The Best Strat Copies? Serious Alternatives to a Fender Strat
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00:00 intro
00:12 Fender make guitars at almost every price point
1:10 a pretty Tokai
4:50 what I like in a Strat
4:55 why Sire isn’t in this list – super strats?
5:30 the PRS Silver Sky SE
7:53 Tokai are still making great guitars
11:15 the PRS Silver Sky
13:27 What I play ALL the time – K Line Springfield
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PRS SS has the very right headstock…the Fender Strat Custom Shop should be advertised as an alternate for a PRS SS…'cause the PRS SS is just a better guitar.
What were your impressions on the silver sky se ?
i thought you said you had a smelly telly ?
Tutti bravi a copiare….la Fender Stratocaster e' unica e insostituibile!!!!
The Tokai strats from about 1980 till 1984 are the first real good guitars instead of any American Fender stratocaster for me! Not easy to come by…..
Tokai ❤
Greco strats from 76-82 are for me no1 for 50s 60s strat vibe, hand crafted vintage deep body contours, great necks, excellent Maxon pickups, made in fameous Fujigen factory that later just continued to make Fender JV and discontinued Greco Fender models ..unbeatable in my opinion.
I've Heard good things about Schecter. Never played one.
I have a Silver Sky SE, just got a full setup done on it recently after owning it about a year. It is a wonderful guitar. Best compliment I can give it, is that every single time I pick it up that I am inspired to play more. As someone with children, its hard to carve out time to sit down and play uninterrupted. Then when I do get the chance, it can be challenging to get into the "mood" or vibe to play and get lost in it. My Silver Sky does this well for me, just a few mins and I am grooving. Also just on the hardware side of things, I am definitely a rosewood fretboard snob and I didn't like how all the Fender offerings in that price range were not just Indian Laurel, but that crap orangy looking grainy Laurel that just is horrid to play in my opinion. Just applying that criteria at this price range, lead me to PRS as best value.
i like the 'child-safe' round edges that strats and their clones have. It compliments their boring, uninspired shape. G&L are nice
I feel very confident playing a Fender Strat hard. That’s part of the Strat thing. With Silver Sky, I wouldn’t feel the same way. I haven’t played a Silver Sky, but with every PRS I’ve played, it feels delicate. It’s an instrument you’re compelled to be gentle with. It makes you play differently.
Every time I watch Five Watt World, I'm reminded to come watch some of your Demos. I just love your unique, beautiful playing.
John page classic ashburn
I have 3 American and 1 Mexican made fender Stratocasters, love them all, but my core silver sky is the best s type I’ve ever played. And my go to gigging guitar!
That is an absolutely beautiful clean tone … wow????
Kiesel Delos all day!!!!
I was never into strats, I played a Silver Sky SE. It's now the guitar I play almost exclusively.
Xotic XSC. Only strat I prefer to my Silver Sky.
You can always yell who is the best by looking at who everyone else compares themselves to.
It’s hard to buy a good Strat from Fender. All their upper instruments are fantasy land relics or “signature” models. The ultra and ultra luxe models are extraordinarily ugly. Never has there been a better time for them to clear out the bogus guitars and rediscover quality, professional instruments. The American Standard is a 40yo lesson they could relearn.
Have you ever tried a MB guitar from Mike Bowes from England? AMAZING S Style guitars…
G&L are awesome alternative to Fender
I finally got the chance to try a PRS Silver Sky SE (Lefty) just last week. At the price it is really very good. Honestly it was hard to fault, If i’m being picky the truss rod cover and tuner buttons are ugly that’s about it – for me the neck profile was a little too full for my preference but i know it suits a lot of people, if i find one 2nd hand one day i could learn to live with it (or have it slimmed down a fraction) My current favourite of my ‘strats’ is a mid 90’s USA G&L legacy with Fralin pickups in it (i reach for that one more often than my 2 x fenders these days)
Greco strats are great!
I have a Fender American Pro II strat, love the neck, but you can see body seams thru the Dark Knight finish, and the pickups seem a tad dark to my ears. Alternate S type, I have a G&L Tribute Legacy – Indonesia built, feels great and I have a Shijie STE Pro HSS with sst frets. The Shijie, my go to, is better build quality than the Fender and both the G&L as well as the Shijie sound more "Stratty" than the Pro II. Just my opinion….
Biases not withstanding as an owner of both two and six point fender trems and the PRS trem I can state without hesitancy that the PRS trem is the best of the bench. works best and stays in tune. In my experience at least.
I have a Godin Progression Plus. Made in Canada. HSS format with Seymour Duncan mini humbucker. Maple neck. Flatter radius than typical strat, but amazing quality, sound and playability.
"does it sound like a strat?" Which strat? really, does a strat "sound like a strat?"
You should try a USA mustang btw
Have you tried Nash guitars John?
Why buy something that sounds like a Fender when you can buy a Fender at a reasonable price and have that all important logo.
If you buy guitars with the intention down the line of selling it, then yeah probably having Fender on the headstock will most likely matter…otherwise the name on the headstock shouldn't matter nor where the instrument is made matter… Do you like the guitar, ? Does it play well, feel good in you hands, sound good, is not heavy, etc..?? ….then who cares about the name on the headstock…unless you have full intentions of selling it…sad but true. It's all so subjective anyway….
I feel like having an HSS Silver Sky would be quite the move for PRS
I made my own Custom Shop Strat.
Ibanez AZ! There's a model for everyone's price point.
I am in Canada where there is extremely limited choices of just about everything. Trying to get anything beyond the Gibson/Epiphone Fender/Squier is an uphill battle. Having said that I think a very good alternative the Fender/Squier Strat is the G&L Tribute series. Sadly, these are not available in Canada anymore and my enquires to G&L go unanswered. Another good option which I would like to try is the Sterling (made by Music Man) range of guitars. They start at $250 and go up to $800. At least on paper, they look a good alternative.
Fazley Sheriff Plus(the plus is important) £150 .Fantastic guitar-not just for beginners.
I have a 2011 mexi Strat. It is still the best guitar I've played, it just works for me. I like the neck shape, holds tune incredibly well, and I have it set up to play perfectly. I prefered it so much that I sold a Custom Shop Gibson, because this cheap strat played better
Wow those pickups sound fantastic on that Tokai!
So many strat options. Sire. Harley Benton. G&L. K line. Suhr. Ibanez. Tokai. Schecter. Levinson. Artist.
I had an SX strat that sounded more like a strat than a strat.
the US core silver sky has had several different pickups, all with the same name and with completely silent changes. I like PRS but it's kind of a shitty thing to do IMO but not to a major degree. Anyway yeah if you can afford it there are lots of smaller shops making great guitars. K-Line, SVL, Lentz would be my top picks for traditional guitars since Nacho insists on using ash for everything.
Harley Benton ST Modern Plus for under $400 plays and feels better than any Strat I have played
I own a Fender custom shop strat a FenderAm Pro II Strat and a PRS Silver Sky. All I can say is, I pick up the Silver Sky more than the other two. A beautifully made guitar, for the 21 st Century! Love the 7.25 neck radius, plays like a dream!