GEAR REVIEW
LINCOLN BREWSTER STRATOCASTER | Doug Doppler
like having one built into your guitar.
KEY FEATURES
• 22 Fret Quarter-sawn Maple Neck TONE ON TAP
• Locking Tuners As you dial up the first Tone control from zero
you add a midrange boost. At ten this makes
• Ash Body
the ‘noiseless’ DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Area 61
• DiMarzio Virtual Vintage Pickups bridge pickup sound and feel a lot like a PAF
• 2 Post Tremolo with Pop-in Bar humbucker. In combination with the DiMarzio
Virtual Vintage Area 58, this feature makes the
• Volume and Mid Boost Circuits
middle pickup selection one that I kept going
back to, where typically its one many players
The Lincoln Brewster Stratocaster is a great shy away from. This feature is also really useful
guitar, it’s right up there with the best of them in in combination with the DiMarzio Virtual Vintage
the ‘favorites’ category. Designed to have the Area 58 in the neck position to add some extra
visual vibe of a ’57 Strat, the ‘stealth’ features girth without things getting muddy.
on this guitar make it one of those instruments
you just don’t want to put down. Not only does TREBLE BLEED CIRCUIT
it play like butter, you’ll never look at another This is another feature that once you start using,
Strat the same after you use the volume and it’s hard to do without. By placing a capacitor
midrange boost circuits. Seriously, when I say in the circuit, when you back off on the volume
game changer, I really mean these features control it functions like a High Pass Filter. As
enable you to do things that no other Strat can! the name implies, this allows the highs to pass
through, but filters out the bottom end. When
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used with the internal Volume Boost or a drive
To be honest, I’m not a huge fan of guitars
with built a built-in boost. But the one on
pedal, this allows you to clean-up your tone,
simply by pulling your volume control down.
this guitar is nothing short of amazing.
I know that when I pick up one of my TWO POST BRIDGE + LOCKING TUNERS
other Strats, I’m really gonna miss Another stealth feature is the two-post floating
this. Pulling up Volume control with bridge and folded vintage style saddles. This
the guitar at 10 effectively doubles the keeps the tone vintage but helps the bridge
output of the instrument, without the float freely without catching. In combination
tone getting weird. Rumor has it that Stevie with the adjustable pop-in bar mechanism and
Ray Vaughn set the Level (volume) locking tuners, the trem feels great, and stays
control on his Tube Screamers at
in tune better than any stock Strat I’ve played.
ten and the Drive/Overdrive at zero
to utilize this same approach for
The one piece 22-fret maple neck is quarter
amp into submission. As Lincoln sawn and is 1.6875” wide at the nut. The ‘gentle
mentions this V’ neck shape and 9.5-14” compound radius
enables him to play a song like is great for playing chords as well as buzz-free
“Miraculum” all the way through bends as you move up the neck. Speaking of
without having to head back to moving up the neck, the neck access from
his board to hit a boost. Seriously, the reimagined neck joint is nothing short
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if you love drive pedals, this truly is
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pummeling the front end of the
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of amazing.
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