Fender Aerodyne Special Stratocaster HSS Rosewood Fingerboard Electric Guitar Dolphin Gray Metallic

The deal on this guitar is unbelievable. It's in the quality zone of mid range Charvel or Jackson but the true strat version of those in terms of sound. The bridge is unique - it's comfortable like a hard tail but has a wiggle, it's a little high. Great cleans and humbucker does the job. Neck is smooth satin finish and no baseball bat feel like typical strats. Also looks better in person for real, the finish is translucent glass and the picture doesn't really show it.

the fretboard and neck are wonderful!!! The Babicz bridge is absolutely fantastic as well. I can get sooooooo many tones out this guitar its stupid. Great for just about any genre but metal. I bought mine in white and its flawless, reminds me of Moon Knight LOL!

The Aerodyne HSS Strat. I really can't see buying an expensive instrument before you play it. Guitars are made of wood, and that means 1) even if they are perfect, they are all different and 2) There is a lot of room for errors in assembly as far as fit and alignment. (I have sent back a few high-end guitars that would be useless without a neck reset.) So when I got interested in the new Japanese line from Fender, I waited till I could get my hands on one. As it happens, my local GS had exactly one. I played it for ten minutes and bought it. The first reason I considered the guitar is that it is light. These can probably weigh anywhere from 6.5 to close to 8 pounds, depending on the wood. I no longer purchase guitars that weigh more than 7 pounds, because my lumbars are shot from decades of toting guitars. I plugged it into a Fender tube rig at the shop and the sounds were promising. The neck and fretwork looked good, though the action was a little high. I figured I could set it up perfectly, so took a chance. It responded evenly to 1/8 of a turn of the wrench, I lowered the bridge just a tad on the GBE side, put on some 9.5s (it came with 9s) and let it rest. It sounded OK in the shop, but at home through my Princeton, it really blooms.

Intonation great, Action 5/64" low E at 12th fret and 4/64" on high E. Not a single buzz on any string, any fret and no choking out on bends. The fretwork is where it really shines. It is perfect. Only nice change would be a roller tree instead of vintage bent steel. Stunning guitar.

This plays and feels as nice as my number #1 Strat. a Custom Shop 68". I wanted a back up with some more modern features. Was not expecting it to be this good.

I just got a grey aerodyne SSH strat. I've never gelled with a fender before. After playing my first gig with this thing I'm so impressed. The neck is amazing. Looks are a amazing. The weight is perfect. That top contouring is so comfortable. The controls… I thought I would want to swap the metal knobs out for traditional plastic knobs because they were smooth, however I had no issues making adjustments to the volume and tone mid song… and they look amazing. The knobs are staying. The pickups. wow. just wow. The traditional strat sounds are here, but they offer more to my ears. More aggression when I needed it. The neck and middle pickups worked perfectly with that bridge humbucker. Switching to the bridge for leads was so satisfying. The sound guy came over after we finished and complimented my tone. He asked me what pedals I was using, and was surprised when I told him I just used delay and reverb. Everything else was the amp and adjusting the controls. These pickups… even when I roll off the tone they somehow still retain clarity. The right kind of clarity. I've played other strats, even American strats (but never custom shop), and these aerodyne pickups are in a league of their own. Bottom line… I've never bought a guitar and wanted to immediately go out and buy another if the same guitar "just in case" something happens to the first one. This guitar is THAT good.