![]() ![]() Using our '62 Road Worn Strat as a reference certainly illustrates that the Select HSS is no vintage-spec clone. ![]() "We went with a non-tilt configuration, for enhanced wood-on-wood contact in the pocket for tone and sustain," explains Norvell. While we have behind-the-nut truss rod adjustment, there's no micro-tilt for quick neck-pitch adjustment. The alder of the body has a mid-brown hue, the maple top, much like the neck, is a more golden-tinted amber.įit and finish is of a typically high standard and subtle features such as the chamfer-edged heel and round-cornered neckplate again illustrate the upmarket vibe. It's all finished in nitrocellulose, another difference from the Deluxe Series, and everything bar the satin-finished neck is gloss. ![]() It's going to have less impact on the guitar's sound than the thicker maple tops used by many and again, its quite dirty-looking Antique Burst finish is posh but classically cool too. The alder body, centre-jointed and nicely grain-matched, is more standard fare but it is topped with a thin (under 3mm) flamed maple facing. There's a Select Series medallion inset into the back of the headstock while the front logo is very standard. The neck here is birdseye maple, and with a nice dark vintage tint it looks very classy. The two-post vibrato has graced many a non-vintage Stratocaster yet here, unlike the block saddles of the Deluxe, we have old-school bent-steel saddles and the arm screws in without any tension adjustment - a prime example of this stated 'old-style upgrade' vibe of the Select Series.īut it's in the wood choice that things change more dramatically. ![]()
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