Fender American Professional Stratocaster HSS Shawbucker Rosewood Fingerboard Electric Guitar 3-Color Sunburst

I sold my mexican strat which was so nice to play, unlike this the American pro. I was very surprised at the action on this strat was not good, and the tremlo was advertised as a pop in, and the one i received was a screw in. i own Fender American basses which are awesome. If you have an older mexican strat... Keep it! the electronics are better on the American, hands down... but the playability was not as i expected like on the Mexican version and the Fender American basses. GC returned it no questions which i appreciated.

Very unhappy with fender and I had a fender in the early 50's when began playing

I have been playing for years and have several guitars. I have always wanted an American Stratocaster, I have always had lower end model guitars, not low quality, just affordable like my Epiphone Les Paul and Squire Strat. I decided to treat myself and I ordered a American Professional Stratocaster, rosewood Fretboard, HSS, Sonic Gray. My new guitar arrived and first thin I noticed was how sharp the fret edges were. I played for about 20 minutes and put it down, my index finger felt so scrapped up. I looked and there was a cut on my finger. I tried to play again and it is just not enjoyable at all , fret edges are so sharp. None of my lower end guitars have this problem, I expected the best neck ever and got absolute poor quality. The strings it had on the guitar seemed really old, maybe several years. I changed them and it still sucks. I will be returning , I tried to by phone my return and refund could take a month to process or I could wait for the local store to open back up. I was hoping to spend my time in Quarantine playing a quality American Fender guitar. A little side note, the instruction manual is written in Spanish except for the warranty which is in English. All other information in the manual is all Spanish.

I've bought numerous guitars and this is by far the best. Opened the case, checked the tunings and played for 2 hours non stop and it stayed in tune the whole time. The pick up let you play about ant style of music and the shawbucker really lets those pinched harmonics loose all over the neck. Not one bad thing to say about this guitar.

First of all the frets are very rough . So I'm not impressed with that and am hoping I can take it to guitar center and get it fixed. Other than that I do love it sounds great.

This is one of the best Fenders I have picked up. Blows away all other configurations! The fourth position is the sweet spot with the classic strat sound, coupled with the fender blues deluxe 3 tube amp. Very distinct. The action was set a little high from the factory, so I dropped the strings two full turns on each bridge string saddle to a perfect non fret buzz height. Awesome!