![]() ![]() I've had it for almost 3 months now, so here goes. ![]() I've been holding off until after the honeymoon period before posting about my new 2015 50's Road Worn. To avoid having to answer replies like " show some pics or it didn't happen", I was just about to upload a photo but this was more difficult than expected so you'll just have to believe me. And finally, the most important thing: I didn't like the look of the fake stain on the pickguard so I used some 'sandpaper' (or whatever it To be honest, I don't know if that really is a problem but I believe steel is the proper material for the bridge hardware so I have replaced the whole bridge assembly on both guitars with Callaham vintage bridges. I found that the tremolo block did not attract my fridge magnets at all since it was made of Zinc instead of steel. Of course there are lots of other great pickups out there.Ĥ. I now have Lollar blondes in the '50s strat, and a set of Seymour Duncan Antiquity 2 in the '60s strat. I think the original pickups are quite good but since I decided that the road worns were going to be my #1 (and #2) guitars, I wanted to have the best pickups I could get. Again, I have found that newer road worns don't have this problem as the holes through the body are big enough to let the screws move freely.ģ. ![]() If you want to do this, please leave the drilling to a professional guitar tech unless you're very certain about what you're doing. The solution was to open up the holes through the body a tiny bit. ![]() This leads to a sloppy neck-to-body contact. To my great surprise, the neck screws actually threaded (or "bit") through the body so that they didn't move freely. I believe the newer ones don't have that problem.Ģ. A fret levelling took care of that and I would recommend everyone owning an older road worn to check this. Between the 12th and 17th fret or thereabouts, the frets were very uneven in height, requiring a very high action setting to avoid buzzing, and this seems to be a common problem of these early road worns. My road worn guitars were made in 2009 and it seems that the fretwork was not perfect at that time. Maybe these ideas are of some use to others too:ġ. (I also have the blonde road worn Tele and both the J and P fiesta red basses but let's focus on the strats now.)Įven though the road worns are great 'out of the box' I have made five adjustments/modifications to the guitars to make them even better. I now have an Olympic White '60s road worn and a sunburst '50s road worn and they blow every strat I have previously owned out of the water (including the vintage guitars and the custom shops), both in terms of how they sound and how they play. In 2010, a fiesta red Custom Shop '1959' relic Strat was my go-to guitar and I thought that guitar would be with me forever. For 20 years I was continuously looking for "that" guitar, buying Strats that really appealed to me and selling those that I didn't like anymore. Since then I have owned around fifteen Strats, including two vintage ones (a '60 and a '62, both refinished) and four Custom Shop Strats of which one was a Masterbuilt. That guitar was a Strat and I immediately knew I just had to get one of those. I've been a Strat man for 26 years, since my SG was being repaired in '89 and I had to borrow a friend's guitar for a rehearsal. I've been thinking about contributing to this club/thread for some time and now the time has finally come to actually do so. ![]()
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