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10-31-2021, 04:37 PM
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Fender FA-125 impressions
A friend of mine decided to get into guitar playing and buy a guitar for his daughter to try.
He picked up one of these and had been learning on it for a while. I had him bring it over today and went over the setup for him. Overall for $200 I'm shockingly impressed. The stock setup wasn't horrible. The relief was a bit high and the nut slots were a touch high but after taking care of that it dialed in very nicely and had a surprisingly good tone. It also played quite nicely. The string spacing is a bit tight for me but overall I'd certainly steer someone on a budget to one of these based of this experience. 
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10-31-2021, 05:12 PM
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About 15 years ago I bought my teen-age son a Fender Dread (model?) at GC on a Memorial Day sale for $199. I was able to play about 5-6 of them from a stack of boxes displayed. None were duds and I found a couple that were shockingly good. One in particular was vibrant with some nice complexity and very good intonationl, all with a really nice looking spruce top. Over ten years or so he beat it up pretty good (I also chose to play it sometimes over my "high end" guitars.) Not only a great sounding guitar but it held up really well.
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