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Escribano
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Joined: Jul. 6 2003
From: England, living in Italy
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Fender Strat
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I have been experimenting with the banjo and after many fairly fruitless hours, I asked myself why not just go back to what I already know? I started on the electric guitar when I was 13 years old and I never 'learnt' the thing nor remember practising that much. Just joined a band and it kind of grew on me organically. A bit like flamenco kids, I guess. Anyway, I gave my 1970 SG to my nephew a while ago and have always hankered after a Strat, so I have been looking on eBay for ages (which sucks for buying guitars untried). Eventually, I looked in my local online classifieds and found a great Mexican Standard. A 2011 model that had not been setup or played much at all. The guy had overtightened the strings so the tremelo/bridge was floating too high and he only wound a couple of turns on the posts, cutting off the excess so it didn't hold its tuning. I knew what the problem was, so I knocked £50 off the asking price and picked it up for £200. It's hardly been used and after a few hours of basic setting up, adjusting the three tremelo springs, innotation on the saddles, pickup height etc. and new strings, I love it. So easy to play. Set of five vintage tremelo springs on their way. Maybe install some Fender Custom Shop '69 or Seymour Duncan pickups and a steel bridge block to give it more character. Before flamenco I didn't like the slightly wider fretboard of the Strat but now it is just fine. Otherwise, I can't be sure if flamenco has made that much of a difference to my playing but I am using my pinky a lot now and thinking more about melody than I did before in my noodlings. Now thinking about assembling my own mega-Strat from a baseline of a decent CNC-routed body blank and finished vintage style neck. Probably go for a tru-oil or light nitro finish for tone and sustain. It's not so much lutherie as bolting on parts and adjustments and there are so many options to choose from.
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Date Nov. 3 2013 19:30:41
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Ruphus
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RE: Fender Strat (in reply to Escribano)
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Hi Simon, Provided amateur level on strats be welcomned, I want to mention my axe which is only a Yamaha (RGX312), but plays very nicely, vibrates from top to toe and is pretty versatile with its pickup system. I wasn´t expecting much when I stumbled over it, but it surprised me a lot. Already unplugged it just grooves away. Other electrics I had in hand so far ( which admittedly wasn´t too many, but some of them very expensive ) felt comparably bulky and none had such strong vibe to it. This little black and plain instrument has amazing value for the money. - This afternoon someone came by to tell me of his just acquired Vox amp with all the emulation features and reminded me of how long its been since I dialed in a crunchy sound anywhere to hack some kind of Indian rain dance. Don´t even know where my ol´ POD FX is burried. Sometime years ago, I researched on what to possibly collect a finer strat of and marked parts like these: It did not realize however, as nylon won me back before. Guess if a strat of finer parts had given advantages over the Yamaha cinderella ( without me distinctively anticipating the benefits in advance / merely and vaguely deeming an overall lift evident with A/Bing the two instruments ), currently it would still be seeing as little use as the RGX. Probably a shame of waste / only good to have not been invested. Similar to dust collecting steelers and the banjo. Poor little gems left idle since years now. ( While appreciating them still; just wishing there was time to practise them all.) - Back to Fender strats which are highly appreciated from what I read, with great ones among the Mexican production ( after not so great output until nineties or so?) and not even as heavy weighing as I used to think. ( After me ranting about a very heavy vintage Fender, recording mates informed me that actually there have always been light ones around as well.) Just bubbling away, hopefully not spoiling thread with cluelessness about electrics. Ruphus
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