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New Strat - Russell Watson - 2-:07 -0-10-20
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I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
happy all the way around.
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Re: New Strat - RichL - 2-:07 -0-10-20
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On Feb 7, 1:29=A0pm, Russell Watson <russell-wat...@comcast.net> wrote:
> I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
> bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
> they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
> the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
> how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
> too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
> and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
> for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
> charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
> price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
> way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
> though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
> brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
> other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
> are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
> Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
> happy all the way around.
Nice score! I've got an older one (2005), I like everything but the
pickups. Got Fralin replacements on order.
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Re: New Strat - OscartheGrouch - 2-:07 -0-10-20
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Russell Watson wrote:
> I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
> bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
> they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
> the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
> how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
> too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
> and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
> for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
> charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
> price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
> way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
> though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
> brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
> other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
> are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
> Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
> happy all the way around.
You need to report this to the Shield newsgroup. jk. Hiya Russell.
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Re: New Strat - Russell Watson - 2-:07 -0-10-20
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On Sun, 07 Feb 2010 20:09:38 -0800, OscartheGrouch
<tondaleo@hotmail.com> wrote:
>Russell Watson wrote:
>> I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
>> bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
>> they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
>> the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
>> how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
>> too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
>> and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
>> for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
>> charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
>> price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
>> way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
>> though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
>> brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
>> other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
>> are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
>> Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
>> happy all the way around.
>
>You need to report this to the Shield newsgroup. jk. Hiya Russell.
Hey, Oscar! I only talk about the biker part of my "other" life over
there: not sure if I've ever even mentioned musical interests beyond
what I like to listen to. Running joke between Topcat and me is that
if we ever went on roadtrip together I'd kill him if he touched the
radio. '80s music, y'know... ;-)
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Re: New Strat - Russell Watson - 2-:07 -0-10-20
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On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 20:00:37 -0800 (PST), RichL <rpleavitt@yahoo.com>
wrote:
>On Feb 7, 1:29 pm, Russell Watson <russell-wat...@comcast.net> wrote:
>> I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
>> bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
>> they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
>> the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
>> how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
>> too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
>> and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
>> for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
>> charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
>> price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
>> way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
>> though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
>> brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
>> other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
>> are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
>> Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
>> happy all the way around.
>
>Nice score! I've got an older one (2005), I like everything but the
>pickups. Got Fralin replacements on order.
They've hot-rodded the pickups on them now and the stock alnicos sound
great.
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Re: New Strat - Daniel Dreibelbis - 2-:09 -0-10-20
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On 2010-02-07 13:29:06 -0500, Russell Watson <russell-watson@comcast.net> said:
> I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
> bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
> they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
> the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
> how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
> too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
> and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
> for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
> charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
> price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
> way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
> though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
> brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
> other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
> are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
> Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
> happy all the way around.
you got a great guitar there! I picked up mine two years ago, and for
the most part I'm pretty satisfied with it. I did change the trem to a
Wilkinson (because I didn't like the flimsy trem setup on this, I
snapped the bar a few days after I bought it, and figured if Fender
changed it under warranty it'd be more of the same) and swapped out the
bridge pickup for a JB, but the alnico single-coils stayed, and it has
a great neck.
I think the Highway 1s have just been discontinued by Fender, replaced
by the new American Special series (the same specs as the H1s but with
urethane finsihes as opposed to the nitrocelluose - the new HSS version
is stunning in black ). Steve's Music has quietly discounted theirs,
and Long & McQ's just put out a mailing for a national inventory
blowout this weekend in which the H1 guitars are being sold for $575 CDN
--
Dan Dreibelbis, CGN (Cerified Guitar Nerd)
http://guitarnerd.ca
http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=121942
http://www.myspace.com/dandreibelbis
Current Songs - "Not What You Think!" and "In Your Arms
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Re: New Strat - Jim - 2-:10 -0-10-20
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"Daniel Dreibelbis" <dreibel@sympatico.ca> wrote in message
news:hkrms4$rk8$1@news.eternal-september.org...
> On 2010-02-07 13:29:06 -0500, Russell Watson <russell-watson@comcast.net>
> said:
>
>> I wandered into Buy More yesterday, past the Nerd Herd and into the
>> bowels of the store, mostly looking at DVDs and CDs. Then I remembered
>> they sell instruments there now. Found a Highway One Strat I liked,
>> the color they call honey blonde. I played it a bit unlugged and liked
>> how it feels so I plugged in in to see how it sounds and liked that
>> too. I asked the kid working in there how their finance thing worked
>> and he said 18 months no interest, just fill out a credit app up front
>> for a Best Buy credit card and however much you qualify for you can
>> charge up to that amount. They cleared me for about $300 over the
>> price of the guitar so about 20 minutes after walking in I was on my
>> way out with it. Called my brother to tell him and realized that
>> though I have owned 5 Strats in the past 30 years this is the first
>> brand new one I've ever owned, and only the 2nd new guitar at all, the
>> other being the PRS I bought back in '88. Needless to say my fingers
>> are a little tender today, since I plonked on it until about 5AM.
>> Guitar is nicely setup, plays great and sounds awesome so I am pretty
>> happy all the way around.
>
> you got a great guitar there! I picked up mine two years ago, and for the
> most part I'm pretty satisfied with it. I did change the trem to a
> Wilkinson (because I didn't like the flimsy trem setup on this, I snapped
> the bar a few days after I bought it, and figured if Fender changed it
> under warranty it'd be more of the same) and swapped out the bridge pickup
> for a JB, but the alnico single-coils stayed, and it has a great neck.
>
> I think the Highway 1s have just been discontinued by Fender, replaced by
> the new American Special series (the same specs as the H1s but with
> urethane finsihes as opposed to the nitrocelluose - the new HSS version is
> stunning in black ). Steve's Music has quietly discounted theirs, and Long
> & McQ's just put out a mailing for a national inventory blowout this
> weekend in which the H1 guitars are being sold for $575 CDN
> --
> Dan Dreibelbis, CGN (Cerified Guitar Nerd)
> http://guitarnerd.ca
> http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=121942
> http://www.myspace.com/dandreibelbis
> Current Songs - "Not What You Think!" and "In Your Arms
>
The H1 has been discontinued? That's a real crime as it's a great strat, one
of the best to be honest.
Is this "urethane" the same thing as "poly"? I have to say that the nitro of
the H1 was what gave it much of it's appeal as it looked great and felt
great too. To my ears it really made the strat sing sweeter than the poly
ones in the same price range (and above). ThiNk I'll grab one while they're
still available brand new.
J
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