1990 Fiesta Red American Standard with maple board, bought new, gift to self for finally finishing bachelor's degree.

Candy Cola American Standard Model 2009

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My Rig: Guitar into Pedals then into Amps and out into Speakers.

White Blonde 57 AVRI, 2 years ago bought it used. Gold pickguard 1 year ago.

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I traded my car in for a microphone.

My first Strat was stripped down and stained '87 Strat Plus w/ rosewood fret board.

I bought it at Music 6000 in Olympia, WA for $600 in '92. I really miss that guitar.

Purchased new in 1999 SRV Signature Stratocaster; it was over rated; sold it on the bay a few years later; have a brand new American Deluxe HSS Olympic White Rosewood purchased this year - definitely a keeper.

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RCSBlues
Some recorded music here please have a listen
https://www.reverbnation.com/rcsblues/song/15037716-kinetic-energy-in-memory-elizabeth
http://www.reverbnation.com/rcsblues/songs
Stratocaster American Deluxe HSS Olympic Pearl G-DEC 3 Thirty

Mine was bought new in 1964, Daphne blue (I think), rosewood board, "d" neck, Abbey pickups.
It was really hard to play at first, it had heavy (possibly 12's) strings and the trem was decked with five springs .
A week later, it had a banjo string for 1st , medium first string for second, medium second for third and so on , this gave me a plain (instead of wound) third and when I re-set the trem with 3 springs, it played fine. (There were no light guage strings available in England at that time)

The sound, through a Selmer treble 'n bass 50 , was ok, but when I got a secondhand Fender Bassman top ,a few months later, even with full treble on, it was still too bassy, so I saw a friend of mine with a Hofner Galaxie, who got an amazing sound, so asked him and he drew a diagram for me of a built in treble boost .

It was just 5 diodes soldered cigar tube style with a connection at both ends for the live wire as it went to the jack socket.

I split the earth braid and cut the live and soldered it in,wrapped it in insulation tape , then wrapped it in tinfoil to shield it then wedged it under the bottom tone control with plasticine to stop it rattling about.

The tone was spectacular, I could still get bassy tones, but now had to turn my presence right down ,so I didn't shatter too many glasses where we were playing

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Ted

"All right, guys, uh, listen. This is a blues riff in "B", watch me for the changes, and try and keep up, okay?"

I do miss my first strat. On the other hand it taught me how to work on mine and build up others guitars, it and my first les paul.
Im on my 5th strat now and my 6th les paul. But its been 30 years. I dont play out near as much so these 2 guitars should last me.
Other than dimarzios and straploks they are pretty stock, that is to say I used all gibson and fender parts that required no modifications.

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If only I had a Hiwatt DR103.... they sounded pretty much as you describe through a Blues Jr. I honestly thought they weren't that bad, but the stock pickups are more versatile considering the different genres I like. Considering the cost of the pickguard, the EMG's should sound like angels singing. Since I didn't feel that I got my money's worth, I sent it back and got a wah, octavia, and uni-vibe. To me, the difference was like getting a new toy for Christmas instead of a sweater.

Does David Gilmour know that you've nicked his 0001 Strat?

Run like hell buddy..

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Fender Highway & Classic 60s Strats, Fender Toronado, Telecaster, Gretsch Projet, Charvel 3, PRS SE Soapbar II & Custom 24, Burns Batwing and many others!

My first Strat was brand new in 1974 at the Guitar Center in Missoula, Montana. It was sunburst and has a 3-way switch. I thought it so cool that I could put the switch "in-between" positions and get that hollow out-of-phase tone! Sold it to a best friend with the condition that if he ever sold it I got first choice. 6 months later he traded it for a motor for his truck! I would have happily given him the $250 that the guy's asking price for the motor. Some friend...

in 1975 I was working in a music store. The store owner gave me, as a gift for helping him in the store so much, a 1967 Strat that was completely apart and the finish was stripped off. I gave the guitar to my dad who gave it to an old guy who fixed the whole thing up like new for FREE. When the store owner saw it he was mad he gave it too me. One day a kid walked into the store and had a brand new condition 1966 Gibson ES-335 and asked if I wanted to trade it for the Strat. I did not hesitate back in those days and did the trade. Man oh man, wish I would have kept a couple of those old guitars!

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Xhefri's Guitars
www.xhefriguitars.com

I had a cheap strat copy around 1997 - 1999, which sounded ok for my purposes at the time, upgraded the tuners to Gotoh tuners though.

I eventually sold it to get a Japanese made Jackson.

My second strat style guitar was a '84 Japanese Squire. I swapped the pickups for a set of EMG single coils. Awesome guitar and eventually I tripled my money on it when I sold it to finance a move to a new apartment when the landlord, in his grand wisdom decided not to pay the gas bill to his building and left us with no hot water.

My first real Fender Strat was obtained this past week while on vacation in Ontario. My wife bought me an American Deluxe in Sunset Metallic.

My first Stratocaster was this '88 Contemporary 22, which I bought new.



I still have it ....Mark.

I wish Charlie Brown would drop in with a shot of his '64 that he still has in extremely well cared for condition....

My 1st Strat....was bought after 35 yrs of playing the G brand .


'10 AmDlx !

LOVE it!

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You won't hurt its feelings boy, play it like you stole it!
ASPCA We Are Their Voice !
Speaking up for those that can't speak for theirself.....
Proud member of the ASPCA "Guardian Angel" program.

Nah, DG is completely unaware. Let's just say he'll be comfortably numb for a while

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I traded my car in for a microphone.

My first Strat was/is a 1965, bought new in 1967. She's a lifetime keeper.




John