TOTALLY Pleased - low budget Mexicaster

[Denny]

Hi Everyone. I just acquired an early 90's white Mexicaster and am totally blown away by it!! I've been using some high-end gear forever (PRS, G&L Custom stuff, etc), and I am having more fun playing this strat than I've had in a long time!!! Go figure? It plays like it's attached to my hands, heart and soul!! My playing seems uninhibited, careless, and totally free!! It sounds great - totally stock. What gives??? I haven't even looked at my other guitars since I've had this? Are they gonna dis-own me? I'm starting to feel guilty!!! This guitar has major MOJO!!! Don't tell my wife - but I'm in love again!!!!

MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!

PEACE
DENNY

[jtw]

I know how you feel Denny. I recently picked up a Mexi tele and I love it. Plays great, sounds great, and nice and light. A previous owner had put some med jumbo frets on there and it really makes the guitar in my opinion. I have more expensive stuff too and the tele has been seeing a lot of action amidst those guitars as well.

Glad to hear you're digging your strat :AOK

[Denny]

INCREDIBLE! IT'S LIKE THEY HAVE TO HAVE PLAYED A MILLION NOTES BEFORE THEY GET THE MOJO!! MINE'S VERY LIGHT TOO. I HAVE A ROLAND-READY MEXICASTER THAT'S QUITE A BIT HEAVIER AND NO WHERE NEAR AS MUCH "COOL". :drool

[GuitarsFromMars]

Hi Everyone. I just acquired an early 90's white Mexicaster and am totally blown away by it!! I've been using some high-end gear forever (PRS, G&L Custom stuff, etc), and I am having more fun playing this strat than I've had in a long time!!! Go figure? It plays like it's attached to my hands, heart and soul!! My playing seems uninhibited, careless, and totally free!! It sounds great - totally stock. What gives??? I haven't even looked at my other guitars since I've had this? Are they gonna dis-own me? I'm starting to feel guilty!!! This guitar has major MOJO!!! Don't tell my wife - but I'm in love again!!!!

MREEY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO EVERYONE!!

PEACE
DENNY

Yep,one of the great values in the Fender line...I have the all gold 50th Anniversary one in Aztec Gold with a maple neck a friend just got one used,with a nice set of aftermarket pickups,for 400$ shipped...feel with a new nut and set up is amazing and very friendly...the tone of my guitar was not dissimilar to Jeff Beck's.The weakness in the guitar I have is eventually it will need a better trem block,the one in them is no longer steel.But I love mine and will gig with it when I start playing again.Happy Holidays,sir.

[Billy Lee]

The early 90's MIM's were/are some of the best to come out of Mexico (just my opinion)...NOT to knock the stuff after that. For, me it seems like you don't have to look through quite as many to find the cram of the crop, but hey, that could just be me. I know for my liking, those early MIM's had "the feel" and had a certain (hard to describe) "vibe) in them. That's what made me and won me over to liking some of the MIM stuff.

Congrats on your new gem!

While we're at it, HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!!

[Denny]

You're 100% correct "VIBE". Weird isn't it? - How a guitar can have a feel or vibe - almost like it's alive?

D.

[michael patrick]

I had a white early 90s (like '90 or '91) mexi Strat with a rosewood board. Never should have sold it...

[Tone_Terrific]

Playing a guitar based on its performance, not cachet, can get you a long way up the tonechain for low bux.
Many palyers around here seem to prefer to "enter" at 90% and pursue that last 10% relentlessly, somewhat discounting the value of of that critical 90%, however.
You know, only a "FgGhijkl" is good enough! :drool

[AJ Love]

I have a MIM Fender '72 Telecaster Custom that is fantastic, and after changing out the Bridge and Pickups, competes very favorably with any guitar I've ever played, including many high end Boutique guitars. Go figure, indeed!

I found mine by playing a few dozen at various stores and finding the one that sounded and played the best

[black mariah]

No figuring is necessary. Fact is a guitar's a guitar. If it has decent pickups and is made from decent wood it'll sound like a guitar.

The rest is up to you.

*goes back to playing his $180 Oscar Schmidt*

[AaeCee]

One of my favorite guitars I never bought was a MIM Tele Custom...the one with a 'bucker neck, tele bridge, and 2 vol./2 tone knobs. I helped a friend pick it up mint used for $400! God I loved that guitar. Didn't want to put it down and it sounded just great. I'm still jealous.

[grill]

i played with a couple mim yesterday, they felt very nice.(2004)
i found they were heavier than my am stand strat.
i didn't plug it in but it rang nice and felt tight and comfortable.
here in hk, the price was more than the cs strat i played to check out a pedal i wanted to buy.

8000hk mim=6000hk cs strat.
$1k US= $769 US

[Chicago Slim]

I own several nice guitars; G&L, PRS & Heritage. When playing profesionally, I'll use these guitars. When I teach, I'll play Epiphone and MIM Fenders, like my students play, and can afford. Lately I have been takeing a MIM Strat as a backup or even main guitar. I've given up nothing in sound or playability.

Now when looking at new, high dollar guitars, I've been compareing them to the new up-graded Strats. The large frets, big temelo block and better shielding, has made them very good guitars. Not only has it stopped me from buying several expencive guitars, but I finally bought a '06 MIM Standard.

I love this Strat, and I'm makeing some changes, that I was afraid to do with a more expencive guitars. I've changed the pickguard, moved the volume control, and wired it with a master tone control. I'm able to do my own set-up. Now, with the help of our own Jim Collins, I'm changeing cap values, and adding a ground shunt, like I have on my G&L and PRS. It's turning into a great guitar, with original pickups, and a low investment of time and money.

[vinni]

I had the same experience recently.

I bought a used Blade Texas Pro for very little money!
It's very good and I like it as much as the highend guitars I have (used).

Vinni

[Jon Silberman]

Oh come on, everyone here knows it can't sound or play well if it didn't take 3+ years to build and cost $5,000. ;)

[Denny]

"BE not fooled"!! Blades are some of the best guitars on the planet. I've had an original (Switzerland) RH-4 and 2 Asian models and they were perfect in every way! I wish I never got rid of them but I HAD to get some guitars that impressed people and Levinson Blades are relitively unknown! It's amazing how much a persons age coincides with wisdom and experience!!

Merry Christmas.

D.