I thought I was over GAS........but...American Standard

Gmountain · #1 12-13-2016, 09:58 PM

Really, I did. I love my Martins and haven't even felt the need for another guitar.

But......there are good deals out there now, and there is a guitar I've found interesting for quite a while, and now the prices are just too good.....so I had to get a Fender American Standard.

Forgive me.

RP · #2 12-13-2016, 10:00 PM

All is forgiven and congrats on the new Strat. One of the things that continues to amaze me is how far $$$ go in the electric world after getting accustomed to acoustic pricing...

gitarro · #3 12-13-2016, 10:03 PM

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Originally Posted by RP

All is forgiven and congrats on the new Strat. One of the things that continues to amaze me is how far $$$ go in the electric world after getting accustomed to acoustic pricing...

Unless you are into buying boutique and solo luthier-made electric guitars...for example Teuffel and JG guitars cost a lot of dollars...

RP · #4 12-13-2016, 10:11 PM

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Originally Posted by gitarro

Unless you are into buying boutique and solo luthier-made electric guitars...for example Teuffel and JG guitars cost a lot of dollars...

Well yeh, one can always throw a bunch of money at any pastime, but I was thinking of great off the rack electrics like the recently discontinued Fender American Standard that the OP purchased...

Steel and wood · #5 12-13-2016, 10:17 PM

Martins and Fenders ... welcome to my world!

#6 12-13-2016, 10:51 PM

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Originally Posted by Gmountain

Really, I did. I love my Martins and haven't even felt the need for another guitar.

But......there are good deals out there now, and there is a guitar I've found interesting for quite a while, and now the prices are just too good.....so I had to get a Fender American Standard.

Forgive me.

I was knocking around a bit with one of these:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender/A...e-Fretboard.gc

and playing with the controls/amp I got it to give off a funky/chunky Nile Rodgers sound, just incredible. I love acoustic, but I can see why so many gravitate towards electric - strings are like butter to play, the sounds coming out of that thing are incredible. Wife won't let me play one in the apartment but someday...

nedray · #7 12-14-2016, 12:41 AM

Strat or Tele?

I'd like to pick up a Jazzmaster, but I know I'd never play it. I don't play the electrics I have.

Warrenaines · #8 12-14-2016, 01:18 AM

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Originally Posted by captainamerica

I was knocking around a bit with one of these:

http://www.guitarcenter.com/Fender/A...e-Fretboard.gc

and playing with the controls/amp I got it to give off a funky/chunky Nile Rodgers sound, just incredible. I love acoustic, but I can see why so many gravitate towards electric - strings are like butter to play, the sounds coming out of that thing are incredible. Wife won't let me play one in the apartment but someday...

How do you get away with acoustic? Just bare flesh fingerpicking? You can always plug headphones into an amp

jrb715 · #9 12-14-2016, 01:29 AM

I've an American Standard Telecaster. American Standard Teles and Strats are great guitars. Congratulations.

#10 12-14-2016, 08:50 AM

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Originally Posted by Warrenaines

How do you get away with acoustic? Just bare flesh fingerpicking? You can always plug headphones into an amp

At night when the family is home, I go into the bedroom and close the door. During the day when I come home for lunch, right in the living room.

Yah, the headphones might be the solution as I have a MOTU audio interface and can listen through that. Getting a strat is a matter or when, not if. If only I was 40 years younger...

cisco7 · #11 12-14-2016, 09:19 AM

I forgive you my friend

Goat Mick · #12 12-14-2016, 09:21 AM

My first love is acoustic guitars, but occasionally plugging in my Tele and cranking the volume is a wonderful thing.

frances50 · #13 12-14-2016, 09:23 AM

Congrats on the Fender. My strat was my first guitar and I still play it regularly.

#14 12-14-2016, 10:47 AM

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Originally Posted by RP

Well yeh, one can always throw a bunch of money at any pastime, but I was thinking of great off the rack electrics like the recently discontinued Fender American Standard that the OP purchased...

Just out of curiousity, given how great the American Standard line sounds, does anyone know why Fender would have discontinued them? The one I played was excellent, much better sound and easier to play with better controls than a number of others that I tried out in the LGS.

As a side note, I WISH my parents had bought me a strat when I was a kid, not sure if I would have had the discipline I have now to work on it for hours upon hours each day though. In later life I have matured to where I can now concentrate and focus on tasks much more than when I was younger; I wish I could have done so a lot earlier. Regrets, I have many...

rct · #15 12-14-2016, 11:47 AM

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Originally Posted by captainamerica

Just out of curiousity, given how great the American Standard line sounds, does anyone know why Fender would have discontinued them?

Well this is currently The NEW American Standard, as they had stopped using American Standard in the 90's for a while. They come up with new names now and again, same guitars. American Standard will be back at some point I'm sure.

rct