Fender's Highway Strat.???

[Bluesman]

Hi. Can someone tell me with what kind of music style this guitar is used.
Also, Is there anything special I should know about that guitar?
I'm a lefty and that's the only Strat. I can get along with the Standard Strat.
All comments on that Strat. are welcome.

[ArtieToo]

IMO, the Strat is probably as close as a guitar gets to being usable for anything. In just about every music catagory I can think of, from blues, to country, to jazz, to anything, somebody somewhere used a Strat, and used it well.

[Jeff_H]

The strat is suited to play any style of music you want with it....country, blues, rock, metal, jazz, you name it. The nice thing about strats is they are so moddable. The Highway 1's are routed with a humbucker slot at the bridge, and singles in the middle and neck. You can put anything you want in the bridge; fullsize humbucker, Lil' size humbucker, stacked single coils and traditional single coils. You can put anything but a fullsize bucker in the middle and neck. MIA's are routed H/S/H....even more possibilities.

Right out of the box the Hwy 1's are great guitars. The weak spot is the bridge single coil, but unless you're playing hard rock and metal, it should suffice for most other styles. I actually prefer the Hwy 1's to the standard American strats because of thin laquer finish. I feel it lets the guitar resonate better than the poly finish of the MIA's, but that's all personal taste. The finishes on the Hwy 1's are more delicate than the MIA's.

I think dollar for dollar the Hwy 1 is a great deal. The most important thing though is how does it feel to you when you play it? If you like the MIA better than that's the one that you should go with. Don't pass on the Hwy 1 just because it's cheaper. Play both and buy the one that speaks to you.

[bloodswords]

the Highway1 strat is the latest in my arsenal. i've left it unmodded, it's superb for clean/ blues crunch/ high gain rock &... metal, with a little help from Seymour Duncan's Pickup Booster of course

if you ever decide to get one, make sure you try it out, hear the pickup combos in action, be informed that the middle unit isn't wired out of phase. my dealer made a kind offer to re-wire it for me but i bought it as it is.

[TheArchitect]

Test drive for sure. They vary tone wise a lot. I ran the racks when I bought mine and couldn't believe the differences. I ended up with a color that wasn't a first choice simply be cause the sound was far and away the best of the lot. A set of Antiquities and a hardcore shielding job really pushed it off the scale.