Fender Highway One Stratocaster

its too bad the Highway 1 is out of production. I own 2 of them and they're damn good strats! I think they sound and feel better than a the American standard and you can do any upgrade with no fear or guilt.

the American special replaced this but its the same guitar but with a different paint job. They are equivalent to Gibson' traditional standard

les paul models which also sound and feel better by it no weight relief than the Gibson les paul standard. The highway 1 is fenders' true and closest strat in this time and day that is like the great ones built in the late 50s to mid 70s.

Good guitar a little noisy due to none reverse wound pick ups.

My 2009 US standards defiantly better.

2002-2011 used 500-550 $ Canadian

I decided to upgrade from a Fender Squire. I tried about three Fender Stratocasters in our local shop, and found the Highway 1 just felt and sounded the best.

The look and finish is great. I have noticed that the pickguard has a nice aged off white look.The ultra thin finish is perfect, as I am not that keen on high gloss guitars. I think these guitars will age really well. The reverse coil pickups, I think do sound thicker in sound, this maybe causes the bottom end to be a little too thick in sound, but the dynamics of the coils and tone knobs allows adjusting the tone to whatever style suits your playing, and the thick bottom end can be adjusted out.

My guitar has the maple fingerboard, which took some getting used to. Compared to my old Squire the frets felt huge and the fingerboard just felt too big!! However it was really just a matter of my hand getting used to the feel of the fingerboard, and I now find it fine.

Negative things. The guitar came very poorly set up. Fret buzz everywhere and action too low. I gave it back to the shop, who sent it to their guitar repairer. A total waste of time as it was only slightly better when I got it back.They blamed most of it on the fact that I liked it tuned to Eb??

I then took it to another guitar shop, who recommended thicker gauge strings,that and another setup, and the guitar is now awesome (even in Eb!!). I like quite a high action and love thick strings for that blues sound, and the guitar does not disappoint.

Overall if you are looking for a US built strat,give the Highway 1 a go. I have to say the price is a big plus but I would have spent the extra money on the standard US strat had it sounded better but it didn't. I guess the moral of the story is always try as many guitars as you can, and never buy a guitar without trying it first. Every guitar is unique,why risk spending all your hard earned cash on an online purhase when you can try guitars in a shop and find the one that suits you??

The tonal improvement over my old Squire is huge, and I always thought my Squire sounded great!! The only one thing I would say to Fender is,include a hardcase as standard (UK), and teach people in the factory how to set guitars up to be at least playable. It's such a shame, as Fender strats are beautifully made, and set up right,would be a joy to own from the moment you get one home,rather than after weeks of adjustment. I've owned several guitars but for me the Fender strat offers the most qualities I like from an electric guitar, plus the list of great blues players that have all made the strat their number one choice of

instrument, makes it the guitar of my choice. I play my Highway 1 through a VOX Valvetronix 100.Hope this helps.

i have three 2007 highway one sss strats i know today 2010 the

2007 highway one sss strats are very much sought after and are

selling if you can even find one between $1,200 to $1,300 theres

a few differnces between the 2007 highway one sss strats and the one's

of 08 - 09 and 2010's. right off the bat the 2007's were crafted with

a two piece Alder body the others are three piece alder body's and there's

a few other difernces. if you find a 2007 grabe it and fast thats even

if you can find one.the 2007 highway one strats are some of the best

fender strats crafted in many years!

THE HIGHWAY ONE SSS STRAT is simply one of the best

all around strats fender has produced in years. even today

i still havent head a strat that produces such tone versatility

sustain and classic old school feel like the highway one sss strat.

i bought 3 of them back in 2009 when they listed with (no case) $1,130

and i payed $930 a piece for mine and very well worth it. now that fender

has droped the prices on most of there strats including the highway one sss strat i'm thinking of buying a fourth. these strats have been caled by pro guitarist to be legedary and i have to agree. the new american standard strat doesnt come close to the Brilliant highway one sss strat.

and the new american special strats are a joke compared to the highway one sss strat. the highway one sss strat is already a legendary and classic strat and there are not many strat that are in this brilliant strats leage

and that even includes some customshop made strats. the highway one sss strat will deliver all the time and a lot more its simply a legend!

these guitars are now end of the run into a new decade an the new american standard takes its place,they,ll be highly sought after without a doubt the looks an sound is awesome bearing in mind they launched in 2002 an didnt look any differnt from the american series except they had differnt pick ups , which annoyed everyone who had paid £900 for the american series £400 more than the highwayone,and the CARONA model previous to it,run for only 1 year because evryone was complaining that its was a mexican /american the mexican factory got them in to paint then they went back to carona factory to get assembled so in all the distain over the highwayone they remodelled it in 2007 put a 70s wide headstock and kept the 60s vintage body an put alnico3 pickups EUREKA a hybrid a guitar in its own right differnt looks an sound an even better than strats, at double the price,,FENDERS way of saying,,GET IT UP YOU~s,after all they ,re in market to sell guitars they,re not there to be dictated to by collectors and purist,s that have allready got them, overall you cant go wrong these guitars are the best value american strat ever sold,, people are snapping them up now i,m glad i bought mine wont be parting whi it ever ,, go BUY one marks 11 out of 10

Brought my Honey Blonde Highway Strat 2nd Hand (2002) not that you can tell, fantastic guitar great sound and play ability would recommend this guitar to any proffesional.

Cannot give any negitive feedback on this Stratacaster.

fantastic! craftmanship/tone/sustain.

love the neck its very smooth no ruff

edges on the pick ups. alnico III pick ups

are very versatile some of the best sounding

pick ups out there today. bought this strat 7 months ago

and my 2008 american standard strat is doing nothing

but collecting dust. i cant seem to put the Fender Highway One Stratocaster down.

The Fender Highway One Stratocaster is a beautiful instrument, it is a working piece of art. The alnico pickups sound vintage and sweet and the humbucker has good thick distortion. I bought the Satin finish and it just looks solid, tough, and vintage. Only bad point is the bridge, these old bridges are obviously not going to be as good as the new Floyd Rose style, however, it does stay in tune pretty well.

these are awesome guitars well worth the money. mine has been played side by side with an American custom shop model,(friends in a band) Even he said it was hard to tell the difference beetween the tones on both guitars and how well the highway played. How awesome is that!

Fender Highway One Stratocaster, they play like butter,awesome tone,i have a 2006 60th anniversary in honey blonde,superb.