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Post subject: Strats are build/ painted like tanks!!
Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 5:25 pm
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I was walking up stairs with my amp and strat, one hand carrying each, and when i was turning to close my door I slammed my strat body on the edge of door. No harm done!! Not even a dent or ding. I think the door was more damage then the strat! How does the paint stay intacked to well? Anybody else got stories of their strat getting (almost) damaged?


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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 6:23 pm
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It didn't damage because of the polyutherane finish fender uses now. theyre incredibly thick and harder than most guitars to ding. Your still lucky though because they still get damaged alot.


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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:07 pm
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Hello Rock Star,

My 2000 deluxe is polyurethane
armour coated, it takes a lickin
and keeps on tickin.Still looks new.

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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:15 pm
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> Strats are built/painted like tanks!!

think about all of the Gibsons you see with repaired headstocks.

how many Fenders have you seen with similar repairs?

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> Strats are built/painted like tanks!!

think about all of the Gibsons you see with repaired headstocks.

how many Fenders have you seen with similar repairs?


Haha! Well, there's a vid somewhere on this website where Pete Townshend's guitar tech mentions how he's had to glue his Strat's headstock back together right across the tuner holes.

But then that was because Pete threw the guitar at him. A perfectly normal way for a guy in his sixties to express himself...

Cheers - C


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i did the same thing but with a car door and no harm done.


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Haha! Well, there's a vid somewhere on this website where Pete Townshend's guitar tech mentions how he's had to glue his Strat's headstock back together right across the tuner holes.


My point was that a much larger percentage of Gibson headstocks had repairs; not that Fenders never needed repair!

A common way to break a Fender headstock is to try to install new tuners without drilling pilot holes for the screws. Forcing a screw in, even a very small one, can crack the headstock right across the tuner holes. Pete probably didn't try that, he was probably just a little too rough putting it back into its case. :wink:

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I lost my balance and accidentally dropped my Strat flat on the ground when I was at my local music store waiting for my father's banjo lesson to end so I could move on with my guitar lesson. Sent chills down my spine, but crud, nothing happened to it. No damage at all. The guy I was talking to when it happened, said if I had dropped a Gibson it probably would of totaled it. :shock:


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I love watching footage of SRV live at el mocambo...
At one point he's actually on the body pulling back on the neck.
Its right to the edge of crazy destructive but musical the whole way.
Then he grabs the trem only and shakes it bouncing the strat all over the ground... crazy

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I love watching footage of SRV live at el mocambo...
At one point he's actually on the body pulling back on the neck.
Its right to the edge of crazy destructive but musical the whole way.
Then he grabs the trem only and shakes it bouncing the strat all over the ground... crazy


yep third stone from the sun still remember the first time i watched it, i thought he was crazy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMW0t17Ft5o

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bluestube wrote:
bss wrote:
I love watching footage of SRV live at el mocambo...
At one point he's actually on the body pulling back on the neck.
Its right to the edge of crazy destructive but musical the whole way.
Then he grabs the trem only and shakes it bouncing the strat all over the ground... crazy


yep third stone from the sun still remember the first time i watched it, i thought he was crazy!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMW0t17Ft5o


If you watch the whole concert he plays number 2 on the next song, of course, probably while the tech assess the damages. Also if I remember correctly a string was hanging loose.


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Ceri wrote:
orvilleowner wrote:
> Strats are built/painted like tanks!!

think about all of the Gibsons you see with repaired headstocks.

how many Fenders have you seen with similar repairs?


Haha! Well, there's a vid somewhere on this website where Pete Townshend's guitar tech mentions how he's had to glue his Strat's headstock back together right across the tuner holes.

But then that was because Pete threw the guitar at him. A perfectly normal way for a guy in his sixties to express himself...

Cheers - C


Pete's always had, lets say, anger issues.

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Pete's always had, lets say, anger issues.


Quote: "I said I want this neck set up with a slight front bow. FRONT BOW, do you hear me?!!"

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Ceri wrote:
cryingstrat wrote:
Pete's always had, lets say, anger issues.


Quote: "I said I want this neck set up with a slight front bow. FRONT BOW, do you hear me?!!"

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Yep, like we thought. Them Gibson necks just can't take it.


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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 3:15 pm
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I had a dream once that I was playing my strat and i bumped it a few times on the edge of a table...it was all dented up...I almost dream-cried

I woke up...No dings :lol:

Ah but I was playing it in reality another day after and DID bump in against a table...and well...no dents or dings whatsoever... :P


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