The Strat-avarians

[gouranga]

Hi Folks.

Hope all are well.

We have the thread on Tele tubbies for the Telecaster lovers.
So thought, why not hear from the Strat lovers.
There is and has been many great blues men use the Strat. Peter Green, Eric Clapton and many many more.
Why, what is so special to you and them about the Strat.
How is your Strat configured, neck, pick-ups, etc etc.

I have tried a Strat a good few times and for some reason can never gel with them. Tele or Firebird, yehe yeh yeh.

Waiting with great interest.

Take care and best wishes

Gouranga

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Hi Gouranga

I have a strat and a couple of squires
I have the strat tuned to open G with a set of 13s
It is a 1984 Japanese Contempary Strat with 2 fender humbuckers ( that sound awesome ) a stupid locking trem which I screwed down and as high an action as I could set.
It's all black with a black scratchplate and black hardware.
I bought it new in 1984 mainly because it was black I'm sorry to admit and is quite unlike a strat in tone and feel
The 2 squires are totally different a red relic'd 62 copy and a sunburst 20th anniversary both are used for regular tuning. It's wierd how different they are I really want a mixture of the two and may splice them together at some point. The sunburst one feels fantastic is light weight and feels great but the red one sounds fantastic but is harder to play and the trem is a bit dodgy. I might swap the pickups around.
I still wouldn't get rid of the tele though !

Cheers

Rob

[maxxengland]

I'll be bringing the Yellow Bitch to the slide festival. '87 Japanese reissue of a '73 3 bolt neck, left handed. All original, open E on 12s (might go back to 13s soon).

Had it about 20 years, and I've only recently been playing good enough to justify it Change anything on it? Nope, just the strings, as & when. All 5 springs in the back, wound up tight so the floating bridge acts more as a compensator for humidity/temp changes, it hasn't had a whammy bar on it for over 10 years now.

I've sometimes thought about another guitar to go with it, but then something happens to remind me about it's versatility, so I don't bother. Example here, we were playing our community festival and the bass player was with a van broken down 100 miles away with 2 hours to go. So what do you do except run on the neck pickup and roll the tone off?



Same guitar on the Myspace page too.