Great Price, but not the Best to Play.

Now this is going to be slightly biased as mine is in a bit of a bad condition, due to fret sprout and bad tuning stability. The price is unrivaled to anything else, and that is probably the best factor of it. It does sound like a strat, and the 3/4 scale length of it is very helpful if someone has a smaller body. They go for about $200 new, and I was lucky to get mine for about $80 used, so for a beginning guitar on a budget, it works really well. However, there are better options for the similar price since you don't have to pay the tax for the Fender name: I would recommend getting either an Epiphone if you want a cheap yet reliable and good guitar, or a Yamaha Pacifica for a strat. Both have options for about the same price or even cheaper sometimes, as well as looking around on the used market for options. Overall, it's a short scale strat, it sounds and plays like one, but there are definitely better options in my opinion.

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great for gigs/travel

(genre i play: shoegaze/slowcore)

the good: extremely lightweight. 3/4 size makes transporting it much easier than a full size strat, great for small hands too. way underpriced for the quality imo, for the price they sell for youd expect them to fall apart after the slightest tumble but its a suprisingly durable bastard. also suprising is how little hum there is. the pink finish is very very pretty (and looks even prettier with a little relicing) and the neck is very comfortable imo.

the eh: good enough sustain but not the best. tuners are ok but definitely recommend changing them out. frets are ok but again id recommend changing them out.

the bad: no whammy bar is pretty big downside, the pickup selector feels pretty cheap, and the output jack isnt the best.

conclusion: overall would recommend it to ppl looking for a road/gig guitar, also good for ppl with smaller hands.

bought this guitar for playing gigs and for my tiny hands, not expecting much from it, was pleasantly suprised by it. good modding platform or learning to relic bc the guitar itself doesnt cost much and you dont have to worry too much about ruining it. not the best strat in the world but definitely not a toy id give it 7/10

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Solid, but boring.

This was at my school, so i did not expect much of it. The first problem that i have with this guitar is the boring as tone. But you can change that of course. My second problem was the tuning. The thing was out of tune at the time so i had to tune it. I started to tune it, it went okay until i went to the high e string. Right when i touched it, the string popped.

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Very Nice

All my older sisters play guitar; my sister who is 6 years older than me has one like I do but I have one in red & she has one in pink & another in black. Other than that, I love it!

Its An Alr Guitar

ok so its a ok guitar not my favorite but its rlly good for beginners ill give it that it also better for people with smaller hands like me.

great platform for modifications

I bought one of these off Kijiji for $45 and decided to modify it into a short scale modern player strat, as they are very rare to find used and very expensive if you do happen to find one. I bought tortoise shell pikcguard material and traced the original white guard onto the new material, then went to GFS for a GFS grey-bottom middle pickup, lipstick tube humbucker and then eBay for a vintage fender '65 neck pickup for some good jerry tones. Next stop was warmoth to find a vintage tinted mustang neck for the short scale that i wanted. I cut the headstock to strat shape, added a logo and jerryrigged it to fit in the pocket with proper intonation. I found another mini body on eBay for $20 so i opted to do one body with a routed out trem and one with a hardtail, using an allparts vintage style bridge for both the hardtail and the trem versions. With the short scale, vintage tinted neck, tortoise shell pickguard and cream knobs with chrome hardware all for around $250, (minus a few electronic components) this guitar is killer and i would definitely recommend it to someone looking to begin modifying guitars for cheap.

A miss piece from factory?

This was my first guitar ever. I got it when I was 7 years old so I didn't really know about guitars back then. Now I think it's okay, very sharp fret ends that can draw blood. But the sound of the singlecoils is just amazing on cleans, I love it for it's sound.

Pretty funky little thing!

Got mine off my good cousin who is in the U.S. Army at the moment. Looking at the serial number, it was from the year 2000 and the pickguard started aging to a nice cream color. Only real downside is the lack of the extra tone pot, but you really don't need it to make this thing sound good!

First guitar

Kind of small, great for kids. I had it since I was 8 and it was the perfect size for me. It doesn’t sound as good in my opinion, but it is still playable.

The simpler the better

Great guitar for beginners. The light, customizable play style is great for any sound. Works with a wide range of amps and can adapt very well for optimal playing varieties. Easy to handle and can fit most guitar straps. The black color is nice for artists to color the white pickgaurd, and use different picks/straps for their own personality.