Still have it, and its been a valuable learning guitar for me. I learned setting up on it, experimented with different pickups. Upgraded the hardware etc etc.. all the things you do.. It's scarred in a few places by my inexpert tool handling in the past. Right now it has the neck and middle pickups from my Highway Strat on it, and a hot Seymour Duncan single coil at the bridge. The worst thing about it is the huge thick neck on it - feels like a baseball bat. In every measurable way, the Fender Strats I bought after it are vastly superior, but I love that old black Squier. It's my 'go to, at home' guitar, usually thick with dust as it's never in a case. I just pick it up and noodle when I'm watching the TV. You can steal any of my other Strats, and I'll just replace them. But if you stole my crappy old Squier, I'd hunt you down and exterminate you. And your family too - just to make sure I eradicated the whole gene pool..

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




John

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

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.

I picked it up early 1976...but it was made in 1975. I'm glad I still have this one. I almost went for the Sunburst, but I really liked the grain on this body.

This was my first Stratocaster:



I got it November 1, 1976.