Screamin' speed with Lace Sensors for burning blues tone!

A red-hot blues unit, made in USA. The Fender Artist Series Buddy Guy Stratocaster Electric Guitar is has a custom-shaped maple neck, light ash body, 25dB boost preamp, 3 Gold Fender-Lace Sensor pickups, vintage tremolo.

Fender Artist Series Buddy Guy Stratocaster Electric Guitar Features:

• Lightweight ash body
• 1-piece maple, soft V-shaped neck (satin urethane finish)
• Maple fingerboard, 9.5" radius (241 mm)
• 22 vintage-style frets
• 3 Gold Fender Lace Sensor Strat single-coil pickups (neck, mid, bridge)
• Master volume,
• Tone 1. master TBX tone control,
• Tone 2. master mid boost (0-25dB)
• Pickup Switching 5-Position Blade:
• Position 1. bridge pickup
• Position 2. bridge and middle pickup
• Position 3. middle pickup
• Position 4. middle and neck pickup
• Position 5. neck pickup
• American Vintage synchronized tremolo
• Fender/Gotoh vintage-style tuning machines
• Nickel/chrome hardware
• 4-ply brown shell on honey blonde, 4-ply white pearloid on 2-color sunburst
• 25.5" (648 mm) scale length
• 1.650" (42 mm) nut width
• Unique Features: Special V-shaped neck,
• active mid-boost circuit

Fender Artist Series Buddy Guy Stratocaster Electric Guitar Includes:

• tweed hardshell case

Put the passion of Buddy in your blues lines. Order today!

Fender Artist Series Buddy Guy Stratocaster Electric Guitar

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Beautiful instrument, fantastic sound

Posted by DokInTheNess from Birmingham, AL on Apr 15, 2009

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Folk, rock, experimental

I've had this guitar for several years. It is such a beautiful instrument, a real piece of art! It plays very well; it's very comfortable, and I personally liked the V-neck profile better than the U-neck of the otherwise very similar Eric Clapton Strat. It sounds fantastic. The reason I did not give it a perfect 5 is that the quality of the hardware and electronics leaves some to be desired. The five-position switch is very floppy and imprecise. The jack is also very finicky and has a tendency to cut out if the plug is jiggled just a tiny little bit. The little screws that attach the fretboard rust, though that may be mostly due to the environmental conditions (I lived in Singapore for 5 years with this instrument), and it hasn't affected any important parts. I have also not found the boost control particularly useful since you lose to much of the high end when you turn it up. I generally only use it with the treble turned up to the max and no boost, but in that case, it sounds great. All in all I have been very pleased with this guitar.

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Suprise inside!

Posted by MoreMoneyThanSkill from Austin, TX on Sep 27, 2006

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: Hobbyist

Reviewer's Play Style: Rock, Blues, things that sound good to me

I have owned this guitar for about 2 months now and like it more each time I play it. What suprised me the most was how much the 25db boost did for the aggressiveness of the tone. Due to the built in boost, this guitar is very versatile and you can go from a "Just Looking" overdriven blues tone to a classic 70's and 80's rock metal tone just by twisting the knob in the middle. Very playable although mine needed some minor fretwork which in not unusual from Fender or Gibson even in the higher price guitars. My only knock is the sharpness at the edge of the fretboard. This would be much more playable still with some rolled edges there. Don't be fooled by the lace sensor pickups here. With the onboard 25db boost on, the lace sensors become almost as hot as Alnico's in a Gibson.

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Uniquely suited to toneful Strat blues

Posted by Shorthand from Pacific northwest on Dec 27, 2003

Experience w/product: I own it

Reviewer's Background: active blues player and audio engineer

Reviewer's Play Style: blues, R&B

The US BG artist Strat is a one piece ash body with maple neck, great sustain and timbre, and excellent electronics. Suitable for a wide range of playing styles, it is best voiced for blues. The 25db on-board pre-amp and Gold LS pickups provide broad ranges of tone and drive without nasty SN difficulties. The maple neck plays clean, true, and is comfortable. Some time and thoughfulness is required in setting up the instrument to one's personal tastes. Fresh strings help keep the tuning true when using the tremolo for extreme divebombing, as does a little graphite at the nut and saddles. It's a dependable instrument and a pleasure to play live and in studio. Try 009 string sets for bending, 010 for slide.

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