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Are the Fender Highway One guitars any good?


Just Wondering.
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Just Wondering.



If you have to ask ...................
perhaps you already know the answer!!

USA made Fenders are amazingly still, even now, extremely variable in quality.
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quote:

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Just Wondering.



If you have to ask ...................
perhaps you already know the answer!!



...but that means that if he didn't know the answer, then he wouldn't have to ask?



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quote:

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Just Wondering.



If you have to ask ...................
perhaps you already know the answer!!

USA made Fenders are amazingly still, even now, extremely variable in quality.




USA made Fenders are not that amazing anymore. I've had about 3 of them in the last year, and I've sold them all. I had a 2000 model a few years back, and that one was much better than the guitars they make today. IMO they're good, but not great anymore. The custom shop guitars on the other hand....but they cost! A lot!

The Highway One series are just another way for Fender to make cheaper guitars. They strip them down, use low quality wood, cheaper and less paint etc., but when all is said and done, you will get an OK guitar. Depends on what you want from your axe...

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Well i'm gonna get myself a Custom shop or American Deluxe Strat.
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Well i'm gonna get myself a Custom shop or American Deluxe Strat.



Fender love people who buy Custom Shop products, because Fender get sooooo much more profit out of them for essentialy he same product. If you pay £4,000 for a guitar you'd expect it to be a little special, unfortunately you'll find it actually isn't very special at all. Sad but very true. Save yourself around £3K and hunt out a good decent non-custom shop model. You will totally struggle to find anything about your custom shop model that justifies the extra price, apart from the "bragging rights" it gives with your mates you down the pub. It's just the usual childish "my c*cks bigger than yours" routine, but of course doesn't mean you'll know how to use it or play better becuase its a custom shop model.!!
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Well i'm gonna get myself a Custom shop or American Deluxe Strat.



Fender love people who buy Custom Shop products, because Fender get sooooo much more profit out of them for essentialy he same product. If you pay £4,000 for a guitar you'd expect it to be a little special, unfortunately you'll find it actually isn't very special at all. Sad but very true. Save yourself around £3K and hunt out a good decent non-custom shop model. You will totally struggle to find anything about your custom shop model that justifies the extra price, apart from the "bragging rights" it gives with your mates you down the pub. It's just the usual childish "my c*cks bigger than yours" routine, but of course doesn't mean you'll know how to use it or play better becuase its a custom shop model.!!



That may be true for Fender, but not so for Gibson!

I've had a couple of Epi's, I've had Gibson Standards and now I have a Gibson Custom 1957 Gold Top. The Gold Top is by far the best Gibson I've ever had. The craftmanship is way beyond the Standards, and the wood used building this piece of art "sings" much more than other guitars I've had. There is a big difference, but you can find a good standard, both Gibson and Fender, if you take your time looking before buying.



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That may be true for Fender, but not so for Gibson!

I've had a couple of Epi's, I've had Gibson Standards and now I have a Gibson Custom 1957 Gold Top. The Gold Top is by far the best Gibson I've ever had. The craftmanship is way beyond the Standards, and the wood used building this piece of art "sings" much more than other guitars I've had. There is a big difference, but you can find a good standard, both Gibson and Fender, if you take your time looking before buying.




With due respect that's complete B*llocks!!!

It's exactly the same for Gibson in fact possibly it's even much worse. The differences between a Standard Les Paul and a VOS or Historic Re-issue are entirely marginal and are mainly cosmetic differences n the wood finsih. Is it AA or AAA Flamed Maple. Totally Cosmetic. The Gold Top is of course popular and perhaps yours is especially nice, equally maybe you are just easily pleased. The GOld TOps I've played were so heavy you'd be hospitalised after a 2 hour gig wearing one of them and you'd have every vitial nerve in your shoulder trapped by the weight of them. But hey they are a "man's" guitar, which is wott it's all about.

In general the differences between a top of the range gibson and it's lessor relatives come down to little more than the selection of a better looking bit of flamed maple. The better looking the Maple the higher the price, but not necessarily the better a guitar. In the case of a painted GOLD Top what do you think is under the Gold paint ? Do you think they take the best bits of wood and then paint them ? !! YOu don't still beleive in Santa Claus do you? Sorry I realise in fact you do.

All guitar makers essentially produce very simialr products and jsut like car makers they will take the basic model and tart it up a bit to get a premium price. It's easy money because most guitar players are easily parted from their cash for something that claims to be "more special" "has more sustain" "is what xxxxxxx guitarist played", "will help you play better" etc etc, you name it they'll buy into it. SO Gibson and Fender are easily as bad as each other for producing more expensive models which have very litle, sometimes even no difference from the standard models.

It's ridiculous because basically if you are a good guitarist you'll play every bit as well on a lower priced guitar as you do on a top of the range model. If you are a sh1te player then an expensive guitar won't make you play any better.

Gibson Golds Tops are really iconic in a Marc Bolan sort of way, hey maybe that's it. It that what you do KB ? Prance around in front of your mirror being Marc Bolan playing Hot Love or maybe Telegram Sam, yeah I can picture that clearly now!!
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I can only agree with you BlackerThanNight.
Basically all guitar manufacturers are in the same boat. They want to make as much money as possible. History has proved over and over that they are willing to sacrifice quality if it means saving a few bucks. (Of course in their advertising it's "new features", "improved", "better" or "more sustain", but in reality it rarely is.)

The old dinosaurs live on their name and hype they got in a different era when the stars played their instruments. If Gibson and Fender started out as new companies today, people would only have laughed at them. Every once in a while there might be a brilliant instrument coming from them but generally speaking there is very little difference between the cheap and expensive instruments.
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Must be hard to live a life where everything is "black and white", and everybody is "out to get you"....

For the record, I have never liked Marc Bolan. I've never, willingly, heard any of his records. I never knew he had a Gold Top! No one, except my family, has seen the Gibson yet, since my band hasn't been practising for a few months now. And....I don't feel the need for the "mine is bigger than yours"-thing!

I can only say what I, from experience, think about the guitar compared to other guitars I've had. If you poor sods are happy with your Squier's, then good luck to you....

Btw, I'm far from easily pleased (unlike some I guess). That's why I have owned more guitars in the last couple of years than most people do in a lifetime. I've owned, traded in, bought some new, sold, bought a few more etc. etc......and etc. Why? Because I'm not easily pleased, and I kept looking until I found something that had proper quality.

If you can't feel and hear the difference between the wood used for cheap guitars compared to more expensive guitars, then the choice would be easy. Epiphone or Squier! But remember: The wood in your Epi or Fendercopy will shrink. It will make it harder to play when the frets are coming out, and other nice things....

No matter what you two masterminds say, there's a difference. You have to pay more money for quality, but you should, off course, pay attention even if the guitar is custom made. They're not all what they make them out to be, so it's important that you take your time trying to find "the one" that suits you and your needs.

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