Current Fender Strat Range

MrBump

Has anyone had a good play on the current US made Strat range (Professional vs Elite vs Original)?

I'm keen to hear views.  Loads of interesting YouTube clips.  

Octafish

I did play a Am Pro Strat recently and was not that impressed. It wasn't that anything was awful, but nothing about it blew me away and I've played a few US Stds recently that I thought were much better. I could have been me or maybe it was just a dog. One thing that was definitely wrong with it was the weight, really heavy, I would guess getting on for 10 Ibs.

stickyfiddle

I haven’t tried the new ones, but I have to say I played a “new old stock” American standard the other week and it was a lovely, lively guitar. 

Consensus us seems to be that the new range is even better, so bodes we’ll.

SidNewton

Octafish said:

I did play a Am Pro Strat recently and was not that impressed. It wasn't that anything was awful, but nothing about it blew me away and I've played a few US Stds recently that I thought were much better. I could have been me or maybe it was just a dog. One thing that was definitely wrong with it was the weight, really heavy, I would guess getting on for 10 Ibs.

I've just read the review in Guitarist magazine (first time I bought a guitar mag in about 10 years) of the new American Original guitars. The one criticism was  the weights of the models reviewed. They were all 8.5lb upwards.
This is disappointing, hopefully there are lighter ones out there. The 60's Strat interests me. Vintage profile neck with 9.5 inch radius and vintage 6 screw trem is spot on. Normally you'd have to go Custom Shop to get those specs from an American made Strat. 
Lack of colours is a tad disappointing as well though the olympic white looks nice.