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Post subject: First Strat Back Home
Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:08 am
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Well a while back I had a 2000 MIM Strat that I had done some work to and eventually decided that I wanted to get something different. So I traded it to a pawn shop in exchange for another guitar. Then I got bit by the guitar bug really bad and bought a few more, but I always missed that strat I had traded in. I spoke with the guys at the shop and they told me their guitar tech had snagged it before it even had a chance to go on the rack, mainly due to the new paint job I had done on it. A few months go by and I called the shop to see if they had any new items in their store and the owner said, yeah we have this one with a racing stripe on it. I thought "Could it be?!" So I went back to the store and sure enough it was the one that got away ;) So I quickly grabbed it and brought her back home where she belongs :)

Here she is, a little modded differently than when I dropped her off originally but I kinda like the new setup. I might keep the loaded pickguard and put her back to singles, but I'm not 100% sure yet.

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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:12 am
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That's a cool looking strat!

If it were mine, I would leave it as is seeing as how you have two other strats with the traditional set up.

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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 1:47 pm
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I like the new look, I would play it a while and see if you like it, if not you can always change it back the way it was. BTW I really like the racing stripe very tastefully done and not something you see every day.


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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:41 pm
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Congrats on getting her back. Cool stripes, that thing must be a rock machine with those humbuckers. 8)

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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 2:49 pm
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Thank you very much :) I played around with it last night and I actually really like the setup that it has. The person who had it interm, put a toggle coil tap on the neck pickup and from what I can tell the bridge is a Seymour Duncan Screamin Demon and it really does scream ;)

I was really pleased with how the paint job came out, the stripe goes all the way around the body too. I stole the idea from John Mayer's shoreline gold strat that has the stripe along the bottom.


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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 4:27 pm
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In this case, Tom Wolfe was wrong. You can go home. Great looking axe......... 8) Mike

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