Fender Review: Fat Strat Texas Special

History:

Purchase: Picked it up brand new at a Guitar Center for about $800.

What I Like About This Fender Fat Strat Texas Special: This guitar is basically everything wrapped into one. It has the staggered texas special neck & mid single coils along with the seymour duncan pearly gates humbucker in the bridge position. You can produce anything from the cleanest tone to the nastiest snarling distortion possible. The maple neck & fretboard are very smooth and play fast. It stays in tune very well and produces tone you wouldn't believe. I have very sweaty hands when I play and all of the hardware has stayed very clean and no replacement/lubrication has been needed for one year so far. All I can say is American made -- everything was perfect when I bought it, no flaws.

What I Do NOT Like About The Fender Fat Strat Texas Special: There's a few minor drawbacks with this guitar. For one, the finish is bubbling in a few small places, nothing major or noticable (yet) unless under close inspection and the nut is kind of cheap and wears fast.

Fender Fat Strat Texas Special Quality Rating: Very good guitar, last a lifetime if cared for properly.

Review Summary: When I went out guitar shopping I was looking for the guitar of my dreams, something that would last me forever and I'd enjoy playing, and this was it. I loved the feel of the slicker Ibanezes with the low actions, and the jacksons with the wide fretboards, I tried PRS's and everything else inbetween but this was it. It's all of them wrapped into one -- you have the ability to play nearly every music style with incredible variations in tone and the ability to adjust it easily for your custom playing style. When I picked it up it had 8 or 9 gauge strings and it didn't take much effort to restring and set it up myself for 13's and then back down to 11's eventually. It also has a floating bridge and works very well with a slide and higher action. This is definatley a keeper!

Rating of this Fender product: 5

This Fender Fat Strat Texas Special Electric Guitars Review Submitted By: pooze

Review Date: 2001-08-02