"What a steal".

I've never owned an american strat so I can't really past judgement,but one thing I do know is that this guitar isn't your average mexican-made strat. Great neck,smooth frets,great action in upper register, clever wiring in the bridge pickup, classic"out of phase"tones in 2nd and fourth positions.I play it through a soild state fender deluxe 90 with a digitech rp500 with outrageous results. I have it in olympic white which I bought nearly 4 years ago and haven't put it down since! I hope to find it in sunburst one day. Great axe at an even greater price.
Put on 10's to replace the thin-sounding 9's and it took on a different voice thanks to the over-wound tex-mex pu's! "What a steal"!

A real beauty to see and to play

My first electric guitar. I bought the JV Strat because of the feel and action. It s SO smooth! Sounds fantastic and looks even better. I spent hours playing every Strat in the store and this one just blew the rest away. The neck shape and fretboard make this beauty effortless to play for hours! For the money the best Fender out there...

THE PERFECT STRAT

Wonderfull guitar!!! the best Fender ever. I have a US Strat and my new Jimmie Vaughan strat smoke my American Made Strat!!! The neck is made for my hand, comfortable, the intonation are serious in all fretboard, perfect with satin finishing, nice aged nuance (nor that palid necks of the mex standards!!). I don´t need to fine tune the frets, they arrive perfects, no buzz!!! Sound beautiful in any pups, at any amp I play. The bridge hot texmex give an warm, pure blues tone at all. The body has a awesome cream color, perfect finishing. Visually gorgeous guitar! The hardware is all american made, the tuners are gotoh vintage style, give a perfect pitch. IT´S MY LIFETIME GUITAR.

Great deal

I collect guitars and am a former professional player. My staff bought this guitar for me for my birthday in white. I have 4 Gibsons, a Vega archtop, a Dean Markley one of a kind and a Danelectro Pro. It's a great collection that was missing a "Strat". I played it for six hours the day I got it. It came set up perfectly thanks to Sweetwater technicians. My staff got great direction from Mark in sales. Together, they got me the perfect guitar. I love the Tex Mex pickups with the unique wiring. The Gotoh Vintage tuners and American Vintage trem as well as the soft V neck. The guitar has it all and more. I believe that it is the best choice you can make under $1,000.00. I added the Tortoise shell pickguard and aged white knobs/kit. I also had to get the Vintage Tweed case.
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Pretty Good for a Fender

A friend of mine in the High School band bought this guitar, and I thought is was a piece of junk. My thoughts changed when I played it back stage after school, and I was blown away. This pickups sounded killer, and it had great action for a fender. If I ever buy a Fender, the Jimmie Vaughan Strat will be number one on my Fender list!!!

A few tips on how to make it even better

I've had mine for a little over a year now, and played it each day. In my oppinion, this is the best deal on an affordable Strat you can get. Because the shape of the neck, a soft V, ist just perfect. I haven't found a neck like this on any Strat in any price range. Another big plus is the bone nut and the wiring, which leaves the middle PU wide open, not connected to any of the tone knobs. Here are a few tips on how to improve further on this instrument's sound: I have installed a Callaham inertia bar, wich vastly improves sustain and clarity, a passive Villex booster which is installed in the output jack, and Vintage alnico PUs in a handwired mint colored pickguard from LFS. The Jimmy Vaughan comes with a white one-layer Pickguard that looks fine, but is a little too thin and bright for my taste. Now my Strat is perfect... until the next modification, of course!

Fender Jimmie Vaughan Tex-Mex Strat - I love it!

I played two different ones that friends had - very similar, but distinctly different neck profiles. When I got mine, it had yet a different profile/feel. I have gottten used to it and really like it. the V is not hard or sharp, but is thicker than most I have checked out, and falls to a nice C between the 5-7 frets. the frets are large and smooth. I tried 10's and 11's on it, but in my opinion, this strat shines with 9's, as it is set up originally. the neck, action, pups all seem to work best with 9's for me, along with blocking the trem. If it were available as a hardtail, it would be about perfect for me. I also like the original vintage type tuners.

It sounds great, feels great, is well made and holds its value well. what more would you expect?

Mine is one o fthe Woody/airy sounding ones. Some aren't quite as fortunate, but mine is great.

I imagine, your setup and playign style might impact that - but thats just a guess.

Pretty nice axe

Let's suffice to say Fender might, just might, have an idea what they are doing, I mean, after sixty years of doing it. This guitar, for a mere 650, will dazzle and amaze even those who have played for more than two years. If you want all the berries, add seven, or nine-way switching and maybe some "noisless" pickups and you got some piece of gear. Top notch foo!