I got mine in the summer of 1980, I was 16. It was a black 76 with maple neck. It was a birthday gift from my mom.

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a 2004 MIM that a neighbor traded me for all of my legos. (He had this project he's wanted to do since childhood, but didn't have the 20,000 bricks to complete it. I have 3,000 bricks or so.)

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

I bought a new Squire (Alpine White, SSS, maple neck) in 1995. Only had a few months before I was stationed in Korea. Didn't have another strat until 2009 which was a new 2008 Fender Deluxe Lonestar Strat (Alpine White HSS). Now I'm back to '96 Tex-Mex. I want a SSS Alpine White, rosewood board, 4 ply brown tortoise shell, gold hardware American Standard strat. Hoping next year will be the year I get it.

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96 48th st strat from Sam Ash with the mother of toilet seat pickguard. Candy apple red. Wish I still had it.

Sounds like a freakin' good deal! does he need any more?!

This is my first.

2001 American Deluxe HSS, Chrome Red. Bought in 2003, was an ex-demo from Fender's UK showroom.



Then I went a bit crazy and decided to rip apart the electronics...



Originally had a DiMarzio Cruiser humbucker at the neck, then a weird brandless stacked humbucker (looked like an EMG/Lace, was definitely not) and a Tonerider Generator humbucker at the bridge. Then I went all DiMarzio, got a singlecoil Super Distortion for the middle and a D-Sonic for the bridge.



Then I swapped the necks with the None More Black I got this year, but it played like $@!& so I swapped it back and sold the None More Black on...

And we're back where we started.

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'01 American Deluxe HSS Strat.
'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

He's fine at this point ahaha.

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1984 Squier Contemporary Stratocaster
1986 Peavey Envoy 110
1967 Kingston Acoustic

1963 or 64. dad got me a used one. lake placid blue with maple neck. wish i still had it

1997 American Standard, 3TSB with rosewood neck. I put a set of Texas Specials in it and changed the pickguard to mother of toilet seat. Wish I still had it.

I got mine in mid 2006, it was a 2006 hwy1 I was floored
By it. Awesome action, the neck was thin and wide though.
I loved the pickups though.

Do you still have your 70s strat

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"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, but today is a gift. That is why it is called the present."

oogway, kungfu panda 2008

So you made your own Roadhouse! Awesome.

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'01 American Deluxe HSS Strat.
'87 Japan HSS Strat.
'11 Custom Shop FMT HSS Strat.

"Without music, time is just a bunch of boring production deadlines and dates by which bills must be paid."

Mine was way back in 1996.....Mom and Dad got me a brand new Mexican standard Strat...in a metal-flake red with maple neck! I still have it! That was the beginning of a life-long strat addiction! :/

my first strat was this honey blond highway one with rosewood board. I bought it new in 2003 and its been my main guitar since. i play the crap out of it I had telecasters prior to that.

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1980 Strat, got it around 1986. Still have it, first of many.

A lovely Squier Affinity, i think an '03, back in summer of '06.
Black, white pickguard, rosewood.
Had quite a few mods and been dropped a lot since then.
It's crazy light and the pickups are trebly as hell, but it's got a nice thin neck and homebrewed appeal.

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Black Fender Jaguar HH Special
3x Black Squier Affinity Strat
Black Partscaster
Sunburst Jim Deacon JDST57
Tobacco Burst Westfield E4000
Redburst Hondo H180A
White Ibanez JEM 555
Brown Ibanez SX60
Black Encore Superstrat

I got my first around '91 or '92, a black MIM with w/b/w pick guard and rosewood fret board, purchased from the Guitar Center in SF when it was still south of the Mission District. I QUICKLY learned what 60Hz hum was all about. I think that guitar is still in Cali.