Tradition is hard to change - musicians are creatures of habit

Jalapeno

Hmmm my S+Delux bought new was Blue neck, silver middle, red bridge. (Still is 25 yrs later )

tony99

I don't see the point in 'em as I only gig in slip-ons

pintspiller

Billy Corgan loved them so they must be great. Or smashing at least.

Philly_Q

Jalapeno said:

Hmmm my S+Delux bought new was Blue neck, silver middle, red bridge. (Still is 25 yrs later )

That's right, but mine was the slightly earlier version - silver neck, silver middle, blue bridge. 

Then I got a new Fender catalogue (1990-ish) and saw they'd changed to blue/silver/red, so I copied that, but it turned out I preferred the original setup.