Fender Highway One Strat - Guitar Repair & Demo

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2 жыл бұрын

Let's celebrate this guitar turning 20 years old by giving it a close look and some much needed TLC. The sound demo starts at 18min 5 seconds if you just want to skip ahead.
The guitar got a cleaning, fret dress, all new electronics, re-string and set-up. The tuning machines were also de-burred and all the screws on the bridge were lubricated.
Demo recording was done with a 1970 Fender Twin Reverb and a Shure MV88 microphone with an iPhone 13. The amp was loud and I had the mic input at -60db to avoid clipping. The recording didn’t translate the sound quite as well as I’d hoped. It’s better with the mic closer and amp a little quieter. Oh well.
This guitar will be for sale in my Reverb shop soon and description will be updated with the link.
As always, thank you for watching.
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@KRAZEEIZATION Жыл бұрын

I love HW-1 guitars! I’ve a crimson 2004 Strat with maple, Crimson 2005 Tele with rosewood, 2007 satin Matt Tele with maple and a 2002 blonde Strat with rosewood is on the cards!

@bbmade Жыл бұрын

Thanks for the comment! They are cool guitars.

@KRAZEEIZATION 3 ай бұрын

@@bbmadeJust bought a honey blonde with rosewood from 2002 and it’s awesome!

@bbmade 2 ай бұрын

Saweet! I kinda miss the guitar from this video because of the beat up finish on the body. Someday maybe another one will be in the cards for me. Congrats 👍

@MojoRicky 11 ай бұрын

Great stuff

@JaniceLalla 2 жыл бұрын

Sounds great!

@bbmade 2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! This was a fun one.

@nonamaphionex4659 Жыл бұрын

mine 2003 highway one also upgraded to deluxe pickup scn noiseless selector,pickguard,5switch and 3 knob vol..

@karlmartin849 Жыл бұрын

Mine is from 2002 also. I've upgraded all of the electronics, and hardware. Great guitars!!

@xleftsidex1627 Жыл бұрын

How come they're great if you had to upgrade all the important parts of the guitar lol. That's basically a different custom model at this point

@karlmartin849 Жыл бұрын

@@xleftsidex1627 Well it's no different than Gilmour, Clapton, SRV, Gallagher etc who have all modded their instruments.

@bbmade Жыл бұрын

Speaking for myself, if a guitar has a great neck, swapping out some other components only makes it better. The genius of Leo Fender and his designs is simplicity. The Highway One in the video only needed a new switch because it was over heated by someone previously. I decided to upgrade the rest of the controls because the end result was cleaner than spending more time rehabbing what was there. Legit question though 👍

@Airhead348 Жыл бұрын

@@xleftsidex1627 i dont even plug in a guitar when i buy it. Electronics can be switched easy its all about how a strat is put together and how the neck and body wood sound together. Frets, radious and neck carve are far more important than pups.

@gw2031 Жыл бұрын

All Fenders should have the big frets they used on HW strats ,,mines plays absolutely amazing !

@googaboogaloo 2 жыл бұрын

That music when you are desoldering the pickups is really funky. If only that strat had the big headstock. I’m a sucker for the big headstock.

@bbmade 2 жыл бұрын

Was able to find some good jams on the KZfaq royalty free music! I gotta add the info the description even though it isn’t required to use it. Good stuff.

@googaboogaloo 2 жыл бұрын

@@bbmade it’s very Steve Cropper in Booker T and the MGs. How does that prince of tone compare to a klon style pedal?

@bbmade 2 жыл бұрын

@@googaboogaloo To me the two pedals are very different. I’ve had three or four Klon style pedals and didn’t like any of them. I do not understand the appeal of the Klon design. To my ear, the Klon has a mid range that is unpleasant but then again I like a scooped mid sound. I joke with people that I love a tone that is sure to get lost in a mix. I really like the Prince (and King) of Tone pedals and the Soloist pedal. The Soloist nails the SRV sound to me. I did have the Wampler Tumnus Deluxe which was the best of the Klon pedals I had. Used it as a boost with a Tube Screamer at a gig and it was great right before the bar owner told me to turn down.

@googaboogaloo 2 жыл бұрын

@@bbmade I’ve been curious about them. I just bought a build your own klon kit and I had a couple of the cheap klon clones (one sounded like I had a wah engaged the mids were so harsh). A good overdrive that I like is hard to come by. But when you kicked on the prince I liked that. I might have to try my hand at building one of those.

@bbmade 2 жыл бұрын

@@googaboogaloo Yeah it’s all about finding one you connect with. Took me a long time to find a couple I really liked. The King of Tone has a better “feel” to me and really shines when you are at gig volume. Prince of Tone is a match for sound and the “feel” is so subjective it might be my imagination. I was looking at the Klon kit from Stew Mac and pondering building one.