Went to my local music shop yesterday and saw a 2010 Limited Edition Ebony American Standard, thought about it all night last night then went and picked it up today...
I read only 150 made on one site, also heard 300 made at another???
In addition to the 2010 Strat specs, it also has a painted matching Ebony headcap, clear lacquer neck, rosewood fingerboard, B/W/B pickguard and parts, Silver logo on headcap, and “Limited Edition” neckplate.

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first off, only 150 of them were made.
thats a very cool that you could get one! could you post some pictures?

How did your shop manage to have one? I spoke to the CS folks at Fender last week, who told me that they were not even built yet.

Have mine on preorder...

Not sure how they got one but they had an ebony and an ivory model, it's my first Strat, went in looking to see what they had available and they had just gotten the limiteds in. Just lucky I guess, it is awesome.

Did the shop give an idea how long they had it in stock?

Got them in last week.

The Ivory has a maple fingerboard. Both guitars were Factory Special Run limited-edition models.

Only 150 examples were made.

Mine arrived yesterday.
Question: is it normal for a current strat's bottom tone knob to stick at "10"? It feels like there is an indent there and takes a little effort to turn out of that setting. The knobs in general are a little less smooth than a recall (from 10-15 years ago when I last owned a strat)

The fingerboard is quite a bit darker than the flash makes it in pictures.

That's the indent for the no-load pot. The tone pot is taken completly out of the circuit at the indent.

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Bill

A couple of photos showing the Ivory American Standard Strat with the maple neck would be welcomed and apraised.

Both Ebony and Ivory Stratocasters are real jewels.

I suppose there's also a matching set of FSR Ebony/Ivory Teles, Precision and Jazz Basses in the works.

Hmmm. Why have it at 10 rather than 1?

Explain it to me as though I have no idea what a no-load pot is.
(I have no idea...)

Same..thank god you asked that. My Am. Standard has that too and I've always wondered.

What music store did you get your new axe? I want to get the ivory one! please let me know the telephone # of the store. I want to call them and have it shipped yesterday!!!

I'll take a shot at this...

A tone pot is a variable resistor/potentiometer connected in parallel to the pickup output(s) - it dumps certain frequencies to ground instead of them passing on to the output jack/amp. The pot input/lug is wired to the guitar output signal, & the output/lug of the pot wired to ground...but 1st wired in series somewhere in there is a capacitor. The cap determines which frequencies get passed/dumped to ground (mostly those higher then the cap's rating); the rating of the pot (250ohm, 500ohm, etc) controls how much signal gets dumped - the higher the resistance of the pot/setting between its input(guitar signal) and output(ground), the less higher-freq signal gets dumped.

BUT - the pot is (normally) always connected to the PUP output signal, so something is always getting dumped, even at "9.5". The no-load pot bypasses the output-to-ground lug altogether. NO dumping at all!

Its probably no-load near/at 10 cause that is where most of the highs/signal get through - now w/Delta tone no-load all will.