Inbound NGD

spev11

having sworn off buying any guitars a MIM player strat in inca silver popped up on Reverb for what I thought was a too good to miss bargain, £499 for a new ( old stock from 2020). The lovely people at www.coda-music.com are prepping it and getting it out to me for Friday. 
the only things I might change are the pickguard ( not a fan of the white) and the bent steel saddles ( again not a fan, prefer solid ones)
Here's a pic from the add just in case no one knows what a silver strat looks like 

Offset

That's a seriously good price - rude not to.  Looking forward to the review :-)

HAL9000

Looks really nice as is. White on Inca silver looks great in the picture. Great price too. Enjoy.

spev11

HAL9000 said:

Looks really nice as is. White on Inca silver looks great in the picture. Great price too. Enjoy.

i'll try and live with it for a bit but i'm not a fan of white pickguards ( or white stuff in general, i'm a bike mechanic so anything lighter than black gets oily really quick    )

Funkfingers

Black/white/black plastic parts would make your guitar resemble the twenty fifth anniversary model. That should greatly reduce the likelihood of theft!

Grey Pearlescent would look posh. 

I have a grey crushed glass effect 'guard stashed away somewhere. That would look rather tasty.

KrisGee

Nice. They're great guitars, love the neck on them. 

RichAC

I vote for a black scratchplate and knobs.

MooseAboot

very nice.
out of interest - which saddles will you replace with?

hollywoodrox

Wow that’s lovely ,congratulations

spev11

MooseAboot said:

very nice.
out of interest - which saddles will you replace with?

not sure, last one I put steel on there, i've seen some chrome plated brass. I'll try it first, get annoyed that the saddle is sticking in my palm and next string change whip em off , its how it usually goes.

spev11

RichAC said:

I vote for a black scratchplate and knobs.

I shall get the bing AI image creator to knock up some examples and see what looks best

TTBZ

Another vote for black plastics! A subtle mint green might look cool too. Not a fan of plain white plastics on anything, reminds me of kitchen appliances.

spev11

not sure why it's smoking a cigar but that looks better to me, bet I can't find what looks to be black marble though (I asked for Black Pearl)

Svartmetall

spev11 said: i'll try and live with it for a bit but i'm not a fan of white pickguards ( or white stuff in general, i'm a bike mechanic so anything lighter than black gets oily really quick    )

That would look awesome with all-black plastics (IMHO white pickup covers on black pickguards just looks awful and tacky, and I say that as a huge fan of Gilmour's playing)  

guitarblaster

Looks slick, inca silver is one my favourites! I like it how it is with the white plastics … I have an Inca silver strat with a tort guard and white plastics - looks great to me! 

spev11

It's arrived and its lovely, thank you to the lovely people at Coda for an absolute bargain, perfectly set up as well. I've gone from not liking strats to loving them. 

chris78

Love inca silver- it’s wonderfully understated.
It was a pre cbs colour so you could definitely go with a mint green scratchplate if you wanted to go vintage 

GoFish

HNGD and what a stunner it is. Woo-hoo!

spev11

I've been playing it non stop for the last 3 hours, everything is fab as is with the exception of the saddles but I'll live with that until the next string swap, then to decide whether to change the saddles or the entire bridge ( I do fancy a vegatrem)

Neilybob

Looks amazing Spev. 

I think it would be cool with a brushed silver picks guard like this 
https://www.armstrongmusic.co.uk/products/old-style-11-hole-strat-brushed-silver-simulated

Whitecat

Oh man, I nearly bought that one but I just can’t have anything new coming in rn. Congrats! What is the weight, out of curiosity? Coda didn’t do a scale pic with this one!