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Post subject: Old Strats
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:13 pm
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Ok, so this is NOT a new topic, but since it is my first time here, I couldn't find how to post replies. On the subject a while back on the virtues of the old strats, I need to chime in (even if I am a day late and a dollar short). I have an old '63 Strat that is about the only guitar I have used from then to present. There is no one on the planet that can ever convince me that this was not the absolutely best all around guitar ever built. In my wild and crazy drunken early Rock n Roll years in the 60's and 70's, I routinely threw my Strat across rooms, kicked it, burned it ala Hendrix on stage, (ok, so it was only lighter fluid that only melted the paint), left the guitar outside in snow drifts of western pennsylvania WITHOUT the case, skidded it across a rain soaked blacktop parking lot when I ripped the case angrily from the back of my stationwagon during a heated arguement with my wife(not knowing the case was open, which flung the guitar skidding across the lot about 75 feet or more, in a raining downpour). I was so pissed off I just left it laying in the lot for about an hour, when I HAD to go and get to play the gig. Anyway, there is not another guitar made that could have withstood the abuse my Strat endured at my drunken hands, and survived unscathed except for cosmetics.
To this day, as always, my strat remains the easiest, best palying guitar I have ever picked up. Over the past 40 plus years, I have often tried to buy another guitar, trying out about every brand and model known to man, but have never found one so comfortable and easy to play as my strat. The old girl has been repainted several times over the years, and has had a pickguard change due to cracks in the original, but she still has all other original components and wiring except I changed the 3 way switch to a 5 way. I quit playing for a number of years, and I just slid her in the case under a bed, and left her there for 3 or 4 years. My grandkids convinced me to bring her out, and as always, she was still in perfect tune, and stayed that way for the past year or so.
In all the years of playing her, I NEVER had any tuning problems, regardless if it was an inside club job or any outside gig in all kinds of PA weather. My only complaint is that it didn't come in a cast iron case! Ihave had people offer me insane amounts of money for my Strat, But I will NEVER sell her at ANY price. We have just been through too much together and it would be like selling my wife (hmmm...theres a thought). My Strat will either be buried with me, or be given to one of the grandkids if they show any interest.
So there ya have it!


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Post subject: Re: Old Strats
Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 4:18 pm
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Ok, so this is NOT a new topic, but since it is my first time here, I couldn't find how to post replies. On the subject a while back on the virtues of the old strats, I need to chime in (even if I am a day late and a dollar short). I have an old '63 Strat that is about the only guitar I have used from then to present. There is no one on the planet that can ever convince me that this was not the absolutely best all around guitar ever built. In my wild and crazy drunken early Rock n Roll years in the 60's and 70's, I routinely threw my Strat across rooms, kicked it, burned it ala Hendrix on stage, (ok, so it was only lighter fluid that only melted the paint), left the guitar outside in snow drifts of western pennsylvania WITHOUT the case, skidded it across a rain soaked blacktop parking lot when I ripped the case angrily from the back of my stationwagon during a heated arguement with my wife(not knowing the case was open, which flung the guitar skidding across the lot about 75 feet or more, in a raining downpour). I was so pissed off I just left it laying in the lot for about an hour, when I HAD to go and get to play the gig. Anyway, there is not another guitar made that could have withstood the abuse my Strat endured at my drunken hands, and survived unscathed except for cosmetics.
To this day, as always, my strat remains the easiest, best palying guitar I have ever picked up. Over the past 40 plus years, I have often tried to buy another guitar, trying out about every brand and model known to man, but have never found one so comfortable and easy to play as my strat. The old girl has been repainted several times over the years, and has had a pickguard change due to cracks in the original, but she still has all other original components and wiring except I changed the 3 way switch to a 5 way. I quit playing for a number of years, and I just slid her in the case under a bed, and left her there for 3 or 4 years. My grandkids convinced me to bring her out, and as always, she was still in perfect tune, and stayed that way for the past year or so.
In all the years of playing her, I NEVER had any tuning problems, regardless if it was an inside club job or any outside gig in all kinds of PA weather. My only complaint is that it didn't come in a cast iron case! Ihave had people offer me insane amounts of money for my Strat, But I will NEVER sell her at ANY price. We have just been through too much together and it would be like selling my wife (hmmm...theres a thought). My Strat will either be buried with me, or be given to one of the grandkids if they show any interest.
So there ya have it!


Wow, that is one great story. Do you have any pictures to show?

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Posted: Mon Dec 10, 2007 5:03 pm
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Yes I have pics, but al either old polaroids or 35mm photos. I have to buy a scanner to scan them into my computer. I only have 1 recent picture taken with some other guitars I bought just to have but rarely ever play. If I can figure how to get it into this site (new to site, took 20 minutes to figure how to reply to your post)I will post it here.
one thing I did forget to mention in my original post, all that rain and snow abuse did cause all the screws on the guitar to rust, so when I replaced the pickguard recently, I also installed new pick guard screws, but kept the originals in a plastic bag with the old pickguard.


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