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Post subject: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 5:02 pm
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Tell me about this guitar please. I have a chance to get one at a nice price and have read good reviews but wanted to see what my Fender brethren knew about this model. I hear the neck is chunky but see it is only a 9.5 radius. Custom Shop pups in it.

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Post subject: Re: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 6:18 pm
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I bought one.

Ripped it apart to build something else.

Recycled all of the parts into other projects.

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Post subject: Re: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:08 pm
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so you werent a fan of the guitar or what? pros and cons please...

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Post subject: Re: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 9:35 pm
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I'm saying it was purpose-bought to be a "donor" for other projects and I disemboweled it the day after it arrived. I did play it briefly for an hour or two -- it sounded like a nice hardtail Strat. Beautifully-matched three-piece alder body with a flawless 3TSB finish. The fretboard was a nice hunk of dark-and-uniformly-grained rosewood glued to a typically-adequate maple neck, with the "aged/tinted" clear gloss poly finish to protect the maple. The radius is 9.5 inches and the frets are medium jumbos. The hardware and tuners are both of the vintage-spec variety. The pickups sounded similar to the CS 57/62 set except the for the bridge which sounded significantly beefier. A Cray Strat is a nice guitar that will do pretty much whatever you want it to do (unless you're a trem-bar junkie).

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Post subject: Re: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:07 pm
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Retroverbial wrote:
I'm saying it was purpose-bought to be a "donor" for other projects and I disemboweled it the day after it arrived. I did play it briefly for an hour or two -- it sounded like a nice hardtail Strat. Beautifully-matched three-piece alder body with a flawless 3TSB finish. The fretboard was a nice hunk of dark-and-uniformly-grained rosewood glued to a typically-adequate maple neck, with the "aged/tinted" clear gloss poly finish to protect the maple. The radius is 9.5 inches and the frets are medium jumbos. The hardware and tuners are both of the vintage-spec variety. The pickups sounded similar to the CS 57/62 set except the for the bridge which sounded significantly beefier. A Cray Strat is a nice guitar that will do pretty much whatever you want it to do (unless you're a trem-bar junkie).

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well i am thinking $475 in mint condition with an SKB is too good to pass up :mrgreen: I'm thinking it will make a nice little player for me to decide if I like a strat. I have never really bonded with but 1 strat in my life and that one is long gone.

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Post subject: Re: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:15 pm
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That's a great price and the HSC adds gravy to an already-sweet deal.

Go for it!

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Post subject: Re: Any Robert Cray MIM Burst Strat owners?
Posted: Tue Jan 25, 2011 10:27 pm
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I'm personally not a fan of artist signature models but a few years back a "MIM Robert Cray" came along at a price i couldn't say no to, the attracting feature for me was the hard tail.
Didn't keep it long as found the sound far to thin/weak for my liking, the hard tail that i though was a bonus was a disadvantage, lost a lot of tone/body sustain through it.
I didn't want to start swapping parts around because it would of detracted away from what it was, Robert Crays Signature model, so moved it on .

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But when i say I'm not a fan of artist signature models, will contradict myself by saying, a Clapton Strat, will blow you away!!, work horse an a half !!! 8)

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