ECistheBest

Hey, here I'm creating a thread for all Stratocaster lovers, owners, or just played ur friend's Strat??? I don't want this to lose to the new telecaster thread!!

I totally love my Stratocaster, Mexican Made with some altered Pickups and an active preamp.

Share your Strat Love!!!


EDIT 8/16/2007:
The UG Profile is activated, along with the UG Groups, so i've made the official Stratocaster Lovers thread. Join and share the love for STRATOCASTERS!!!
http://groups.ultimate-guitar.com/strat_lovers/

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CORT noob

I love strats! But I only own a Cort SP-3 strat wanna be but I put fender vintage noisless pickups in it And I'm currently in the process of installing 250K pots

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ECistheBest

dude its all cool man. the beauty of strats is that u get to mod ur specs so easily.
i've done so much with it and its only 2 years old still. i got the fender hot noiseless set

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RHCPKicksA$$

I'm gettin' an american deluxe soon. eric johnson sig is the best production strat though.

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ECistheBest

i love the neck on the deluxe strat. and the electronics are okay too. match it up with a nice amp
im not really a fan of the U-neck on the EJ strat... big big big lol. i like the clapton strat's neck. do u??? i think it's awesome. i love the body+electronics on the EJ.

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CORT noob

Yeah, I think after I get my new amp, If I have $150 burning a whole in my pocket, I'm going to order a Vintage white alder body off warmoth, because I suspect that my current body may be plywood Have you seen those bridges they make for your strat that is a hardtail string through? What are your opinions on those?

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rhcp_fan2210

im a strat lover but i don't own one but i am saving for a beautiful jap strat

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ECistheBest

i have a vintage 6-point tremolo. i don't use the whammy bar so i screwed them all down, put a block of wood under, and put more springs on it so that thing's basically hardtail lol haha

vintage white alder body sounds hot. and plywood guitars aren't so heavy. u might lose sustain for that... my friend has a squier and its definitet it's not alder at least hahaha

but the only concern from me is that what if ur pickguard now don't fit on the warmoth body? like u know different screw holes or maybe the pickguard being too small for the pickup/knob routs...? i'd hate that to happen... u can always re-wire on a new pickguard tho. thats 1hr~1.5hr of practice time...




EDIT:^^Japanese strats are awesome. ima go over to Japan like next summer. guess what i'm gonna come back with!!! lol Fender Made in Japan Stratocaster ^_^
I already made up my mind for summer 2008

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gino23

Stratocasters are so nice nice. I bet they are expensive. I think stratos is one of the best guitars in america.

Silky Smooth

Love strats and all their off shoots

My favorite design of all

ECistheBest

i love ur opinion. they are indeed expensive, but there are even more expensive comparisons. Strats used to be an entry level guitar, probably made most famous by jimi hendrix, with so many players picking them up and using then exclusively. early influenced strat players were Eric Clapton, Deep Purple's Ritchie Blackmore, Rory Gallagher (he wasn't influenced so much by Jimi i believe), and then Eddie Van Halen made it to the next level.

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ECistheBest

i found an interesting article about cutting the noise on stratocasters and other single coil pickup instruments.
http://singlecoil.com/docs/silent.pdf

it sounds really clever.

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mr kipling

I played my friends MIM strat and didn't like it at all. It felt really unnatural to play it.

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ECistheBest

aww... sorry to hear that... this forum might not be for u... =/

but u might like the american strats

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Silky Smooth

Wow thats a good idea!

Joey-Tribiani

i have an american strat yay but i wanna replace the bridge somehow that damn thing will NOT stay in tune for a second!but i looooove its sound and comfortabilaty!yay!

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TheDev01dOne

Haha I'm gonna play in the Strat thread too..

I've been gassing for a 70's tele just 'cos I love the big headstocks. I almost bought one the other day but I wanted to try get this ENGL amp instead so I restrained myself.

The 70s strats seem to be all the rage here in AUS lately, I guess because they're vintage but still relatively cheap. (As opposed to some of he $30 000 60s strats getting around)

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I actually really like my Stratocaster. I aquired it, sight-unseen, through a trade so I wasn't quite sure (I hadn't ever really been a Strat fan but I was getting a pretty good deal). After I get my amp situation squared-away, decide how badly I wan't to keep my LP (It's a very nice guitar but I'm a Fender guy at heart), and get a Telecaster, I'd like to add a 60's Classic Players and a MIJ (I'm planning on bringing tw back with me next time I go) to my collection.

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i have a CIJ 62 reissue strat which i bought from ebay and i bloody love it. i went into the store and played a few american ones and i could honestly not tell the difference. Mine has an alder body and texas special pickups, 3 tone sunburst with aged parts. it looks very similar to john frusciantes which is one of the reasons i bought it lol