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Between the pickups and the modern style bridge this is not a traditional style Strat. I'd play it alongside a more vintage spec one with a 6 screw bridge and vintage output pickups. I think most of the Custom Shop guitars sold in this country have 9.5" radius so you should be able to find a vintage spec one to try with that radius.
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It was more the neck and overall woods used that caught my eye.
I'm located in Nth Ireland so can't try alot of the really nice gear before buying...
Where should I be looking for the vintage spec. stuff - do you see things like birds eye maple necks and this much grain in the bodies on them?
Regarding the pickups, I'm looking for sounds totally different to my single cuts so maybe trebly isn't so bad.
I'll read up on it..
The purists go on about things like pressed steel saddles and body end truss rod adjustment as well. I'm not sure whether they make a lot of difference.
It's probably a bit like the neck tenon debate you get with Gibsons. It probably makes some difference but you can find good factory guitars with short tenons and you can find so so Custom Shop guitars with long tenons.
Personally I really don't like all the overwound pickups like Texas Special either. I remember trying out an amp in a shop once with a top of the range US made Knopfler signature that had Texax specials (priced well north of £1k), and they asked me to go into another room because I was making too much noise. I swapped the Knopfler for a Mexican Classic Player with vintage output pickups and it sounded much better. Much more life and dynamics to the sound.
Strats are the same as Gibsons in that you can get 2 supposedly identical guitars and they do not sound the same. It's awkward if you are in NI but it's best to play them if you can.
The neck has a bit of heft to it, certainly more than a Fender "modern C".
The two-point trem thing - insignificant if you like the guitar, so many words are written on the difference between this and the 6 point, it really doesn't matter, there are great and poor Strat's with both types of trem.
So in summary, superb top quality guitar, though probably not for the vintage purist (although it is only the trem that Strays too far from vintage spec).
My only comment is that I think it's slightly over-priced. £1400 - £1500 would be my guess for a minter.
This is the sort of classic look that does it for me...if they could reissue something like that with the interesting neck grain I'd be all over it.
http://professortones.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/fat-strat-friday-1958-birdseye-maple.html
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