seeing a strat headstock with grovers or really any tuners other than oval klusons or f keys with slots is a major turn off, or is it just me

I prefer the old tuners too. I think its just us though. You cant discount forty years worth of strats just because of the tuners.

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No no and no

I really like the look of the vintage Fender/Ping tuning machines. No string ends in sight... nice and clean in appearance. Quite easy to string as well.

I'm a big fan of the old 60s slotted Kluson string posts,they made string changes a breeze,I can't see why they stopped using that design.Do the new 60s reissues or any other new Fenders use this type of string post? If a guitar had these posts I would buy it in a heartbeat that is provided everything else was OK with it.

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'65 Strat,65 Mustang,65 Jaguar,4 more Strats,3 vintage Vox guitars,5 Vox amps,'69 Bassman with a '68 2-15 Bassman cab,36 guitars total-15asst'd amps total,2 vintage '60s Hammond organs & a myriad of effects-with a few rare vintage ones.

the classic 50's and 60's mexican strats use em, personally i find the tabs (the bits tou hold when tunning the guitar, i forget the name) look alot better than the modern versions which are a bit 'square'

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Fender Blacktop Stratocaster HH Sonic Blue

Fender american special telecaster Olympic White

Squier Vintage Modified Jaguar Surf Green

Vox VT40+

Scahllers for me, and to each his or her own!

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60th Anniversary AD Strat, Deluxe Nashville Tele, Player's P Bass. Mesa/Boogie Mk IV combo, Marshall JCM800, 1960A cab, Genz Benz El Diablo 60, Genz 2x12" cab, too many neat little practice amps and kit projects!

Give me the slots as well.

I wish there were a slotted version of the tuners that are used on the American Standard Strat ...

Has there ever been a locking tuner that had the slotted design?

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My other guitar is a Strat.

Yes a Stratocaster is still a Stratocaster without slotted Capstans.

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RK

2007 Fender Highway 1
2012 American Deluxe
2015 MIM Dave Murray HHH
2010 Fender Blacktop
1987 Fender Avalon Acoustic
2012 Marshall DSL 15 watt head

But you poke your fingertips on those nasty string ends!

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My other guitar is a Strat.

EITHER WAY IT"S A STRAT... .......IMHO
I have both. When I'm playing it doesn't worry me.......

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I always thought it was fairly obvious but I guess not everybody knows that you can tell if it's a Strat by that logo on the headstock that says "Stratocaster."

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

It's just you.

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