. maple all the way

I'll bring it with me when I stop by to demo your SLO clone and you can hear the goodness

Did you ever work out a dfw mini amp fest? If you can set that up.. ill be there

edit: Also in another 2-3 weeks I should have the epiphone socal converted to jcm800 goodness

 

[bunghole]

Did you ever work out a dfw mini amp fest? If you can set that up.. ill be there

me too