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#1 was a MIJ '57 Fotoflame. I say "was" because I have replaced everything on it, except the neck. Literally *everything* - body, hardware, pickups, everything. It has Kinman Impersonator pickups with the Kinman K7 switching system, which makes it quite versatile. It's my "comfy slippers" guitar. I'm currently playing my semis (Yamaha SA2000/2200) and my Telecaster a lot these days, but it always feels like coming home when I pick up the Strat.
#2 is a "project". It's a MIJ reverse headstock model, with a Floyd Rose trem. I have been trying to build it out with a Ghost pickup system and MIDI, etc. for years. I just never make time. I have all the bits, I just need to assemble it.
#3 is all the left over bits from the Fotoflame - if I get another neck I can put it back together!
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If I had a wife I think I'd have extreme difficulty persuading her guitars are a sound investment.
The list of my guitar sales and purchases since 1982 more closely resembles the collapse of the Weimar republic...
Strats, I've had lots, working up through Squiers and MIJs and MIMs and American Standards and AVRI... when I got to Custom Shop they've turned out to be keepers.
Part of the problem is I've literally never used the bridge pickup on a strat if there's been a decent Tele around. I'm also not a huge fan of the clucky in-between sounds. Don't use whammys other than the occasional Bigsby either.
A Tele with a strat neck pickup would be far more my preference. I much prefer the way teles hang too.
Which is ironic, since I love the sound of them. Many of my favourite recorded guitar sounds are Strats. Something about the neck pickup, and the in-between sounds on a good Strat just sounds right, to me.
I have the same issue with Les Pauls - the high-end ones I’ve played are invariably ‘better’ instruments than the cheaper ones I’ve owned/played - but ultimately not for me.
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Never really been in to strats.. Don't get on with the 9.5" radius.. But one day I really just decided I had to at least try cos well its a Strat, Hendrix is one of my faves so just from that alone I felt I had to give it a go ..
This one a Mexi Deluxe.. I had it for a year, never got on with it really even though I wanted too. Was pretty though.
https://i.imgur.com/9XOdhCE.jpg
The guy I sold it too said he loved it more than his USA Standard Strat. So at least someone ended up happy with it.
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In the nearly 40 years I've been playing buying guitars, I've always gone through phases of preferring Fender types for a while, then Gibson types, then back to Fender and so on. But for a long time in more recent years, i'd settled on mahogany, set-neck guitars - LP Juniors, SGs, some PRS models.
Then about 3 years ago I bought a Custom Shop Strat. It was a bit of a shot in the dark - it had a V neck, which I'd never really got on with before, I wasn't crazy about the colour or the '50s styling - but it was just so much better than any other Strat I'd owned. The neck turned out to be super-comfortable, the fretwork's great, the whole thing is resonant and "alive". I've owned a lot of guitars and most have come and gone, but this was definitely one of the few which really made an impression.
Now, I'm not a gigging musician - I'm not a musician at all really - so all those things like weedy bridge pickups, intrusive middle pickups and inconveniently-placed volume controls might turn out to be problems if I had to deal with them in the real world. But for sitting around playing at home, I now love my Strats!