Fender Brings Us A Little Bit of Texas
It’s been reported around the guitar blogosphere that Fender has reissued the Lone Star Stratocaster and the Roadhouse Stratocaster. Both Strats are available in Black, Arctic White, or for an extra $50, that sexy Sunburst you see to the left.
Both of the axes give you that fat Texas tone with Texas Special pickups in the neck and middle positions. While the Lone Star gives you a Pearly Gates humbucker in the bridge, the Roadhouse Strat rounds it out with another Texas Special. Both guitars feature a 6-point Vintage style tremolo, 4-ply brown shell pickguard and 21 Medium Jumbo frets.
While the Roadhouse is equipped with a one-piece maple neck for the Texas Twang, the Lone Star has a rosewood fingerboard to better emulate that defining Strato-Texan’s main squeeze (both have the standard modern 9.5″ fingerboard radius).
$550 will buy you your choice of these beauties in black or white, and an even $600 gets you that gorgeous sunburst. Now if only Fender didn’t coat these fine hunks of Alder with a quarter-inch of polyurethane, you could have yourself a nice DIY Number One replica for about half the price.
If you enjoyed this post, please consider to leave a comment or subscribe to the feed and get future articles delivered to your feed reader.
Comments
I think the only reason they use polyurethane is because it’s faster and easier to apply, and much cheaper than a nitrocellulose finish.
I purchased a lone star in 1999.The two texas pickups are set on an angle along with the straight line set for the seymor duncan.The neck is not rosewood and the pick guard is pearlized.I bought it brand new for $750 and it is made in the U.S.A.My question is, did I pay too much or do I have a jewel?The guitar plays great.
Do you think the reason they coat them so much is to make it impossible to scratch thru to the paint?