Overall Rating
(15)
Mr Duncan Howlett
/ Sep 30th 2021
It’s perfect I’ve called mine missy 🥰🤣😍
Mr David Jennings
/ May 20th 2021
This is a fantastic guitar for the money. The neck is nice and fat and feels amazing with the satin finish. Pickups are great as well overall very happy!
Trusted Customer
/ May 1st 2021
This guitar is instantly familiar to play which may be down to it being road worn.
The neck is a large C and is without doubt the nicest guitar neck I’ve ever played.
I have a 2016 American standard strat which is a great guitar but I prefer this one. Setup was very good out of the box although as with any guitar I buy it goes to the local luthier for a pro setup. The relic work looks good and is much nicer in person than in the photos. Summing up I would say you get the custom shop vibe at a 3rd of the price.
Mr Shaun Dawson
/ Apr 13th 2021
The best guitar I have ever played. Absolutely stunning to look at. Beautiful neck, fat but easy to play. The pickups sound amazing, so much clarity and so versatile. Cannot recommend highly enough.
Reginaldo Garcia
/ Mar 19th 2021
This thing is amazing. The color, finish and feel are everything I've wanted in a fender. I have been a gibson guy for a while and have put off buying a strat style guitar. I'm glad I waited for this one that has the Tele neck to make it even more unique. The pickups are just the cherry on top because I know I don't have to ever upgrade them. This guitar is perfect.
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 16th 2021
This is my first "relic" guitar and it's not a bad start. The Pete's Purple color is fantastic, although less sparkly than his famous telecaster! Unfortunately, however, the Mexican manufacture shows up. More than an aged guitar it looks like an unfinished guitar, the frets are not perfectly filed but, above all, the neck profile is not regular around the second fret. Nothing serious but you can feel it under your hand while playing. Too bad because the main feature of this guitar is the telecaster type neck on the stratocaster body. The sound, on the other hand, is amazing for an instrument of this range. The pickups are great and the body is quite resonant. The neck is a very fat C but it's not that hard to play. The 7.25 neck radius is not a problem with bendings especially using a 009-042 string gauge. Furthermore, the guitar holds the tuning perfectly even using the tremolo arm a lot. I think I'll use it a lot to play Frusciante-style things. In any case, however, this guitar has ignited in me the passion for relic guitars and therefore I hope to be able to buy in the future a Custom Shop '60 obviously with the 7.25 radius.
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 16th 2021
Love the Tele neck on this thing! Feels great plays fantastic right out of the case.
Mr Paul Shaw
/ Mar 14th 2021
Shocking, Nut over hang on high E side, all frets sharp on high E side only, tuner mounting screws wont tighten, they are all stripped and need replugging, bridge set slightly at a slant but does however intonate ok, to return this item Andertons made it pretty much impossible to return as they insisted on photo's of the stripped screws, How you photo screws that continually turn is beyond me,
I have a Classic Vibe that is way above the quality of this instrument, dont let the Nitro finish and American pickups lead you in to paying the whopping £1000 price tag, trust me, this guitar is NOT worth the money,
To date i have now corrected the nut and frets, and it does seem to play fine, however, because of the other issues that now niggle the life out of me i feel gutted that i spent the amount i did on this, there are way batter guitars to be had for this money and the issues have totaly ruined my experience with this guitar,
My advice, buy something else from somewhere else,
Trusted Customer
/ Mar 13th 2021
would have given it 5 stars but the fretboard needed some good work to fix the fret sprout and the neck was a little sticky. once that was done, it was good to go. love the vintage pickups in it!
steve byrd
/ Mar 12th 2021
Love this guitar. Everything about it. First of all, how cool to have a Tele neck on a Strat body. I love the '59 pickups most of all, and the active tone knob for the bridge pickup. Never thought I would own a "relic", but the "road-worn" look of the guitar is just right.
Mr Mathias Gerdt
/ Mar 12th 2021
Robert Harper
/ Mar 11th 2021
I wouldn't normally purchase an instrument online but following Lee and Pete's review I just couldn't resist. Love the guitar, it sounds great and has really authentic look and feel.
Paul Smith
/ Mar 9th 2021
Mr Nick Holmes
/ Mar 9th 2021
I purchased this guitar for my son. Let's not talk about the colour, other than to say, *he* loves it, and that's what matters!
I have an American Original '60s Strat, that costs about £700 than this guitar, and I have to say, this Vintera holds up extremely well to that guitar. I believe this Vintera model has the same pick-ups as the Original '50s version, and it sounds great.
Overall, build and fit and finish are generally good. The guitar is reliced a little, and nitro finish seems well applied. In the nicest possible way, this isn't a guitar you need to be precious about.
We had some concerns about the neck being huge, but its really not, and the 7.25" radius is very comfortable to play. Nice satin finish on the back too.
Nit-picking - The scratchplate, knobs and pup covers are seem very white, which doesn't go with the rest of the guitar. I guess you could change them out for aged ones, or you could just play the **** out of it (and you will, because you won't want to put it down!).
Russ
/ Mar 4th 2021
The build quality is incredible! The guitar looks amazing, plays amazing and in my opinion is worth more than the listed price.
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