I got a new Fender Stratocaster after I got done working today.... now I just need to hide it from my mom for as long as I can.
I know the feeling of having to *hide* things I've purchased. My parents always get pissed when I buy things. Anyway, congrats on the new guitar. Strats are great. They just feel so... solid.
strats have always rocked, but ive had my eye on a tele lately. hope you got a good cut of wood with that beast. happy playin time!
Actually, Squiers are fine with me. Replace the electronics with CTS pots and throw in some lindy fralins... It's a Fender Deluxe Strat... 50th anniversary edition with the S-1 switching system.
I love strats! yesterday I was at this store and they hooked me up to an amp and let me play, i was there for an hour and a half (only because I was forced to go home by my mom). The guitar was soooo awesome. it was $370 and i dont have the money. an then there was a really cool amp for $125!Congrats on your purchase. Have fun with it! how exactly are you gonna hide it?
Won't have to... she found out and doesn't mind. Unfortunately... I can't believe I spent $1,000 on a strat... but it is a 50th anniv.... Sounds good with my Cyber-Twin... I started missing strats since I sold my old one and I was just getting used to Gibsons... now I'm hooked on strats again... I can get it to sound like a rickenbacker but it sounds kinda nasaly.
sounds good. i really dig the s1 system too. i played a hss model. ill probably end up getting an american deluxe eventually... but im about to purchase an epiphone sheraton... have you played one of those? miles and miles of sustain, and a smooth jazz tone! beautiful...
Yep... I've played one... they're ok. I prefer Gretsches though to epiphone... the only Gibson or Epiphone moldels I'm looking for right now is the Epiphone Chet Atkins which, I think, is new. I'm also looking for an Epiphone Byrdland and an Ibenez Artcore semi-hollow with the bigsby.
Yeah, but even with a pot and pickup change you still have the problem of the 2 or 3 peice poplar body and the plastic rip-off hardware (which will ALWAYS rattle). It's kind of like trying to hot-rod a typical Epiphone Les Paul Standard to sound like a Gibson Les Paul Standard, you'll never recreate the sound and it's not even worth it. Anyway, congratulations on aquiring the real deal!
I had an unmodified mid 90's Squire Pro Tone Tele that was flawless, Nobody could belive it was a Squier and not a Fender. The only reason I sold it was that the band I was (and still is in) needed a bass player and not another guitarist.
Yeah, this is what I would call a "factory anomoly", though. Kind of like when you get a really nice Epiphone. That's certainly not the typical experience. Most Squires are pretty much only good for firewood.
I know a guy over on the Harmony Central forums who bought an Epiphone Les Paul Custom Black Beauty and it fell off of a string swing and the top cracked in half and he found none other than compressed styrofoam sheets in layers in between the top and body (wtf?)... he took the binding off and found it was plywood. Somehow he found it was either an Aria or a Samick and either epiphone or someone else had made it into an epiphone... weird.
If he bought it from a company he should sue them. Samick is a sister company of Washburn, maybe he could call them and see if they'd verify it for him.
I know... washburn was bought out by US music corp. I think... He did contact them and aria... epiphone... a bunch of companies. He even had to send the guitar to japan.... they keep sending him in circles.
