Wonderful pic, by the way. The only thing I don't like about the stripe on the Mayer sig model is that it takes away from that beautiful finish! This is great, I'm going to take a serious look at the MIM model, that kind of great feedback is just too hard to ignore. I have a MIJ 69 Thinline Tele that's of just amazing build quality. The PUPS were a bit noisy, so I recently replaced them with custom shop noiseless, wow what a difference. When I get the strat I'll have my Fender arsenal complete. Thanks for the great input, gang.