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Post subject: MIM Strat with SCN Pickups
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 12:06 pm
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I have a 98 MIM Strat that I have SCN pickups installed and it sounds great. Naturally though I want an MIA Strat, either a deluxe or a MIA standard. Can I really see much of a difference considering I already have the SCN pickups in mine.


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Only if you find one that plays and sounds better than the one you have, however, it sounds like you have a solid guitar already. :D


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Post subject: Re: MIM Strat with SCN Pickups
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2008 7:24 pm
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mppatriots wrote:
I have a 98 MIM Strat that I have SCN pickups installed and it sounds great. Naturally though I want an MIA Strat, either a deluxe or a MIA standard. Can I really see much of a difference considering I already have the SCN pickups in mine.


MIMs are indeed great for the price but an experienced hand will feel the difference even if the pups are the same (btw great choice!). The quaility of the necks are very noticably different. The wood for the body will be of higher quaility with more precise angles of cut in regards to grain alignments. The finish materials are different and even that has an impact sonicly. A lot of inexperienced players say these thing are more superstition and dosen't make a difference but any good luthier would beg to differ. Even the curing and storage processes of the wood will determine the price for that raw material. These processes are highly prized industry secrets that luthiers understand and swear by so don't let a "musician" who doesn't have the subtle knowledge of a guitar maker or tech fool you into thinking a $400 guitar sounds and feel as good as a $1000 guitar.

If you can't tell the difference yet just keep playing and you will. Till then your MIM Standard is still better than the best that some other manufatuers offer.

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manabu108, Very interesting point that you make about the wood materials costing more because they had to cure longer.

I recently read some new theories on why the Stradivarius violins sound so spectacular. Experts think that Stradivarius may have had access to exotic wood that had been entoumbed from the time of the Egyptians!! Now that would be some seriously cured wood!!


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manabu108, Very interesting point that you make about the wood materials costing more because they had to cure longer.

I recently read some new theories on why the Stradivarius violins sound so spectacular. Experts think that Stradivarius may have had access to exotic wood that had been entoumbed from the time of the Egyptians!! Now that would be some seriously cured wood!!


I was born in Japan. I'm sure you've heard of the Shakuhachi, the Japanese bamboo flutes. There are makers that have passed their skills down to their progeny for generations. For a couple 10 grand you can get a fresh flute made out of bamboo cut 300 years ago.

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