[Comments] Latest Comments from Ultimate-Guitar.Com. en-us Copyright 1998-2013 Ultimate-Guitar.Com. All rights reserved. http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html webmaster@ultimate-guitar.com Fri, 09 Nov 2012 05:54:27 -0500 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 15:10:26 -0500 60 Ultimate-Guitar.Com http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/img/logo_rss.gif http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/ 144 44 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_1 POSTED: 05/13/2011 12:55pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 12:55:20 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_2
I'd expect that a guitar that goes for $1,700 would at least have a $10 knob fixed right and a $5 input jack taken care of.

Dude, talk about value for money! It may sound great, but its a shit deal!
POSTED: 05/13/2011 01:01pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 13:01:19 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_3
I would recommend buying an expensive American made guitar, and play it a ton, and see the quirky problems that happen to it...before talking mess. Aria guitars aren't exactly the bees neaz for a platform to talk mess about a fantastic, well regarded guitar. Go check out the reviews on harmony or tdpri...by older men who have played longer than you have been alive. Also, this guitar is not for metal fanboys like yourself. I heart Petrucci.
POSTED: 05/13/2011 01:18pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 13:18:45 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_4 POSTED: 05/13/2011 01:41pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 13:41:10 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_5 POSTED: 05/13/2011 03:38pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 15:38:24 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_6 leftinflinflon wrote:

Best review i have read on this site...a real guitar player.....I had a 59 Strat, lovely but thin, I traded a 72 Les Paul Deluxe for it, that was a nice guitar as well, gold top with the smaller humbuckers, but i have moved away from heavier guitars as I have grown older...now have a 2010 Gibson J-45...heading out to pasture...love that guitar, smells just like a fine brandy and the neck feels like the inside of a women's thigh. But some of the younger plaers won't understand that. I digress...good review

I wrote the review. thank you, and sounds like you have had some great gear. im a younger guy but the old stuff is what speaks to me. guess its just how you're raised and what you listened to. enjoy that j45 in the pasture.
POSTED: 05/13/2011 04:13pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 16:13:06 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_7 POSTED: 05/13/2011 06:15pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 18:15:09 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_8 kirkshred wrote:

Very nice guitar but I'm better off with my karolff mummy KH-602 guitar because its better for metal but I would't mind having it.

at least you're honest! thanks for the read
POSTED: 05/13/2011 07:16pm]]> Comments Fri, 13 May 2011 19:16:39 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_9 POSTED: 05/14/2011 03:27am]]> Comments Sat, 14 May 2011 03:27:47 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_10 OK Fender: they have a shop in LA and one south in Mexico. The quality is different for sure. cheaper parts mostly. Workmanship these days is done alot by machine. So they use cheaper paint , less of it, etc.
Personally for me it comes down to the sound,
And the old Fenders and the single coils just sound different.
I do have a LP ?... WY TH FK did Gibson stop putting MAPLE NECKS on there LPs's? it's been over twenty years now. **** mahogoney necks.
if not for the five grand ZW model. your ****d with gibson these days. Or you get used to it. I mean if u play u play anything.
POSTED: 05/14/2011 03:39am]]> Comments Sat, 14 May 2011 03:39:19 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_11 dick_of_deth wrote:

don't Les Paul's weigh over thirty pounds? Seven pounds seems light but the sound and playability is the thing. thx for filling me in,. i dig it.

not sure if you are serious with this. definitely nowhere close to 30lbs. ever. just weighed my trad pro at 9lbs today, and that is with chambering. old lps can hover between 9-14lbs. think about how heavy 30lbs is and think of all that weight resting on your shoulder.

also in regards to your second post i really have to disagree with what i could comprehend. the ZW model is not the only good gibson they make. they make a ton of really great models. i dont know how you narrow it down to that, i own two gibsons myself both are of excellent build and since when did gibson put on these maple necks? from what i recall the flagship of les pauls the 59' and everything from that era has always and continues to be mahogoney. they currently have the 'raw power' series with all maple which looks horrible but please explain that to us.
POSTED: 05/14/2011 04:02pm]]> Comments Sat, 14 May 2011 16:02:26 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_12 POSTED: 05/15/2011 05:33pm]]> Comments Sun, 15 May 2011 17:33:48 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_13 POSTED: 05/15/2011 09:20pm]]> Comments Sun, 15 May 2011 21:20:53 -0400 http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/reviews/electric_guitars/fender/american_vintage_hot_rod_62_stratocaster/index.html#u_14 My other "go to" guitar is a 1965 Gibson Firebird so I'm not partial to any brand.
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