| Fender’s best signature guitar. | |||
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| Fender’s best signature guitar. Yngwie is a close second. Eric Johnson is a close third. The feel of the neck is the most noticeable thing. It is a bit thicker than a normal C shaped neck but thinner than earlier versions of the Jeff Beck (boat neck) Signature Strat. It feels better. Ceramic pickups instead of Alnico. Noiseless ceramic. When you are bending your strings high up on the neck the pole pieces in an Alnico pickup need lose volume because their magnetic fields are very narrow. Ceramic pickups have wider pickup patterns and are less susceptible to dropouts. Especially noticeable on the American Stand Strats that cam out a few years ago. After experiencing a number of dropouts while string-bending I researched and found that Jeff Beck had similar concerns, His solution was the new Jeff Beck Signature Strat which has enough mods to convince me to dump the American Stand Strat; which I did last year in a heartbeat after I had a chance to try out a Jeff Beck Strat. I wish the tremolo arm was a drop in type and not a screw in type but that is minor. I normally prefer a maple neck and transparent/woodgrain finish on the body but the Jeff Beck Strat had enough going for it for me to overlook those preferences. Many guitar techs will tell you the Jeff Beck Strat is the best high end Strat to get for tuning stability, playability, noiseless pickups, and no string trees (when the angle of the strings from the nut to the tuning pegs is aligned properly there is no need for string trees which causes undesirable friction for the strings. Play this guitar thru an amp and you will see how it sings. A very evolved guitar that has all the best elements of modern electric guitar design. Posted by Gord Ahl on Jul 26, 2012 | |||
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