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Post subject: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 9:27 am
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Let's hear some Fender praise here! Why has Fender captured your creative hands and mind? I always like to hear why others feel the way I do about a Strat! :P


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:18 am
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Gosh, I don't know if Fender's site servers have enough storage space for THAT much praise :shock:

I don't even know where to begin. So...
*Sound quality
*Stays in tune
*Playability
*Tinker-ability
*Product line variety
*Sexy curves
*Lends itself to almost ANY type of music
*That distinct sweet 'n' smokey Strat-quack
*There's a Strat for everybody's budget

Plus they have a cool community forum frequented by a broad cross-section of righteous cats. :wink:


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:38 am
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Sho nuff'! Couldn't have said it any better!


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 10:51 am
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Because it's still the one. I mean sure, you have some great boutique builders out there and even good bargains at the other end of the spectrum form other brands....but at the end of the day, ain't nothin' like the real thing.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 5:12 pm
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To me a strat just feels right.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 7:49 pm
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Play one...and you will know the truth!

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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 02, 2013 8:25 pm
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dfrain wrote:
Gosh, I don't know if Fender's site servers have enough storage space for THAT much praise :shock:

I don't even know where to begin. So...
*Sound quality
*Stays in tune
*Playability
*Tinker-ability
*Product line variety
*Sexy curves
*Lends itself to almost ANY type of music
*That distinct sweet 'n' smokey Strat-quack
*There's a Strat for everybody's budget

Plus they have a cool community forum frequented by a broad cross-section of righteous cats. :wink:


What he said!!

Plus, when I first picked up my Am Standard, I knew it was for me. Plugging it in only confirmed it.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Fri May 03, 2013 6:04 pm
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I took a break from my Strat for a few weeks and have been playing an old 1975 Gibson L6S. Tonight I got my Ultraized 1991 Strat Plus in Vintage White with a maple neck out and played it for about 2 hours. Yes, hard to beat! Smooth, rich lead tones in the neck pickup. Quacky smooth cool sounds in #2 & #4. Messed with the Dually in the bridge and was sounding like a Tele Bridge doing that bitey Tele twangy sounds with the TBX cranked to 10. Man....really hard to be a Strat like this. Then add phase, echo, or distortion and the tones are limitless! That is why I like a STRAT!!! :wink:

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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 12:36 pm
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My thing is they are fun to work on and modify, the necks fit my, unfortunate, small hands, all my hero's played them, and I just absolutely love the sound of a Strats neck pick-up... Rock-n-Roll!

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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Wed May 08, 2013 9:02 pm
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fit, feel, sound/tone, playability

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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 4:33 pm
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the tone of the wood, the feel. throw in some seymour duncans, a floyed, and i will never change to another guitar.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 5:17 pm
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I adore my strat because it's uncomplicated... it works.
I don't play heavy heavy music. But do need a lot of gain with a lot of definition. And scooping mids is an absolute non-option, attack is everything. My Strat lends itself to that far better than my Les Paul or Jackson.

You can play any style of music on a 3 singlecoil, straight out the case, vintage correct Strat. OK you may have to work the amp and guitar controls a bit, but you can get there. You can't do that with any other guitar and have it sounding as authentic.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Thu May 09, 2013 5:49 pm
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Love the different tones you can get out of it and they are pretty much indestructible.


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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 4:23 am
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Hi, folks! First time poster and I couldn't think of a better topic to introduce myself via my love for the Stratocaster. So please bear with my two (thousand) cents about why I dig my Strat (and Tele) more than any of my other guitars. I started playing at a very young age (acoustic at age 6, electric at age 14). And when I first heard Jimi Hendrix and later saw an bit of his performances on some TV program, that's when I decided to go and pester my mum for a Fender Stratocaster and Marshall amp. Well, for my 14th birthday, I was presented with a creme-coloured Fender (Squier) Stratocaster and a Peavey Bandit (definitely not the Marshall Bluesbreaker combo I wanted but oh well!) and I loved it instantly. Over the course of time, I found myself switching gear left and right, mostly because of trends or whatever player I happened to be worshiping at the time. So I went through my Ibanez phase, my Gibson Les Paul/Explorer/SG/Flying V phase, my ESP phase and most recently, my Schecter phase. I was always looking for that one guitar that would finally settle my gear swapping ways, not to mention get my wife off my case! Well, many years and many guitars later, I have come back full circle to the one guitar that started me down the rock and roll road: The Fender Stratocaster. Granted, I play a different type of Strat now (Blacktop Stratocaster HH) but when the dealer pulled it out of the box and handed it to me, just holding was like the guitar was saying to me, "Stop searching for your sound, come back home." So why do I love my Strat? Considering I've just about played and/or owned every damn guitar under the sun, I can honestly say that the sound, the feel, the look of the Stratocaster compliments my playing style (hard rock/blues) perfectly and when paired with my Peavey 6505+ half stack, I have a tone to die for and my love for playing increases every time I sling that Stratocaster over my neck and hit that first power chord. Instant rock and roll heaven.

And now, I couldn't be happier.

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Post subject: Re: Why do you love Fender Strats more than any other???
Posted: Fri May 10, 2013 6:52 am
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That's what I'm talkin about, Angrydeli! Right on!


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