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The idea of reclaimed Honduran mahogany is cool though. There are a couple Teles they made in the same line of stuff that are more “natural” looking.
Gibsons have thick tops. It’s a much bigger deal in terms of the wood ratio.
Fender can do proper maple tops with the bevel. The Select series was a perfect example of that. This one just looks like they hit a cost ceiling and said “fuck it.”
If it’s so ugly, why not just paint it?
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I think he does both mahogany and with a maple cap.
I would love to have just one guitar and never have to shop again and was thinking Probett might be the answer.
I like the idea of this strat but I think it would be a bit of a white elephant. You would have to really love it to buy it.
Hoping to try one later in the week as there appears to be one locally
”Top” has no meaning that can be legally enforced in law.
The quality of these tops is too good and too consistent for it to be a thick slab. It’s like a PRS SE - beautiful figure, but it’s basically a piece of paper. And they can cut 30 to 40 off a top billet that would otherwise do only one or two guitars.
Also, the fact that it’s a flat top and the existence of binding seem to serve this theory.
Would be happy to be proven wrong. I might just buy one. They are starting to reduce the prices on them.
this version available as well from a couple of years ago
https://www.fender.com/articles/namm-2017/see-the-new-2017-limited-edition-exotic-collection
Interesting note at the end though about the necks. Li’l extra mojo there?
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The body was sold as mahogany, from Charlie Chandlers. The guy who bought all the parts paid over £500 for all the parts in 1983, so I would assume it was all cost-no-object
Some luthiers have said it might be sapele, I'm not sure how to tell the difference
Anyway: it's darker and more meaty sounding than most strats. I once had a Kinman set of pickups in it that I hand-picked, that later became the woodstock set (i.e. over-wound). They were too dark for it, I had to take them off.
Since then it's had an EMG DG20 set on it (ultra clean EMG SAs with active EQ), which work very well indeed
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My Superstrat is a Mahogany body with a maple cap, I asked for the maple cap because I wanted a Les Paul type guitar in a Strat shape.