Working on my 'perfect strat'... It has an alder body, maple neck, rosewood fretboard, hardtail bridge, seymour duncan pickups (hot, vintage, and cool rails).

Long time back. Nice guitars , and the first, I think, to have the relieved neck pocket contour currently on the MIA Deluxe and the Haggard Tele. Out of production now. I'm sure someone has archive photo on that to offer up.

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"Another day in paradise!"

A candy blue strat plus with maple neck built by John Cruz. Lsr, jumbo frets, rolled edges, lace hot gold, straplocks, locking tuners... "think you move me"

my fav would be:

Made in USA
Shoreline gold
White/Black/White 3 ply pickguard
Soft V maple neck 7.25 radius
Kinman Traditional MK-III pickups
Ernie Ball coated 10's
vintage style tuners

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I got a black cat bone, I got a mojo too.

I've played hundereds, and owned about 50 over the years, and I have my perfect strat, "Sophi". I've played a few Custom Shops that could have taken the title, but I keep coming back to her


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SG.
"Walls" video from Zero in the Sun by Villains of Yesterday

Thanks! Be sure to pack it right

11-48's
A bone nut
quarter-sawn boat-neck nitro finish
pau ferro board
Lt Green finish thin nitro (no relic-ing)
10.5 fretboard radius
big frets, round and smooth on the edges
lite ash body
slanted (old gibson) p-90 bridge pup
2 lollar strat pups w/upper mids and 'air'
nice CTS 500k pots and electronics
schaller tremolo w stainless arm & callaham block
blue led inlays
chrome-mirror pickguard

Great strats.

A maple Soft V neck (The newer ones), Lollar black face pickups, Two point trem, Rolling nut, fender locking tuners,warmoth ash body with a Daphne blue finish (nitrocellulose) and contoured heel, middle pickup tone control routed to the bridge, white pick-guard http://www.suhrguitars.com/images/colorChart2/large/daphne%20blue.jpg

my ultimate strat is based on my American Deluxe strat.

I picked the particular guitar I came home with because of the tone. In a perfect world it would have been Sea Foam Green or Olympic White but it's sound was most important - so sunset metallic it is.

The changes listed below would need to be made:

-change the stock pickguard for a Pearloid guard
-swap out the tone controls for the Eric Clapton mid boost and TBX kit.
-fishman powerbridge (with a 3 way mini switch added to the pickguard for magnetic pickups only, piezo only or both)
-lsr roller nut

I would also like a second strat that has identical specs with the exception of the pickups. The second guitar would have an H/S/H configuration. The specific pickups would be a Ducan Alnico II Pro in the bridge, a Duncan Jazz in the neck and for the middle position I'd use a Duncan Vintage Rails.

Any one that my wife would let me buy!

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2012 American Standard Strat Charcoal Froast
2009 Standard Strat Sunburst Brown
Blues Junior Tweed NOS
2007 Line6 Spider Jam

Body: alder
Neck: Maple
Neck shape: modern c
Fretboard: Rosewood
Finish: Aztec gold
Pickups(SSS):
Bridge- Seymour Duncan SSL6
Middle- Texas Special RWRP
Neck- fat 50s
Hardware: Chrome

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Fender Standard Stratocaster
Maton ER90C

Body: Alder body

Finsh: thin skin nitro black, sonic blue, 3 color-sunburst, Olympic White, CAR and Lake Placid
Blue w/o a clear coat (All metallic colors would come with a clear coat)

Neck: Flamed Maple neck w/slab brizillian Rosewood Fret board. Vintage headstock and logo.

Neck Shape: Soft V, rolled edges, w/ a compound radius 9.5"-12"

Nut: unbleached bone

Fret Markers: vintage "clay" style

Tuners: Fender Locking

Frets: 22 mid-jumbo

Pickguard: 60s style

Pickups: 3 Gold Lace Sensors

Electronics: Grease Bucket Technology and EC mid-range boost

Switch: Standard 5 position

Pickup Cover, Switches & Knob Colors: white

Bridge: Vintage Fender

Straplock: Vintage

Hardware: Chrome.

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with modern tuners and change the pickups