Hey Rob, the "teeth" on Jag pickups are there to increase the magnetic field, reducing hum and increasing output, making a "punchier" tone. They are basically extra polepieces.

Fantastic playing from the captain here, I thought

Fender's Mexican stuff is arguably some of the greatest guitar for the money you can buy...

Lee, your playing has improved immensly, great job!

- But it says standard on the headstock..? - No, it says *Stratocaster*. I almost snorted my coffee! =)

Rob never ceases to amaze me that playing man its smooth 👏🏻👏🏻

These guys' playing never fails to impress me. Joy to watch and listen to.

Mexican fender is, imho, the true Fender brand as Lee says: its the spiritual successor to pre-CBS Fender. Its all more than good enough, but utilitarian enough to be affordable and .. giggable! I love it really. I also love that they have really made a niche for themselves with the Baja and the classic series. They have actually eclipsed US Fender imho. The two best brands in guitars money can buy: Fender (by a long way) then Epiphone semi-hollows. Casino, Sheraton, Dot, 339, Wildkat etc. All just insanely good instruments for the £2-300 they sell for!

Love the moment at approx. 5:20 when Rob's mug vaporizes! Class!

Before reading anything , after 53 seconds of just listening to your playing Lee, you sound like some of the stuff you and Justin have been jamming out on is coming out in your playing. Nice hold of the little motifs! Great playing man!

Wow Lee, those rut busters with Justin are paying off! You sounded great in that Jam! Wish I could have a whole album of the two of you impromptu jamming!

Editing is absolutely on point in this one!

wow, for 550 pounds you get a fender strat with the right logo, 22 frets and 2 point tremolo, wow, this is just like the american fender strat but 3 times cheaper, i am so impressed! i have to get one of these

4:28 Lee's pulling out ALL the new licks :D Sounding great dude

Im picking up my Fender Player next week as I've been in the mood to go back to Fender & I've always loved their Telecaster range... How Sweet they are...

O Captain, my Captain! Your dedication to improving your playing after saying you were stuck in a rut so long has inspired me to actually knuckle down and make practice time! Keep on keepin' on.

LEE! YOU’RE SOUNDING GREAT!

I like Fenders, always have. When I first started playing guitar I had a black-on-black-on-black Japanese 3-bolt Strat. As a beginner I didn't realize that it was great guitar, and being young and stupid I wanted something fancy, something professional, something seriously rock and roll. I wanted a Gibson Explorer or a Gibson Les Paul. What I didn't want was a Telecaster, which I thought was ugly, uninteresting and made for country players. Somehow during that first year of lessons I managed to save up enough money to buy a good used American guitar, and as I got closer and closer to buying my 'real' guitar the only guitar in the store that responded to my fingers, the only guitar that made me feel like a better player, was a homely 1987 butterscotch American Telecaster. Plain white pickguard, maple neck, all stock, boring, and I couldn't imagine buying it. I desperately wanted to buy the 1979 Les Paul Black Beauty, because I thought it was so impressive. But I hated the neck, the frets were tiny and the weight was awful. In the back of my mind I knew that I wanted the Les Paul because I wanted to show it to my friends, and I told myself that over time I would learn to play it. I remember being almost dazed as I put down the money for that Telecaster. Today I own four Telecasters, all of them sweethearts. I also own a bowling ball Stratocaster and Gibson Custom Shop Explorer with a lime-to-lemon flame-top burst that cost me almost $4,000.00 and that I never play. Maybe it's an investment.

My fender player strat has just arrived from your store. It's amazing love the colour capri Orange 🍊 came 2 days early so thank you Andertons for a great service.

I literally was about to buy a fender mex 50s, good to have some info from you guys.👍🏼 Just in time

This range looks so good!

They finally have a somewhat affordable strat in the Yngwie Malmsteen strat butterscotch yellow, hallelujah.

Man these guys are awesome. I am a beginner and have a epi 1959 les Paul and one of these player strats in sss configuration. I thought I liked the les Paul until I got this strat. It’s very comfortable and you get a lot of guitar for the price. I live in the states and purchased mine from sweet water and it had no issues upon purchase. Very pleased with it so far.

Fender knocked it out of the park with these! Amazing! Finally got 22 frets aswell!

Man! Robs little trills and quick licks in the opening jam was tasty! Twas a tasty jam! Mmmmm Delicious

Damn this has made me very moist. Affordable Mexican Fenders with the "proper" logo (I hated the one on the mim standards), 2 screw trems and 22 frets! Birthday's coming up in 2 months and that butterscotch HSH strat is fuccin' MINE

I've never really given much thought to Tele's before, but I absolutely loved how they sounded here!

Quality and tone looks/sounds on point. Thanks for the video. Always learn something.

Really tasteful playing by Lee in this video. He’s a different player now than he was in the early videos.

22 fret Mexican strats. That’s so massive in itself. I have two USA Malmsteen strats and always wanted a more standard strat with that extra fret. A cheaper yet reliably made option like this? Pew pew!! That hum-hum tele even, super nice. Also, Lee sitting on his phone for a whole 20 seconds, marvelling at the product info at 13:33 is hilarious.

I love the HSS flame top strat I bought over the weekend! Didn't realize the line had only been out for 2 days when I initially tried it.

This is one of my favorite Anderton’s videos.

still remamber when the captain says that the best mode for a jazzmaster is to take it to a guitar shop add a bit of money and change it for a strat x)))

Yes to the pedalboard video idea!

It’s not until you find so many sub par low quality videos on guitars, you really appreciate andertons videos. Outstanding

I luv both u blokes . Both of u sing a strat. Much respect from Charles in Los Angeles . I’m a long time first time

Please do a video comparing old MIM Standard and Player Telecasters, please!

Gettin' the hang of that whole "blues lead" thing, Lee! I like it!

Loved your intro solo Captain, very soulful.

some impressive playing, Gents... Can't say enough about where your playing is going, Lee. Excellent vid...!

Is it me or has Cap's tone and chops gone off the charts recently. Freakin awesome!

The Jazzmaster does have a coil tap/split (whatever it is) - the tone knob is a push/pull :D Hope that helped!

One has to give Rob probs for his playing! Not overnoodled and great taste in that intro. Lots of love!

Man the fretboard on the strat rob is playing in amazing, imagine a matching neck with that!

man that jam at the beginning...

glad to see you guys back together again for another vid. please disregard all the silly tw%ts and their mean posts. you rule. keep doing what you're doing.

whoa the cps' playing and tone was GLORIOUS on this vid

As always, awesome editing!!!!

I have been thinking of buying a Mexican tele for the last couple of days now this pops up! It's a sign

has the captain been locked in cupboard and forced to practice ? Hugely impressed with your chops !

I love the little nuggets of comedy. It makes me want to make sure watch everything

I've got another tab open on Sweetwater with my finger on the trigger. That Floyd Rose - Tidepool with the Maple fingerboard is mine.

I think that a guitar that cost 500£ it’s likely the first professional guitar a young boy can buy so I think Gig Bag it’s important!

3:18 - There is... it's just in the Squier range - according to the website, the Squier Standard Stratocaster is the last Standard standing.

I just got one of these. My second guitar. I started playing in July. Super excited! My other one is a ESP EC-1000T with Fluence pickups. I think I have a good range of tones now!

fender was listening to everybody and did everything as we wished, it's so amazing.!! epiphone, now it's your turn, bring the open book headstock please!

No more ceramic pickups - Alnico 5. 2 point trem. 22 frets. Bridge tone control. An improved American Strat at 1/3 the price. JEEZ! Other than snobbery why would you buy the American?

On the /r/guitar subreddit, a person was saying that these guitars are more expensive, but made with lesser quality.

That maple pair were soooo sweet. I wasn't sold on a 6 saddle tele but the sound was very very good.

Rory has been killing the videos for so long yet he always surprises me😂

that red strat which lee is holding , looks superrr cheap with that red finish! looks like squier affinity strat

A Jazzmaster without those weird control switches is not much of a Jazzmaster to me.

I would love to see an HH player telecaster demo. Also cup breaking part. You guys make the most entertaining videos. Thanks.

Just got mine, a Stratocaster with sss configuration in polar white, I’m in love with it

Thank goodness! 22 frets and a 2 point trem!

Lee has a vibrato from heaven ❤️

Love the Captains face when Rob starts shredding 😁

Glad that Fender is finally updating this series!

That tele sounded a million times better than the strats did

I would like to see the Captain do a blindfold challenge where he can hear the difference between a maple and rosewood fret board😀

The editing in these just keeps getting better and better. I thought this show would get stale at some point - nope! Just keeps getting more and more hilarious :)

First things first, Andertons is my favorite channel. There. And I know I’m not the first to say this- but seriously, how are we supposed to have any idea what these guitars actually do when you start stomping drive boxes right out of the gate? I get that maybe it’s hard to make an entertaining long video with pure clean tones, but to at least linger on true cleans for a bit then dial up the drive gradually from the amp would give us some indication of what the guitars are actually doing. With demos in the style of this one I could not tell a Strat from a Jazzmaster from a Les Paul from a Hellraiser. No exaggeration. Captain’s run with the Jaguar is much closer to what we would benefit from!

These new PRS guitars look great

I’m not into red strats besides wine red but this one is killer, just wish it had a maple neck instead

Rob...Killer lead work for the intro. Very awesome.

My silver SSS w/PF fingerboard arrived today; 4/20/20, and... Wow. We are going to be very good friends.

6:03 its true, Rob.

I was really excited about the Jazzmaster until I saw the pickup configuration. :/

Is it just me, or the captain has added some major tasty licks to his playing? Well done sir, well done

I just bought one of these strats HSS in buttercream colour, it’s super clean and smooth well worth the money I feel

I like the consistency in their jams LOL they can turn any guitar into the same shit with those over driven bluesy riffs on the bridge pickup

Although these demos and showcases are all beyond amazing, it feels like "real" critical reviews are becoming increasingly rare on KZfaq/Interwebs. Any favourit channels/websites for reviews?

The intro jams have gotten so much better

Mind sharing what foot pedals you are using, too, please? And I asked too soon 21:22 but no links to them in the Description #ShunedPedals

I'd look for a competitively priced, used, American Standard before buying this new line. Little more coin but not by much. Good on Fender for changing things up though.

What you can do for a easy tone wah-like use is the Rory Gallagher trick: switch the volume knob for the bridge tone knob.

Love the double black Tele ....I really need one of those MXR sugar drives ,they sound great !

*YYYYYYEEEEEAAAAASSSSZZZZZ*

7:06 lol

Robs Victory V30 was the star here - all the guitars he had through that amp sounding incredible

I’m getting one of those sage green strats. Looks very nice!

As if by the sheer force of will emanating from KZfaq and the collective internet, I feel compelled to post this comment stating that I am here prior to this video reaching 500 views.

If you look hard enough second hand American standards can be found for 500-600! I know what I’d rather have!

Bought one of the Strats the other day after owning the Mex Standard, and Squier 70s reissue, and the player series blows them both away. Not as muddy as the Mex standard, and much higher quality than the Squier. Great decision.

Wow! Very nice. I’d be very keen to hear the 60’s Classic Series Strats if the UK has them yet.

Forget the prs, buy a fender player series

These guitars Got slated on Reddit

The claws on the Jaguar pickups are there to help with RF shielding and alter the magnetic pull of the pickup somewhat.

Having the tone pot there and on the bridge, even just set to 10 makes a huge difference. I don't tend to back of tone controls much, but pickups just sound wrong without them. I occasionally just drop in a 500kOhm resistor and 22nF capacitor for a "permanently set on 10" tone control. Unless it's a "shape guitar" it doesn't need to come with a case, i suspect most guitarists that aren't loaded will have a couple of cases or decently gigbags sufficient to transport enough guitars to do a gig. The teeth are supposed to shape the magnetic field and the extra metal has a very slight upper mid scoop effect in the way that a cover does, but without the drop in output.

Wow so now the Mexican strat looks like a squire bullet....that just great