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Miami Mike
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I see Sweewater's new Fender American 70s Strat is an ash body. I wonder is it's the heavy northern ash or lighter swamp ash?


You could email and ask them the weight. It looks nice:

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Crossroads got one and I'd guess about 8 lbs. If it had a maple fretboard, I'd seriously consider it. Don't know why they are only available with rosewood?

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I love everything about the Strat but the one best feature of the Stratocaster that I dig the most is the silhouette of the guitar. Not just the contour body or the neck but the overall image of a complete Fender Stratocaster. There is something magical about it which screams "Take me as high as you can go!"

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with me is the DIRTY DIRTY tone with the neck pu.
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the contoured body, cutaways, sound (texas specials and '69's on my strats), neck, look.

timeless, simple and beautiful

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I dig the Gibson inlay
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The tone is in those screws ya know.

I've noticed those guitars with metric screws and do not sound nearly as good as those with good old American sized screws.

I'm sure I'm not the only one. Just wondering why it's never discussed.

Probably some conspiracy or something. I'm pretty sure that Cadillac did not switch over to Phillips head screws until 1939.

What I'm hearing is metric screws have less sustain, chime, spank and quack. Less creamy sounding. More like skim-milky.

It's pretty obvious that the one thing that all highly priced vintage guitars have in common is non-metric screws.

I''m pretty sure that even Stradivarius never used metric wood.
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The metric threads obviously make less contact, thus less 'tone transfer".

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Mike, metric screws were what made the Japanese Strats in the 80's superior!! :wink:

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I must admit, I favor a 43mm nut over a 1.695" one. It definitely gives a better tone...

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You guys are NOT FUNNY!!!!!

There is a big difference between stainless screws and chromed.

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