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whats the difference between an American Strat and a Mexican Strat? How can I tell the difference? I dont have the papers from when I bought it, it was just a simple very basic strat. I could have sworn it was an American, however I went to sell it once, just some shop and they said it was a Mexican, after looking at it for about 5 seconds. Now I was thinking about ebaying it. Its been used like once and has new good quality strings on it, but now I'm not sure if its American or Mexican. All I remember is that it was a "standard" strat. I remember the word standard used in its name.
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Those bastards. That pretty much tells me its a Mexican Strat unless somebody tells me otherwise.
Everybody said, oh go to Dave's Guitar, they are excelent. They've been around since 19xx. They've done business with this person and this person and this person, then named a bunch of musicians. Go to their site and they say Joe Walsh and members of pink floyd, night ranger, reospeedwagon, etc. And what do they do, they rip off a poor 13 year old girl. Well thats Wisconsin for ya.
What a bunch of weenies
Oh I'm pissed now. I'm going to go call my dad and whine. Except I can't, my face hurts. Yeah, its killing me hahahahaha.
I don't like Fenders myself - prefer gibson, but american or mexican the strat is a nice guitar, and hey, it could be korean or chinese so it's not all that bad, and like i say, most intermidiate type guitarists would never tell the difference.
Oh well then, they didn't rip me off, the guy at the other store tried to. Butthead. I bought it new for $450 (259 pounds, if the exchange rate calculator didn't lie to me) Then when I tried to sell it and the guy said, Mexican Strat, $150 (90 pounds) I got angry. Things damn new anyways, probably touched it a total of two times in my life and that was when I moved. And just thought about it today for some reason.
You have eased my mind. Thanks
Mexican stratocasters here sell for $300-$400USD. USA strats list $800-$1000USD.
If you are looking into a USA strat, I suggest you try a different company, Carvin for example, makes really nice guitars, custom, for around the same price. I can't stand Gibson or Fender really, they're like the overpriced "standard" guitar.
Yeah people will notice the difference if they change from an american to a mexican, but they'll also notice the difference if they change to any sort other sort of guitar, a telecaster, or mustang or whatever.
And like you say you build guitars so you're going to know about it, the average bedroom guitarist isn't going to be too fussed. At the moment i own an epiphone, but drums are my main instrument so i'm not really bothered about how it sounds.
What you want is a Gibson Les Paul Custom :cool:
Mexican Fenders have variable build quality, some people say they've played better Mexicans than Americans (presumably if the set up is right), and some say that Mexicans will never ever be a match for the American built.
But when it comes to basses, on the other hand...
Thus the Mexican models, whilst having inferior hardware actually sound more like Strats used to. The difference on the Tele is amazing. I would never consider buying an American Tele as you buy one for the Tele trademark 'twang' and with a Mexican made one, that's what you get.