Boring. No swanky finish. No amazing features. Just a boring sodding Strat. With LOVELY FAT JUICY JUMBO FRETS...
Ever since I was a wee lad, I wanted a white American Strat. An Olympic White one. No the sterile Arctic White. Or mundane Polar White. But Olympic White. The one that will go a delicious creamy colour as it ages. With a maple fretboard.
Only later did I take a liking to the utterly distasteful 70's head stock and more recently exposure to the rotten filth of jumbo frets on my DGT. Oh and it needed single coils. I am spoilt with humbuckers coming out of my ears with my PRSs...
But now that I spent a bit too much on a custom built PRS Tremonti, I realised the dream of the white luscious Strat was getting further away. Until my wife had a pang of guilt for allowing me to have my 40th birthday present 9 months early. For you see, I would not have anything to open up on the impending day and would be filled with desolation and grief...
And so the conversation of the Strat came up again. THE DREAM WAS ALIVE!!! Or was it?
No. Fender Those Sods decided to ditch the American Special line and replace them with the Performer line. And with hideous colours. Firstly the dumbass Arctic White has a black pick guard. Penny looks like cat vomit. Lake Placid Blue clearly not Olympic White. Honey Burst....well that's alright I suppose. But the benefit of being an older model was #pricecuts! And I managed to pick her up from GuitarGuitar for £729. I was happy with that. And here she is in all her glory on the illustrious Wall of Axes:
What a lovely guitar. Play-ability is great. I haven't had a modern C neck and I am really enjoying it. The only down side? I'm not convinced by the bridge pickup. I will leave it settle a bit but maybe, just maybe I am a bridge humbucker sort of chap... But the neck and middle are wonderful. We shall see...
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Bridge Pickup - Rewire it so a tone control is for bridge only. That way you can darken it a bit. Makes loads of difference.
I’m so bored I might as well be listening to Pink Floyd
And Strats - so ubiquitous and so easy to take for granted because of this - but every time I play one of my other guitars I’m pretty much counting the minutes until I get back on the Strat.
....er Jimi Hendrix maybe
All hail the Illustrious Wall of Axes \m/
I love that model and all its features, especially the jumbo frets.
Not seen a base plate mod for a single coil but I will look into it for sure - thanks!
@TheGuitarWeasel is Ash who owns and runs Oil City Pickups and he sold me my last one.
http://www.tdpri.com/threads/really-wanting-an-american-special-tele.332270/
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Seems like there are "American Special Texas Specials" and "Custom Shop Texas Specials" - the ones on the Am Spec don't have a base plate where the custom shop ones should have a copper one. I wonder whether they are the same pickup but just omitted the base plate as a cost cutting exercise?
http://www.tdpri.com/threads/really-wanting-an-american-special-tele.332270/
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Seems like there are "American Special Texas Specials" and "Custom Shop Texas Specials" - the ones on the Am Spec don't have a base plate where the custom shop ones should have a copper one. I wonder whether they are the same pickup but just omitted the base plate as a cost cutting exercise?
It was a while ago I searched on it but I thought I'd read they are all one and the same.
Though it wouldnt surprise me if they wasnt..