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Post subject: Any thoughts on this Strat? Thinking of buying it tomorrow!
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:42 pm
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Assuming the serial checks out with Fender when I call them, I was planning to buy this tomorrow since my strats are inaccessible and I can get a nice deal on this. It's supposed to be a 2001 American Standard. Looks right to me. Anyone see anything wrong? Of course I will inspect it in person and test it out thoroughly before walking away with it. But just throwing it out there before I take the long drive over.

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Post subject: Re: Any thoughts on this Strat? Thinking of buying it tomor
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 7:55 pm
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Looks completely correct, nothing to be concerned about.

I would check the intonation of the low E thought, that saddle is pretty far out there.


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Post subject: Re: Any thoughts on this Strat? Thinking of buying it tomor
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 9:17 pm
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Thanks a lot TheMaxwell. I feel pretty confident about it. Okay I will look out for intonation on the low E when I try it out before I hand over the cash. Yeah I figured it looked all OK as well. Of course I will be extra safe and run the serial by Fender tomorrow to 100%. But apart from that I'm going ahead!


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Post subject: Re: Any thoughts on this Strat? Thinking of buying it tomor
Posted: Thu Oct 24, 2013 10:28 pm
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TheMaxwell wrote:
I would check the intonation of the low E thought, that saddle is pretty far out there.


Could be a bum string.

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Post subject: Re: Any thoughts on this Strat? Thinking of buying it tomor
Posted: Fri Oct 25, 2013 4:40 pm
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Well I got it. It seems okay except the neck is a bit fat for me. Not sure why because my other American Strats aren't. Although they are from the 90s not 2000s. So it is okay but a bit uncomfortable. It's the only American Strat I could get within my budget at the moment though.

I guess it will do for now until I can access my others and then I might sell this on. For some reason I am not really into blue strats either. But I figured it would be okay for the time being and at least it should be something that holds It's value if / when I want to sell it on again.

I mean It's good there's nothing wrong with it. Just I have inhumanly small hands so I can't tolerate the necks that get too far on the baseball bat side. Anything from thin to what I would consider "normal" is okay. But I don't see why those giant fat necks are necessary, other than for ogres or something. Can't imagine humans finding them comfortable. It's not overly fat but it is a bit too much for me to feel comfortable with.


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