Superstrats Preferences

JMP220478

Tenebrous said:

Jalapeno said:

This one .....

That's pretty cool, but why does it have two strap buttons on the bottom?

Some guys and manufacturers - use two as improvised guitar stand 

Jalapeno

JMP220478 said:

Tenebrous said:

Jalapeno said:

This one .....

That's pretty cool, but why does it have two strap buttons on the bottom?

Some guys and manufacturers - use two as improvised guitar stand 

Tenebrous

That's actually pretty cool. I'd no idea.

darrenp

Bolt on neck, 24 frets, Floyd and sustainer pickup :-)

Vibetronic

Preferably with 24 frets and some pickup switching combination so you can coil-tap the humbuckers or get some in-betweeny sounds somehow. Gone off locking trems quite a bit as found I much prefer the slightly looser feel without (still has to have a trem though!).

tekbow

For me the common thread is buckers and Floyds. I prefer 24 frets these days, but 22 is fine too. Usually bolt on as well, but always been interested in trying a thru neck in terms of upper fret access.

TTBZ

22 fret, HH, hardtail, bolt on neck for me. I really hate floyds, don’t see the point and I’m heavy handed so tend to pull/pick things out of tune and make them do weird chirpy noises.

Clarky

not fussed about the neck joint
prefer 24 big frets
Floyd
pups moderately hot [PAF Pro to Breed sort of hot], passive
prefer fingerboards that are flatter [16" is nice]

dilbert

I always thought a Superstrat was defined by Locking trem, bolt on neck and 24 frets. Always used to be.............. but I'm old 

  

Kebabkid

Tyler Black Classic (Dann Huff Model)

musteatbrain

If it’s a hardtail, is it a super strat still?

TINMAN82

Clarky

dilbert said:

I always thought a Superstrat was defined by Locking trem, bolt on neck and 24 frets. Always used to be.............. but I'm old 

  

I thought the first Superstrats where not exactly off-the-shelf
essentially Strats [not always Fender] with H / HSS / HH pup configs and a Floyd
so they would have been 21 fret [or like my '78 Fender modified to a 22 fret]
like EVH's early ones for example

thegummy

Interesting what people see the definition of superstrat is.

I've always thought it meant a Strat style guitar with at least a humbucker in the bridge and almost always a Floyd type bridge.

24 frets would be very common but not necessary.

I've never thought that whether the neck was set or bolt-on made any difference.

ICBM

Tenebrous said:

That's pretty cool, but why does it have two strap buttons on the bottom?

It’s massively annoying. Neither of them is in the right place, and you can’t fix it without leaving ugly holes in the guitar.

Kittyfrisk

thegummy said:

Interesting what people see the definition of superstrat is.

I've always thought it meant a Strat style guitar with at least a humbucker in the bridge and almost always a Floyd type bridge.

24 frets would be very common but not necessary.

I've never thought that whether the neck was set or bolt-on made any difference.

Good points  
Trying to categorise that which was never defined, is a bit of a bugger.
Hence the eternally continuing conversations 

ICBM

It’s difficult to define exactly, but would say it’s something like a basically Strat-shaped guitar with at least two of...

One or two humbuckers
Locking trem
Wide flat fingerboard (12” radius or larger) with jumbo frets
Pointy headstock

Fancy body top, eg maple
Slimmer or more square-edged body
No pickguard

... but I may be over-analysing it as usual .

thegummy

ICBM said:

It’s difficult to define exactly, but would say it’s something like a basically Strat-shaped guitar with at least two of...

One or two humbuckers
Locking trem
Wide flat fingerboard (12” radius or larger) with jumbo frets
Pointy headstock

Fancy body top, eg maple
Slimmer or more square-edged body
No pickguard

... but I may be over-analysing it as usual .

Definitely all common features.

For me, apart from the first one, they could all be absent and the guitar still be a superstrat. Yet if a guitar had every other one of those features but had no humbuckers I just wouldn't think it counted. I'd just see it as a strat clone with more "modern" features.

ICBM

Just a humbucker alone isn’t it, though - a Fender US Standard HSS isn’t a Superstrat, it’s just a Strat with a humbucker.

professorben

It’s not a super strat without a locking trem system, even locking tuners are not enough in my mind. 

Has to be a Floyd or Edge type double locking system. 

Frets numbers and neck connection method doesn’t really matter.

And humbuckers are an essential.