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That bridge- does it include the block? What is block made from? Saddles?
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
Fender's two post platform ( along with other similar later 70's early eighties inventions , eg PRS grooved screw, Ernie Ball Luke ) all have something in common and that is they all employ indentations in fixings ( to help tuning stability) and this lifts the bridge plates off the body. This has totally transformed (and compressed) all the dynamics of the guitars.
The dynamics drive everything to do with the guitar's performance and tone. It may have stabilised the tuning problems of the old vintage plates but it destroyed the better dynamics and killer tones. In those terms it was a huge backward leap
Sorry @MattFGBI but no floating plate type guitar ( including all USA Fender's that have them ) is ever going to be on the course, nevermind deliver a satisfying ride. Just IMHO as always
kind regards
Thing is, people tend to look at a single component.
A strat sounds like a strat due to 5 or 10 things all going on together- the reverb in the trem springs, the hollowness of the saddles, the thick tool steel of theblock, the 6 screws holding the plate to the body.
This is all about kinetic, magnetic and electrical energy transfer. Change one thing, all else changes too.
Tele's - ditto.
*An Official Foo-Approved guitarist since Sept 2023.
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I had an early version of the Jimmie Vaughan signature model. The woodworking felt pretty crude, but I have to say it sounded great, acoustically speaking. I only sold it because I didn't like the V neck.
It also came with a proper USA bridge and Gotoh Kluson tuners rather than the Ping(?) ones they use on most MIM models. I don't know if that's still the case.
On the other had; I visited both Andertons and DV247 during the great 2015 Les Paul price war (with money in my pocket) and didn't find a single guitar I could bond with ...and I really want a Les Paul Junior, Special or Deluxe.
The only US one I have had is a Highway 1, and it was fantastic.
(Yes, I know it was really a Mexican assembled in the US therefore being badged US!)
I now own a MIM and it is also fantastic.
I bought the H1 because I'd always lusted after a US model which I was going to keep forever. Sadly things didn't work out that way, but at the end of the day it was really a bit of snobbery, it was all about the logo on the headstock.